Actors who want to succeed in show business spend their whole lives perfecting their craft, If you want to be a professional actor there are many paths that can be taken, but they all begin with training. Training gives you the tools and confidence to aggressively pursue a career, Now there are many places to obtain this training from universities to your community theatre you should do it all if possible. Never stop training.
For example a film called " Vampire Kiss" a breakdown would say:
Lead: Edmond
- tall 6’ft2
- Caucasian
- brown hair,
- athletic body but not too muscular,
- kind and sensitive, always does the the right thing
It will also give a lot of information about the project itself, such as who is the casting director, location of filming and who is the producer etc etc. Agent will then look up all their tall caucasian actors and submit them either electronically or through a messenger service to the appropriate casting agency.
Now most actors have the "sides" in their hand to look at if they need to, again this is where training comes in, there is an art to reading from sides, so that you stay in the moment sound real and don’t spend the whole audition looking down at a piece of paper. Give your very best performance, and when it’s done, the casting director will make some adjustments and you do it again, sometimes five times sometimes one time is all you get.
If they like what they see, they will then give you a callback which is another audition usually with another actor who is also being considered. This is where they look for things like chemistry and how well the actors work together and about a hundred other things. Sometimes you can have 3-5 callbacks as they mix and match actors and try new things .This is usually done for film, television goes much faster.
I hope you find this basic description of a typical audition for film for a beginning actor. I just brushed the tip of the iceberg.
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