Diet Convention » convention http://www.diet2005.com Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:28:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 What is the best actor convention in Chicago? http://www.diet2005.com/convention/what-is-the-best-actor-convention-in-chicago http://www.diet2005.com/convention/what-is-the-best-actor-convention-in-chicago#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:33:11 +0000 admin http://www.diet2005.com/convention/what-is-the-best-actor-convention-in-chicago I am looking to go to a actors/ model convention. I have heard of Proscout and Audition Extravaganza. Any advice on any others or sotires about others?

Proscout is a scam! ALL OF THOSE CONVENTIONS ARE SCAMS!

The ONLY way they’re not is if you’re:
1.The BEST actor
2. The MOST photogenic
3. VERY wealthy

If you’re NOT at least one of these, you’re one of the 500 who leave THOUSANDS of dollars POORER!

There are NO shortcuts in this business!

Here’s the cliffsnotes version of what you can do to do to get into acting and eventually get an agent:

1.EDUCATE YOURSELF FIRST!

READ (check Samuel French, libraries, and bookstores):

*=If you’re on a budget

Acting business:
*Acting is Everything: Gold Edition-Judy Kerr
*How to Be a Working Actor-Mari Lyn Henry and Lynne Rogers
*Self Management for Actors-Bonnie Gillespie
-How to Get Arrested-J. Wallach Michael and Paul Thurwachter
*An Agent Tells All-Tony Martinez
-One Less Bitter Actor: The Actor’s Survival Guide-Markus Flanagan
-So You Want to Be in Showbusiness?- Steve R. Stevens
-Acting Truths and Lies (purchased at www.info4actors.com)

Acting:
*Book the Job-Doug Warhit
*Intent to Live-Larry Moss
-Acting for the Camera-Tony Barr
-Acting in Film-Michael Caine
-Acting Class: Take a Seat-Milton Katselas

Method Acting:
*Art of Acting-Stella Adler
*Sanford Meisner on Acting-Sanford Meisner
*A Dream of Passion-Lee Strasberg
-Actor’s Art and Craft-William Esper
-The Power of the Actor-Ivanna Chubbuck
-No Acting Please-Eric Morris
-Respect for Acting-Uta Hagen
-Challenge to the Actor-Uta Hagen
-You Can Act!-D.W. Brown
-Strasberg’s Method-Lorrie Hull

Comedy
-8 Characters of Comedy-Scott Sedita
-The Sitcom Career Book-Mary Lou Belli

Improv
-Anything by Viola Spolin
-Steve Book on Acting: Improv

Auditioning/Cold Reading:
*How to Get the Part Without Falling Apart-Margie Haber
*Audition-Michael Shurtleff
-Secrets to Successful Cold Readings-Glenn Alterman

2.GET TRAINING!

Regardless of how "talented" you might be, you NEED training, PERIOD!

Definitely take classes in:
-Cold Reading/Auditioning
-Improv
-Scene study
-Commercials

3. Get GREAT headshots

Here’s is a good place to start:
http://bbs.backstage.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8011031/m/110106342

4. Build Your Resume and Reel Doing Student films and Indie Films. Also do plays to build your acting experience.

Sample Resume:
http://i707.photobucket.com/albums/ww80/ELDORADO59/scan0002.jpg

How to make an ACTING resume:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091011203729AAkQetj

The ONLY LEGIT Online sites that you can find jobs on your own through:
ALL SITES NOT LISTED BELOW ARE QUESTIONABLE!

-ActorsAccess.com
-LACasting.com
-Nowcasting.com
-NYCasting.com
-NYCastings.com
-Backstage.com

Free but proceed with caution:
-Castingcallsearch.com
-Mandy.com
-Craigslist

5. Get an Agent

Look up LEGIT agencies here:
http://www.agentassociation.com/

http://www.sag.org/content/find-agent

To get an agent, you need to get GREAT headshots, a good resume, and training from the best. These are enough to get you a commercial agent at least. Getting a GOOD theatrical agent (Film/tv) takes longer. Most good theatrical agents won’t see you unless you’re SAG, have a polished resume, and a demo reel. Commercial agents are more lenient about that. What the best Commercial agents want to see on your resume are good commercial classes, improv, and cold reading.

You can get an agent multiple ways. Here are a few common ways:
-Mail in an unsealed manilla envelope with a CONCISE coverletter and headshot with the resume stapled on the back. If you have a demoreel include that too.
-Attend a showcase and impress them. By showcase I do not mean scammy conventions like IMTA, IPOP, Proscout, or Best New Talent. I mean legit ones like at Actor Connection, Reel pros, Network Studios, etc.
-Get a referral from a friend who is with the agency that you’re interested in

DON’T
-Email them unless they tell you to. IT’S UNPROFESSIONAL!
-Call unless they tell you to. ALSO UNPROFESSIONAL!
-Walk in and ask for a meeting. UNPROFESSIONAL THREE!
-Sign with them if they ask for upfront money, make you take new photos with THEIR photographer, or take THEIR classes. Agent’s ONLY make money when you do. Agents usually make 10% on film/tv and commercials and 20% on commercial print.

