Yearly Archives: 2013

A Great Actress

A Great Actress
Act it out! With the dialogue and the music, you must act it out! Make yourself really interesting to watch, and make them want to watch more. Picture this: You are auditioning to be the lead female role. She is a tomboy and a troublemaker. You could either Stand there, knees locked, and say your…
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Going on vacation

Going on vacation
Packing for a vacation can be stressful, especially as you wrap up tasks at work and home in preparation for your time away. To streamline the process and reduce stress, consider making a packing checklist for each person in your household, and check items off as they are put in a suitcase. This will ensure…
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Entertainment in 2016

Entertainment in 2016
2016 Entertainment & Media Industry Trends To survive the rapid transition to a direct-to- consumer future, companies across the E&M sector need an effective fan-centric strategy or risk decline and irrelevance.
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social media and the Players

social media and the Players
A few recent, seemingly disparate, events illuminate the seismic shifts occurring in entertainment and media (E&M). When basketball superstar Kobe Bryant announced his retirement from the NBA on November 29, 2015, it occurred not on a major sports network but via social media and the Players’ Tribune, an athlete-centric digital publisher. That same month, CBS…
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Surviving the “videoquake”

Surviving the “videoquake”
As media evolves to a direct-to-consumer world, nowhere is the competition fiercer than in television. Video commands the most revenue of any E&M sector: about US$420 billion globally in subscriptions and advertising in 2015, according to PwC. Around the world, more people are choosing to stream video through over-the-top (OTT) services, that is, services that…
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One of their many Scenes

One of their many Scenes
Make sure that everyone can hear you. If your auditions are in an actual theater, great! But since they are usually not, make sure you talk as loud as if you were in a theater and the directors were in the back row. Don't push it though. Make sure it still sounds very natural, and…
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Prepareing for the next role

Prepareing for the next role
Have fun with it! What you may think is out of the ordinary for you, is really more interesting to watch. But at the same time, you can also bring so much "realness" to the character when you are still being your self. How would you react in that situation in real life? If the…
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