Casting Directors' Secrets: Inside Tips for Successful Auditions (Limelight) - Softcover

Ginger Howard Friedman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879103094 ISBN 13: 9780879103095

Publisher: Limelight (UK), 2004

Synopsis

In Casting Directors Secrets, casting directors from New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Vancouver offer insight in their own words into the dos and donts of the audition process and reveal the three biggest mistakes made by actors at this crucial stage. The book offers instruction in these areas and more: How to get the audition – training and preparation, headshots and resume, finding an agent, auditioning for agents; audition/interview etiquette – being late, canceling your appointment, waiting room dos and donts, staying focused, filling out the paperwork, behavior toward other actors; bad habits – perfume and cologne, first impressions, dont look for the casting couch!, you and your ego, brown-nosing, tell the truth but not the whole truth; artistic preparation – what your agent should tell you, working with sides, eye contact and the fourth wall, ice-cold readings; performing the audition – rewriting the dialogue, false starts, losing your place, violence in audition scenes (dont make it too real!); growing as an actor – taking risks, attending classes, maintaining the momentum; and more!

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Ginger Howard Friedman

Edition details

• Publisher: Limelight (UK)
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879103094
• ISBN 13: 9780879103095
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212