Hi all! I’ve been working to get an agent for about a year now, had a few “almosts” and meetings and then finally had a meeting with someone who was really interested and offered to sign me on for a 12 month contract. I asked him to send the paperwork over as PDFs first so I could have some friends look at it make sure it was all legit. It was all good. I got back to him right away and said I was ready to docusign (his preferred method of signing) and linked up my actors access to him and gave him a list of casting directors that knew my work, which he responded to promptly. Then nothing. No docusign. No emails. Nothing. For 3.5 weeks. I kept submitting myself. I sent an email to him about an EPA I attended that I thought went well. Nothing. Just radio silence. I emailed another agent at his agency, nada. I haven’t given him a dime, nor have I signed anything. So if it was a scam it’s a bad one. Then out of the blue today, he sends me an audition for a film on actors access. I haven’t signed a lick of paperwork for this man, and if he just wanted to freelance me that hasn’t been made clear…. Am I crazy or is this not normal?
If a casting call lists 2+ roles that you might be fit for, is it okay to submit for multiple or is it more professional to submit for just one? I am submitting for student films for now so I’m not sure how cautious I should be about this. I was reading Bonnie Gillespie’s book, and she says, “When an actor instead submits on all seven roles, it conveys three things: 1. He can’t read; 2. He’s desperate to play any role, no matter what; and 3. He doesn’t know his primary type.” What do you all think? I understand how this might matter at a higher level, but in the beginning of my career shouldn't I be applying for everything and anything?
Hello. I’m a director, and I’m making a short film on Friday. I haven’t directed since the pandemic started, and I wanted to ask my actors to review my directing skills after the filming is done. I could send them a paper to fill out. I’m a bit insecure, but I’m very prepared for filming. Does it make sense to ask them to do that, or would that be weird?
I'm curious how an actor's scale is determined for a short film? Let's say the actor's net worth is $1 million, but the short film's budget is only $20K. What would the actor's daily rate be?
Hello! I'm working on a video game trailer for a flight simulator type game, so any kind of background, knowledge, or interest in aviation or flight sims in general is a huge plus (if only for help in pronunciation) but not at all required. This would be filmed at your own house, using your own equipment (preferably a decent webcam and headset). I would not be present, but directing through Zoom or Google Meet. The style is a "let's play" where you would be a small PiP type window in the gameplay, so any familiarity with gaming let's plays is a plus, but also not necessary. It is a paid gig, $200 for maybe an hour or two of work. We're looking for all ages, genders, looks, etc. Good diction and pronunciation is a huge plus, though. Please DM (not chat) for details! Thank you!
I am a 29 year old Male who wants to be actor and I dont know where to start. I live in the Inland Empire, CA. I do not know how to start nor where to take classes if need be. Any advice is helpful. Thanks.
it's just taking me utterly forever to book my first professional role. like, I've been reading for film/tv going on 5 years now (on top of many, many years pursuing this), more consistently the last 2 1/2, but I can't seem to book a role to save my life. These are my metrics: 183 Auditions via 74 CD offices 33 CD offices gave 2(+) tapes 21 CD offices gave 3(+) tapes 7 Pins 3 Callbacks / Producer Sessions 15 - Jonathan Strauss 10 - Tucker/Meyerson 8 - Telsey & Company 7 - Kim Coleman 7 - Fincannon 7 - Bowling Miscia 6 - Avy Kaufman 6 - Erica Arvold 5 - Jackie Burch 5 - Kromer Casting 4 - David Caparelliotis 4 - Julie Schubert 4 - Candice Alutza Lee 4 - Rori Bergman 3 - Shannon Mackhanian 3 - Finnegan / Jacobs 3 - Rhavyn Dummer 3 - Feldstein / Paris 3 - Suzanne Ryan 3 - Chopin / Ort 3 - Atomic Honey 2 - Sherrie Henderson 2 - Chrystie Street 2 - Laray Mayfield 2 - Fifer / Tenner 2 - Beverly Holloway 2 - Emily Fleischer 2 - Sig De Miguel 2 - Betty Mae 2 - Erica Hart 2 - Gayle Keller 2 - Bright / Daniels I've mostly read for co-stars on network / streaming, but once in a blue moon I'll get a guest star / recurring / series regular / supporting film / lead in film. My biggest tape was the titular role for a major event series opposite an A list actor. An A list actor was cast instead. I once got pinned for a small supporting role in an Academy Award winning director's feature, but nothing came of that except for another audition for a 3-episode Guest star on a mini series tape a year later from that same CD. It's really challenging to stay positive, to know what the reality of my situation truly is, if i'm doing well or not doing well, and what the future will look like, when I will finally book, etc. The lack of feedback really drives me crazy. My reps say I ace every tape, between that, and repeats from CDs, that's really all I can work with. I'm in 3 classes right now, one craft class in a different method i've never studied before with a reputable teacher, an on camera scene study class, and an advanced on camera audition class with a very in-demand teacher. I'm getting new headshots in 2 weeks and really pouring in everything I've learned over the years / what I think is positive feedback from the type of roles / CDs i've read for, and using that info to maximize my photo session with a top photog who's vibe / lighting technique really matches my vibe as an actor. I just feel kind of nuts after all this time, and still not booking, outside of the student films I self-submit for, I've done plenty of those. I don't know how normal my situation is. I'd love to hear any constructive feedback, both good and bad. Thank you for your help.
I’ve never signed anything, can I trust he will give me credit? Would you? The footage doesn’t mean much to me. I just want credit. P.s im not an actor so all of this is new to me
i was in my acting class today and we had a casting director come and speak to us and had us all look up our names and just get an idea of how popular it was within the industry and if there was already someone with our name established basically just having us decide if we should start thinking about a stage name. This is already something i’ve looked up many times and unfortunately there is already an actor with my exact first and last name who’s pretty well established in credits and my first name is just wildly popular on its own. i was thinking of names i could go by and i’ll most likely choose my middle name since i do still want something close to what i’m familiar with but my middle name sounds so awkward with my last name plus it again is quite popular on imdb lol. Anyways my moms maiden name is moneymaker ( my grandpas name is richard but went by rich really a great name in my opinion) and not only would i really enjoy being able to honor that whole side of my family it also flows quite well with my middle name. Only issue is i can’t quite tell if it would get more of a intrigued interesting/funny and positive reaction in the industry or if it would give off a weird douchey entitled vibe.
I’m an actor in NYC ready to get an agent but I’m hitting a wall with figuring out how to get one. A lot of the agencies I find online do not accept cold calls or submissions, but how am I supposed to get one if that’s the case? I’ve taken a ton of classes but don’t have any connections in the industry. If anyone has advice on how to get one or where to look in NYC- can be for theater, film/TV, voiceover, etc.- I’d really appreciate it.
