While television commercials often elicit groans from the viewer, they mean work for actors and can be the bread-and-butter backbone of an actor's career, providing a safety net of income while he or she climbs the ladder to greater success. And for those actors who achieve face-to-product recognition, commercial work can provide handsome residuals for years to come. While many books on the market include some information on commercial work, Acting in the Million Dollar Minute deals exclusively with the art and business of acting in commercials. Here the "art" is narrow: script terminology and procedure, commercial dialogue, camera staging, working the product, sample commercial scripts, and detailed analysis of how a commercial is actually shot; while the "business" side, reflecting the general industry, broadens to include training, photos, the resume, unions, actor-agency contracts, the interview, the screen test, callbacks, pay and working conditions, and a complete list of SAG and AFTRA offices. In this revised and updated edition, this book provides direction on how to: Decipher the meaning behind the commercial script; Begin and end every commercial performance; Get the auditioners' attention immediately when the camera begins rolling; Compel the auditioners, with the sheer force of your performance, to actually watch your playback tape; Take the camera from another actor (i.e. upstaging); Give the director a performance that makes his or her job easier in the editing room.
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The best book I've read for aspiring commercial actors.,
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This review is from: Acting in the Million Dollar Minute: The Art and Business of Performing in TV Commercials (Paperback)
This is an extremely helpful book for anyone who is interested in acting in commercials. It tells you how to get into the business, and how to succeed. I read this 10 years ago, along with Mr. Logan's other book, "How to Act and Eat at the Same Time", and parlayed the information into a successful career in commercials. I have reccomended this book to many aspiring actors, and have given it to others.
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This review is from: Acting in the Million Dollar Minute: The Art and Business of Performing in TV Commercials - Expanded Edition (Kindle Edition)
This book is amazingly easy to read, and yet it is massively informative. Tom Logan can really get the point across. I've been acting almost a decade. This book would have been so great to have when I first started, and even now, I find it is full of inspiration and a fresh angle on many things I've learned the hard way. If you are serious about doing commercials to make money, or any kind of acting, you can't miss this timeless classic.
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I found this book to be GREAT,
This review is from: Acting in the Million Dollar Minute: The Art and Business of Performing in TV Commercials - Expanded Edition (Paperback)
As an acting coach, I found this book to be informative,down to earth and a wonderful resource to enhance my classes.I bought about a dozen books as required reading for my students.
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When I'm speaking at a university or acting school out in the hinterlands, the question I'm asked most often is something to the effect of, "Tom, I realize that it's gonna take me a few months or so to get my own television series, so I wanted to know if it would be bad for my career to do some acting in commercials part-time." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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When I'm speaking at a university or acting school out in the hinterlands, the question I'm asked most often is something to the effect of, "Tom, I realize that it's gonna take me a few months or so to get my own television series, so I wanted to know if it would be bad for my career to do some acting in commercials part-time." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, Burger Heaven, The Sequel, United States, Complaint Number, Universal Studios, Howe Agency New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 45
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