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Casting is an essential component of any film or video project, but the core skill-set needed to cast effectively is little understood. Casting Revealed: A Guide for Film Directors is a straightforward manual on the art and craft of casting. Here, director Hester Schell offers her insider perspective on casting workflows, industry standards, finding actors, running auditions, what to look for in a performance, contracts, and making offers. This new edition has been updated with fresh interviews with casting directors, full color head shots, new information about online video submissions, and a companion website featuring forms, contracts, and sample scenes for auditions. Gain a fuller unders...
In updated profiles, the most influential American casting directors reveal their methods of selecting actors for stage, screen, TV, and commercial jobs. This close look at how actors are chosen is an invaluable guide for thousands who depend on casting directors for career opportunities. Includes list of casting directors, contact information, and tips.
The 20th anniversary edition of this celebrated performing arts industry yearbook. This well-established and respected directory supports actors in their training and search for work in theatre, film, TV, radio and comedy. It is the only directory to provide detailed information for each listing and specific advice on how to approach companies and individuals, saving hours of further research. From agents and casting directors to producing theatres, showreel companies, photographers and much more, this essential reference book editorially selects only the most relevant and reputable contacts for the industry. Covering training and working in theatre, film, radio, TV and comedy, it contains i...
The leading contacts directory for actors and performers, listing reputable and detail contact information for drama schools, agents, casting directors, theatres and companies.
Karen Kondazian's newly revised and edited "e;The Actor's Encyclopedia of Casting Directors,"e; compiles valuable inside information from over 100 premier casting directors, as regards to both Hollywood and New York film, television, theater and commercial auditioning. Bonus conversations included are discussions on film acting, with award-winning directors James Cameron and John Woo - and interviews with renowned acting coaches 'to the stars,' Larry Moss, Milton Katselas and Jeff Corey.Great casting directors have the talent to identify which actor will fit that 'one role,' filtering through hundreds of 'potentials,' eventually delivering that actor into the hands of the decision makers. Th...
(Limelight). "At last, an in-depth book about the casting process that tells actors what it is like to be on the other side of the desk, and a must read for the aspiring casting director!" Marilyn Henry, coauthor, How to Be a Working Actor
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This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The sixth season of the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones premiered on HBO on April 24, 2016, and concluded on June 26, 2016. It consists of ten episodes, each of approximately 50–60 minutes, largely of original content not found in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. Some material is adapted from the upcoming sixth novel The Winds of Winter and the fourth and fifth novels, A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons. The series was adapted for television by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. HBO ordered the season on April 8, 2014, together with the fifth ...
A guide for film, television and theatre actors on auditioning. Castingirector Ginger Howard takes actors behind the scenes to hear what legendaryasting directors have to say about preparing for and performing first-rateuditions. Chapters offer candid advice and practical tips on auditiontiquette, doing the slate, taking direction, using the space, performing theonologue audition, being in character, performing comedy versus drama,ulling off love scenes and small roles, overacting and pretentious acting,nd how to avoid the three most frequently made mistakes. Actors tell storiesf audition mishaps never to be repeated and of auditions where they clinchedhe coveted role.
Ginger Howard, casting director & leading authority on audition & rehearsal technique, takes actors behind the scenes to hear what working casting directors have to say about preparing for & performing first-rate auditions. Offers candid advice & practical tips on: audition etiquette; on-camera techniques; working with sides; choosing & performing audition monologues; effective use of the voice & body; surviving the ice coldÓ reading; conquering callbacks; & avoiding the 3 most frequently made mistakes. Howard tells actors what they need to bring to an audition, in terms of skill, talent, & attitude, in order to guarantee a callback or part. Humorous anecdotes from veteran actors concerning audition disasters provide insight into what not to do.