This is going to be an extremely specific and long post asking for help but if anyone has time to read it and is willing to offer advice that would be very appreciated! I would love to get the perspective of people who actually know what they're talking about, not just my friends or my parents who are well-intentioned but don't have as much insight into the industry as people on this sub. I am currently about to finish my first year studying double major Screenwriting and Marketing undergrad at a school in LA, but am originally from the Washington DC area. I have honestly always known that the only thing I want to be is an actor but going to school for acting wasn't feasible so I figured going to a film school to at least be in some part of the industry would be helpful. Working on sets and in my classes this year has just really cemented it into me that I'd be miserable doing anything else and really only want to act. I'm now having a bit of a crisis because I don't know what to do. I could move back home, enroll in community college for business or some sort of computer science thing, and start taking adult acting classes in DC and try to self submit and find a rep that works in both DC and NYC while also working somewhere else to save money (I can live at home for free). Once I get my associates and hopefully have a resume/reel built up I could make a move to a bigger city (NYC/Atlanta/LA, wherever I can get rep)-- I would assume this is in like 2-3 years. My goal would be to have a flexible work from home job with whatever I got my associates in to pay the bills, and spend my free time auditioning. I know this sounds very best case scenario (don't know if I'd even be able to get a job like that with only an associates) and it is a fast timeline so if anyone think it's not feasible let me know. The other option is I could stay here, continue with my degree, and try to act on the side. I do not have a car so I am basically trapped on campus and we all know LA transport is awful so I don't actually have mobility. The school I'm going to is also very expensive, and once I graduate I'd have to settle down into a proper full-time job right away to start paying off my loan debt and wouldn't really be able to properly pursue acting. I would be graduating with connections though, and would hopefully be able to get into some student productions/films here. However, I'm not sure how much having connections to recently graduated directors and screenwriters would do in terms of getting acting roles. Outside of disliking my current major situation and future job prospects, I do really like this school and have friends here who I'd be sad to leave. I had a great freshman year. If I go back home I'd lose my freedom and have no social or love life so I'm worried about losing motivation and regretting my decision. I also do not want to be stuck back in my toxic home environment again, but could theoretically suck it up for a few years in the name of saving up money to pursue my passion. I know the concept of leaving Los Angeles to pursue acting in DC sounds insane, but I don't actually have access to much outside of stuff on my college campus here in LA and it's a big financial burden for future me to bear. I don't know if it really matters for this question but for general context I am 18, female, and also South Asian which would definitely making getting roles and building my resume harder in general. My parents are immigrants so they have absolutely no pre-existing connections in the industry at all. If anyone based in the DC area also has any insight into what it's like there that would be helpful. I know the scene is mostly theatre based and I did that in high school so I'm not opposed to doing some play productions, but my ultimate goal is definitely screen/film acting. I've considered transferring to a CUNY so I can be based in New York, but that would still be a decent amount of money as even though they are the more affordable NYC 4 year institutions I'd be paying out of state tuition and would need housing. I'm just very unsure on what to do and the semester ends soon so I need to hurry up and make a decision. Which of these options sounds best, or is there something else I haven't thought of yet?
I am burning to perform. I don’t care about money, career, or connections. I just want to do good work. I have a weekly radio show at a non-profit station, and I feel I should be using it more creatively than playing music. But I’m not sure what I could do by myself every single week. Background: I wanted nothing but to be an actress since I was three years old. I spent childhood in intense acting classes, onstage, performing, until my dad made me stop in my teens. I was good, man. I always got the lead. I would have gone back to it as an adult, but I contracted Lyme Disease around age 12, and by 18 my health was haywire and disbelieved. I told myself I had to focus on getting a job with health coverage and diagnosed and fixed before pursuing my creative aspirations (yay America!). But I kept getting sicker and didn’t get diagnosed until after I ended up on Disability in my 30’s. Now I’m 46. I’m in better shape than I was, but my health still isn’t great. My memory is impaired, and I’m working on it, but I’m not sure how much I can get back. I don’t think stage is an option for me anymore, sadly. I’m thinking of going to community college just for the acting classes. I’ve had a small part in a B movie, pre-pandemic. I have a small part in an indie film next month, and another B film this summer? But those have been through friends of friends, and I’ve no idea how to properly audition. I’m in NYC, which seems an advantage, but being a 46 year old woman and competing for dwindling female roles against professionals who have been working for decades seems a losing proposition. Audio plays seem an obvious solution, but it’s not legal to perform pre-existing radio plays. Also, I don’t have any actor friends. Also, one week is a super short turn around. (I’m no Joe Frank, much as I wish I were.) Is there a secret source of contemporary public domain plays and monologues somewhere? Any ideas, suggestions, advice?
I (very recently) started a youtube channel promoting fantasy authors and their. But I got an offer from a few authors with a story but without audiobook. I got the idea to maybe get a voice actor to a voice over for some shorter stories, but I have no idea what the cost will be for a short story of 1000 to 2000 words. (I currently can't do full audiobooks as I don't earn money doing this, so the proce would be to great) Thanks in advance for your input! Edit: and where do I post such an offer?
I've been discussing with a few people about the need for post-audition notifications on when the casting process has completed for roles that we've auditioned for. It would be a greatly appreciated professional courtesy to let actors know, particularly ones who have been called back or put on avail, that the role has been booked and thus allow people to continue to plan their lives without the unofficial (but expected) soft-holds that many of us take on in the later stages of being considered for a part. I've submitted a feature request to Actor's Access with the hopes of having them implement an easy, push button system that poses the minimal burden on all parties while allowing for these notifications to exist, and **I encourage you to also submit a request to them if you agree that having this information would be beneficial.** This was my request: >I'd like to submit a feature request that I've been discussing with a number of other actors. Can you please implement a push-button feature on the casting side of breakdowns that allows casting directors to update the status of a role? I.E. "Auditioning" "In Callbacks" "Offers Made" "Casting Complete" >>This status should be viewable from an actor's submission and ecocast/audition pages. >>There is a fundamental lack of communication after auditions that are submitted which affects how actors go about their lives. Closing that gap is a courtesy to the actor, just like the "confirm audition" button you added to the audition page. >>Thank you
Personally my desire to act has been on and off FOR YEARS since i was about 11 i think, it started when i was OBSESSED with Dylan O'Brien in the Maze Runner lol. But anxiety overruled that dream so so much and it hadn't come back, especially this strongly until I saw Pedro Pascal in TLOU. I love the show so so much and him as an actor is amazing, it made me want to be like that too. I want to be surrounded by people like that, people that have more experience, so that I can learn from them. But for right now, it will all have to be local, no complaining there though, just because it's local doesn't mean it's bad. Take care guys!
Hey guys, I'm not getting a ton of great responses for some reason via craigslist / facebook housing groups so I figured I'd bring this on here. My buddy and I have two bedrooms, one for $800 and one for $900 in a 4 bed 1 bath with a big living room & kitchen, in Astoria, available for an April 1st move in. $800 security deposit. We are both in our 30s, I'm an actor with a 9-5 and my buddy is a journalist who travels a lot. We are looking for 2 people in their 30s, preferably with a 9-5, but I'd also love to live with actors so we can help each other out reading for tapes, etc. It's a killer location in Astoria, a couple blocks from the park, and about at 10 minute walk from the last 2 stops on the N/W train in Astoria. Plenty of bars / laundromats / grocery stories nearby. Also plenty of street parking, thank god, I have a car and it's the easiest parking I've ever had in NYC. If you're interested, hit me up and I can send you some pictures, etc.
I want to start voice acting since all my friends have told me I have good control over my tone and pitch and have told that i should try voice acting but dont know where to start and how. Any advice?
