Audition for Your Career, Not the Job: Mastering the On-camera Audition - Softcover

Phillips, Tim; Gunning, Stephanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615328466 ISBN 13: 9780615328461

Publisher: Tim Phillips Studio, Incorporated, 2011

Synopsis

You’ve got a big audition lined up for a role in a film or on a television series. What do you do now? AUDITION FOR YOUR CAREER, NOT THE JOB covers steps you can take and specific skills you can put to use immediately to feel more confident about your performance in your next audition and make a great and lasting impression on casting directors and producers. If your work is consistently first-rate and memorable, then every on-camera audition is an opportunity to advance your acting career. This book will teach you techniques that improve your ability to read and interpret the sides quickly, helping you to trust your instincts and craft strong, bold, specific acting choices, and setting you up for an active and profitable career.

About this title

From the Author

The phone rings, an email arrives, your smart phone vi­brates. It's your agent. A project is being cast and there's a part in it that might be right for you. They're expecting you at the casting office tomorrow. You don't have a whole lot of time, but that's okay. Opportunity has just come knocking at your front door and you know you have the chops to open it. After all, that's what you do... you're an actor. This is your chance to act.

Perhaps you intend to self-submit a video of yourself doing an audition for a role you saw posted online. This happens more and more often these days. You are taking control of your destiny as an artist.

In any case, the "sides" either arrive or you download them. Now you've got a few pages of script in hand along with a short description of the character and the scene: a name, a place, and a few other pertinent facts. It's time to put your training and talent and energy to good use. Your task is to transform those words on the page into a memorable living and breathing human being.
What's the first thought that goes through your mind? Is it negative or positive?

"Boy, I really want to book this one. I could use the money from this job."

"I wonder who I'm up against. I hope they like me. I thought my last audition was solid; but I never heard anything... I don't want that to happen again."

"Wahoo! It's playtime. I can't wait! Who do I get to be?"

"Let's get down to business."

From the Inside Flap

You've got a big audition lined up for a role in a film or on a television series. What do you do now? This book covers steps you can take and specific skills you can put to use right away so that you will feel more confident about your performance in your next audition and make a great and lasting impression on casting directors and producers. If your work is consistently first-rate and memorable, every on-camera audition like this one becomes an opportunity to advance your acting career.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tim Phillips Studio, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0615328466
• ISBN 13: 9780615328461
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 274