Do you want to learn more about the business of acting? Do you want to get inspired by awesome individuals to make your own stuff and do good work? This is most definitely the article for you.
There are fundamental acting techniques that every actor should know. Find out what they are and where to study.
Resources for Actors
Looking for work as an actor or actress? Make a great resume for acting and get more callbacks by using our tips and acting resume templates.
Everything that I do to keep my agent happy and my career moving!
Resources for Actors
Resources for Actors
Originally published March 12, 2020 and is continually updated If you look at professionals in any industry, they are constantly honing their skills. As actors, we are told to “always be in class”, and while this is vitally important, it’s only one piece of the puzzle in being at the top of your game. Acting
Long ago, I used to fear technology. I still do—but definitely less than before. I put that aside, sat down with my all-knowing brother, and learned how to use Adobe Premiere Pro once and for all. …
These are the websites I use for my reel, headshots, connecting with casting directors, getting auditions, advertising, and more. I use them all the time, and you guys deserve to know about them!
There’s no reason to be afraid of Actors Access! Here are 9 tips to get more auditions and get CAST!
Resources for Actors
These are the websites I use for my reel, headshots, connecting with casting directors, getting auditions, advertising, and more. I use them all the time, and you guys deserve to know about them!
Resources for Actors
Resources for Actors
Anchor Charts are a quick and easy way to get the point across to actors and directors. This fun chart from Alycia Zimmerman gives great suggestions to teachers and students. For Some great prop …
These effective de-escalation strategies help parents, or caregivers, defuse meltdowns & outbursts in children. These de-escalation strategies will....
Do you want to know what type of activity is considered sexual sin in the bible? Pastor Mark gives you the inside scoop.
The IPA vowel chart is a thing of beauty, a joy forever, and sometimes a bit of a pain to learn. Here are some ways of remembering what all the English vowels are in the International Phonetic Alphabet. (Looking for how to remember consonants?) The basics: a clickable IPA chart and an interactive cross-section of the human vocal tract. I strongly recommend learning IPA symbols at the same time as you learn their position on the charts. The charts are designed like that for a reason and they’ll help you remember which sounds are similar to each other and where they’re pronounced in the mouth. Why? Because the chart is a really stylized representation of where in the mouth the sounds are pronounced, as you can see in the diagram below. (The consonant chart is similar but even more stylized.) A great way to practise the IPA symbols with the chart is to get a blank diagram (here’s one) and practise writing the symbols in, preferably with keywords so that you remember what they sound like. If you’ve studied Spanish or Italian, it may help to note that the “normal” looking vowels correspond to their sounds in Spanish/Italian. How do you pick your keywords? There are a couple options. You can use the classic sentence “Who would know aught of art, must learn, act, then take his ease”, which has the advantage of having the sounds approximately in order from back high, to low, to front high, with some muddiness around the central vowels. Unfortunately, it has some words that aren’t terribly common (aught), might not be pronounced with the right vowel in your dialect (art, if you have a rhotic accent), and ignores diphthongs. A more accurate but less catchy option is to learn each vowel in between the same “frame” of letters, in this case b__t (where possible). Note that for schwa, I’m assuming that “buh” represents the way you’d try to say the sound “b” makes all by itself, which will result in a schwa. Also note that dashed arrows represent diphthongs. A more vivid way to remember each sound is to associate each symbol with a more distinct word: these examples are taken from Wells Standard Lexical Sets for English. However, note that Wells doesn’t have an entry for schwa, so I’ve added “sofa”, the second vowel of which is schwa (since /ə/ is found in unstressed syllables while /ʌ/ is found in stressed ones, this is the one place where a monosyllabic word isn’t an option). Finally, you may find it useful to know the names of the actual graphemes as they’re referred to by linguists, for example when dictating or talking about transcriptions, so here they are. (I’ve omitted the ones that are just called by their conventional English alphabetic names.) The keywords technique also helps with the IPA consonant chart, although since more of the symbols are obvious for English speakers, you may want to skip finding keywords for k and f and only figure them out for non-Latin characters like like theta and esh. Here’s a guide to remembering the IPA consonant chart, with keywords. Bonus: you might also find it helpful to think of the various features as overlapping sets, as shown in this really elaborate Venn diagram. See also: IPA transcription practice and a detailed explanation of sonorants, obstruents and sonority. Further resources are also found in the phono link round-up in the protolinguist series.
Need to learn how to memorize? I can teach you that. I used to be terrible at remembering my lines, until I started using this one memorization technique. Let me show you.
Explore how ACT can change your clinical practice when working with people living with trauma memories. Blog by Benjamin Schoendorff
After almost two weeks in Penang, it’s finally time to leave and go to Bali — a place which I remember so fondly. I originally decided to come back to Penang to see out the Chinese New Year…
This is a great dialogue worksheet for the learners having difficulties learning some grammar topics such as past simple, past continuous and past perfect. This worksheet is not suitable for
A headmate that isn't a host, but is strongly connected to hosthood due to being in a subsystem with a host. The headmate may even act like a host, but still aren't considered one. Plain text and im…
Here are three ways to make sure you're taking full advantage of the groundwork you've already laid when writing the First Act in your sequel.
Don't know where to start studying for the ACT? Want to know some of the best practices for approaching each section? Follow these tips to increase your score.
Confused about conic sections on ACT Math? This guide will explain the one ACT math formula you need for circle questions and how to solve problems.
A lesson plan! A lesson plan! My kingdom for a lesson plan!
Our The Data Protection Act Poster is a great educational resource that will help you create relevant and engaging ICT classrooms.
Giving your characters unlikable traits can add spice to a story, but with that comes risk. Linda Sienkiewicz reveals how to do it right.
