Many people want to know how they can get into acting. Often a model realizes that he or she cannot make a full-time living with a modeling career. Other models are aware of their limitations such as height and bone structure. They know that beyond print work, it can be real tough to get into modeling. So they choose to step into the broader acting field. Acting requires more specialized training than modeling does. Most actors and actresses get into acting by getting involved in theatre, dramas, plays and stage productions. Many actors and actresses also get into acting through an acting coach. An acting coach trains you much like an athletic coach does, except the muscle that is trained is your acting muscle. You are trained in learning improvisation, cold reading, and acting methods. These are generally the basics for a beginning actor.

Fame4Anyone

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To be a successful actor/actress you really have to have a passion for the craft and the patience to wait for the big break because it may take some time. Although being an actor is extremely rewarding, finding work can be a struggle as you can find yourself out of work for long periods of time. The profession requires great commitment and fortitude.

Agenta and Preperation

If your serious about becoming an actor you need to seriously comsider getting you self an agent and using other ways to get yourself noticed like talent directories and contacting different media and vroadcating companies and this must be very simple. All you need to do is to have a portfolio of your good looking photos, a resume, envelopes, stamps, and a list of prospective agents.
So first, you need a portfolio of good looking photographs of your self. Simple portfolios with details like - taken where, date, event, etc will be fine and you don’t need to have a customized and expensive portfolio to submit to prospective agents. Select the best photographs you have. Make sure that the pictures look exactly like you, without any jewelry, not wearing a hat, and not wearing sunglasses. Simple pictures that have your personality shine through are fine.
A resume is another thing to prepare if your photos are ready. Make sure to write a simple resume. Agencies have a lot of applicants daily so if you have a long resume, they have no time to read it. Make sure your resume includes everything about your physical status, statistics like height, weight, age, color of hair, color of eyes, identification marks, age range, clothing size, shoe size, special skills, and talent.
When both resume and photographs are ready, then it is time for you to go your prospective agency and submit the requirements in person. No matter where you live, you must contact a Screen Actors Guild franchised agent first. You can get the details of these franchised agents by going to http://www.sag.org. This is to make sure that you are looking for a legitimate and reliable agent. There is a lot of scamming nowadays done by fake agents, so be very careful with this.
You may also send your application through mail. Most agents do not reply to emails form applicants so the best thing to contact them is through regular mail. Never even send an email with attachment. Companies do not open emails with attachment. Be sure to contact them through phone if possible. This is the most professional ways to apply for an actor career. Sending emails is done only by applicants who are not really serious and lack of guts and self confidence.
You must prepare a letter telling the agency that you are an aspiring actor seeking for a legit agent. After sending your letter that includes a resume and photos, wait and relax. Most agencies examine the applications and most probably you will get a response within 1 to 2 months. Most agencies respond to letters that have self-stamped address envelopes because they consider the sender a dedicated professional.
Do not call over and over again and pester an agency about your submission. They will never represent you if you become a regular caller. Just wait it out while working on your acting skills and preparing for an audition.
If an agency is interested in you, they will call or send a letter asking you for an audition. Make sure you are well-dressed during the audition and make sure you always have some extra things. Other agencies request applicants to do a certain role during interview so it is good to have extra clothes. Do your best on the audition and if you pass, then call it a lucky day.

Acting is art

Fame, fortune, and celebrity, from my perspective, are the wrong absolutly the reasons for choosing acting as a way of life. Serious actors are artists first. They make their choices based on living acting as a way of life, not as a career! For the majority, it's a monumental struggle, for which there will be no reward.That fact does not concern the real actor, who has no choice but to continue to find ways to illuminate the life of the human spirit through art, because it must be done.

Acting - A Career

Thanks to the growing interest by young people in films, television, theatre and the wider entertainment industry, drama and theatre are enormously popular subjects – both at GCSE level, AS/A2 and on to further and higher education level. But if you think you have what it takes to make acting your career– what do you do next?
It is true that there are no formal entry requirements for becoming an actor. Untrained people do enter the profession and the National Council for Drama Training (NCDT) is working on ways to help any young person to find the best route for them and offer guidance on how to acquire some skills along the way.
However, a recent Arts Council report found that 86 percent of actors working in the profession had received formal professional training.
NCDT-accredited (approved) acting courses provide not only the discipline, practical skills and intellectual understanding necessary for building a lasting career, but also opportunities to be seen by agents, casting directors, theatres and television companies, so vital in securing that all-important first job.
It is important to know the difference between vocational training courses and the vast number of performing arts courses on offer at UK universities: there are over 2,000 degree courses with drama or theatre in the title. University courses are generally more academic and may not aim to train people as actors.
However, as a consequence of the national enthusiasm for drama (not to mention the culture of celebrity) the accredited courses are heavily oversubscribed. Only between two and 10 percent of the students who audition for three-year courses at drama school are offered places.

Why I Love Acting
By Rachel (16)
Acting has always been a part of my life whether I wanted it to be or not. I have grown up with acting and actors. My mum and dad both act and I made my first professional appearance when I was three, playing a bridesmaid in a TV programme my dad was in.
I have had the privilege of being able to go on set and see what happens behind the scenes.
I have seen the actor's real faces, their mistakes and the way acting has made some of them self obsessed. I have also seen the good things about acting: some people appreciate it because they have had to work hard at getting parts despite having more talent than some famous people I have seen act.
The drawbacks of acting are:
Getting up as early as 4am
Finishing filming as late as 2am or 3am
You could be working for months, maybe a year, then not get work for months or even a year
The hours and days are irregular.
The advantages are:
I enjoy being a different person because I like to explore different personalities and different lifestyles
It makes me feel excited
I enjoy having my make up done
I like having a different wardrobe each day!
Despite knowing more than most about acting - and some really awful actors; I still love it and know that it is the only thing