I mean, there was this article from Vulture: > **Soon You’ll Be Able to Make Your Own Movie With AI. Artificial intelligence isn’t about to change the movie industry. It already has.** >> There’s a new Knives Out movie on Netflix, and I still haven’t seen a few of this season’s awards contenders. But the film I most wish I could watch right now is Squid Invasion From the Deep. It’s a sci-fi thriller directed by John Carpenter about a team of scientists led by Sigourney Weaver who discover an extraterrestrial cephalopod and then die one by one at its tentacles The production design was inspired by Alien and The Thing; there are handmade creature FX and lots of gore; Wilford Brimley has a cameo. Unfortunately, though, I can’t see this movie, and neither can you, because it doesn’t exist. >> For now, Squid Invasion is just a portfolio of concept art conjured by a redditor using Midjourney, an artificial-intelligence tool that creates images from human-supplied text prompts. Midjourney was released into public beta over the summer and for months belched out mostly visual gibberish. “I was trying to make a picture of Joe Rogan fighting a chimp, and it just looked like nightmare fuel,” says the Reddit user, OverlyManlySnail, whose real name is Johnny Weiss. Then, in November, the software was upgraded to version four. It began effortlessly translating complicated suggestions (“DVD screengrab, ’80s John Carpenter horror film, an alien squid attacking a horrified Sigourney Weaver, blood everywhere, extra wide shot, outstanding cinematography, 16-mm.”) into imaginary film stills that look good enough to be real. Some of them look better than anything in Hollywood’s current product line: stranger, more vividly composed, seemingly less computer generated even though they’re completely computer generated. >> Soon, Hollywood could be in direct competition with generative AI tools, which, unlike self-driving cars or other long-promised technologies that never quite arrive, are already here and getting better fast. Meta and Google have announced software that converts text prompts into short videos; another tool, Phenaki, can do whole scenes. None of these video generators has been released to the public yet, but the company D-ID offers an AI app that can make people in still photos blink and read from a script, and some have been using it to animate characters created by Midjourney. “In the next few years,” says Matthew Kershaw, D-ID’s VP of marketing and growth, “we could easily see a major movie made almost entirely using AI.” Someday, instead of browsing our Rokus for something to watch, we might green-light our own entertainment by pitching loglines to algorithms that can make feature-length films with sophisticated plots, blockbuster effects, and A-list human actors from any era. One hurdle to this future is that whimsical user prompts are no substitute for good scripts. Somebody (or something) needs to tell the video generators what to generate for two hours. But progress is underway on that front, too, because it turns out that ChatGPT — the new AI chatbot that can write code, college essays, and instructional rap songs on how to change your motor oil — is also an aspiring screenwriter. >> With Weiss’s permission, I asked ChatGPT to develop a plot for Squid Invasion. I described the concept images and told it to create an outline for the movie, which I’ll summarize: At a remote research lab in the ocean, scientists discover a species of alien squids, which are hyperintelligent and can regenerate their bodies after injury. The squids escape their containment tanks and kill several researchers. The humans fight back with guns and other weapons, but it only makes the squids angrier. The scientists destroy the lab with a reactor explosion that they hope will kill the squids too. The film ends with the survivors celebrating their narrow escape — and mourning their colleagues. That may not pack much narrative surprise or subvert genre conventions, but it does imply that ChatGPT understands basic story logic in a way that eludes plenty of humans. It even, at my request, suggested a decent twist ending: Another alien race contacts the survivors and reveals the squids were a peaceful and misunderstood species. >> What ChatGPT can’t do yet is write an actual screenplay. The software that powers most current AI language generators can process text of only 1,500 or fewer words, which makes it hard to produce coherent works of their own that are any longer. But after many failed attempts, I got ChatGPT to draft some of Squid Invasion’s first scene. >> **Samantha Carter**: These squids are incredible. >> **Dr. James Jones**: Yeah, they’re definitely something. But we need to be careful. These deep sea creatures can be dangerous. >> **Dr. Mike Smith**: I agree. We need to study them carefullyand make sure they don’t pose a threat. >> **Dr. Carter**: Oh no! The squids are attacking! >> **Dr. Jones**: Grab the flamethrower. >> Those lines are bad. But not so bad that I can’t imagine them being delivered in a perfectly enjoyable Gerard Butler movie. AI may never be Robert Towne, but with next-gen language bots expected next year, the writers of Black Adam should be nervous. Some have argued that AI tools aren’t as clever as they seem, that they’re incapable of original thinking and can only parrot their training material. That may hinder them in some fields. But in Hollywood, shallow riffing on preexisting intellectual property is a cherished and lucrative skill. Some of the most acclaimed movies of 2022, including Top Gun: Maverick and Elvis, have the hermetically nostalgic tinge of AI creations. >> A few filmmakers have already embraced the tech for certain applications. The director Scott Mann used machine learning in his 2022 thriller Fall, altering the actors’ mouths to eliminate swear words and avoid an R rating. It was used in next year’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny to make 80-year-old Harrison Ford look 45. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone recently landed a $20 million investment for their new start-up, Deep Voodoo, an entertainment studio that will provide low-cost deep-fake visual effects. And for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water, the FX studio Weta deployed AI to give Na’vi characters realistic facial muscles that move in concert. “In previous systems, if we wanted to change a character’s smile, we had to go in and move all the pieces, and it was a lot of work to keep it from looking rubbery,” says Weta senior visual-effects supervisor Joe Letteri. >> “This got us to a natural place much sooner.” Letteri doesn’t expect AI to generate any Avatar movies by itself, though, at least not soon: “We had 1,600 VFX artists working on this movie and another 1,600 people in live action. We worked on it for five years. You’re not going to get that from a logline.” >> But Hollywood agencies and law firms are preparing for a future in which clients like Weaver could be unwittingly cast in some redditor’s fever dream. “These tools are exciting, but what’s most important to us is that the companies behind them respect the talent and get consent for names, images, and likenesses,” says Joanna Popper, CAA’s chief metaverse officer. “We want to protect creators so that they have the opportunities to monetize their work and images and so others aren’t able to exploit them.” The names of non-consenting artists could be banned as user prompts by AI generators. But that wouldn’t change the fact that many of the tools have already been taught by those artists’ work. >> The reason Squid Invasion is able to nail the aesthetics of sci-fi from the late ’70s to early ’80s is because Midjourney’s training– data likely includes stills from real movies of that era, among millions of other copyrighted images. “We’re talking about software that learns from content but doesn’t necessarily present the content that it learned from,” says Jeffrey Neuburger, an IP lawyer at Proskauer Rose LLP. “So who owns the copyright for the work it creates? This raises questions of fair use and also rights of publicity. This is one of those situations where the law is going to have to catch up” to new technology >> In other words, we need to study these tools carefully and make sure they don’t pose a threat. Grab the flamethrower. https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/ai-art-midjourney-chatgpt-phenaki-movies-hollywood.html#comments And there are these comments related to this article: > I watch a lot of old movies. From between about 60-20 years ago, Hollywood made tons of movies about people doing realistic, adult things, and acted by real, honest to goodness, breathing human actors! They shot on real life locations, and held our interest with original stories. >> The AI pictures that accompany the article look fake, but no more so than today's Hollywood blockbusters themselves look. Nothing but a bunch of actors with computer manipulated faces wearing motion capture suits, saying formulaic lines in front of CGI generated backgrounds. Human cartoons, more or less. And the stories themselves? Well, original ideas are too risky, from a financial standpoint. So why not just redo something that was popular 20 years ago? >> At this point, I'm all for AI generated movies. Once it becomes possible for almost anyone with an internet connection to generate a feature length film by tapping out a few prompts on their computer or tablet, maybe we'll actually start to see some original ideas again. https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/ai-art-midjourney-chatgpt-phenaki-movies-hollywood.html#comments > Give it a year. Or maybe a month. They’ll keep looking better… and better… and better… https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/ai-art-midjourney-chatgpt-phenaki-movies-hollywood.html#comments And there are these related comments as well: > The Genie is out of the box, in another 10-15 years time artists will be able to make movies using AI tools. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/106anta/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_movie_with_ai/j3giqwd/ > This is different though, the advancement in AI/ML is truly frightening. This should be obvious if you have been paying attention, deep fakes, voice impersonation, so on and forth. >> As someone within the industry I think it is scary as fuck. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/106anta/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_movie_with_ai/j3gn05k/ > Humans can create the story-board framework and ask the AI to create the video and sound that's necessary. So, for example, if I feed the GPT engine a AV feed of all the superhero movies, it should enough for it for it to learn a thing or two. >> Deep learning AIs using neural networks to learn, that's something similar to what we do, however they do learn things incredibly fast. So, you don't require sentience to produce an incredibly sophisticated fan-film in the near future. >> Legal troubles are ONLY if you charge people monies to watch your movie. None of the fan films do that currently. However, imagine a future where you can pay a nominal fee to watch a movie with your own dream casting. >> It is an extremely disruptive technology, most people don't realize the extent of this as yet. