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Find Out Where your True Talent Lies

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

If you are seeking to make it big in disciplines such as modelling, acting and musical theatre, you have a lot of work ahead of you. Such fields are extremely competitive and it is not hard to see why. Those who achieve success can potentially look forward to considerable fame and fortune, and a varied and interesting working life.

But to have a hope of reaching this stage, it is vital you hone your talents. Part of this is deciding where exactly your abilities lie. For example, if you are an actor, you ought to think carefully about the sort of roles you are best suited to.

Perhaps you are perfect for comedic roles. In this case, you should seek auditions for positions like this. On the other hand, you might be better when you are playing heavy, dramatic characters, meaning you should focus on these types of acting casting calls.

Similarly, when it comes to modelling, you should decide what your strengths are and focus on these. Developing an appropriate portfolio and putting yourself forward for the most suitable casting sessions is vital.

Being strategic in this way may significantly increase your chances of success and it means you can concentrate more on developing your abilities, which is great news for your career as a whole.

To make your life easier when it comes to finding out about castings, you might want to consider taking advantage of our text alert service here at Audition Now. However, you must be 18 or over. Texts cost £1.50 each, with a maximum of 3 texts per week.

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Preparation is the Key to Musical Auditions

Monday, April 18th, 2011

If you are seeking a career in musical theatre, you will have to impress when you appear at musical casting calls and musical theatre auditions. It is only by being successful at these events that you stand any chance of making a living out of such endeavours.

Therefore, you must ensure you do sufficient preparation before you step in front of the panel who will be judging you.

Of course, before the auditions, you will have to practice any pieces you are planning to sing. In some cases, you will be able to choose the songs yourself while in others, the organisation assessing you will specify the material you need to present.

By going through the pieces time and again, you will be more confident when you perform and are more likely to hit all the notes. There is nothing worse when you are in situations like this than freezing up and forgetting what comes next. This makes a terrible impression among the judges. They appreciate you are nervous but at the same time, they have extremely high expectations.

Another aspect of good preparation is making sure you have had enough sleep and you have plenty of energy on the day. Eating healthily and drinking plenty of water in the run up to the event is vital, as is avoiding too much alcohol.

In order to ensure you find out about castings in the first place, you can sign up to our text alert service here at Audition Now. To qualify for this, you must be 18 or over. Texts cost £1.50, with a maximum of 3 texts per week.

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Be Prepared Before you Head to an Audition

Friday, April 8th, 2011

These days there is rarely such a thing as a job for life. Many people face a degree of insecurity concerning their professional endeavours. However, when it comes to acting, singing, modelling and other such industries, this level of uncertainly is particularly high.

In order to remain in work, such people have to constantly impress casting agents, directors and other such people.

So, if you are seeking to make it big in any of these sectors, you should make sure you do everything possible to maximise your chances of success at acting casting calls, model auditions and other such events.

To give yourself that extra edge, you might want to consider getting help from us here at Audition Now. We know the pressures you are under and the challenges you face when you step into those dreaded audition rooms to do your thing.

That is why we have developed a series of training seminars and courses designed to help you ready yourself for these occasions more effectively.

We use highly successful models and actors who have been through such scenarios many times themselves and can therefore provide expert tips. There is nothing they have not been through and having the chance to learn through their mistakes and achievements is invaluable.

Making use of such provisions could ensure you have the edge over your fellow hopefuls.

Meanwhile, to make sure you hear about the auditions that are taking place, you can make use of our text alert service. However, you must be 18 or over (£1.50 per text, max of 3 texts per week).

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How To Get Ready For An Audition

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

If you’re hoping to be on TV, whether that’s in a soap opera or even as a newscaster, you’re probably looking into all kinds of information about acting and auditioning. But once you have an appointment for an audition, what are you going to wear, and what are you going to say? Here are some tips for how to get ready for auditions.

First, plan what you will wear. Try to wear something simple, but do look your best. You shouldn’t try to impress by what you wear because they really won’t be interested in your clothes. For TV casting, they want to know if you can act or speak, what you sound like, and look like as a person. Wear a little makeup and do your hair if you like, but don’t do anything too garish or distracting.

Next, decide what you will recite if you need to prepare a piece. If they will provide a script for you, just practice speaking and make sure your voice is clear and distinct. Drink plenty of fluids.

Get plenty of rest the night before. If you’re well rested you should be less nervous, and more alert.

Finally, make sure you have everything that you need for the audition including a resume, portfolio, photos, or anything else that you have been asked to bring.

If you need ideas for more auditions, why not try Audition Now? We can text you up to date audition information for £1.50 per text (up to three times a week), for those 18 years old and older.

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Failing To Prepare Results In Preparing To Fail

Monday, January 10th, 2011

As with any job applications for any type of position across a variety of sectors, preparation is key for applicants, by way of giving themselves the best possible chance of standing out to their potential employers, proving that they have done advance research, are ready for their interviews and keen to secure the employment that might resultantly be on offer. Much of the same criteria exist with acting auditions and casting calls for extras and modelling jobs, which, by their very nature, are always ferociously contended and candidates must be exceptional to shine.

There are numerous training courses and seminars relating to acting and modelling held by various organisations across the country and amongst the best on the market are those that have the objective of aiming to prepare would be actors and models for auditions and casting calls. They are facilitated by industry professionals who have experienced success in their fields and are well positioned to pass on insider pearls of wisdom to those just starting out, about how to prepare to give themselves the best possible competitive edge when trying out for work, besides how to avoid common pitfalls that novices may not be aware of.

