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Make acting work / Chrys Salt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salt, Chrys.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acting--Vocational guidance.
- Acting.
- Physical Description:
- x, 198 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Methuen, 2001.
- Summary:
- Make Acting Work is an essential guide for anyone wishing to develop a career in this exciting but unpredictable profession. It offers a level-headed appraisal of the challenges that actors face and identifies a wide range of opportunities that exist for the resourceful. Practical advice is given on all the critical elements, including preparing a CV, photographs, demo-tape and showreel, getting an agent and auditioning. The book explains the different requirements of theatre, radio, film and television, and provides the most comprehensive survey yet published of less traditional -- although no less lucrative -- areas of work such as voice-overs, corporate training videos, platform performances, role play and murder-mystery weekends. Illustrated throughout with case studies and anecdotes from members of the profession, Make Acting Work is an invaluable guide that no enterprising actor will want to be without.
- Contents:
- 1 Brand Image 5
- The Casting Process
- Define your Product
- 2 A Marketing Package 14
- The CV
- Portfolios
- The Letter
- Demo-tapes
- Showreels
- 3 Advertising your Product 40
- Spotlight
- Ugly Agency
- 4 Selling your Product 45
- Agencies
- Making Contacts
- Self-help Groups
- Casting Directors
- The Fringe
- Putting on a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- Where to Look for Work
- 5 Demonstrating your Wares 81
- The Audition
- 6 The Conventional Marketplace 105
- Theatre
- Musicals
- Television
- Film
- Commercials
- Radio Drama
- Voice-overs
- 7 Some Alternative Markets 138
- The Platform Performance, Festival and Lecture Circuit
- Theatre in Education
- The National Trust
- Murder Evenings and Weekends
- Cruise Ships
- Lookalikes
- Museum or Gallery Drama
- Role-play
- Understudies, Covers and Swings
- Corporate and Training Videos
- The Conference and Exhibition Industry
- Student Films
- The Comedy Circuit
- 8 The Union 170
- 9 Maintaining your Skills 173
- Ongoing Training.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0413761401
- OCLC:
- 51680682
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