Optimizing Your Website
Hi Everyone, Today’s article is about your website, and how to optimize it so it appears in Google search results. So, let’s imagine you’ve already built a website, but it doesn’t show up in Google. Why not? Well, the reason is simple. It’s not optimized. SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the process of making …
Be Prepared
Making the leap into Hollywood is not the easiest thing in the world. It takes GUTS and it takes persistence, but most of all it takes preparation and patience. Arriving in Hollywood thinking you can book a job without even knowing what a casting director does is a one-way ticket to loserville, big time. Check …
The amazing story of how Kenny Cook got the part
This is the most unlikely story of how actor and MyActingSite client Kenny Cook got a part the movie As I Lay Dying, written by William Faulkner and directed by James Franco. Would you drive 4 hours each way for what you knew would be a cattle call of actors just like you? Boy, Kenny …
Don’t Typecast Yourself to Death
This anecdote by Marci Liroff (Casting director; Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, The Iron Giant) gives her insight into typecasting. We’re very proud to be featuring weekly columns by Marci! Marci’s Audition Bootcamp DVD is available for purchase online here. Have you ever gone on an audition, walked into the waiting room and found 10 actors …
Don't Typecast Yourself to Death
This anecdote by Marci Liroff (Casting director; Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, The Iron Giant) gives her insight into typecasting. We’re very proud to be featuring weekly columns by Marci! Marci’s Audition Bootcamp DVD is available for purchase online here. Have you ever gone on an audition, walked into the waiting room and found 10 actors …
How to Ruin Your Audition in One Easy Step
This anecdote by Marci Liroff (Casting director; Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, The Iron Giant) teaches a very important lesson in cockiness in an audition. We’re very proud to be featuring weekly columns by Marci! Marci’s Audition Bootcamp DVD is available for purchase online here. I was casting a TV pilot a few years ago and …
Turn On: Berg Studios’ Audition Tip #25
You walk into your audition, focused, prepared, in character and ready to blow away the casting directors before you. It sounds good, but you’ve already made one key mistake that could cost you the role… You never gave yourself the opportunity to turn on. At Berg Studios, when preparing students for on-camera auditions, we always …
These Boots Are Made For Walkin’
Ever get confused about what to wear to an audition? Marci Liroff (Casting director; Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, The Iron Giant) has something to say about that. We’re very proud to announce that we will now be featuring weekly columns by Marci! Marci’s Audition Bootcamp DVD is available for purchase online here. I’m going to …
These Boots Are Made For Walkin’
Ever get confused about what to wear to an audition? Marci Liroff (Casting director; Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, The Iron Giant) has something to say about that. We’re very proud to announce that we will now be featuring weekly columns by Marci! Marci’s Audition Bootcamp DVD is available for purchase online here. I’m going to …
Acting: The Art Of Body Language
The studio is at capacity, and the seats are full with students whose eyes are fixed on the performance that is taking place in front of them. “Body is the dialog,” exclaims Gregory Berger-Sobeck, owner and founder of Berg Studios of Atwater Village. In the middle of an intense scene, a student immediately adjusts her …