A trained actor has little difficulty in adapting his or her performance style to suit the medium of stage or screen. The trick of minimising a performance to make it ‘fit’ the screen, or of getting used to the portrayal of a role through hundreds of short ‘takes’ is easily learned, and if you have had the right training opportunities, it’s a process that you should be used to.
To make the most of your acting auditions, and to increase your opportunities for work, you should be ready to try for both stage and screen work. Very often film and TV companies require their auditioning actors to have a screen test, by which they can assess a performer: usually you will be given just a few lines, perhaps as part of a dialogue. You will rarely be asked to perform something of your own.
If you are auditioning for film or TV, then you should have a chance to find out about the project, and this will mean you can prepare yourself: be ready for your audition panel to ask you to change your appearance, as a way of their exploring your potential for the screen.
Being adaptable to different performance media will give you more chances to get work. Here at Audition Now, we offer a comprehensive range of acting auditions that could get you work in TV or in film or onstage. If you have the talent we can help you exploit it to the full.
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