Casting Calls and Process

Cast selection of all talent including models, singers, dancers and actors is the pre-production of selecting a cast every performing artist goes through at some point in their career. The process usually involves auditions which comprise of the director, producer and choreographer.

A casting call often goes out to selected actors for specific roles as leads, as well as professional actors or semi-professional actors. The casting process determines actors individually and the combined chemistry between the combined actors. Every artist knows how difficult it can be to compete against thousands of other hopefuls when the casting process is under way. Using a media company eliminate most of the stress accompanied with the search of assignments available. To ensure your success it is safe to acquire the help of a casting negotiator, which you will also find on websites and they can help you with selecting the right pre-production procedure. To be on the cast list for a specific performance are the ultimate goal of all aspirants and your confidence and calmness in front of the casting panel can ensure a positive outcome. Never underestimate your own ability to outshine other hopefuls in obtaining the seemingly impossible as all well-known artists were once where you are now.

Gaining entry in the industry requires several casting calls which you may fail to make an impression in, but there is such a wide field which actors can enter into especially in television. You may have a great voice, have a great modelling body and there is a casting call for a very wide field all in the world of entertainment. There are a lot of agencies who are doing auditions for talent and you must decide what is your talent or unique skill that sets you apart for the wanted role. Although the entertainment world is a very diverse field where your uniqueness will have an effect the competition is fierce and it is up to the individual to present themselves properly with the right advertising and exposure.

On a casting call website, you will find all the eligibility criteria they post for a specific opportunity, which will narrow down your search tremendously. Bagging an assignment does not have to go through an expensive agency and many actors have achieved the desired assignment by logging onto an online media agency. Online directories list auditions, casting calls and acting jobs available. Employers as well as aspiring candidates for film, television, radio, theatre and more register and will have access to their comprehensive listings and offers in all fields. Aspirants create and list their profiles in searchable directories and as such can be contacted by companies in search of specific talent.

Opportunity for Casting Calls and Auditions in the Entertainment World

In a highly competitive world, it is more difficult and often frustrating getting your foot in the door and be noticed by directors as the competition can be fierce. Signing up at an entertainment agency is often the ideal way to have a jumpstart above other aspirant actors and entertainers to be called upon for casting calls and auditions.

Waiting to be discovered by a talent scout may prove to be a fatal mistake and your best bet would be to get as much information about yourself out there and attend as many casting calls auditions as possible. Many sites online offer open casting call auditions and may just be your chance for fame. Reality TV lists their casting calls and auditions well in advance especially for the old favourite programs and you will be wise to keep updated about their network web sites. Musicians will also gain by searching casting call auditions as bands also advertise their needed players and performers and dates, cities and jobs are listed. Aspirants can in all fields of entertainment make their big break with their skill and it is not necessary to list on an expensive casting agency as many will offer you free listing and application. Always be as comprehensive as possible to advertise yourself as well as possible.

American Idol Auditions

Auditions, for example the American Idol Auditions, have all the audition schedules, city guides and news listed well in advance. If you would like to appear on some of the other favourite reality shows like Supernanny, Extreme Makeover, The Scholar, America’s Most Embarrassing Parents and many more, you can visit ABC Casting on their website and all the requirements are laid out for the hopefuls. NBC Casting Call Information is the site for open casting call auditions for the extremely popular programs such as The Apprentice, Fear Factor, Nashville Star and other top reality TV shows as well as new upcoming reality TV shows.

If you are a newcomer to the entertainment world your best solution will be to visit Reality TV World where all upcoming shows of different networks are listed. You already know which field of entertainment you want to enter, whether it is singing, acting, dancing, modelling or more. It is such a diverse field and you may want to become and actor in TV, theatre or film, but will have to do commercials to start off your career. Even radio spots are advertised for applicants wanting a career in radio and the possibilities are endless for the right candidates. Have a comprehensive portfolio and good pictures of you, examples of your achievements and talent and keep confidence in yourself. Aspirant entertainers do not even require a specific look or need to be exceptionally good looking as different fields and different roles demand all types of characters.

