Carromato Teatro

I just started taking a class called Commercial Techniques and let me just say everything that I have learned as a model has to be put on the back burner for Acting. The reason why I decided to take this class was to help me nail my commercial auditions. I am getting calls but I'm not getting booked.Day One of class and we are told what not to wear on an audition which include shiny lip gloss, low or revealing necklines, gaudy jewelry, the colors red, white or black and stay away from prints. We are being given this information for head shot purposes. Your head shot should focus and draw attention to your face and not to your outfit. While sitting in class and taking notes thoughts of reprogramming myself are going through my mind as I am thinking about the red blouse I have on in my current head shot. I'm thinking to myself that my head shot is working and I'm just not fully trained on the technique side. Should I tell my brand new instructor that? Probably not.In both the modeling and acting industry your photographs are everything. They must be professional or your won't get ... [more..]

Are you just getting started in your acting career? Have you been acting for some time now and aren't satisfied with the amount of work you've been able to get? Are you getting work consistently, but only making enough money to make ends meet? Do you want to kick start your acting career? If after reading those questions, you feel compelled to read on, think about the following:Difficulties Many Of Us Actors Sometimes Face?New to show business and just seem to be wallowing around to find out what you should be doing to get started in the right way!?Not being sent out on many auditions.?Rarely getting called back.?No agent and not sure how to get one.?Not many industry contacts and can't seem to meet that industry professional I would really like to meet.Difficult to balance work and the demands of an acting career.?Able to book jobs, but not always able to keep them.?Sending out materials--audition tapes, headshots, and r?sum?s--but not getting the types of responses you would like or none at all!?Don't have the money to take classes, so just taking a workshop every now and again instead of going to a school or regular classes. It's been the situation ... [more..]

The actor who had the problem, hadn't been training much at all. Somehow though, he got through the audition process and got the job. He didn't have a technique to fall back on. He didn't know how to create a character. He didn't know how to access the emotions he needed for the part. So he relied on what he 'thought' was right and he was ACTING instead of BEING the character, because he just didn't know how.1 phrase and 1 questionSo many young aspiring actors often say two phrases, the first of which is an affirmation and the second one is a question. They are:I want to be an actor. Where can I find auditions? OrI want to be an actor. How can I get an agent?What they sometimes fail to realize is that between wanting to become an actor and the auditions and/or getting an agent, there is a very important step. That is training.Long-term or short-term. Which do you prefer?You can have a short-term strategy or a long-term strategy as an approach to your acting career. The short-term strategy has you being impatient, jumping right in to audition or trying to get an agent with no training. ... [more..]