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When you’re hiring #onscreentalent or being hired as the #actor it can be challenging!
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Category: Hiring On Screen Talent
On Being Adversarial- Speaking for You E9
Can’t we all just play nice? THAT would be great, but often the opposite happens.
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Speaking for you-Hire On screen E8
Can your actor “Hold” a character? The embodiment? The voice, attitude, swagger, shyness?
Take a listen.
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Directing Talent: Speaking for You E7
Here’s some thoughts about directing your actors in your “on screen” roles. Also mentioned is this full clip on directing, (see bottom of page).
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More on what Characters do for you- Speaking for You E6
When hiring onscreen talent, what should they do, and NOT do for your project.
You’re Hiring a Character! Speaking for You E5
As you think about hiring on-screen talent, remember you’re hiring an Actor- A Character!
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Challenges & Pitfalls of hiring talent- Speaking for You E4
Today we look at some of the draw backs and pitfalls of using on-screen talent! I was speaking yesterday with my most frequent customer that uses me for on-screen spokes person work. She said they’d been in a meeting a week or two ago and suddenly thought, “What if Grant decides not to do this anymore? Or if he got really sick, or…” Well, there’s that.
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Speaking for You #2 Finding the Vibe!
If you’ve ever been in theater, or acting of any kind, you know there are many reasons actors are selected, or rejected. It may be NOTHING you did or didn’t do. I’ve actually seen VOICE rejections like, “he didn’t sound tall enough.” ummm, okay. So back to an assumption that you now have several choices for your role. Listen in!
Speaking for You #2 Why Hire On Screen Talent!?
WHY?? (would you??)
Let’s deal with the “why”. Just like Voice Over or Voice Acting, there are many reasons to hire someone to speak for you. Some random reasons;
- You’ve no one at your organization that is comfortable in front of the camera.
- You have someone comfortable, but really not qualified to do so.
- No one trained to work “on camera”
- Bias: Gender, race and so on.
- The people you do have available don’t “look” like your market.
- And… (Watch the video!)
Speaking for You #1 Hiring On Screen Talent
The inaugural episode!
Welcome to a new series I’m doing on how to best use, hire and direct #onscreen or #spokesperson for your organization. There are many different things that can be done from #greenscreen to #naturalbackgrounds. Here’s the introduction video!