How Do Superheroes Get Their Powers?

Superheroes are usually super for a reason and that is usually super powers or abilities. There are some exceptions of course such as Batman who only has the normal abilities of a human to contend with. That and an unlimited bank account and a taste for sweet vengeance.

In creating comic superheroes there have been many ways that writers have explained how the heroes gets his or her special powers. Oh no, wait a minute. There hasn’t. There’s been one thing used again and again. Radiation. Here’s a look at some of the more famous superhero origins.

Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider and bingo, he now has the proportionate strength of a spider. This means he can walk up walls, shoot webs (in the movies he can anyway) and he also gains super strength. He also develops a spider sense which tells him when danger is a foot. Not sure if spiders have spider sense. More testing is probably required to answer that question. Thankfully Spiderman toys don’t come with a dose of radiation.

Spiderman’s powers’ origins are simple enough to grasp and quite easy to accept. In real life he would have either had mild radiation poisoning or died soon after. That wouldn’t have worked so well though.

Radiation is a recurring theme for Stan Lee. In the Fantastic Fours’ case it was cosmic radiation that they were exposed to which gave them freaky powers.

The story goes that Stan Lee was running out of ideas about how to make his characters super powered when he hit on the idea of mutants. In his comic X-Men his heroes were mutants whose powers developed through an evolutionary mutation in their DNA. Mutants would only discover their powers when they hit puberty. The idea that Evolution could jump ahead suddenly and give us all wings, blue skin and laser eye blasts was an inspired one and has led to hundreds of X-Men characters being dreamt up.

Superman is sent to Earth from Krypton to save his life from the destruction of his home planet. It is Earths yellow sun and different gravitational which differs from Krypton gravity that gives Superman his powers.

The Incredible Hulk

The Incredible Hulk or sometimes just known by his last name Hulk is created due to. Yes you guessed it. Radiation, this time of the gamma variety. Bruce Banner after being in a gamma radiation explosion turns into a big green monster when he gets angry.

In the Simpsons there is an episode where Bart, Milhouse and Martin buy the first issue of the Radioactive man comic. Bart says. “Who would’ve thought being in a radioactive blast would have given him superpowers”. The reply is “well now you know better”.

Miraculous Cures or Innate Capabilities?

I’ve just watched “The Living Matrix” movie and am alternately excited and amazed by the information presented in it. The movie interviews several researchers and others who have recovered from debilitating or life-threatening conditions through “miracle” cures that traditional medicine fails to explain. This is the same type of stuff that “The Secret” deals with – how we have way more control over what happens to us than traditional science and/or religion would have us believe.

Of all the experiments and information presented in the film, the part that may have surprised/delighted me the most was about the human heart’s real role in our body. One of the tests that was cited in the film measured the responses to visual stimuli of the heart and the brain. Subjects were shown images on a computer screen that were from opposite sides of the emotional spectrum, like car accident victims or snakes striking vs. flowers or sunsets. Results showed that the heart actually responded first to the stimuli, and relayed the information to the brain. The signal varied depending on the emotional content of the picture. More amazingly, the heart responded before the visual image was shown. The heart intuited the image to come.

The scientists who conducted the test called this the electro-physiology of intuition. The tests proved that our bodies predict future events if those events are emotionally significant and relevant to us. The sequence of response is heart to brain to body. Intuition isn’t anything mystical or magical, it’s simply an ability we have as human beings. The heart and the brain have access to a field of information not bound by time and space.

Not bound by time and space? According to Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., Director of Research at the Institute of HeartMath, this is the case. HeartMath researches how our mental and emotional systems affect the quality of our lives. They study how to advance the healing potential of the mind-body connection.

