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Demo for commercials - copyright infringement by devildoc412 • last post Nov 30th
Hi ya'll, hope everyone is doing well. Quick question. So I'm brand new to all this and am just getting started. I've built a sound booth, have my mic and audio interface, etc. I was listening to a pro voice actor/ coach recommend to find commercials on YouTube or the net, transcribe them, and record your version for your demo. I like the idea of this, but it seems like it would infringe on their copyright or intellectual property. Is this allowed? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Hope everyone had a great turkey day if you celebrate it!
New Star Wars actors are great but don't fit the roles? by Glittering-Method-44 • last post Nov 30th
Don't get me wrong-- I think Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver are GREAT actors with a range but they do not fit how I would have pictured their characters. I think Adam is good at dramatic roles, but I think he fits the character such as in Marriage Story wayyy better than the "evil/secretly love interest" in Star Wars. I guess Disney had a very different taste of star wars cast than the original casting? ​ What are everyone's thoughts? I also should add I am shocked that Daisy has not seem to landed any other roles but Adam has and they are both I think pretty talented but people say Daisy's acting is very bland?
Has anyone in this group tried MASTERCLASS for acting? by reyes5555 • last post Nov 30th
Hey guys I was wondering
Please fill out this short survey for my research paper by coadba • last post Nov 29th
Hi! I'm studying acting in university, and I'm working on a research paper. [Here is the link](https://forms.gle/vhSh8Sa46zAJ425w7) to my survey. It's about the business of acting, and I'm specifically looking for the perspectives of voice actors. Please take a few minutes to fill it out! Thanks! EDIT: There were some technical issues with the survey that have now been resolved.
How to become an actor? "wow what a new question" you probably saying but not so really by mosenco • last post Nov 29th
Hi, im an engineering student close to get my bachelor and ready to my master degree in robotics. When i was a kid i always dreamed about create a robot like terminator and such but back then it would be just a dream. Today we have a lot of robots and boston dynamics really doing what, me as a child, dreamed a lot. Working for boston dynamics would be awesome. How can i do that? Simple, get a engineering degree, or computer, get experience in the common field and send some CV and hope for the best! Easy right? But what about the acting part? When i was a kid i acted quite a lot with other kids. Some days we are fighting dragons, the other days we try to not fall down into the lava and the other day we are knight. We all acted when we were childs and i find this world quite fascinating except for the nude part where i feel really embarassed. But if i wanna persuade this job, how can i reach that? For the engineering part, i have a clean idea to how reach everyjob, at least, how i can try to reach that job but for the acting part i have no idea, like i don't know where to start. I live in Italy, but im really interested about UK and USA movies. I know people from my city that are actors, but because they are italians, and for other reason, they only work into the italian films. But if me, from Italy, wanna try to enter in the UK/USA films, do you have any ideas where to start? Like, enter in a school of acting in London or maybe, in London there are open casting for films?
Monologue for drama school call back by stile03 • last post Nov 29th
For the first audition they gave us a list of monologues we had to do, so it was easy just to pick the two I liked the most. However, for call backs they require us to pick one for ourselves that connects to our actors stream or something. What type of monologue works best in these auditions? A super deep dramatic one? Or something else?
Darth Vader actor Dave Prowse dead at 85 by sour_creme • last post Nov 29th
We're easy targets for MLMs by lazyxlibra • last post Nov 29th
When I was younger and starting out my acting coach tried to recruit me into Arbonne, which looking back, was a massive abuse of power. A girl I took classes with is now shilling Kangen water, which is an MLM that's literally selling a thousand dollar water machine that makes "alkaline" water. I know we're all aware of agency scams more or less, but I'm surprised that this industry doesn't do more to protect actors from multi-level-marketing/pyramid schemes. They're so alluring because they have a facade of being an easy work-from-home side hustle and us actors just want a side hustle that'll let us go on auditions and work gigs.
