Looking to get an agent / go to some auditions?

Since you're 14, MAKE SURE YOUR PARENTS ARE INVOLVED and show them this:

Here's the cliffsnotes version of what you can do to do to get into acting:

1.EDUCATE YOURSELF FIRST!

READ (check Samuel French, libraries, and bookstores):

Acting business:

-Acting is Everything: Gold Edition-Judy Kerr

-How to Be a Working Actor-Mari Lyn Henry and Lynne Rogers

-Self Management for Actors-Bonnie Gillespie

-How to Get Arrested-J. Wallach Michael and Paul Thurwachter

-An Agent Tells All-Tony Martinez

-One Less Bitter Actor: The Actor's Survival Guide-Markus Flanagan

-So You Want to Be in Showbusiness?- Steve R. Stevens

-Acting Truths and Lies (purchased at www.info4actors.com)

Acting:

-Book the Job-Doug Warhit

-Intent to Live-Larry Moss

-Acting for the Camera-Tony Barr

-Acting in Film-Michael Caine

-Acting Class: Take a Seat-Milton Katselas

Method Acting:

-Art of Acting-Stella Adler

-Sanford Meisner on Acting-Sanford Meisner

-A Dream of Passion-Lee Strasberg

-Actor's Art and Craft-William Esper

-The Power of the Actor-Ivanna Chubbuck

-No Acting Please-Eric Morris

-Respect for Acting-Uta Hagen

-Challenge to the Actor-Uta Hagen

-You Can Act!-D.W. Brown

-Strasberg’s Method-Lorrie Hull

Comedy

-8 Characters of Comedy-Scott Sedita

-The Sitcom Career Book-Mary Lou Belli

Improv

-Anything by Viola Spolin

-Steve Book on Acting: Improv

Auditioning/Cold Reading:

-How to Get the Part Without Falling Apart-Margie Haber

-Audition-Michael Shurtleff

-Secrets to Successful Cold Readings-Glenn Alterman

2.GET TRAINING!

Definitely take classes in:

-Cold Reading/Auditioning

-Improv

-Scene study

-Commercials

3. Get GREAT headshots

Here's is a good place to start:

http://bbs.backstage.com/eve/forums/a/tp%E2%80%A6

4. Build Your Resume and Reel Doing Student films and Indie Films. Also do plays to build your acting experience.

Sample Resume:

http://i707.photobucket.com/albums/ww80/ELDORADO59...

How to make an ACTING resume:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtPvL...

The ONLY LEGIT Online sites that you can find jobs on your own through:

ALL SITES NOT LISTED BELOW ARE QUESTIONABLE!

-ActorsAccess.com

-LACasting.com

-Nowcasting.com

-NYCasting.com

-NYCastings.com

-Backstage.com

Free but proceed with caution:

-Castingcallsearch.com

-Mandy.com

-Craigslist

5. Get an Agent

Look up LEGIT agencies here:

http://www.agentassociation.com/

http://www.sag.org/content/find-agent

To get an agent, you need to get GREAT headshots, a good resume, and training from the best. These are enough to get you a commercial agent at least. Getting a GOOD theatrical agent (Film/tv) takes longer. Most good theatrical agents won’t see you unless you’re SAG, have a polished resume, and a demo reel. Commercial agents are more lenient about that. What the best Commercial agents want to see on your resume are good commercial classes, improv, and cold reading.

You can get an agent multiple ways. Here are a few common ways:

-Mail in an unsealed manilla envelope with a CONCISE coverletter and headshot with the resume stapled on the back. If you have a demoreel include that too.

-Attend a showcase and impress them. By showcase I do not mean scammy conventions like IMTA, IPOP, Proscout, or Best New Talent. I mean legit ones like at Actor Connection, Reel pros, Network Studios, etc.

-Get a referral from a friend who is with the agency that you’re interested in

DON’T

-Email them unless they tell you to. IT’S UNPROFESSIONAL!

-Call unless they tell you to. ALSO UNPROFESSIONAL!

-Walk in and ask for a meeting. UNPROFESSIONAL THREE!

-Sign with them if they ask for upfront money, make you take new photos with THEIR photographer, or take THEIR classes. Agent’s ONLY make money when you do. Agents usually make 10% on film/tv and commercials and 20% on commercial print.

modeling and acting are not related in any way, so im not sure why you brought that up, but be aware that if any "agent" claims he wants to represent you as an actor/model, its most likely a scam or just a really crappy agency. however, you do not just go out and get an agent- you need tons of experience on stage and typically also in front of a camera in order to get an agency to represent you. you also need professional headshots (which are hundreds of dollars) and a demo reel, which is also costly. children who have agent have generally been acting since they were in diapers, so its intensely difficult to get someone to notice you if havent. you do not get to audition for tv shows or films, etc when you have no experience, and everyone has to start at the bottom- meaning community theater, school plays, local commercials, etc. a lot of kids think they just call up an agency and audition for them, and if they like you, youre in, and those kids are disappointed 100% of the time, because thats not how it works. youre talking about one of the most competitive fields on the planet, and there are millions of kids going after the same dream. agents only sign the most experienced, best-trained and most motivated actors out there, never beginners.

first you need to educate yourself and get training and experience before looking for

anything. start with school drama classes and school plays for experience. take some acting classes to learn how to audition and work in front of a camera, so you will know what to do

when you get on one. look around you for local theaters, their open calls. for anything of

a commercial nature you will need to be where the commercial acting opportunities are,

which is LA or NYC and have a parent to do this with you and get an agent for you. you

will need to be where the commercial acting interviews are held for an agent to be of

any use to you. if you can't get to what they will be sending you on they can't help you.

brokers oftentimes in basic terms get casting breakdowns from theatres and studios close to to the place they are based - it is all approximately very own contacts. for that reason, they only ever comprehend approximately community auditions, and diverse of them in basic terms provide some hours' observe. So of course they only prefer customers who stay very close to to them, so as that they could meet, call into the workplace every time required, and might get to any auditions which comes up interior an somewhat couple of minutes. tremendously much all expert actors stay close to to the place the theatres and studios are.

i dont know what country your from, but if you're from the UK, id advise you to buy Spotlight's 'Contacts' book (http://www.contactshandbook.com)/ as its FULL of information about agents, photographers, performing arts schools etc, as well as pages about getting started in the industry. id also subscribe to receive The Stage every thursday, because that'll keep you informed as to what's going on in the industry atm, and also lists auditions

once you have the book and list of agents, e-mail/apply somehow for an audition with them, then research thoroughly the ones you get accepted into, and you will need one specialising in children as you're only 14, but as a 17yo, im with someone who deals with both children and adults, because it gives you that crossover into both at that age, although im not completely legally an adult for another year

once you have an agent, they'll probably require you to pay for a Spotlight page (www.spotlight.com), but you should do so (but you only can if u have an agent) because most casting directors wont consider you if you dont have a page. however, a good agency SHOULD NOT require you to pay to be on their books. if they do ask you to pay, leave them, as this means they dont have to get you any work to receive money, whereas normally an agency would take a percentage of your earnings, which means they actually have to try to get you work to earn anything

i hope this was useful, and if ur not living in the UK, i hope you can at least take a couple of tips from that!