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/106anta/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_movie_with_ai/j3l9jl9/ > Give it time, the next 10 years is a long long time as far as computing tech is concerned. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/106anta/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_movie_with_ai/j3ldmiv/ > I am looking at the current rate of advancement of technology. Self driving cars are already in place now, 10 years ago that would be be considered amazing. These algorithms have the ability to learn and improve themselves, that's what makes all this a real possibility. >> AIs need to be trained, but once trained, they are incredibly good at pattern sifting, concept recognition and everything else that only humans could do. >> For instance, you can feed it whole essay and get a neat little summary. https://medium.com/geekculture/a-paper-summarizer-with-python-and-gpt-3-2c718bc3bc88 >> This would have been unthinkable a few years ago. I am saying the rate at which AI/ML tech is advancing is pretty scary, it has the ability to disrupt our society in a very big way. >> AI/ML developers both implementers and algorithm architects are very much in demand. The latter more than the former. All this advancement is not automatic, there are people working on these techs. >> It won't be far fetched to have AIs write scripts for movies, dialogues and everything, that's going to happen in the next few years. We are doing all this with conventional silicon chips and software, once we have specialized hardware it will be even faster. >> Basically, humans will have machines which can do a lot of the work that they need other humans for. This is what I am actually talking about. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/106anta/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_movie_with_ai/j3liqjx/ > Hurdles will be overcome faster, it's all about training data. In 10 to 15 years, AI generated films ( with obvious human input ) won't be far fetched. AI will help artists generate content that will be almost at par with studio generated content. >> Even now we have fan-films made with shoe-string budgets that look pretty damn good, now imagine those films being render with the help of AI algorithms. It is going to greatly cut down the time and the effort needed for creative artists. >> I am not claiming that my idea is superior because it is something new, I am saying this as a software developer. You are going to see major disruption in many industries in the next 10 to 15 years. This is a given. >> BTW, I am not saying that AIs will be churning out movies by themselves, I am just saying they are going to create a radical paradigm shift. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/106anta/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_movie_with_ai/j3pfeq5/ > Who am I to advise those guys? I am sure many of them realize the importance of these things and are preparing for it in their own way. >> I am just an anonymous software developer, I interact regularly with professionals in healthcare and other industries and am familiar with the incredible advances made. >> Whatever I said is simply an extrapolation based on the current state of affairs. I think it going to help creative individuals to create good content with lower investment of time and money. >> This is not a promise, it just the way the curve is advancing as of now. Look at the kind of hardware advancements being made. >> https://research.aimultiple.com/ai-chip/ >> It's only going to get faster and more efficient, in 10-15 years many of the human jobs will be done by AI programs, all this is inevitable. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/106anta/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_movie_with_ai/j3pl755/ > Unfortunately turning your back on this development is not going to deter the evolution of AI, nor its widespread use. Deleting articles like this is absurd. https://old.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/zwlygy/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_featurelength/j1xbs0i/ > You know, humanity goes through the cycle constantly where people refuse to look reality in the face right up until they’re undone by advances. https://old.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/zwlygy/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_featurelength/j20ht5j/ > It is all about the money. AI created Super Squid Monster Invasion costs 2 million dollars, makes a billion at the box office. >> Avengers 7 costs 500 million dollars makes a billion at the box office. >> Which method do you think studio executives are going to choose for their next movie. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3gretj/ > Even indies have huge crews, temperamental actors, shooting permits, catering, completion bonds etc. >> If you are a writer/director and have an idea for a movie it is also going to be cheaper and less hassle to make your vision in a computer than to actually go through the physical prosses of making it in the real world. >> Hollywood is about to go through the same realization the buggy whip makers and blacksmiths did 120 years ago. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3gt6st/ > Other than Central Park and living history museums not much call for horse drawn carriages anymore. >> Most movies will be made in computers with established actors licensing their image and voices to the production. >> You can stick your head in the sand or find a way to thrive in the new reality. It won't happen tomorrow but, in 20 years the old way of doing things is finished. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3gv5a3/ > The money is always going to win. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3gw1dv/ > Watch this. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DaXgveiQvE https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3lpsml/ > Stable Diffusion, Midjourney etc, exist. Motion pictures are just a series of still images projected at 24 frames per second. It should not take much work to jump from still images to motion pictures. This will happen much faster than people are anticipating. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3mqmrw/ > There are armies of people who make a film: writers, directors, cinematographers, actors, focus pullers, drivers, costumers, carpenters, grips, best boys, electricians, stunt coordinators hair and make and many, many more people too many to list who contribute to even low budget films. All to create a flickering image of projected on a screen at 24 frames per second. >> Imagine a much smaller group of people say 10 to 20 people who will make the exact same image at a fraction of the cost with no reduction in quality. >> This will not be a fad like 3D or Cinerama it will be a fundamentally new way of film making. Immensely cheaper and more profitable for the studios. >> We are standing at the filmmaking equivalent of Kitty Hawk. The Wright brothers flew one man about 120 feet. Not all that impressive. Less than 50 years latter supersonic jets were streaking across the sky and bombers were capable of making intercontinental flights. >> After Warner Brothers produced the first sound picture, silent movies were finished in about four years. >> You don't have to believe me but, if you are in the film business and get caught flat footed by this technology you may find yourself unprepared and out of a job. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3obmrx/ > The truth is film makers will be worthless. A lot of people will be out of a job not just film makers. You can prepare or be caught flat footed. Having situational awareness is not a bad thing. Forewarned is forearmed. I'm sorry I made you feel bad but, being a luddite is not going to stop this. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3oil7q/ > Art is information. Information will be much easier to manipulate by AI than things in the physical world that is why it will happen quite rapidly. People working desk jobs will also be put out of work much more quicky than McDonald's workers. >> It won't require years of development. It takes many people currently to make a film. However, the end product is quite simple really. The software is nearly here. >> Have you seen this? >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxXpB9pSETo >> We are very, very close. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3oru0a/ > I used AI. I watch two minute papers. I know this will happen before the decade is over. Hollywood has been dead for 20 years, yes - but in ten years, there will be no humans involved in entertainment, except for celebrities who are famous for being famous, who rent out their likeness. https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/107kz7u/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3n4363/ > I do tell my design students to not even consider illustration as a career anymore. started in early summer, when I first played with Disco diffusion and dalle2 and it became clear to me that this was going to end careers before they got started - at that point I wasn't prepared for SD, but when I get back to teaching next term, I will tell them to go demonstrate for UBI because I don't knowwhat they should study instead. Law maybe, I have a feeling lawyers will defend - and will be able to defend - their profession to the detriment of everyone. >> also: yeah, thestudents all think they are the ones that will prevail despizte everything. - like climate change: it will affect everyone, but for some reason, not me and I will be fine. https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/107kz7u/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3ngh4m/ > I'm teaching at a design faculty and an art school, neither have explicit filmmaking courses or actors... plus, actors somehow thini theatre is still a thing, and it is, kinda, in that it's publicly funded and exists... just no one under 50 actually goes there.... https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/107kz7u/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3o193b/ > I like the way you think. Personally I would add that 'entertainment' will likely be something completely different, and humans will find some NEW new tech to squabble about using. >> maybe smell-o-vision. https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/107kz7u/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3neln0/ > the squabble will be about how to reorganize society once the fundamentals of capitalism have been upeneded in some fields- but not others. >> imagine you're working in a bank, a young couple comes