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Lights, Camera, Action

isnet396

isnet396

New Member
Original Poster
hehe. I'm sure many of you are going to find this mildy amusing, but here 'goes anyway.

Has anyone here ever acted mainstream? Like, commercials, extra-ing, TV/Film? I'm looking into it, and I'm having a tough time finding an agency in the NY metro area. I need to find one that has a website, since I can't be on the phone with these people. My parents want me to go to MIT, not MGM, so, until they tell me that they might have something that I could do, then I have to resort to emailing for my means of communications. Any agency specializing in youth talent would be a bit more helpful, since I'm 14.

Ian
 
disney_nutter

disney_nutter

Active Member
i have done tv acting but it was shown here in n.ireland it was for a comedy show called give my head peace. it is about a protest family containg a uncle andy (member of the orange lodge) and billy the police man or psni as they are called now. And then a catholic family with ma, da(jerry adams right hand man) and there son kal and there daughter Dimpha. WEll billy and dimpha and billy got married and the shows u about how both side deal with it. Sorry ab i got carried away well iplayed uncle adys long lost son and i still come now and again.
 
SirNim

SirNim

Well-Known Member
I've actually done a couple of national commericials for the Discovery (Channel) Networks and a few local ones, one of them for a professional hockey team in Maine. (In addition, I have lent my voice to some characters in the LeapPad brand of learning books distributed nation-wide.) I got started after I won the Discovery Channel commercial (it was a "contest" of sorts), then I found a small youth and adult talent agency in my area. I'm sure there are some in your area, too. Do a search online or check the yellow pages. That's where I found mine. After that, they'll probably need a picture of you and then just sit back and wait. They'll call you when an audition opens looking for people of your "demeanor" and "caliber" :drevil: and then you go, give it a shot, and then wait for a call back, which there hopefully will be. (On a side note, I also had an additional national appearance, but it wasn't through a talent agency. Rather it was through the nationally syndicated game show called Jeopardy!. Have you heard of it? Yep. The one with Alex Trebek. I'll tell you, that had to have been the MOST nerve-racking experience for anyone who would appear on national TV. The bright lights, Johnny Gilbert and Alex Trebek's glaring in the eyes, the live studio audience, the countless cameras at every angle, and the knowledge that right outside that studio at Sony Picture Studios, in Culver City, LA, CA, USA, are a bunch of laid-back Angelenos and tourists alike who are takin' it easy like sunday morning. And you are sweating bullets trying to compete for the grand prize and a trip to Hawaii (which indcidentally, I won :) ).
But I do believe that is enough self-bloating for one post. I'll stop now. And, btw, good luck.
 

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