Advice

How To Define Your Type, Create Your Brand and Write a Logline

What’s the difference between a type and a brand? Do you need a brand? How do you discover what brand you are? And what’s a logline?

How to Turn Your Smartphone into the Perfect Video Camera

When you think about what camera equipment and accessories you need to shoot high-quality video, the basics come to mind: microphones, lenses, tripods, and lighting. Just add a smartphone to that mix, and you’re ready to roll! With shooting video on your phone, the basics are exactly the same.

Why Being Yourself Will Land You the Role

You may be spending too much time trying to decipher what “they” want and not enough time crafting the best way that this role can be illuminated through your one-of-a-kind spirit!

The Perils of Being Famous

For some actors, being famous is the end game—but an encounter with Ryan Gosling has Secret Agent Man saying beware of what you wish for.

Backstage Member Austin Ku Shares Advice For Actors

Backstage member Austin Ku gives advice to fellow actors. Visit www.Austin-Ku.com or www.facebook.com/AustinKuActor, or follow on Twitter @secretaustinman.

Why You Must Become An Adventurous Actor

The urge to be an adventurer exists within every actor. This urge fights for your approval against the obedient actor you think you are compelled to be.

How to Star on a TV Show in a Social Media World

Emmy winner Greg Yaitanes, currently the showrunner of Cinemax’s “Banshee,” proves he has his finger on the pulse of how we watch TV now—with one hand on our smartphones.

Be Prepared, Flexible, and Available in Your Auditions

Being flexible in the room provides the present moment freshness that adds job getting color and texture to those choices. Both are equally essential to your success.

Why You Need To Like What You Do As An Actor

How you live your life is a choice. When you look for a job, make sure the work is something you enjoy. You don't have to love every aspect of a job, but certainly you can find some things to like about practically anything.

3 Reasons Actors Get Commercial Callbacks

Based on all my experience as an actor, casting director, and teacher, I do believe there is a casting formula for getting callbacks. It is only my educated opinion but I really believe that this is basically the formula and value percentages.