Please register for film acting and Meisner class. Early registration gets a discount, please see below blog entry for details.
Here is a sample video of one of my introductory classes:
http://vimeo.com/14698138
Thanks Jean-Christophe Cader for shooting this video, and thanks to Emma Denny, Stewart Moore, Maithili Tideman, Kearstin Plemel, Dharma Khasla, Monika Gutherova, and Elizabeth Russell for being my students.
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Looking for 8 yr old boy actors for feature film shooting in Prague in oct. BOYS MUST LIVE IN PRAGUE. Please send photos to casting@nancybishopcasting.com no later than 16 Sept, 2010.
Another bad casting. What’s wrong with the picture?
MORE IN THE SERIES OF INTENTIONALLY BAD AUDITIONS
This is not a blooper. Here Chip is making a correction from his last audition, watch:
Now, while the character of Janis (played by me) is speaking, he is not only listening, but reacting. He has a dynamic inner monologue that changes. He’ll get plenty of screen time now because we can see his thoughts evolving. The camera likes this.
In my classes, I show examples of good auditions so that actors can learn from them. But actors often ask to see BAD auditions t too. I figured that it was in pretty slimy taste (not to mention a breach of trust with actors) to show examples of poor performances. A few months ago, I asked actors to deliberately do some bad auditions for me to post for learning purposes, but actors were shy to come forward… probably because they didn’t want anyone to mistake their deliberately bad auditions for unintentionally bad auditions. Anyway, with the help of actor and friend, Chip Persons, I made a series of audition blooper clips. We worked on a scene from Universal Pictures’ Wanted. So for the next 6 blogs I’m going to bring you a blooper. He is blooper #1.
In this clip, Chip is site reading the text which is fine since the script had just been handed to him. What’s irritating though is that he’s reading the stage directions out loud. I have seen this quite a lot. Don’t worry about the stage directions. Read them to yourself and you can indicate them in your acting if they’re not too complicated (ie slam your fist down if you’re meant to be punching) but you don’t need to read them. We already know the stage directions.
For those of you who couldn’t attend the SAG Foundation Panel Discussion:
GLOBAL CASTING AND THE INTERNET.
Please see this link for a video of the event. I hope it’s helpful to those actors who may feel intimidated to put themselves on tape for projects. We have examples of taped auditions here:
http://www.sagfoundation.org/videogallery/liferaft
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