]]> http://www.diet2005.com/convention/what-is-the-best-actor-convention-in-chicago/feed 1 Why was Thomas Jefferson absent during the Constitutional Convention of 1787? http://www.diet2005.com/convention/why-was-thomas-jefferson-absent-during-the-constitutional-convention-of-1787 http://www.diet2005.com/convention/why-was-thomas-jefferson-absent-during-the-constitutional-convention-of-1787#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:45:13 +0000 admin http://www.diet2005.com/convention/why-was-thomas-jefferson-absent-during-the-constitutional-convention-of-1787 So im trying to figure our why jefferson did not attend the convention of 1787. I know he was in France during this time (which is the most obvious reason) but, were there any objections that he had with the constitution himself?
Im considering two options:

1. He didnt approve of a strong national govt that promoted industrialization.
2. He didnt like the concepts of checks and balances.

Concorde tickets were very expensive back then. He couldn’t afford the flight.

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its on the tickets.
http://www.acen.org/
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It’s about 3 blocks, so you would walk.

You don’t want to go to the convention center itself. You want the convention place bus tunnel entrance. It’s around 9th and Pine, across from the Paramount theater. Take the escalator/elevator from 9th & Pine down to the tunnel entrance and get the bus there.

I linked a map. It’s a driving map though, and as a pedestrian, you don’t have to obey one way streets, so it’s not as bad as it looks.

A is Greyhound. The place you want to go to catch the bus is across Pine Street from location B. It’s the little structure on the corner of 9th and Pine, between the two forks of the white line labeled "Bus Ln". The little structure is the elevator to get down into the tunnel entrance.

]]> http://www.diet2005.com/convention/how-do-i-get-from-the-seattle-greyhound-station-to-the-seattle-convention-center/feed 1 Who played a big part in the Constitutional Convention? http://www.diet2005.com/convention/who-played-a-big-part-in-the-constitutional-convention http://www.diet2005.com/convention/who-played-a-big-part-in-the-constitutional-convention#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:08:08 +0000 admin http://www.diet2005.com/convention/who-played-a-big-part-in-the-constitutional-convention Of the 55 delegates who drafted the constitution, what men played the biggest roles? Also, what did they contribute to the convention?

You might say that the biggest role was winning over the citizenry. In that case it would be men like James Madison,Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, who wrote the majority of the Federalist Papers.

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And this isn’t my homework. I am actually finished with this class and am curious to know about the general public’s knowledge of its own government. I do plan to show my teacher the answers you’ve all given after the questions have been resolved.

Sounds like someone left their homework to be done here. Um. Billy Idol of Newark said he wouldn’t go along with Freedom of Fries unless New York gave them Staten Island. But New York lied said they would and Billy voted for it. New York then ignored their promise and it caused the first case of imminent domain, where a state can condemn another states land and seize it.

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10 and under probaly. WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO GO TO THAT. IT IS A LAME LAME MOVIE THAT ISN’T REAL. I HATE IT.

]]> http://www.diet2005.com/convention/how-old-do-you-have-to-be-to-attend-a-twilight-convention/feed 4 How does it work to amend the constitution through a constitutional convention? http://www.diet2005.com/convention/how-does-it-work-to-amend-the-constitution-through-a-constitutional-convention http://www.diet2005.com/convention/how-does-it-work-to-amend-the-constitution-through-a-constitutional-convention#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:18:07 +0000 admin http://www.diet2005.com/convention/how-does-it-work-to-amend-the-constitution-through-a-constitutional-convention The Constitution can be amended when 2/3 of the states request that Congress call a constitutional convention. The convention proposes amendments, which then have to be ratified by 3/4 of the states.

I found a website called fixittogether.org, which is trying to help people lobby their state legislators to request a convention to propose a balanced budget amendment, a term limits amendment, an amendment to fix the judiciary, and an amendment to prohibit unfunded mandates. These all sound like good ideas to me. Could this really work?

At the Constitutional Convention of 1789, the founders created two ways to amend the Constitution. The first one is when Congress proposes an amendment, which must then be ratified by three-fourths of the states. The second method is when two-thirds of the states request it, Congress must call a constitutional convention to propose amendments. This second method has never been used. It was included in the Constitution because the framers feared that some day Congress would become corrupt and refuse to act, even in the face of strong public opinion.

It looks like FixitTogether.org states that over 70% of Americans support their proposed amendments. People have been trying to get Congress to pass things like a balanced budget and term limits amendment for decades. It sounds like FixitTogether.org’s strategy may be the only way to get those things done.

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I Don’t Even Think They Have Supernatural Conventions For Real. I Know They Probably Do Comicon Which Is Basically Just The Same Thing But With A Little Bit Of Everything….

]]> http://www.diet2005.com/convention/what-is-the-salute-to-supernatural-convention-are-the-actors-of-the-show-actually-present/feed 1 Why was the great compromise important at the constitutional convention? http://www.diet2005.com/convention/why-was-the-great-compromise-important-at-the-constitutional-convention http://www.diet2005.com/convention/why-was-the-great-compromise-important-at-the-constitutional-convention#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:59:19 +0000 admin http://www.diet2005.com/convention/why-was-the-great-compromise-important-at-the-constitutional-convention Why was the great compromise important at the constitutional convention? write clearly and dont be too descriptive. dont use big words.

because you touch yourself at night.

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