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Voting Record Cancels an Actor’s Audition?

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An actor loses an audition before their arrival to the audition because of their voting record. Could it happen? Possibly.

The actor arrives at an anticipated audition-by-appointment. But they’re denied entry into the audition room by casting personnel. There’s a shocking discovery of the actor’s prior personal behavior.

How professional and reasonable is it for casting, or a director and producer(s) to renege on the promise to an actor a scheduled audition because that voting eligible actor won’t vote? As unreasonable and unprofessional as it is of an American citizen who reneges to cast a ballot that influences their future, and that of their friends and family, and nation.

In-action can create unwanted consequences.

Your vote for candidate(s) for office belongs to you. A valuable voicing privately of your opinion of where you wish your future and that of your community to be guided. Owning silence by choosing not to vote lessens your value to your community. What do you wish your value to be this election? Someone whose chosen silence permits others to take your voice? Or as a vocal participant having a say in your future?

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Here’s 3 Questions That Will Help You Decide If You Need New Headshots

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Ted Ely Headshots

Question 1: Does My Headshot Look Like Me Right Now?

I contacted 20 top casting directors to see what they look for in a great headshot and the number one response I received was “I just want the headshot to look like the person in front of me”.  It’s as simple as that.

There are two main things that can cause a discrepancy between headshot and actor. They are:

1.) Distracting lighting, over retouching, and stylization on the photographer’s end

2.) The change in your vibe as you grow and gain experience as an actor/performer.

Question 2: Does My Headshot Represent Me At My Best?

Headshots can be weird. Scratch that. They are weird. It’s you staring directly into a black empty lens and trying to be yourself while a stranger takes your picture. How can you be your best self when doing something so strange? This is one of the main things that can keep your headshot from looking like you.

Do I feel 150% confident when handing over my headshot to casting?

Do people positively comment about how my headshot represents me well? 

Was my headshot done by a professional headshot photographer who knows how to work with actors?

Question 3: Does My Headshot Capture My Unique Vibe?

Every single person in the world has a unique and amazing vibe or frequency with which they offer the world. This awesome empowering quality is your superpower as an actor. In this industry there is a lot of trying to be like so and so, or wanting to fit into a certain cookie cutter persona because that might be what casting is looking for.

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As an Actor, You Need the Mindset of a Warrior

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The mindset of a warrior

You will have to deal with rejection, dream stealers, criticism, insecurity and the massive highs and lows that are just part of ‘normal’ life for an actor. Not just deal with it but stay focused and positive through it all. You need the mindset of a warrior…

And you can have it.

But like anything worth having, you need to work at it. That is why this training is so important.Not only will this help you with your acting but it’ll help you in everyday life­ if you follow my advice and do the tasks regularly, you will see big changes in how you feel about yourself, your capabilities and the possibilities that are out there for you.

Learning to be in control of your own mind gives you freedom. We can’t choose what happens­, but we can choose how we react to it. I can almost guarantee that everybody can think of an example of someone who has been through hell but is still able to smile and move forward with their life, and somebody else who has crumbled at something that doesn’t seem that important to most people. The difference here is mindset.

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10 Tips to Being a Happier Actor

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1. Equalize Auditions:

Equal all auditions with the same goal and manner of importance. Stressing more importance of one audition over another places unnecessary stress, worry, and anxiety on the actor.

2. Plan for After an Audition:

Stage and screen star James Rebhorn spoke of his auditions as a, “part of my ordinary day.” He’d plan errands for afterwards so that the audition didn’t dominate the day or his focus. His life dominated the day. His auditions became more relaxed. He was comfortable. Onward he’d go to his next duty for the day.

3. Don’t Advertise Auditions:

When actors announce on social media that they, “have a huge audition” later that day, or need “Your prayers and support for a big call-back” the actor is placing undue pressure on themselves.

4. An Hour a Day Towards Future Pay:

Maintain a set schedule of one hour per day, five days a week to market your skills as an actor. Give yourself definitive tasks to complete

5. Get Out:

Depression loves loneliness, and abhors company. Depression or sadness breeds and thrives on your keeping to yourself.

6. Avoid Social Media:

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media platforms are digital Petri dishes that foster and grow your comparison worries.

7. Learn, Grow, Network:

Take a classthat truly educates, and expands your skill set as both an actor, and as a business actor. An actor is not only the product but the promoter of the product.

8. Exercise:

Movement forces blood flow which stimulates brain activity. Increased continuous movement also diminishes toxins in the body that cause us to be sluggish and depressed.

9. Give Back:

Volunteer an hour a week at a charity, and/or volunteer time and efforts at a theater company or an arts related organization

10. Intern:

I often chide that I was once the oldest casting intern at age 29.  My casting, directing, and teaching career owes much to the foundation of my being that ancient intern.

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It Took 9 Years to Make This 25-minute Sci-fi Film. It Was Worth The Wait

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In 2007, filmmakers Jason Gallaty, Josh Grier, and Mike Grier conceived the story for a visually rich science fiction parable filmed in Japan. Nine years, $100,000 in crowdfunding, the founding of one visual effects production company, and a successful film festival circuit later, the fruit of their labor is finally here. And it’s stunning.

Dust is just 25 minutes long, but manages to create a mesmerizing portrait of a society on the brink of collapse. Combining elements of everything from Tarkovsky’s Stalker to Silent Hilland Beowulf, Dust feels more outsized and epic than you’d expect from its short film status. At its heart it’s a classic hero’s journey, a story of man versus monster versus mysterious disease — but one with a succinct, timely modern message.

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Renée Zellweger on Returning to Film After a Six-Year Absence

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Renee Zellweger Bridget Jones Baby

“I needed to grow as a person in ways that didn’t revolve around my work”

Zellweger explains that playing Jones again twelve years after Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reasonwas both familiar and challenging. She says, “Familiar because the process is similar, and I feel like I know her pretty well, and a different kind of challenge because I’ve never had to show the ways in which a person evolves in her life and the ways in which she doesn’t.”

In order to decide where the character stands now, Zellweger spoke with the direct about how Jones had changed. She reveals, “There were interesting conversations with Sharon Maguire, the director, about how [Bridget] might have gotten her life together — she’s a little bit more mature, she’s progressed professionally, moved into property ownership in London and has achieved her ideal weight. And still her life is a relative mess. I like the message in that: that we can tick off the boxes, and yet we still don’t quite have it together. And that’s pretty much the truth of growing up, isn’t it?”

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