Acting & Entertainment Industry Presentation- The Grade

Sea Monsters Example

 

How do you get acting jobs?

  1. Agent
  2. Headshot
  3. Resume
  4. Classes!
  5. Cattle Call
  6. Call back
  7. Sometimes multiple call backs
  8. Agent calls you

Industry facts

  1. 30% of movies are rated R
  2. In 2013 only 3 G rated movies and 34 PG compared to 191 R

 

Highest-grossing films of 2015

RankTitleDistributorWorldwide gross

1Star Wars: The Force AwakensDisney$2,057,363,187

2Jurassic WorldUniversal$1,670,400,637

3Furious 7$1,516,045,911

4Avengers: Age of UltronDisney$1,405,413,868

5MinionsUniversal$1,159,398,397

6SpectreMGM / Columbia$880,459,126

7Inside OutDisney$856,809,711

8Mission: Impossible – Rogue NationParamount$682,330,139

9The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2Lionsgate$652,955,370

10The Martian20th Century Fox$628,083,752

 

How to know if a movie is appropriate?

  1. Kids in Mind
  2. Common Sense Media

Opportunity to do things right!

Two examples of doing things right

neal mc

 

 

 

 

Neal McDonough

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Eduardo Verastagui- Bella, Little Boy, For Greater Glory, Butterfly Circus

 

Career opportunities- TONS!!!

 

Now what happens when you get on set?

  1. Show up early
  2. Know your lines- backwards and forwards
  3. Movie script examples from movies I was in
  4. Prepare like the masters-
    1. Methodologies- Method acting- Nick Nolte, Wesley Snipes, Daniel Day Lewis
    2. Meisner
    3. Alexander
    4. Stella Adler
  5. Be present and totally focused on the other people in the scene

 

Difference in Film Acting

 

Actual major movie script and scene

Family Man

 

 

Abbott and Costello

 

Willie Aames Story

Bottom Line: How apply to ALL careers