To win a screen role, an actor must learn to contend with an on-camera audition. Understanding how to make the crucial adjustments to one’s craft that this kind of audition requires is vital to the career of any screen actor. Auditioning On Camera sets out the key elements of a successful on-camera audition and explains how to put them into practice. Joseph Hacker draws on 35 years of acting experience to guide the reader through the screen auditioning process with an engaging and undaunting approach. Key elements examined include: textual analysis knowing where to look dealing with nerves on-camera interviews using the environment retaining the camera’s focus The book also features point-by-point chapter summaries, as well as a glossary of acting and technical terms, and is a comprehensive and enlightening resource for screen actors of all levels.
This guide replaces such misinformation with concise and accurate advice from someone who is in the room helping to make the decision on who gets the job. Bialy gets readers started immediately on the road to screen acting success.
In fact, Acting in Commercials will take you beyond commercial work, sharpening all your acting skills for a broader film and television career.
Should you find yourself up for a commercial, industrial, creating CD Roms, Soap Opera, film, or episodic TV, Shepard has a chapter on each one.
... 94, 97 EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity), 201 Eisenberg, Jesse, 67 Eisenstein, Sergei, 36 electronic auditioning, 99–107 emotional vulnerability, 13 'over there' exercise, 228–9 putting emotion before objective (mistake), 31, ...
"This is a terrific guide for young actors.
'If you're working with Nancy Bishop you know you're in good, accomplished hands, whether you're a director or an actor.' – Neil Burger, Director of The Illusionist Auditioning for Film and Television is a must-have book and video guide ...
The book gives actors a step-by-step technique on how to audition for on-camera acting jobs and what to do on set after booking them.
In this book, acclaimed veteran casting director Stuart Stone shares his insights and experience from behind the camera to help you succeed in the evolving acting world.
And an on-camera audition is the hardest. Using Ellen Novack's system of preparing for auditions and invaluable tips about working on-camera. Taming the Cyclops will help you master the on-camera audition and book the job!
Theater veteran and acting teacher Joanna Merlin has written the definitive guide to auditioning for stage and screen, bringing to it a valuable dual perspective.