Tag: video
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The Ultimate Guide to Putting on a Show at the Edinburgh Fringe
Everything you need to know if you’re performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has a special place in the performing arts calendar. Every August, the Scottish capital becomes the centre of an explosion of shows, cultures and performances celebrating everything the arts have to offer. It’s a great place for performers…
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12 Tips for Controlling Nerves
Top tips to help deal with nerves ahead of auditions, performances or rehearsals. Nerves can get the better of all of us. Even established actors get nervous before auditions, performances and in rehearsals, as Imelda Staunton, Josette Simon, Alex Jennings and other actors have shared with us. The trick is knowing how to deal with them…
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Tips for Preparing for a Performance
Top tips about preparing for performing on stage or on camera. As part of the Spotlight Prize, graduate performers are asked to perform a monologue of their choice in front of the camera before performing a second piece on stage in front of an audience of industry professionals. We asked them what they did differently to prepare for each…
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7 Headshot Tips from Casting Directors
Casting directors explain what makes for a good headshot and what they look for in a photo. As a professional performer, your headshots are vitally important. They’re how you’re represented on Spotlight and are the first thing a casting director sees when selecting performers to audition, so your photo must look like you and truly…
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Life Lessons from Drama School
How drama school shapes your mindset as an actor The Spotlight Prize 2022 finalists come from some of the most prestigious drama schools in the country where they’ve spent years learning their craft and honing their skills. Fresh from their impressive performances at the Spotlight Prize and looking forward to a life after graduation, we asked…
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How to Find the Perfect Audition Monologue
Tips for finding monologues for a showcase, and how to know which one is the right one for you to perform. We’re often asked where to find monologues for showcases. With so many resources available both online and in libraries, how do you go about starting your search? And how do you know which of…
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Why I Became an Actor
We spoke to performers attending the Casting Directors Awards 2022 to find out what made them want to become actors. The Casting Directors Awards (CDGs) are over for another year. Trophies were awarded, speeches were given, laughs were had and drinks were drunk. Meanwhile we jumped at the chance to speak with some of the performer…
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The Spotlight Guide to Idents
Demystify the audition process with our guide to filming professional idents and full-length shots. An ident – sometimes called a slate – is a purely technical part of the audition process in which you state your name, your agent (or that you’re self-represented) and occasionally a few other details. It’s used by casting directors to…
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12 Pieces of Advice for Actors From Actors
Performers attending the Casting Directors’ Guild Awards share the best advice they’ve ever been given We asked David Morrissey, Naomi Ackie, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Daniel Mays, Daniel Monks and Jonah Hauer-King why they pursued a career in acting and what advice they could offer to performers. Watch the video: Here are their 12 pearls of wisdom…
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Emma Ashton on the Commercial Casting Process
Casting director Emma Ashton gives us her insight into the way commercial castings come about Casting director and member of the Casting Directors Association (CDA), Emma Ashton, talks to Spotlight about how commercial castings come about and what happens behind the scenes. Perfect insight for any actors looking into commercial castings. Take a look: Find…