Casting Notes from todays lesson

In todays lessons we learnt what casting agents lookout for and what they want in an actor. the two things are Casting (what you look like) and cast ability  (your talent/ abliterly to play the character).


For casting you can change the way you look in many different ways such as, hair colour, contact lenses  , glasses , weight , make up , the way you dress etc. these will determine if you get the role or not as if the character has blonde hair they aren't going to higher someone with brown who wouldn't suit blonde hair. A casting is very important and it determines on the another character in the play as well. for example, if directors were trying to find a family for four they would find actors that have the same facial and body features. you can also adapt your casting to your character for example if they have hurt their leg you can could limp while you are performing your monologue so you look more like the character. You could also research the type of injury your character has so you have more understanding and to make your performance look more realistic so it doesn't look like you are acting. This will effect your cast ability as your acting may not suit this character or this will give you an advantage due to you may play the part really well.


Cast ability is a spectrum of the character you can play as you can improve it by many different ways. for example to broaden my spectrum I need to learn to speak at the front of my mouth as this is one of my major targets as an actor. Cast ability is about your talent as an actor for example if you can do lots of different accents this will increase your chances of getting different parts as lots of actors cant do many accents. Your cast ability can depend on your posture of your body and breathing as well as you need to breathe from your belly and drop the shoulders to open your body so you can play characters like this but also when you need to you can play lazy characters with bad posture. I think this is another target I need to improve as I have bad posture which closes my body language. Finally for a your Cast ability you need to realise your strengthens and weakness as you can work on your weakness to make you become more confident as an actor and to know what you are good so you know what work to audition when you are just starting out as an actor.