Hello World!
I thought I would take the to the stage this week and talk about the pressing subject which everyone has been dying to hear about - me! Somehow I think I am sadly mistaken but instead of talking about a broad subject, I thought I would use my own personal experience to try and get my point across - sitting comfortably? Then we shall begin!
I thought I would take the to the stage this week and talk about the pressing subject which everyone has been dying to hear about - me! Somehow I think I am sadly mistaken but instead of talking about a broad subject, I thought I would use my own personal experience to try and get my point across - sitting comfortably? Then we shall begin!
I have only had time recently to reflect on my leaving of drama school,
luckily as I have been in work since I left - until now! I think the
worst thing for an actor to do is have time to think, because they sit
around and ponder, worry about what they do wrong instead of what they
can do to make it right. I have a sneaking suspicion I fall into this
category. I think that every actor needs this section in their career
though to bring them back down to Earth!
So it began a few months ago and I landed my first job, working for the police as an actor. I felt this was a nice start to the old career - nothing too big, something which I can use for the money and then work my way up to the next level of acting jobs. So then the next job comes along... Now I planned out my career path in my head and it was a very step-by-step thing, so the next job would be maybe some T.I.E, maybe a corporate job or signing on the dole!
It didn't go to plan, it went better than expected to be honest because I ended up in my first proper film!
I was over the moon and thought great, this could mean big things for little old me! So I did the film and had a great time, met some great actors and gained lots and lots of experience in film acting!
Then luckily after that I walked into my next job - a workshop for a musical on Broadway transfer! I was thinking, oh this could be it...how I was wrong!
Again, I had an amazing experience doing the job but didn't make it through to the final cut.
I was literally gutted. I thought my world was over. My heart was broken into thousands of tiny pieces on the floor! OK the actor in me is getting carried away, it wasn't the end of the world, but I was pretty upset!
The worst thing is that it was down to my experience!
Obviously in this time of credit crunches and other things which I don't understand on the news, a producer who is backing a show with millions of English pounds needs to know that someone can sing eight shows a week, cope with the demands of rehearsals and rise to the standard of the West End. But it still felt like I had failed on something I had no control over.
How do you get experience when people won't employ you until you have experience?
Now I totally understand the reason for picking the person with the most experience, but what about the little guy? I feel it goes back to my blog about the West End not taking a risk and in doing so, losing out on creating something great and new!
But it was a really good lesson to learn, because I hadn't had a major set-back in the industry since way before starting drama school, and I think people need that sense of reality, and I think if you are it for the long run, what is missing out on one job? I also totally understand that everyone wants it, but if they don't want you for who you are then you just move on - after all its only a job, and you don't see people running out of Mecca bingo with tears running down their face because they didn't get a job there do you?
Anyway, as I was sat at home with a brew (a cup of tea, not a can of Special Brew), trying to get over the job which I lost but didn't even have in the first place scenario, I turned on ITV and suddenly everything came into perspective, I thought my life isn't all that bad, it is actually great, it could be worse - I could be on Jeremy Kyle!
"Instead of thinking about what you're missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing."
So it began a few months ago and I landed my first job, working for the police as an actor. I felt this was a nice start to the old career - nothing too big, something which I can use for the money and then work my way up to the next level of acting jobs. So then the next job comes along... Now I planned out my career path in my head and it was a very step-by-step thing, so the next job would be maybe some T.I.E, maybe a corporate job or signing on the dole!
It didn't go to plan, it went better than expected to be honest because I ended up in my first proper film!
I was over the moon and thought great, this could mean big things for little old me! So I did the film and had a great time, met some great actors and gained lots and lots of experience in film acting!
Then luckily after that I walked into my next job - a workshop for a musical on Broadway transfer! I was thinking, oh this could be it...how I was wrong!
Again, I had an amazing experience doing the job but didn't make it through to the final cut.
I was literally gutted. I thought my world was over. My heart was broken into thousands of tiny pieces on the floor! OK the actor in me is getting carried away, it wasn't the end of the world, but I was pretty upset!
The worst thing is that it was down to my experience!
Obviously in this time of credit crunches and other things which I don't understand on the news, a producer who is backing a show with millions of English pounds needs to know that someone can sing eight shows a week, cope with the demands of rehearsals and rise to the standard of the West End. But it still felt like I had failed on something I had no control over.
How do you get experience when people won't employ you until you have experience?
Now I totally understand the reason for picking the person with the most experience, but what about the little guy? I feel it goes back to my blog about the West End not taking a risk and in doing so, losing out on creating something great and new!
But it was a really good lesson to learn, because I hadn't had a major set-back in the industry since way before starting drama school, and I think people need that sense of reality, and I think if you are it for the long run, what is missing out on one job? I also totally understand that everyone wants it, but if they don't want you for who you are then you just move on - after all its only a job, and you don't see people running out of Mecca bingo with tears running down their face because they didn't get a job there do you?
Anyway, as I was sat at home with a brew (a cup of tea, not a can of Special Brew), trying to get over the job which I lost but didn't even have in the first place scenario, I turned on ITV and suddenly everything came into perspective, I thought my life isn't all that bad, it is actually great, it could be worse - I could be on Jeremy Kyle!
"Instead of thinking about what you're missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing."
This wouldnt happen to be a well known rock musical would it perhaps??