in, they want a mortgage for a house, both have college degrees, well-paying jobs. But the mortgage is for thirty years. will their careers still exist in thirty years? how do you price in the risk for them losing their jobs in their late thirties, with small children, at a point where going back to college is just not an option? >> this is a housing crisis and an unemployment crisis waiting to happen, in our current system. systems, in the past, have never changed peacefully. >> I don't like the way I think. https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/107kz7u/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3nhuhg/ > oh! uhhh. >> well at least in 20 years my game might be almost finished. I hope AI citizens enjoy it. https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/107kz7u/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3ni5vk/ > Absolutely, the issue is how soon? >> What could be better than The Office, right? >> This has a huge fan base, and there's people who watch the show yearly. >> So, let's assume, THIS IS AN ASSUMPTION, let's be clear on that. And let's say it's very generous assumption, that in five years, there is a way to create new office episodes out with Artificial intelligence. >> You already have programs that can write scripts. >> You already have programs that can generate images. >> You already have programs that can synthesize voices. >> If you take some basic film, the tech just has to get good enough to generate 24 frames a second, and in a show like the office, let's say, has 43,200 frames an episode. >> Okay, so by today's fading standards, how long does it take to generate 43,200 pictures, ASSUMING these pictures could be used for frames in a video. >> I can generate 100 in five minutes on my rig. So that means about 36 hours to generate 43,200 pictures/frames >> Modern, fading standards, mind you. >> GRANTED, there is so much more that needs to be done than rendering frames, voices, and writing a script, the issue is people don't think someone is going to figure out how to combine all these forces into one thing. It's not a if, it's a when. >> Most of the moving parts needed are here, they just need the additional components to make such an idea functional, plus power, and these technological advances are not leaps, they are just a hop or two away. >> For some perspective, it took 800,000 machine hours to render Toy Story. This was a combined effort made by people, who's absolutely can have that work be automated by a machine. Because you're NOT having to make everything by scratch, you just have to make a picture, one after another, that make sense as you put them together, and if you get enough put together, you have a FUCKING UNIVERSE, how insane is that? >> So, why the office fan base? >> If there was a chance to watch office episodes that were 1:1 with the real thing, and you could not tell the difference, you can see your favorite characters in moments that the show could not catch due to the limitations of the budget, time, and the actors, how could anyone stop themselves? >> Thus, this would create a entire new world of entertainment, where people would submit their computer generated episodes, and they would be voted on, just like we vote on post on reddit, and the ones that get to the top get the most views, the most shares, etc. >> At some point, the generations would outnumber the series itself. >> And this isn't just for the office, remember there's a lot of popular shows, a lot of favorite characters, a lot of potential to create things that never were, so you can have a chance to see what could be. >> It's insatiable. People will not be able to help themselves. If you look at the current history of people, they consume a lot without much thought. This isn't going to be any different. >> So, time wise, It might be outrageous to say within the next ten years, but not impossible. https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/107kz9d/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3obawf/?context=3 > This sentence creates a cieling for growth that https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/107kz9d/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3oh5g6/ > People is way too generous of a word to use, because "People still use and collect vinyl" gives this impression that it's a lot, when it's not, and it's very few. And most people who buy vinyl, cannot bring it into their car and listen to it to and from places. I mean, you would have a point if that was true. >> But it's not. https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/107kz9d/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3o4vgc/ > " I show my friends my mj art and they are amazed, then I tell them I can get them started in the hobby with a quick five minutes instruction and they shrug their shoulders." >> You understand why, right? You get why they shrug their shoulders? Please tell me you at least understand that. https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/107kz9d/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3o4ms0/ > This reminds me of someone who posted a while ago about StoryPrism which was in Beta at the time and I assume still is. I wondered how this would actually work but with everything that's happened these past few months it's looking more realistic. >> Very curious how this will play out. https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/107kz9d/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3pd95n/ > Not yet. https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/107kz9d/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3pedyf/ > OP have you had a chance to check out Unreal Engine virtual production >> This was unthinkable until recently and the wild thing is, the software is free. Anyone can have access to it as long as they have a gaming computer or equivalent. https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/107kz9d/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3pfj0n/ > This is going to be moot when AI subverts the need for Hollywood completely. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/11iqpzi/im_worried_about_big_data_and_hollywood/jazl94w/ > Then you just refeed the output through the AI Hand fixer. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/11iqpzi/im_worried_about_big_data_and_hollywood/jb1udzx/ > Does a photo like this hit uncannily?: >> https://i.redd.it/stolen-asked-an-ai-to-show-me-a-wh40k-movie-by-paul-v0-9wbj02y53k3a1.png?width=1682&format=png&auto=webp&s=c7b907efd1602f8119da1f4686282113b462ab9a >> The only leap of technology is temporal coherence and generating it faster so you can output 24 frames per second. And it's already happening. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/11iqpzi/im_worried_about_big_data_and_hollywood/jb1uzfi/ > Thats the beauty of it - why do you need actors and actresses anymore? Like I said, this is going to decimate the whole media landscape. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/11iqpzi/im_worried_about_big_data_and_hollywood/jb23scd/ > And has that stopped the rapid progress we've been seeing? A lot of this new development is happening underground because of this, but it is happening. It's obvious. You type in a script idea for a show and it makes it. That's it. You've circumvented the entire development and release progress of Hollywood. Do I expect V1 to be good? Hell no. But V4 is gonna blow your fucking socks off. We already have Nothing, Forever, which takes humans out of the equation completely to frankly middling results, but its results all the same. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/11iqpzi/im_worried_about_big_data_and_hollywood/jb28oly/ Based on that article and these comments, every single actors, directors, crews, writers, staff members, and so on will all be permanently replaced by AI very soon, so I advise you all to stop chasing your dreams and become something/someone else like YouTubers instead. In fact, you can even talk to these guys directly: https://old.reddit.com/user/TheSecretAgenda https://old.reddit.com/user/Dangerous_Dac ...since they're the guys who posted a lot of those comments above. Keep in mind, everyone will easily be able to create these AI films for free and since your faces can and will be easily recreated by anyone and shown on places like YouTube or Twitch for free as well, they wouldn't be making any money, so you will not be able to sue them at all, meaning that they can do whatever they want with your own faces even if you don't like what they're doing. Please. Stop being a bunch of Luddites who are stuck in the past and think for your future. P.S. I advise you all to read these comments carefully before answering them.
I applied to a listing "Athletic Wear Launch Campaign" by iBooch Productions ([https://www.backstage.com/casting/athletic-wear-launch-campaign-actors-2584582/](https://www.backstage.com/casting/athletic-wear-launch-campaign-actors-2584582/)). They initially asked for a few normal photos. And then once I moved on to the second round, they were asking for photos of yoga poses, but taken from angles that could be provocative. From the back to be exact. It's especially odd because the original listing just said "Photos and videos, without audio, of every day activities such as drinking coffee, stretching, running, reading, and working on a laptop will be taken." The emails look legitimate, but I can't even find this production company when I google. They've been emailing me from [iboochproductions@gmail.com](mailto:iboochproductions@gmail.com) with the name "Izzy Booch." Has anyone else had experience with this? Thanks!
Hello all! I’m an actor in Texas, and in recent years, I’ve been experiencing success in the local city scene. I’ve been continuously cast and have received great reviews, but I almost feel like I’m hitting a plateau. I’m so grateful to be in the position I’m in here, but I can’t help but feel like there’s more steps to be taken. I’m just not sure how to go about it from here. Any suggestions? Thank you.
I'm 15 (I'm borrowing my brother's account for this) and I've been thinking I want to become a voice actor after high school. My parents probably won't be thrilled to hear this since they really want me to have a stable job that I can go to college and get a degree for. However my dream since I was pretty young was to voice act I'm a Disney movie. Now at 15 I'm really considering this as something I want to do. I adore the work of voice actors like James Earl Jones as Darth Vader and Mufasa and Robin Williams as the Genie. Even video game voice actors like Joe Zieja as Claude von Riegan from Fire Emblen Three Houses, Harry McEntire as Noah from Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and Adam Howden as Shulk from Xenoblade Chronicles. So how do I get started, I looked at some of the stuff that this subreddit provided and was just curious if there was anything else I should know especially since I'm on the younger end. Thanks!