More and more scientifically based studies have shown that instead of the primacy of matter, which is what we’ve always thought was the case, energy fields are actually primary. Miraculous medical cures may not be miraculous, but rather tapping into abilities that we all innately possess. This is so exciting to me as a health coach and as a human being. Having as many tools as possible to live a healthy life has got to be a good thing.

Fame Is No Whim

How many people do you suppose set out to become famous? It’s not really something you can predetermine. It was Andy Warhol who said everybody would be famous for fifteen minutes. Given the global population, that is not a realistic expectation and the irony is that Warhol is now as famous for that quotation as he is for painting a can of soup.

It seems to be the quest of modern youth to want to be famous, but they do not want to work for it. They believe that getting themselves on television will automatically guarantee them fame. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is a surfeit of reality shows on TV today ranging from TOWIE in the south to Geordie Shore in the north. All populated by young beautiful people chasing a fame they will never achieve. They may become very well known to a couple of million people, and a small percentage of those might want their autograph, but famous they will never be.

Ten years ago the BBC commissioned a poll of the top 100 Greatest Britons, one could easily substitute “famous” for Greatest, the results would have been very much the same. The most interesting finding was that not one living person featured in the top ten, and Margaret Thatcher was the highest living person at sixteenth. The list included famous Britons from all walks of life and the highest placed celebrity was Michael Crawford at a surprising seventeenth.

If they repeated the process today, how different would the results be? Times have changed, the internet has developed far beyond anybody’s wildest imagination. We now have hundreds of television channels, twenty four hour news coverage, and a media and public with an insatiable appetite for celebrity chat. Magazines pay millions of pounds to orchestrate a celebrity wedding, and newspapers have celebrity hotlines to gather more gossip.

How many people could tell you who Tim Berners Lee, Francis Crick or Patrick Steptoe are today. Not as many who could identify Robbie Williams, Katie Price, or Wayne Rooney. The difference here is the first three did not set out to become famous. Fame came from what they achieved, and because of the contribution they have made to the world we live in. They will still be famous in another hundred years and if the BBC carry out another survey in 3002 Berners Lee, Crick and Steptoe will surely be on the list.

Miraculous Cures or Innate Capabilities?

I’ve just watched “The Living Matrix” movie and am alternately excited and amazed by the information presented in it. The movie interviews several researchers and others who have recovered from debilitating or life-threatening conditions through “miracle” cures that traditional medicine fails to explain. This is the same type of stuff that “The Secret” deals with – how we have way more control over what happens to us than traditional science and/or religion would have us believe.

Of all the experiments and information presented in the film, the part that may have surprised/delighted me the most was about the human heart’s real role in our body. One of the tests that was cited in the film measured the responses to visual stimuli of the heart and the brain. Subjects were shown images on a computer screen that were from opposite sides of the emotional spectrum, like car accident victims or snakes striking vs. flowers or sunsets. Results showed that the heart actually responded first to the stimuli, and relayed the information to the brain. The signal varied depending on the emotional content of the picture. More amazingly, the heart responded before the visual image was shown. The heart intuited the image to come.

The scientists who conducted the test called this the electro-physiology of intuition. The tests proved that our bodies predict future events if those events are emotionally significant and relevant to us. The sequence of response is heart to brain to body. Intuition isn’t anything mystical or magical, it’s simply an ability we have as human beings. The heart and the brain have access to a field of information not bound by time and space.

Not bound by time and space? According to Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., Director of Research at the Institute of HeartMath, this is the case. HeartMath researches how our mental and emotional systems affect the quality of our lives. They study how to advance the healing potential of the mind-body connection.

More and more scientifically based studies have shown that instead of the primacy of matter, which is what we’ve always thought was the case, energy fields are actually primary. Miraculous medical cures may not be miraculous, but rather tapping into abilities that we all innately possess. This is so exciting to me as a health coach and as a human being. Having as many tools as possible to live a healthy life has got to be a good thing.