GDROB answered Monday September 5 2005, 5:30 pm: Ignore Barbizon and the other sites. It's all a big scam to get people to buy photos. How dod I know, I have several friends who are casting agents and publicists. Never pay for anything in
this biz and run screaming if they dare try pushing photo packages on you or Internett pages--casting agents will never endorse nor look at them.
Where to start? Well, find out if there are youth theatre groups nearest you doing plays regularly--sign up--do backstage--learn stage management and direction--even from the adult theatre troupes.
Learn all you can about improvisation, writing, crafting of scenes. If near a workshop place like Second City take those classes and all you can get your hands on and do it. Always practice, write your own skits etc.
You never said where you were from either. There may or may not be extras needing to be cast in big budget film read the papers and also get to an agent that handles extras nd see how much you like that or not. The film business is sit around and wait a lot and can bore people.
When you have been in a lot of plays and whatnot only then can you consult a full-fledged agent to represent you. Before that nobody will as you have no track record and agents only sign those that bring them money. They get 20 per-cent of what you make--used to be 10. [ GDROB's advice column | Ask GDROB A Question ]
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