Hello acting redditors! Please help me pick the stage name that will follow me my entire career. I’m 28. My first name is Ben, which I like very much and intend to keep. My last name starts with an L, and for whatever reason I get tongue tied trying to say my full name (something about getting from the N in Ben to the L), so that’s no bueno. Looking for something that rolls off the tongue (literally) and preferably doesn’t exceed 2-3 syllables? I feel like a long name is asking for trouble unless you’re Daniel Day Lewis lol. Hopefully it’s unique enough that I won’t run into a name that’s already taken once SAG time comes along. Just imagine you could create a character who is an actor with the first name Ben. “Ladies and gentlemen, Ben So and So!” If I go with your pick I’ll be sure to thank you in any acceptance speeches down the road
I've been looking into them lately as they offer a lot of workshops from Atlanta's biggest talent agencies and casting directors, but I worry that it's a 'pay-to-play' gimmick. It looks legit since I had a friend of mine attend a workshop taught by one of these big agents and is now repped by them, but I had a friend of mine whose friends with an entertainment lawyer and apparently he says what they do is 'borderline illegal' because of this 'pay-to-play.' One of my top agencies is teaching a workshop with them. I'm debating whether or not to sign up but wanted people's opinions first. I've been hearing mixed reviews, but a lot of reputable people teach these workshops. What do you guys think? EDIT TO ADD: It doesn't look like they make promises of getting signed with these agencies or cast by these people, so maybe that's what gets them in the clear of this, but I still wanna know from those who know more.
I’m not an actor but I’m curious. When I set my location to my city (in Canada) sometimes the filming location is LA, or some other states.
It says “lgbtq+ or non binary actors” but in the slate the only instructions are to say how you relate to the character- who’s description also says “either lgbtq+ or non binary” lol. I’m a lesbian, so I’m not sure if I should just say that since it seems like they haven’t decided on what the characters going to be, or just say lgbtq+ identifying!
I think it’s obvious that actors shouldn’t badmouth films because that’s basically ruining your career before it even starts, but what if I could review films without doing that? I’m earning a BA in Film and Media Studies and becoming a film critic is definitely an option if I ever decide to, I just don’t want to hurt my acting career.
If you've seen any of my past posts, you'll know I'm a newer actor. Just wondering if acting feels more natural down the road? I've trained but obviously training never ends, and I've done a short film and some of the scenes felt so natural, I felt completely lost in the world, and it felt great but other scenes didn't feel like that. This also wasn't a major TV show or movie (obviously it was a short, but that doesn't make it unimportant; in fact I liked this short and it was a nice experience) but I don't really expect shorts like that to feel as "real" as the more elaborate major TV and movie sets, and with all the props and costumes and soundstages and shooting on location in major productions, but will it feel natural at some point? Although there are technical stuff, I've read many articles that say pay attention to the shot you're acting in and your blocking/hitting you marks, but when they action just let it all go and be in the moment. Should I just focus on continuing my training? And will feeling real and natural on set will come on its own? I just know that I've heard many times that it's normal for acting to feel natural and feel like an escape on set.
In middle school, I was cast in the school play. On the night on of the play, 5 minutes before it started, the principal told me and my fellow actors that he wants to insert himself into the play with a few lines to make the audience laugh. He gave us a new script for the scene which changed some of the actors lines. It might’ve been a small change for the principal, but it was a major change for us actors. Not surprisingly, a fellow actor made a mistake with his new line and forgot it. It was all last minute. The new scene wasn’t even that funny. It was all about the principal making a surprise cameo. Did he have to insert himself into the play at the last minute while ruining the joy for so many of us young aspiring actors? That’s aside from the fact that it butchered The Sound of Music which isn’t supposed to be a comedy with a campy cameo. Did the principal cross a line? I feel like might’ve had unfulfilled dreams of acting or that he just wanted attention. But why at the expense of ruining our play and taking away our joy?
I was an extra for 2 dhar mann videos. As all the actors said, tehy made me clear out an entire week and all I did was just walk around in a background in their mall. The rest of the time i just stood around. I saw Dhar Mann once, which was apparently extremely rare and he was a dick to everyone, jsut acting like a Diva bitching that his coffee wasn't the perfect temperature and called a staff member a moron. I got paid like 15 dollars when i took a whole week off work, after i finished my scene they told me to go home. This shit is basically a factory and we're just machinery. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvAmxJjxc7A&t=12s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvAmxJjxc7A&t=12s) dhar mann cringe compilation
First time poster! I have read many interesting and inspiring takes on this sub, so I came to ask this question that just came into my mind. So the question why there is a disproportionate amount of famous and beloved actors from the UK has been discusses many times. What I perceive to be the most common argument is the rigorous training received at UK drama schools and the strong theatrical tradition of the region. I recently startet getting into screen acting techniques, and apart from a majority of those techniques coming from the US, it seems to be a common theme to warn stage actors not to expect acting for a camera to be anything like acting on a stage. Furthermore, an over exaggerated 'theatricality' of a performance seems to be regarded by many as the primary mistake made by novice screen actors. What are your thoughts as to why so many UK actors excel on the big screen, despite their primary training being strictly in theatre and the UK not having a film tradition nearly as rich as the US? Are there any particular techniques commonly uses by actors from the UK working in film?
long story short i have a very confusing and difficult teacher who doesn’t like to explain or post work at all. (we are a class of ages 13-19) except half of the class population stopped going on the third day. i think this upset the teacher a bit to the point where she told the class, we suck and we’re repeating it next week. she’s always taking about Uta Hagen (i believe that’s how it’s spelled?) and when we do these acting scenes she wants us to follow uta hagen without actually going over exactly what she did. all we know about Hagen as a class is that she made a “toolkit”. if y’all can link me some articles or something i can follow that makes sense so i do good in the class. anything that’ll help a beginner learning about the Uta Hagen style of acting would be very nice i don’t even know what i’m looking for. my teacher makes it really confusing. thank you.
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I'm gonna be voice acting in an ARG series! I saw a post on r/arg looking for voice actors, and I decided, you know what? Screw it, I'm gonna go for it! And now I have a real voice acting job! It's not a paying job, but that's not what I'm going for right now. Right now, I'm just looking for experience. It's such a thrill going in the Discord server and seeing my username and profile picture under "Voice Actor!" I'm sure this is gonna be the start of something amazing! I just wanna thank everyone here. I know it sounds super cheesy, but I'm just that happy. This community has taught me so much about voice acting, and so many of you have been super supportive too. You've taught me about microphones, soundproofing, and so much more. Even when I've been feeling discouraged and unsure if this is what I want, you've been there to pick me back up. So, thank you for all your help and encouragement along the way, and I hope to learn more from you all in the future!
Hello, currently I’m working on a video game and I have found someone to voice act for it. I was wondering how would I format the script for the voice actor. The content would include different phrases or words an announcer would say.
This is a short post, and if you already know what an NDA is then skip this. Their seems to be some confusion about people applying for jobs. I'm going to use Videogames for this example. For videogames, the large majority of the voice acting is work you audition for. Why? Because it's usually a secret. Consider the idea of E3 and the game awards. How many times have you seen a new game revealed? Think about it, the voice actors could have mentioned it along time ago. They signed an NDA. They are legally not allowed to talk about the videogame they worked on until it's announced publicly. So, that new Zelda game? Already acted two years ago by the voice actors. Resident evil 4 remake? Probably done while Resident Evil 2 remake was just released. The Suicide Squad, Kill the justice league? Probably done two years ago (RIP Kevin Conroy) To sum up, you may be searching for your favorite game like Roblox or Destiny voice actor, but I doubt it will be in plain sight. You have to audition, and hopefully your agent is involved in the world of videogames, and just maybe, you audition for a character that ends up being in a videogame you like.
