Download or read book Acting in Television Commercials for Fun and Profit 4th Edition written by Squire Fridell and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Guide to Commercial Success Acting in television commercials is a highly competitive business, but it can also be very lucrative. Whether you’re looking for your first break or want to take your acting career to the next level, Squire Fridell will give you the insider’s edge. Arguably the king of TV commercials, Fridell distills four decades of experience in this comprehensive, humorously written guide that has been indispensable to aspiring TV commercial actors since the first edition hit the shelves in 1980. This fully updated fourth edition gives the lowdown on how online and digital technologies have changed the industry and tells you everything you need to know about: • Getting a terrific headshot • Writing a winning résumé • Finding (and keeping) the perfect agent • Honing the skills that every serious commercial actor should have • Auditioning well and getting the job • Using the best online services for posting your headshot, résumé, and reel You’ll learn how to launch your commercial acting career and–more important–how to sustain it and be successful.
Download or read book Acting in Television Commercials for Fun and Profit written by Squire Fridell and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actors earn more money performing in television commercials than in stage productions and feature films combined. "Squire Fridell's book is a witty and complete guide. It should be on every actor's shelf right next to Stanislavsky. --Richard Schickel, film critic, Time magazine "Acting in Television Commercials is a great way to break into the business, and Squire Fridell's book is fun and informative . . . a must for any aspiring actor." --Carol Burnett Acting in television commercials is fun, challenging, and often very lucrative. Squire Fridell offers tips and advice that will give you the edge necessary to break in and keep on working: How to get started with a winning résumé, a dynamic headshot, and a terrific agent New audition strategies and performance techniques Learn to manage "downtime and build your career even while you're not working Practice acting with scripts from real television commercials! Squire Fridell has appeared in some living room, somewhere in America, selling something to someone on the average of once a day for more than twenty years. His 1,700 television commercials included fifteen years as the Toyota spokesman and six years as television's Ronald McDonald. He has been featured in Newsweek and has been on the cover of TV Guide. In addition to his television, film, and stage credits, he has a master's degree in acting/directing.
Download or read book Acting in Television Commercials for Fun and Profit written by Squire Fridell and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acting in Television Commercials for Fun and Profit 4th Edition written by Squire Fridell and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Guide to Commercial Success Acting in television commercials is a highly competitive business, but it can also be very lucrative. Whether you’re looking for your first break or want to take your acting career to the next level, Squire Fridell will give you the insider’s edge. Arguably the king of TV commercials, Fridell distills four decades of experience in this comprehensive, humorously written guide that has been indispensable to aspiring TV commercial actors since the first edition hit the shelves in 1980. This fully updated fourth edition gives the lowdown on how online and digital technologies have changed the industry and tells you everything you need to know about: • Getting a terrific headshot • Writing a winning résumé • Finding (and keeping) the perfect agent • Honing the skills that every serious commercial actor should have • Auditioning well and getting the job • Using the best online services for posting your headshot, résumé, and reel You’ll learn how to launch your commercial acting career and–more important–how to sustain it and be successful.
Download or read book Acting in Television Commercials written by Squire Fridell and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acting in Commercials written by Joan See and published by Back Stage Books. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every actor knows that working in commercials is lucrative. But many actors, trained primarily for working on the stage, have mistaken ideas about this field and lack essential on-camera experience. Now in an updated and expanded edition, Acting in Commercials is the only resource that fills all the gaps in the performer’s knowledge of this demanding medium. Invaluable for its insight into the craft as well as the business of acting, it tells you how to prepare for commercial auditions and, once you’ve landed a job, how to deliver the most expressive on-camera performance—leading to more work and success in a competitive field. Author Joan See illuminates all the secrets she has learned while appearing in hundreds of commercials over the past thirty years. She shows you how to approach five distinctly different commercial forms and explains the specific acting techniques to employ in each. In fact, Acting in Commercials will take you beyond commercial work, sharpening all your acting skills for a broader film and television career.
Download or read book Breaking Into Commercials written by Terry Berland and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to getting a job in commercials, offering advice on a variety of topics including how to get a great head shot, create a stand-out resume, sign with an agent, and ace an audition, and featuring interviews with professionals from different areas of the industry.
Download or read book Rich and Famous in Thirty Seconds written by Batt Johnson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich and Famous in Thirty Seconds is written by a veteran of more than thirty years in show business and is filled with inside secrets and helpful tips, many not taught in university programs. It has in-depth interviews with successful actors, teachers, agents, and casting directors. Special chapters on marketing, getting jobs, and actor’s tax deductions provide stimulating insight. Additional chapters are dedicated to broadcasters, models, and children who want to succeed in the fun and lucrative business of TV commercials. This book will help you develop highly marketable skills, maximize your potential, avoid pitfalls, and profit in the process.