my acting course gives me anxiety by holesinmyapologies • last post Nov 29th
hello, i doubt anyone will actually read this but i can try I guess it will serve me to vent anyways. I’m a ten age girl and I’ve been interested in acting for a few years (which makes me doubt a lot because almost everyone in this career had been interested in ir since they were really young, so maybe what I feel it’s not really passion and I’m just a liar) and I have always been shy and introverted as hell. that makes it so hard to go after a career or just simply attending this course. I’ve been in a pair of courses before, the first one was so lovely. I loved each second of it. I had so much fun filming it and I got to play the main character. It helped a lot too that I felt pretty confident because I liked the people in there and I got to be friends with them. so I think I felt free to play my character without the fear of being judged and I just loved playing my character. of course the feeling that I may be acting wrong or cringy ruined a bit the time but overall I loved it. the second one wasn’t so much as pleasing though. everyone in there already knew each other and I just was there. being the new one and alone. my focus went over not being embarrassed rather than doing good my part. now with this pandemic I’m taking a course through zoom but it’s just so difficult. I don’t know anyone, I can barely talk in there without forgetting how to speak or without my hands shaking for the solid 3 minutes after. we’re making this play and I got a character that gets me completely out of my comfort zone because she does everything I wouldn’t do in public in fear of being embarrassed. my focus is always in not do anything ridicule rather than doing my part and that frustrates me so much but it’s just that the danger when everyone focuses on me feels so real and I don’t know. I have to practice this choreographies for the play but I just can’t bring myself to do it no matter how hard I try. because maybe I think what’s the point of practicing them if you’re going to forget them at the last minute because of the fear of doing them wrong? or I just think sarcastically “yes sure practice them like you’re going to get anywhere pursuing this” or shit like that. I don’t know. I don’t got the energy and I end up doing nothing and feeling guilty. when I see a De Niro kind of actor instead of inspiring me it just demotivates me because I think that they have this special talent that I don’t have. that I could have never sort out the character they are playing the way they do and that I have to compete against that kind of people that are just so talented and that. and when a teacher or my parents comes at me and tells me that I’m good I just think “oh shit I actually tricked them into thinking I’m good” should I drop this? should I just not mess with my anxiety or whatever anymore?
Average Response Time for Callback? by NimbleGamer • last post Nov 28th
Hey guys, I'm wondering how long a tv series production usually takes to get back to actors? I recently did a callback AND had a zoom call with the showrunners/creator of the tv show before Thanksgiving. The show starts early december but I'm wondering how much time they're giving to the actors to prepare? I haven't booked it yet so I'm wondering if I don't if they'll even get back to me? Definitely the biggest job I've ever been offered so it's new territory compared to independent features. Thanks :)
Tattoo Release Form by jellotaco1234 • last post Nov 28th
Have any of you actually had to get a tattoo release form? I haven’t talked to my tattoo artist in like 6+ years and don’t think he’s even at that studio anymore. I got some big tattoos before I decided to be an actor. They’re all covered by clothes and so I always wonder what to put down when they have a box to select whether I have tattoos or not. Because yes technically I have them but I’m not going to be walking around topless so as far as they’re concerned would that mean I have no tattoos?
How can I get rid of my regional ‘cockney’ accent ? by ifisaiditimeantitx • last post Nov 28th
I’ve got a bit of a cockney accent that I would love to neutralise, so I could sound more objectively well spoken. I think I developed the accent over the past 8 years or so. This may sound quite pretentious but I feel like there is a huge disconnect between my accent and who I am as a person, my upbringing, socio -economic background, qualifications, career, hobbies and character traits etc. I’m not from the part of England where this accent is usually found, none of my friendship group have this accent and I don’t watch any tv shows with actors with this accent. So I’m not too sure where I picked it up from. It’s a bit of strange phenomenon and I can’t quite put my finger on the inception of my accent. But I suspect its from 6th form, I used to be quite friendly with the “football lads” and many of them had this accent. Do you know of any tips or tricks I could do ? Or even just any useful information. Thanks guys !
VA Portfolio/Demo Reel Questions by liamhkw • last post Nov 28th
Hello, I'm an aspiring voice actor, and a position for a VA job came up in my area (primarily video games, trailers, etc.) that requires putting together a demo reel/portfolio. Any tips that anyone may have for putting one together? I know that people are looking for a showcase of my vocal skills, and I can't just do impressions of cartoon characters or something, but just wondering what I should do or say in the video. Any tips would be extremely appreciated!
I’m a background actor that’s been on a nexflix movie and worked over 100 days on smaller shows. Ask me things by ohitsping • last post Nov 28th
Ask away.
Need Voice Actors for 18+ Adult Video Game by ManWithAJob • last post Nov 27th
Hey guys - getting my ducks in a row for an 18+ video game and am in need voice actors. Right now, we're looking for just female actors to record tracks for the promo. The point is to have one dedicated voice actor per each character - so everything from normal conversation to sex moans and sexual noises. This is a passion project, but definitely paying for high quality voice acting. This means you must have a way to record your dialogue. I normally use Voices(dot)com, but I don't think they allow sexual content. Or if they do, they don't state that. If you're a voice actor and willing, feel free to reach out to me. Or if you know of a site that allows sexual material for voice actors, I'd like to know. One last thing: getting my ducks in a row means I'm not going to throw money at this until Q1 of 2021, so I won't have lines for you to record until then. I'm looking for quotes and measuring interest at this stage. Thanks!
Voice acting demo reel/portfolio by liamhkw • last post Nov 27th
Hello, I'm an aspiring voice actor, and a position for a VA job came up in my area (primarily video games, trailers, etc.) that requires putting together a demo reel/portfolio. Any tips that anyone may have for putting one together? I know that people are looking for a showcase of my vocal skills, but I'm assuming I can't just do impressions of cartoon characters or something. Any tips would be extremely appreciated!