Useful Career Advice for Actors - CareerAlley

Useful Career Advice for Actors - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. There are thousands of actors out there but only a finite amount of parts. Then there are even fewer good parts so what are the best tips that to help actors get that big break and make their way to stardom? First of all they need to have patience. With acting there is a lot of waiting around. You are going to wait to be called for an audition. Then you could be waiting five hours for the audition to happen. Following the audition you will be waiting to see if you are called back or not. Then if you are called back you have to wait for casting to complete and shooting to begin. If you are shooting a pilot you have to wait to see if your show will be picked up. This is a lot of waiting and if you arent patient you are going to get very frustrated very quickly. You need to try and think outside the square. When everyone is competing against each other, doing something that makes you stand up. Thanks to the internet this is a lot easier. An actor can create a YouTube account and start posting clips of yourself acting. It could be you doing Shakespeare, recreating a famous movie scene or even doing your own stuff. If by some chance this goes viral you have now been discovered. Similar to this would be to get involved with short movie festivals. There are lots of movie festivals and here you have writers and directors who have come up with an idea and now need people to star in it. By appearing in one of these movies, there is another way that you can be noticed. If you feel as though you need some formal training, then you should consider some acting classes. There are some fantastic schools all over the country so whether you are looking for a New York acting school, one in Chicago or one in Los Angeles you are bound to find one. As there are plenty of great schools, you should research which is the best for you before you sign on. With alumni connections, at acting school, you have a chance to strut your stuff before some pretty famous people and if they like what they see, they may take you under their wing. Movies are always looking for extras and its a great way to try and make some connections. While on set you can speak to other members of the cast and crew and you can build your way up from extra to someone who gets a few lines. Having this on your resume is great. The problem with unknown actor approaching celebrities is that they get bombarded with requests all the time so you have to say the right thing at the right time. The same thing applies to speaking to agents. The top agents just wont deal with nobodies so if you are going to talk to them make sure you dont waste the opportunity. Everyone dreams of being a famous actor, starring in blockbusters and winning Academy Awards. It can happen but just appreciate that it wont happen overnight. Dana Blackburn writes about career advice. When not going this, she likes to do the New York Times crossword. This is a Guest post. If you would like to submit a guest post to CareerAlley, please follow these guest post guidelines. Good luck in your search. Visit me on Facebook