3/10/17
On this day we were tasked to
create an actor CV including all the necessary attributes of yourself in it.
Mine included a headshot of my face In black and white. This is standard in
actors CVs as it allows the hirers to get a clear image of your face without
influence from other filters or lighting tricks. I believe that my use of
previous roles could be useful, as an auditioner would be able to see my acting
range from this.
10/10/17
In the first part of the day we
were given the instruction to research into a “dream job” in the field of
acting, I have been thinking of this before and I have narrowed down my
aspirations to four main jobs: Freelance actor, learning mentor (or just an
educator in performing arts), an actor loyal to a theatre company or a director
loyal to a theatre company. I’ll research the full job requirements and what
the prerequisites would be needed for it.
Freelance Actor.
The majority of freelance actors
live in the American city of L.A. They go from job to job by audition and call
backs. There are currently over 100,000 actors in L.A however, due to the rise
in special effects and other factors the rate of employment for freelance
actors has been declining and doesn’t show any sign of stopping. As of this
date only 20% of freelance actors are in employment. Also the rate of
employment is institutionally biased in sex and race. Males are more likely to
be cast due how there are more demand for them, and more white people are cast
than POC due to Hollywood’s belief that their audience can better identify with
characters if they are the same race as them.
As a result this is the most unlikely career for me to take.
Learning mentor (or performing
arts educator)
Like with most educational jobs,
the easiest way to enter them is to apply to the same facility you were taught
by as the personal relationship with your teachers may bias them in your
favour. This would only be achievable if you would be getting the highest or
near the highest grades in the subject of the intuition, as otherwise they
would not believe that you would be viable for the job. The work entails
similar activities to what I have done, such as directing and giving feedback,
standing in for roles, and admin work. I believe this may the most likely
performing arts carer for me.
Actor/ director, loyal to a
company
These two carers are similar in
their prerequisites as they are both quite hard to achieve. This is because
under the search “England Theatre Company” there are only 73 listed, as a
result I will not go into large amounts of detail about these two carers.
Obviously a background in acting/directing is needed for these roles and a
previous hiring with eh company would help your chances of obtaining the job.
By being loyal to one company you would partake and assist in every single
production that the company makes.
31/10/17
Today we started by being briefed
on how we would need to create a five minute presentation exploring two
potential careers involving the performing arts. Since I had previously done
research on four potential carers on the 10th I was more than
prepared for this task. I choose to do my presentation on freelance acting and
being a performing arts educator. This was due to how I felt that these were
the two careers I knew the most about due to how I had researched them in a
previous task and were the most
interesting to myself, which should create a more engaging presentation than
the alternative. Here is the PowerPoint I made:
21/11/17
On this day we were tasked to include the sources of all of
the claims we made in our presentation I
made this table to do so:
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