Download or read book Acting in the Million Dollar Minute written by Tom Logan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide deals exclusively with acting in commercials, covering script terminology and procedure, commercial dialogue, camera staging, working the product, training, photos, unions, and actor-agency contracts, and also provides a complete list of SAG and AFTRA offices.
Download or read book How to Audition for TV Commercials written by W.L. Jenkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do ad agencies look for when casting TV commercials? This insider's guide, written by a former actor turned ad agency exec, has the answers. It provides step—by—step instructions to help actors understand and master the entire process, from assessing one's looks and personality to the agency preproduction process, from reading scripts and understanding storyboards to preparing for the audition, doing the shoot, and more.
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Download or read book How to Enter the Business of Commercial Modeling and Acting Without Getting Ripped Off written by Stuart J. Scesney and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are You a Beautiful Woman? Great... Are You a Handsome Man? Great... You an Everyday Looking Person? Even Better! Not only BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, 5'11" plus get work modeling and acting! REAL PEOPLE get work too! Think about it. Monitor your TV for 12 hours. What characters do you see more of on TV commercials, movies, infomercials, web commercials, etc.! It's the "real" person! "Real" people target the "real/everyday" consumer. Modeling and acting is not only fun...it's KILLER money!" Stuart Scesney Author, Talent Adviser Former C.E.O. Talent Factory & Stus Casting, Inc. "Shark repellent for the serious actor...I recommend this book to any new talent." Brian Robinson Marketing Director Morgan Creek Productions
Download or read book Professional Acting in Television Commercials written by Pat Dougan and published by Heinemann Drama. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the tools and techniques you need to make a successful career in television commercials? Does stage training help? How does one organize and market oneself to the people doing the hiring? How do you handle auditions? What do you do when the director wants different interpretations of the same material? And how do you handle those shoots when nothing seems to go right? Actress and writer Pat Dougan, who has worked in hundred of commercials, gives you the tools to answer these and other questions necessary for the actor who seriously wants to make the move into this fast-paced and lucrative field.
Download or read book Acting in the Million Dollar Minute the Sequel written by Tom Logan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting in the Million Dollar Minute deals exclusively with the art of acting in commercials. Updated, revised, and expanded for today’s commercial actor, Tom Logan uses decades of experience to give the commercial actor insight into what happens on set and how a commercial is shot. He includes guidance on how to decipher the meaning behind the commercial script, begin and end each performance, immediately obtain the auditioners' attention, and beat out your competition. In addition, Logan offers direction on "taking the camera" from another actor (i.e., upstaging), working with the product, what separates the actor who got the part from the actors who didn't, and how to give the director a performance he can “cut” in the editing room. Compiled from thousands of comments from hundreds of casting directors, ad executives, producers, and more, Acting in the Million Dollar Minute provides practical advice from an award-winning director.
Download or read book You Can Work On camera written by John Leslie Wolfe and published by Heinemann Drama. This book was released on 1999 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides much-needed training for actors aspiring to work in a range of media, including television commercials, corporate films, and video communications.
Download or read book Commercials Just My Speed written by Vernée Watson-Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This instructional book is an easy reading, highly-informative text, covering all the basics needed to develop a lasting career in television commercials. It is also an excellent basis for any acting or TV production course. Vernee has 25 years of experience in the business & has done over 200 commercials. She has owned & operated an acting school & does private coaching. In this text, she covers warm-up exercises, vocal development, auditioning, performance & camera techniques, pictures, wardrobe, agents, copy breakdown, practice commercial copy, chapters on PRINT, VOICE-OVERS, & Survival Tips for the business. "An awesome help for the development of an acting career. It should be a part of every actors library. My students & I should sing its praises."--Kim Fields, Actress. There is also an accompanying 54 minute color video at $19.95 with the same title, & a set for children entitled KIDS IN THE COMMERCIAL BIZ at $19.95. The books are distributed by SAMUEL FRENCH TRADE, 7623 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046. (213) 876-0570. Contact Gwen Feldmen, Jim Fox. The videos are distributed by TAPEWORM VIDEO DIST., 27833 Ave. Hopkins, Valencia, CA 91355, (805) 257-4904. Contact Connie Figgins. Or call WIZARDS PROD. (800) 500-2567. Also distributed by Ingram & Baker & Taylor.
Download or read book The Science and Art of Commercial Acting written by John Howard Swain and published by John Howard Swain. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must read book for actors interested in doing television commercials.
