Jesse Leonard videos

Actor Website Tips | Avoid any pay-per-change offers when seeking a company to build your actor website

I constantly see these popping up everywhere and they're trying to capitalize on you, so why give them the time of day? Here's a screenshot of on of such offers I just found on the web: There's so many things wrong...

Fun Facts | Websites for Actors

Build your #actor #website in 90 seconds.

Actor Casting Hints | Impress Casting Directors

Be confident, but not smug. Think of something pleasant before you go in, and keep your head up.

Actor Dictionary | Axis of Action

When it comes to continuity and editing, the "Axis of Action" is an imaginary line that passes through the two main actors of a scene, defining the spatial relations of all the elements of the scene as being to the right or left. The camera is not supposed to cross the axis at a cut and thus reverse those spatial relations. This will confuse the audience as to where in relation to one another the actors are standing. In other words, if two actors are talking to each other  if we are shooting an actor's face and he/she is looking toward screen right, when the camera flips to the other actor whom he/she is talking to, that actor should be looking toward screen left. This is also called the "180? line."