I found when first starting out as an actor, when leaving school, college, university, drama school or even an established acting training course, it can be difficult to figure out which steps to take to help kick start your acting career. I remember taking am actor training course and leaving not knowing what to actually … Read more
Let’s face it, life as an actor is not always glamorous. Throughout your career, you may land a year-long project, or even have a few – or be a series lead or regular – but then after that, maybe nothing comes up for some time. So then what? How do you stay motivated?
Good looks and charm won’t help if you can’t recite your lines correctly and act convincingly. So many actors believe that all they need is to meet an agent or casting director to soar their acting career – but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. What they fail to understand is that to rise … Read more
How to Become an Actor in the entertainment industry? When you begin your journey as an actor you feel as if you are stranded on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Where do you go first? Do you take the plunge into the water and swim for land or do you wait for … Read more
From School to Scorsese: Asa Butterfield Shares His Advice for Aspiring Actors Modest, ambitious, and down-to-earth, at 20 Asa Butterfield already has an astonishing filmography behind him, including lead roles in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011), Morgan Matthews’ X+Y (2014) and Tim Burton’s magical Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016). Following his starring role in … Read more
Remember that fresh just out of drama school feeling? You were one of the ‘chosen ones’ that was going to make it; you were young, perky and had decided that method was the only way for you. But you didn’t know where to find an agent, you didn’t have a show reel and when you … Read more
Having graduated from the August 2016 Reel Scene acting training event I can say that the Reel Scene is the only course out of a number of acting courses that showed me the differences between stage and screen acting and gave me the chance to do both and compare for myself. That being said I … Read more
Today I was asked about camera angles and how an actor can help the director create the best shot for on screen acting. Screen acting is a relationship between the actor and the camera, it goes without saying that as an actor you should be as prepared as possible by knowing your lines and have … Read more
We all, actors and non-actors included, have those days where we sit on our computers or laptops and scroll through YouTube for hours on end. There is always another video on the side bar that leads to another and another and so on. Well at the Reel Scene, we are also guilty of this crime … Read more
Alan Rickman once said “Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.” This quote got us thinking at The Reel Scene and we wanted to ask you; what film stayed with you since you first watched … Read more