This was posted to Facebook by [Daryl Marks](https://darylmarks.com/), one of my FB friends. **Things I wish I learned in Theatre School**. 1.“Stealing the show” is not a compliment. The ensemble is more important than your “moments”. 2.You’d be surprised how few people are willing to pay for theatre tickets when they aren’t your friends and family and have no personal connection to you whatsoever.3.No, you can’t actually play forty and fifty-year-olds in your twenties. At least, no one will pay you to do it. 4.By the same token, there are very few roles in the theatre for twenty-year-olds. 5.The stage manager always works much harder than you. And technically, you work for him/her, not the other way around. 6.Most people don’t get drunk on Opening Night…because they have a show the next day…idiot. Oh, and cast parties are more likely to be cast dinners. 7.Developing and producing your own work is the single MOST important thing you can do after you graduate. 8.Background film roles don’t do shit for your career. 9.Unions are awesome and the worst at the same time. 10.When people said you would be poor thanks to your brilliant career choice, what they really meant was “completely fucking destitute.” And that’s okay. 11.Auditions are on one level. Knowing the right people is a completely different level altogether. 12.Directors, casting agents, and producers care as much about how easy you will be to work with as they do about how good you are for the role. If not more so. 13.Remember how you used to have five weeks to get off book? NOPE. Get off book NOW. 14.Save up a certifiable shit-ton of money if you’re going to move to the big city to try and “make it”. Like, a ridiculous amount. Student-loan worthy. That is, if you want to actually be able to go for auditions, take classes, network, and you know, any of those other career-building essentials. 15.Don’t do everything. Seriously. Know when to turn something down. And believe me, you’ll know. 16.It’s not unreasonable to expect to be paid for your work. And you should be. But you won’t always be. So when you do work for free, which will be a lot, make sure it’s work that you’re passionate about or will really be a career booster. And honestly, it should be both. 17.Ninety percent of casting decisions have nothing to do with how you perform in your audition. 18.Most of the time, when you don’t get the part, it’s not because you suck, but because of some other (probably superficial) reason altogether. Unless you suck. 19.Energy is more important than appearance. So get more sleep instead of wasting your time making yourself look good. After all, there’s always a hair and makeup person on set. There’s rarely a person to spoon-feed you caffeine and cocaine. 20.Take your “me” time. And cherish it. Because the pursuit of an acting career will totally consume your life. 21.Don’t hide your “physical flaws.” Embrace them. And learn how to look at yourself objectively. 22.Your “hit” is no joke. It’s what you’re selling. Either be okay with it, or figure out a way to change it and still look like a real human being. 23.No matter how big of a star you were in school, out here, you are just a part of a team. So act like it. And give credit where credit is due at every opportunity. 24.Acting is actually easier than you want to believe it is. And more people can actually do it than you want to believe. And most people behind the scenes work harder than you do. So don’t be a diva. 25.You are replaceable. 26.The camera really does add ten pounds. No shit. 27.Stage and screen are completely different worlds requiring completely different approaches and are cast in completely different ways. 28.You thought there was “technique” to acting on stage? Just wait till you get some serious face time with the camera. 29.Rehearsals are a luxury. Don’t waste them. 30.It is not okay to be drunk, stoned, high, or any other kind of intoxicated while you work. Not for “professionalism” reasons. But because you are, in fact, worse. 31.Try not to get discouraged/cynical/jaded/resentful too early. This is a tough business. That’s just the way it is, and it’s not going to change any time soon. So be tough. Or get out. 32.And finally, don’t go down this path just because you’re “good enough” to be a professional actor. For the love of God, do it ONLY because you cannot do anything else.
I am a tv/film actress in NYC. Would love to know if someone can tell me about some acting mangers I can reach out to, so they help navigate me navigate my career. I’m really trying on my own but I would like to see what a acting manger can help me with.
Apologies if this may be sporadic: Recently I’ve been feeling stuck in my work as a voice actor. I know it’s a little bit of everything as to why I’m not getting anywhere. I would need materials to make a new booth instead of my closet, better soundproofing. Might need new equipment: I have a RODE NT1-A mic, with an Audient iD4 interface. I feel like I don’t have the best range of voices or how to change my voice up thoroughly. Obviously the correct answer is take more classes, but regarding everything I just don’t know what to do/where to start. I just hate feeling behind on what I’m doing. I’m open to opinions, links, any and all advice anyone can provide. Here’s my current demo if you would like to listen to it as well: https://twitter.com/smittysmashva/status/1358163475894272006?s=46&t=aFt_th6rRg8bc0mg9BSOFw
So tomorrow I’m meeting with a casting director for a crime mystery game, they need actors to sell it to the customer and that it’s entertaining and impro is very important here. And she wants me to prepare for a scene. What kind of scene should I prepare for? Or should I just not prepare because again it’s improvisation.
Something of mine went viral a few years ago. I have been contacted by various producers, some actors and their reps, etc. about turning my thing into a movie. I have no clue what I'm doing. Some B list actor and his production company already tried to fleece me. I'm a very private person, so this is all weird for me. I keep a minimal social media presence. I don't want attention. I don't want to be on camera or recorded. I really need someone who knows how to navigate that world and who can ensure we both get paid if my story ever goes into production. But again, I'm a complete outsider to that world. Wondered if any of you have advice. Sorry for not giving the details on what went viral. It's a very personal story and it went viral here on Reddit. I don't want to cross streams. I'm asking because another B Lister's production company is contacting me and I don't want to go down that road all alone again.
My first booking happened to be an union commercial. Misfortune has befallen me during the filming day and I got injured during rehearsal... I still got my credit despite not having any of that commercial footage to use for future demo. My stunt friends encouraged me to join the Union asap. So I did. Only to realize too late that it was a big mistake as an actor. Now 6 months later, and after 25 auditions, I haven't booked anything, as I'm auditioning among professional Union members while being highly inexperienced myself.. Is there a way to recover from joining the Union too soon?
As mentioned in the title, I am a NY based musical theatre actor currently building my resume. I booked a featured background spot on a movie musical which I wouldn’t typically include in an acting resume. I recently learned however, that I will be fairly heavily featured to the point where I will be the love interest of one of the principle actors and we will have a romantic moment together. I’ll be referenced in the script. Would this still be inappropriate to use on my resume in any capacity? It would be beneficial in the musical theatre world obviously to say I was in a movie musical, but I don’t want to come off novice or unprofessional. Thanks everyone!
Hi all, Feeling relieved to have found this thread! Am in need of some advice from people outside my group of loved ones... I'll share a bit about me to give some context before I get into my question. Thanks in advance for reading <3 I graduated from a top acting conservatory over 5 years ago. I lived abroad for a few years and made some short films that toured (small) festivals and one even won an award. I moved to LA in 2020 (I know what was I thinking) and sort of miraculously signed with a rep from one of the most prestigious management/production companies in the country (I can't find the stats on it right now but they're behind like True Detective, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and The Revenant). I had no professional credits at the time so it was a big accomplishment for me and I immediately started taping tons of auditions. All my auditions were for lead roles/costars etc in really big projects. Within my first year, I was getting tons of great feedback from casting directors, my tapes would get pinned, and I had a few callbacks or "availability requests". It was definitely an exciting time and I felt like I had momentum even though I didn't book anything. Now it's been over a year (soon coming to my '3 years in LA' mark), that I have had zero momentum. No feedback, no callbacks, no pins, no bookings, nothing. As you can imagine, it's super tough. I still haven't booked anything. I see people all around me (talented and not (no offense)) book plenty of stuff and it's been really hard to stay confident and hopeful that it "will" happen to me too. Plus, in LA I am constantly faced with being yet another actor who hasn't succeeded. Sometimes, I feel like I have no escape from that reality because it's everywhere here. Of course, I wrestle constantly with how "good" I am at this craft– one that I adore and have dedicated myself to for over 10 years now (I started in school theatre as a kid!). Sometimes I'll review my old tapes and will feel proud because I like what I see. As in, I feel just as capable as anybody who's working. Other times, I see people booking and working that don't even work half as hard and I don't personally find their performances compelling at all. So I think, what does it even matter how good I am? It's more about being dedicated and persevering anyway no? Then on my darker days, I just submit to the idea that ok fine, maybe I'm just not good and I should give up. Those are the meaner voices and I try my best not to let them *totally* win. I'll add one last note which is that I haven't *just* auditioned since moving here. Obviously there's always more that a person can do but I have done some networking, taken acting classes, started writing my own projects, joined a writers group, and had many a conversations with my rep about casting a wider net. I also keep in touch with plenty of contacts from school that are working and succeeding in this industry. So, I suppose my question is this. I don't want to give up entirely but I can't see myself staying mentally healthy (read: sane) continuing this way. I find myself getting super frustrated and then am really hard on myself like once a week. I try to be pragmatic (I don't come from a family of artists) and think logically that I have no proof or signs that I'm going in the right direction so perhaps that means this isn't for me. I've given myself a deadline to take a break from acting because I need a breather from this level of frustration and disappointment. Ideally, I can return with new energy and a new state of mind after this break
Is it worth it/legit and will it help someone trying to make it as an actor. Also, I tried onboarding and no slots. How hard it is to get a slot?
