Tag: video
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Tips for Delivering a Natural Read
Founder of the VoiceOver Network, Rachael Naylor shares her advice for voice over artists, including how to deliver a natural read. Sounding natural when you deliver your lines is a vital skill for every aspiring voice over artist. Not only does it showcase your abilities as an artist, but it’s also a desirable skill that…
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Acting Showreel Tips from Casting Directors
The casting directors of ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Captain America’ reveal common mistakes that actors make in showreels, and what you should include in yours. If done well, a showreel is your key to getting more acting work. It’s the trailer that showcases you – and your talent – and can help make…
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The Essential Dos and Don’ts for Voice Work
Voice experts share their top tips for caring for your voice and unlocking its true potential for voice over work. Voice overs are an exciting and potentially lucrative opportunity for actors. However, thanks to the surplus of A-list celebrities being cast in voice roles for their ‘star power’, there’s an untrue expectation that voice work…
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Tips on How to Choose Your Monologue
Stage director Natalie Abrahami and Spotlight Prize performers share their top tips for choosing a great monologue that’s right for you. Whether you’re choosing a monologue for a showcase, an audition, or even our very own ‘Into the Spotlight’ monologue competition, the search for a piece that perfectly shows off your acting skills can be daunting. There…
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How to Edit your Self-Tapes and Showreels
Learn how to edit and export your self-tapes and showreels with our handy step-by-step guide. With the rise in popularity of self-tapes and showreels, it’s more important than ever to know how to edit a video. Video editing can sound complicated, and you may think it would be expensive to get the right software, but this doesn’t have…
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Tips for Planning Your Edinburgh Fringe Show
What to keep in mind when you’re planning to bring a show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Taking a show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe isn’t something to be done on a whim. It takes months of preparation and planning to make sure everything runs smoothly, and even then, there’s plenty that can be forgotten or overlooked.…
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Accessibility at the Edinburgh Fringe
Top tips for making an inclusive, accessible Edinburgh Festival Fringe show and how to communicate your access needs as a performer. Making theatre accessible and inclusive is vital, but it isn’t always easy – especially when it comes to putting on a show in a historic city like Edinburgh when old, often inaccessible buildings become…
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5 Things Performers Can Do Between Roles
Rob Brydon, Bella Ramsey, Harry Trevaldwyn, Asim Chaudhry, Toheeb Jimoh, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Laura Donnelly share how they keep themselves active between acting jobs No one, no matter how talented or famous, can spend every moment of every day acting. It’s important for us to have other passions to pursue in our spare time, especially…
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Promoting Your Show at the Edinburgh Fringe
Tips for marketing and promoting your Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. After all the hard work of funding, budgeting, and bringing your show to the Edinburgh Fringe, you’re finally ready for an audience. You have tickets to sell, seats to fill, and interviews to give, but none of this comes without marketing and promoting your show. It’s important to…
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Tips for Dealing with Rejection
Performers Bella Ramsey, Jennifer Saunders, Laura Donnelly, Rob Brydon, Toheeb Jimoh, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Asim Chaudhry share their advice for dealing with rejection. We caught up with some of our guest-presenters at this year’s CDG Awards, and asked them how they handle rejection as actors, along with what advice they’d give to others when it comes…