Book - Kickstart Your Income
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Kickstart Your Income: 101 Businesses You Can Start for Less Than $100 by Paige WrightMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Great for what it is - a solid list of ideas. It's also a broad list of ideas: not every idea requires a computer, which is cool for the non-tech folks.
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Date: 2012-07-13 04:06 pm (UTC)Me: What do they mean $$$$ to be a web developer? You can get all the software you need for free!
Him: It just doesn't occur to you, does it, that not everyone has a computer?
Me: .... Well, no, I know, but I kinda expect you'd have one if you were planning to be a web developer.
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Date: 2012-07-13 05:25 pm (UTC)You know, there was a paragraph in that book about "you can be a voice actor! Lots of people do this in Hollywood!"
...and I thought...no where in this book did this woman get into just exactly how much work and time it takes to break into some of these "businesses".
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Date: 2012-07-13 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-13 05:50 pm (UTC)Okay, first - this: http://www.fabactor.com/
- this is the site from the insiders in Florida. They will have all of the most accurate casting call information for FL.
Second - he needs a head shot and a comp card. A head shot is probably obviously: a 8x10" b&w glossy with his acting resume printed on the back of it.
A comp shot is a card showing pictures of K in action, as his characters, for example. Showing his body. You can put the comp shot on a post card and send it to agents, for example.
In Florida you're allowed to have multiple agents (this is not true in California, where it's bad form). This is good in FL because not all agents will work for you as they should be, to find you jobs.
Once he has the head shot and comp card - just run with it...
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Date: 2012-07-13 05:53 pm (UTC)you guys could probably create one, print it on stiff card stock and go with it
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Date: 2012-07-13 05:56 pm (UTC)I've always wondered about the head shot. A "glamor shot" of him would be pretty much the exact opposite of the types of roles he'd want/get. He looks 95% different just hair up vs hair down. Never heard of a comp shot. That makes a lot more sense.
When I auditioned for HHN, they mentioned bringing a head-shot, but also said they weren't just looking for pros, so those were optional. So I just attached a photo of me in my Lucidique costume. SO not a headshot, but I could tell immediately when the people at the table in the front of the room got to my application. LOL I think that photo got me the job before they even talked to me!
If I ever manage to get down there to work again (and I SO want to!!! I die inside a little each year when I get the audition invite) I'm just going to attach my previous HHN photo.
It's occurred to me more than once that for what he wants to do, acting, fire-breathing, probably even sculpting, we'd be so much better off in Orlando. I seem to remember they were casting Pirates in Orlando, and I got the number of the casting agent they use for the "real" acts at HHN the year I worked there.
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Date: 2012-07-13 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-13 06:13 pm (UTC)Now I want to find Danny Trejo's headshot...
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Date: 2012-07-13 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-07-13 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-13 06:12 pm (UTC)If you guys moved to LA I'm sure he'd be working within weeks with all of the funky character roles on TV shows.
They have something called the Breakdowns. The Breakdowns, if you can score access, are the weekly massive list of roles needing to be cast on tv and film.
True story. Katie Holmes (aka Tom Cruise) had access to the breakdowns somehow, from her home in Toledo. I don't know how. She heard about a tv show that was casting for a pilot. She filmed a video in her basement and sent it in. Next thing you know, she's on Dawson's Creek.
So. I just did a search and the Breakdowns are online!!
http://www.actorsaccess.com/projects/
Holy crap!! Click on Florida!
SAG - means you have to have a Screen Actor's Guild or AFTRA union card to work the job
So K could audition for non-union roles.
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Date: 2012-07-13 06:15 pm (UTC)"ABC Cooking Show." There we go. ;-)
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Date: 2012-07-13 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-13 06:00 pm (UTC)I have a professional voiceover demo and I even became, for a time, the official voice of the automated attendant at Scholastic Headquarters in Lake Mary (north of Orlando).
And I was in a few industrials, too.
Oh yeah!
I don't talk about it much because after a while Pat got really jealous and made me quit. Of course, it is my fault I didn't stand up to her, but whatever.
That is how I met my friend Daniela. And a lot of good friends, actually. Long before Disney. But I withdrew because... well, you know the rest. About a year after that, I found LJ and found my friends online.
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Date: 2012-07-13 06:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-13 06:17 pm (UTC)I started with acting classes up in Ocoee. Then a voiceover class. Then an advanced voiceover class. Then I studied dialects. I loved it. Totally. Then I decided to face the singing demon and the coach was amazing. She's the one who helped me create the pro demo for voiceover work and got me my first audition.
Anyway, when I moved into the singing class and branched out from there... that's when Pat started freaking out about me being gone from home two and three nights a week. Although, I worked from home and...what did we ever do anyway? But it took me years to understand that it was more that she was jealous that she'd lose me to all of these new people. Etc.
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Date: 2012-07-13 06:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-13 05:55 pm (UTC)for example, he might be 48 or whatever, but he doesn't look that old - just put how old he looks to a stranger, that is all that matters
and he probably weighs more than than he looks like he weighs because of the muscle, so don't put the actual weight, put something 20-30 pounds lower
see what I mean? it's how you appear to look in a commercial or film, not how you actually are...
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Date: 2012-07-13 06:05 pm (UTC)As for his weight, I've seen him through a range of 40 pounds (around 160-200, I think), and the ONLY difference you can tell is how much of a gut he has. At his thinnest, his arms are still bigger than my shins, and that's not even when he's actively working out. It's really weird. When I gain and lose weight, it's all over my body. He does NOT have 40 pounds of gut! I have no idea where the rest of it hangs out.
I'm sure he has the normal worries about getting older like I do, but I told him a while back that I see him getting older and turning into a white Danny Trejo. I didn't expect that to flatter him as much as it did. LOL
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Date: 2012-07-13 06:17 pm (UTC)44 - yikes - I'm sorry! He's younger than I thought -
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Date: 2012-07-13 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-13 05:26 pm (UTC)Who the hell doesn't have a computer? INSANITY
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Date: 2012-07-13 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-13 05:55 pm (UTC)*shudder*