We at Audition Now provide regular sessions to candidates hosted by proven actors and models. You may not become a star overnight, but they will, however, prepare you to perform in auditions to your best possible potentials and give you a fighting chance of securing the work for which you are applying.

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Acting Auditions: Be Prepared

Friday, December 31st, 2010

An actor’s livelihood depends on their aptitude in an audition setting, and in such a competitive environment there are definitely no second chances. This makes it crucially important that when you attend you are well prepared, as only with a solid foundation of preparation will you succeed in acting auditions.

The best preparation that you can do for auditions is to practise your monologue. This should go beyond just learning the words, and you should develop an intimate knowledge of what the scene demands. Often, if practising on your own this can be different, so it may be a good idea to get a friend (or preferably someone a little more neutral) to help and to criticise.

As casting directors will be looking for something that extra bit special, often it can be a little risky just relying on your practised monologue, and it may be idea to have something else in your arsenal, in case your director a throws you a curve ball on the day, and also, similarly, you should be prepared to improvise, remember when your in the audition space what happens is at the whim of the casting director.

With this in mind, over-preparation can often stifle the quality of a monologue and suck the life out of scene. Whilst practise makes perfect, it is important that you don’t over-practise and, more importantly, don’t let your nerves get the better of you.

Before you face the white hot crucible of an audition, you need to get an audition in the first place. At Audition Now, for £1.50 per text with max of 3 texts per week and as long as you are 18 years and over, we can send you regular updates about casting calls – the first step to that great audition!

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The Best Audition

Monday, December 6th, 2010

With Audition Now you can hear about everything from great TV casting opportunities right through to West End auditions, putting you in the driving seat of your own career. After drama school or university so many people will be going for the same roles that it is almost impossible for even the best and most beautiful actors to stand out. So it is important that not only you have the best inside info on upcoming casting calls, but also that you persevere while others might give up.

With that said, one of the best ways to stand out is with a great audition. The best auditions will be the ones that you have prepared for thoroughly and Audition Now ensures you hear about them before almost anyone else, and have therefore even more time to prepare.

Undertaking as much research about the company, project and role as possible will help stand you in better stead to understand what they will be looking for. From here, it shall be a case of responding to their brief, but also ensuring you have two very strong audition pieces at the ready, even if they haven’t asked for one. Usually having a mixture of serious and comedic is the best way to show your versatility as an actor.

With Audition now you receive a maximum of three texts per week, charged at £1.50 per text, which will give you news of all the best upcoming castings so that you can be fully prepared to get the very best roles around.

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Minimum Requirements for Acting Auditions

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

The standard procedure at acting casting can be easily summarised: you should ensure that you have at least two pieces you have fully learned which should be sufficiently different to demonstrate the range of your talent. For example, you could prepare a comic piece to contrast with a serious one, or a contemporary piece to offset a classical one. You should also take along a professionally prepared 10×8 photo head-shot of yourself which you should expect to hand in to the audition panel, and of course a CV with all your particulars on it. Be sure to include details such as stage name, contact details, and a summary of your experience so far, highlighting the names of the plays or shows, the names of the characters you have played, and the names of the companies you have worked with. You may also want to include specific skills you have that may be relevant to the upcoming project, such as horse-riding or fencing.

Additionally, one particular area that it always pays to develop confidence in is improvisation. Even if you are not asked to improvise at auditions, being ready and able to create and perform ‘on the spot’ demonstrates real performance skill. It also makes you feel assured about what you have to offer.

Here at Audition Now, we get you access to a whole range of acting auditions. With our extensive contacts we notify you by text direct to your mobile of all the latest work opportunities.

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Going the Extra Mile for Acting Auditions

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

As you reflect on your talents as a performer, you should ask yourself what particular gifts you have which make you stand out from the crowd. This may well be the area where, if you are sufficiently able, you can score over others at acting auditions.

In addition to your personal talents, you should nurture your general powers of observation. All social situations offer resource material for the actor, so you should never let pass the chance to watch and note how people behave in different situations. It doesn’t have to be in moments of ‘high drama’; in fact, you might learn more from just watching people in the street. There is plenty to observe in the most mundane of human activities, such as hand gestures and facial movements.

Keeping yourself generally informed about what is going on in the world is another important aspect of the actor’s life. There are many examples of actors who take up political and social causes; as a performer you can’t just live and work in a bubble cut off from what is happening in the world. You should make a point of keeping up to date with not just entertainment news, but with news in general. All theatre writing can be better understood through the lens of human experience as lived in the here and now.

Here at Audition Now, we do our bit to keep you well-informed: texting you all the latest auditions direct to your mobile phone.

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Presentation at Acting Auditions

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

When you are next preparing for acting auditions, give time to consider not only the substance of what you will be doing in the audition or casting call, but also all elements of your presentation. After all, auditions are the actor’s business card: in the audition process you are giving information about yourself to the audition panel. As with a business card, it is that information that may lead to work or collaboration in the future. Your audition may get you the part, or get you a recall, or may at least get you onto a casting director’s file.

However, as with business cards, the presentation at auditions is crucial. When someone gives you a business card that looks cheap and hastily thrown together, and on poor quality card and with a lack of finish, then it gives you a bad impression of them and you may hesitate to follow up the contact.

A carefully put together CV – clear and easy to read, with all the important information about you and your previous experience assembled in an orderly fashion, a 10×8 professionally-taken photo portrait, and a choice of clothing appropriate to the role or the show or film for which you are auditioning are all aspects of your presentation which can enhance your chance of success.

Here at Audition Now we keep you up-to-date about all the latest television, extras and theatre auditions. We text you direct to your mobile phone so you never miss a chance to make a good impression.

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