subject: Turn Your Feature Film Casting Calls Into Jobs [print this page] You cant wait for your big breakYou cant wait for your big break. You have to go after it with discipline and determination. Heres how to turn your feature film casting calls into jobs:
* Focus on what youre doing: Get feedback about your acting performances and casting calls from as many people as possible. Always keep a picture in your head of where you are today. What do you need to work on? Measure and track your career. Where do you need to improve to make sure your feature film casting calls turn into jobs?
* Get in the zoneand stay there: Basketball players talk about getting in the zone. Being in the zone means blocking out everything around you and focusing on your task. I was a decent basketball player in school. Later in life I played in adult leagues for exercise and fun. Shortly before my 40th birthday, my mother died. A couple of days later, my team was scheduled to play the team in first place. I decided to suit up. People still talk about the way I controlled the game that day. I played as if there would be no tomorrow. The closeness of my mothers death caused me to focus more sharply on what I was doingeven if it was just a basketball game.
I could have achieved much more as a player in school if I had played every day as I did in that game. I cant change the past, but I can change the present. I change it by doing everything as if it were the last thing Im going to do. Apply that mindset to your practice. Dont wait for the breaks to come to youbreaks only come to people who go after them. Get in the zone and stay there. Youll start to turn your feature film casting calls into jobs.
