PITCH AND BRAND...heres how: The PITCH is the first page of your business plan. It’s the actor’s personal breakdown…what you bring to the industry. What’s special and specific about you. Who you are, and how you read on camera. Your identity. Your true persona. It’s the thing you want to get into the heads of casting directors. What you need: Your brand (unique quality / who you are) Your breakdown if you were a character comparison pitch - celeb and local Your hits on local film/TV audition tape / scenes from class demo imdb link / website EXAMPLES: Elana Dunkelman: mid twenties, tiny but tough, got lots of sparkle. Ambitious, sassy in a small package...and completely marketable. She would be the love child of Stockard Channing and Mary Louise Parker. Could have played Tommie-Amber Pirie’s role in Michael: Tuesdays And Thursdays. She plays keenly intelligent, inherently trustworthy, organized and dedicated to “the cause” ...passionate for the good, not for herself. Downtown-esque, educated; she masks a thunderstorm of emotions with a veil of professionalism or an air of calm. When she sets her mind to a goal she’s like a train that you just can’t stop but she’s grounded in a way that’s genuine. So for political drama, she’s the tough loyal assistant to the governor, charging up to the office in her power suit but she cries in the bathroom to herself because she’s in love with her boss. She’s the ambitious medical student on Saving Hope, who doesn’t notice when a cute doctor is pining for her because she’s too focused on her studies. If Mad Men has been cast in Toronto, she would be Peggy Olson. She should have played the role of Maggie Jordan on the Newsroom played by Alison Pill. Links: imdb/name/nm2412872/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2 Newsroom acting scene https://vimeo/79995337 Audition for Sharon Forrest (Saving Hope - https://youtube/watch?v=A9P9QL_bPf4) Audition for David Wellington (Rookie Blue - https://youtube/watch?v=IScmXnsNRyY) Website: elanadunkelman Brett Davidson: Mid 30s...classic English looks...golden blond hair and crystal blue eyes...Public School boy looks (Private school boy in America), educated, classy, sophisticated. Someone who is responsible, with an easy confidence. Reserved in demeanor, a gentleman, with no agenda...but full of emotional life ready to spill out. Like a young Edward Fox (Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines, A Bridge Too Far, Ghandi). There’s a thoughtful, gracious, gentleman quality to Brett. Kind eyes and romantic face...like a young Hugh Grant. The perfect boyfriend. Supportive husband. The charming ER doctor or lovely school teacher that the female lead goes speechless for. AND Brett sits on a deep well of emotional sensitivity and pain, that lets him play a wide range of characters. Good and bad. Former model, handsome, but not pretty boy. Has enough angles to his face (like David Bowie) to play a charming, suave, killer. Or maybe the seemingly kind, but actually vicious egotistical meanie, like Rufus Sewell in The Holiday. Even as charmingly evil as Mads Mikkelsen (“Le Chiffre”) in Casino Royale. Plays a flawless American accent. He will eventually book a series lead (on a drama like Almost Human, The Killing, Arrow, Helix, Defiance etcetera) as the man in authority, the doctor/military officer/businessman, who is on the outside calm and cool to the point of icy...holding it all together and acting like everything is on track...but privately is falling apart and knows he’s in way over his head, making bad decisions and coming apart at the seams. Would also play beautifully in Romantic comedies, Hallmark MOWs...the charming object of the female lead’s attention. VIDEO: https://vimeo/91362225 (The password to enter is FOUNDRY in all caps).
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 03:56:49 +0000
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