How to be a Professional Actor
Bigshow Entertainment Company produced
"Double Edge" and "G.O.C. Commanding" TV Soaps
Now Showing on Galaxy Tv, Ogtv, Estars, Freshwave and other Stations.
By Sam Chuks Uba
Producer/Director
INTRODUCTION:
ACTING—THE NEED FOR
TRAINING
It is public knowledge that almost everybody in the world
loves one form of entertainment or the other and practically everybody would
like to be a super-star in one form of entertainment or television and radio related profession.
Many wish to also become writers. Out of the mass that dream to become film,
television and radio super-stars, just a few achieves this great fit while many
of these “dreamers” started and ended those dreams in church drama and choir
groups, some others only practised such talents in schools drama, debates and
music groups.
Some
others take it further and start attending auditions. While just a few
succeeded in auditions, some give up and face other things after spending money
and time in rain and sun from one place to the other in the name of attending
auditions without success.
What
many who did not succeed through audition did not know was that those who
succeeded through auditions were just lucky because somehow they matched the
description of the character the director was looking for hence, their
selection. This level 0f luck mostly happens in acting and sometimes
presentation. therefore it is important to state here that no matter the
talent, training is mandatory for any aspiring actor because acting is a
professional field. Even those that were lucky to fall within the range of the
character the director was looking for will definitely go through training no
matter how short or the method the director use whether through rehearsals,
formal classroom work or on set.
This
book therefore provides all basic and necessary information for fresh and
aspiring actors. It is also important to note that technical terms are often
used in motion picture production and those terms are listed and explained in
this book.
ACTING—THE NEED FOR TRAINING
Because many people think that nit is how rough, rude,
arrogant, talking and beautiful or handsome they are that will qualify them to
become actors so they should be given the role of bad guys and some other
people thinks that because they are quiet in nature or well behaved, they
should be chosen for role of good people, it is important to state clearly
that, that is not true and can never influence the director during casting. An
actor is an actor no matter the background of the character. Those aspiring to
be actors should first know how and what it takes to be called an actor before
thinking about roles even when it is also career suicidal for even a trained
actor to be one patterned.
It is
also important to note that some
aspiring actors will simply go and register themselves with a branch of Actor’s
guild and association and start to parade themselves as actors which they are
not. Actors guild and association are for trained and practising actors and not
for aspiring actors. A man walked into my office one day and introduced himself
as an actor and a task force chairman of a branch and that he wants to be a
cast in one of the T V soaps I produce, because of his arrogance, I asked him
to explain “continuity” and “mannerism” for me, he said that continuity is to
start from where you stopped and mannerism is the way an actor acts”, that
answer was totally wrong and questioned his claim but I simply told him to train himself to be An actor before looking
for guild to join.
It is
only in the entertainment industry that people think that they can wake up and
start practising and such people always end up the first thing at last and most
times quit.
Film and
television industry in many countries with good or growing economies in the
world is always ranked between first to fifth largest employers of labour so I
wonder why anyone would wake up and think that he/she can jump inside and start
practising. Lawyers goes to the university, the law school before becoming
members of Bar associations, Doctors, Bankers, Engineers and other
professionals goes through some academic process before practising, even
artisans like bricklayers, electricians, mechanics, shoemakers etc all get
trained.
Therefore it is important for anyone that want to do
entertainment business whether as a producer, director, script writer,
costumiers, cameraman, make-up artist, production manager etc to have some level
of training either as a field apprentice or through an academic program.
To be contd.....
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