Sea Monsters Example
How do you get acting jobs?
- Agent
- Headshot
- Resume
- Classes!
- Cattle Call
- Call back
- Sometimes multiple call backs
- Agent calls you
Industry facts
- 30% of movies are rated R
- 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?
Opportunity to do things right!
Two examples of doing things right
Neal McDonough
Eduardo Verastagui- Bella, Little Boy, For Greater Glory, Butterfly Circus
Career opportunities- TONS!!!
Now what happens when you get on set?
- Show up early
- Know your lines- backwards and forwards
- Movie script examples from movies I was in
- Prepare like the masters-
- Methodologies- Method acting- Nick Nolte, Wesley Snipes, Daniel Day Lewis
- Meisner
- Alexander
- Stella Adler
- 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