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Aspiring actors

Attention Aspiring Actors

When it comes to starting an acting career, you might have a lot of questions, including where to begin. Look no further than CGTV to learn techniques, tips, and more! The CGTV website is a great resource for aspiring young actors. These unique online features will help set you up for success, so you can join the young talent of CGTV.  Read below to see how CGTV can help jumpstart you or your child’s acting career!

CGTV Resources For Aspiring Young Actors

CGTV provides online resources and a curriculum for young actors. This curriculum teaches the importance of confidence, character breakdown, audition techniques and so much more. CGTV will effectively prepare and educate you, so you can find your first role as soon as possible. CGTV will teach you the necessary skills to be successful in the acting industry, as well as providing mentoring and networking opportunities that can’t be found elsewhere. The curriculum takes you through a step by step process of what it takes to be an actor. The CGTV curriculum teaches these following sections:

 

  • How To Be Successful
  • Character Breakdown
  • Cold Reading & Commercial Auditions
  • Audition Techniques
  • Auditions With Sides
  • Marketing Yourself In Acting
  • Improv

 

Online Resources

Once you are a part of the CGTV community, you will be given access to some quality, online resources provided by CGTV. These resources will give you further practice in the industry. Most importantly, they will help you maintain the skills you have already learned at CGTV. Become a member today and get access to the following resources:

  • Scripts: Online scripts that you can practice reading on your own time
  • Celebrity Tip Videos: If your name gets big, we provide the tips
  • Rehearsal Videos: Tips on how to properly rehearse
  • Safe Tape Tips: Safety is one of our biggest concerns. We want every one of our actors to know to safely execute their careers
  • Industry terms: Basic industry terminology to keep you in the loop

CGTV wants you to succeed and they will provide you with whatever it takes! CGTV is a high-level TV, film, and entertainment program designed to help connect talent to the industry. Talent is guided by top celebrities from ABC, NBC, CBS, Disney Channel and Nickelodeon shows including CSI, 24, Modern Family, The Suite Life on Deck, Disney 365, Drake & Josh, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Austin & Alley and Good Luck Charlie. CGTV: We have people on TV! For more information visit www.cgtv.la or stay up to date with our latest news and follow us on Facebook!

Aspiring Actors

Best Resources for Aspiring Actors

No doubt, the minute you decide to move to Los Angeles and begin your acting career, you will encounter many naysayers and people second-guessing your move.  The good news is that there is a network of aspiring actors out here and ironically, these other actors are not necessarily your competition. In many ways, other actors have used crowdsourcing in order to help themselves to support their own acting career, and you can too.

There’s an emotional hurdle, but also a fundamental to-do list hurdle, serving many practical purposes.  How to find an agent? What seminars and classes to take? Where to go to find the best available scripts?  Where can I find a tailored monologue? Let us compile a list so that you can quickly build your acting career.

Backstage Casting Not only does this site have a huge up-to-date selection of great gigs, one of the best features of Backstage is the ability to filter by a whole range of metrics.  Instead of having to troll through hundreds of posts, simply select your working location, age, ethnicity, your pay scale, and any keywords which might apply and you’re locked and loaded.  

Ace Your Audition Monologues  Actors are often required to have a repertoire of monologues.  This website culls monologue pieces. Individual auditions might call for something specific.  Welcome to over 1,000 free monologues. The monologues are broken down by category. So, if you’re a female 25-50 or a young adult male 15-20 looking for something in particular, you are only a few clicks away. 

YouTube Did you know that YouTube is the third most popular search engine on the planet? YouTube is not ‘just’ a video streaming service, it is the go-to place for self-promotion.

If you’re trying to get your name and face out there, you’re doing yourself a favor by getting plugged into YouTube. Be marketing savvy and recognize this opportunity.  Build an audience early on in your career.

Actors Website Templates Today’s demo reel.  If you don’t have a website, you are selling yourself short, decreasing your chances of somebody finding you. It’s also a lot easier to click over a URL to an agent or potential director rather than posting a  resume into the casting vortex.

CGTV is a high-level TV, film, and entertainment program designed to help connect talent to the industry. Talent is guided by top celebrities from ABC, NBC, CBS, Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. In addition to our ongoing workshops and classes, our program offers cold reading and audition, audition techniques, audition with sides, and marketing yourself in acting.

Call us or email us! Phone: 818-284-6689 • Email: hollywood@cgtv.la

Resources for Aspiring actors

Sources:

https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/the-top-five-essential-and-free-resources-for-acting-students/

https://cgtv.la/celebrity-videos/