As in, auditioned every or almost every year, but never even got a supporting or ensemble role? (I don't mean people who, for whatever reason, simply didn't audition for their school play)
Hey guys! I am an actor located in Nashville. Does anyone have any idea of the scene here is changing? I hear rumbling of it being “the new atlanta” but I feel like this could be just a thing people are saying.
For actors who are not so keen on those 3 cities (lived in 2 and vacationed a bit in the other), what are some real city options for us to grow our careers?
This is a question that has bugged me for as long as I've been an actor. How does it happen???? Every day I flip on my TV and continually see people who can't act their way out of a paper bag. How on earth do these folks manage to stand out amongst thousands of actors? Like, how did they even make it past a self-tape audition? I get that looks can play a major role in the casting process, but I know lots of people with both acting craft AND beauty who never get anything. It's just so mystifying because every day I'm in acting class, I see abundantly talented, attractive people doing marvelous work. Yet none of them are even close to getting an audition for anything.
**I first want to say that I'm not posting this to be 'stuck-up' or mean or anything like that, it's just a serious question i'm asking because i'm honestly a bit baffeled by this...** long story short, i have been looking for voice actors for a sims 2 scary movie im making for youtube. I always felt like acting was something that literally **anyone** could do. As in, anyone is able to get/act frantic/terrified or stressed-out/enraged.... (maybe it's because of my Autism, but I SERIOUSLY thought that ANYONE could act, at least to the standards of how i'm acting in the video below). I met this one man on a dating site I was on, **he had No expirence with acting**, but as I said, I thought it was something anyone could do. I asked him if he wanted to do a voice over in my scary sims 2 movie I'm making for youtube & he was all for it, so we were recording the lines together & **in the movie the character he was playing ends up getting his son murdered VIOLENTLY he sees it on camera & he becomes stressed out & horrorfied & frantic afterwards.** BUT when we were trying to record those lines, I was telling him the tone & emotion I wanted him to say it in, **WE TRIED IT LITERALLY 10+ TIMES**, but for some reason, he wasn't picking up on it... Here's a video of it below. You hear my voice first (the way I wanted him to say the line) and then you hear his voice soon after... https://reddit.com/link/11hr19j/video/z6g6h4udtnla1/player Listen to the way I talk first & then listen to him trying to immitate it... *am I the only one noticing the differences between how we each sound?* I was trying to sound a combination of 'frantic' & sad & stressed out & horrorfied & angry.... as I wanted him to say the line, but when I heard him say it, it didn't sound 'emotional' enough when you compare it to mine. (he talked in the southern accent, like i wanted him too, but even with the accent, he should have been able to match the 'franticness' & stress level in my voice...) **I LITERALLY THOUGHT THAT ANYONE COULD DO THAT!** I NEVER considered myself a "good actor" or anything like that, but it was just really shocking to me how he couldn't match my emtotion in those lines at all! Eventually I had to tell him that we couldn't continue with the part & **I felt bad because I been having an EXTREMELY difficult time finding voice actors for my sims 2 movie!** I even called my adoptive Dad to vent about it & I even played him the part of me doing the line first & then of the other guy doing the same line next, & my adoptive Dad was telling me: "Joe, it sounded good enough"... *am I the only one hearing the difference between the 2 voices in the clip above??* my adoptive Dad then told me that I "really do have a 'gift' for acting" & he told me that not many people can bring out emotions like that like I was able to... **IS THIS SERIOUS??** **I SERIOUSLY THOUGHT THAT ANY AVERAGE PERSON COULD GO ACT OUT THE EMOTION I DISPLAYED IN THE VIDEO ABOVE! ME AND THIS MAN KEPT TRYING IT OVER & OVER AGAIN AND EACH TIME HE WASN'T GETTING IT!** I NEVER in my life thought that I had a "gift" for acting... but is that seriously something that only certian people are able to do?? :(
**I first want to say that I'm not posting this to be 'stuck-up' or mean or anything like that, it's just a serious question i'm asking because i'm honestly a bit baffeled by this...** long story short, i have been looking for voice actors for a sims 2 scary movie im making for youtube. I always felt like acting was something that literally **anyone** could do. As in, anyone is able to get/act frantic/terrified or stressed-out/enraged.... (maybe it's because of my Autism, but I SERIOUSLY thought that ANYONE could act, at least to the standards of how i'm acting in the video below). I met this one man on a dating site I was on, **he had No expirence with acting**, but as I said, I thought it was something anyone could do. I asked him if he wanted to do a voice over in my scary sims 2 movie I'm making for youtube & he was all for it, so we were recording the lines together & **in the movie the character he was playing ends up getting his son murdered VIOLENTLY he sees it on camera & he becomes stressed out & horrorfied & frantic afterwards.** BUT when we were trying to record those lines, I was telling him the tone & emotion I wanted him to say it in, **WE TRIED IT LITERALLY 10+ TIMES**, but for some reason, he wasn't picking up on it... Here's a video of it below. You hear my voice first (the way I wanted him to say the line) and then you hear his voice soon after... ​ [ WHAT THE FUCK IS SO DIFFICULT ABOUT IMMITATING THE GUY IN THIS VIDEO\/ME??? CAN SOMEONE ANSWER THAT?? ](https://reddit.com/link/11hs1ch/video/gt28p45k3ola1/player) Listen to the way I talk first & then listen to him trying to immitate it... *am I the only one noticing the differences between how we each sound?* I was trying to sound a combination of 'frantic' & sad & stressed out & horrorfied & angry.... as I wanted him to say the line, but when I heard him say it, it didn't sound 'emotional' enough when you compare it to mine. (he talked in the southern accent, like i wanted him too, but even with the accent, he should have been able to match the 'franticness' & stress level in my voice...) **I LITERALLY THOUGHT THAT ANYONE COULD DO THAT!** I NEVER considered myself a "good actor" or anything like that, but it was just really shocking to me how he couldn't match my emtotion in those lines at all! Eventually I had to tell him that we couldn't continue with the part & **I felt bad because I been having an EXTREMELY difficult time finding voice actors for my sims 2 movie!** I even called my adoptive Dad to vent about it & I even played him the part of me doing the line first & then of the other guy doing the same line next, & my adoptive Dad was telling me: "Joe, it sounded good enough"... *am I the only one hearing the difference between the 2 voices in the clip above??* my adoptive Dad then told me that I "really do have a 'gift' for acting" & he told me that not many people can bring out emotions like that like I was able to... **IS THIS SERIOUS??** **I SERIOUSLY THOUGHT THAT ANY AVERAGE PERSON COULD GO ACT OUT THE EMOTION I DISPLAYED IN THE VIDEO ABOVE! ME AND THIS MAN KEPT TRYING IT OVER & OVER AGAIN AND EACH TIME HE WASN'T GETTING IT!** I NEVER in my life thought that I had a "gift" for acting... but is that seriously something that only certian people are able to do?? :(
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