IMPORTANT: Your audition tape or showreel MUST impress upon the viewers that you belong onscreen so send your best work, preferably edited onto DVD so you can be seen on a TV or computer monitor immediately.

If you're unable to find a professional or unable to set up a camcorder yourself then ask friends or family members with relevant experience or someone who owes you a favour to record your audition - BE RESOURCEFUL in getting your monologue or scene onto VHS or DVD which mass markets your performance skills. Acting a good role in a student filmed production (that pays travel and food expenses at least) is the quickest way to build your showreel which displays your talents. Send copies as originals may be damaged in post.

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USEFUL QUOTES:

'Have a notepad, 2 pens, diary, hand mirror, business cards with headshot, 

city guide (eg.mini London A-Z), your measurements and keep credit

on your mobile phone with a spare battery'

'You make yourself more castable then we can submit you for castings.

Think what will WE do for each other.Avoid thinking what will you do for ME'

'For many casting professionals, time is money

   and few can afford time to explain themselves so Relax-Focus On Role-Follow Direction'

R-FOR-FD

'Ambition is not Greed: Ambition+Preparation+Experience+Luck=Success'

APELS

ONSCREEN AGENCY.COM's "GUIDE"

To you who took risks coming up unguided, proud, resourceful but alone from

The Audience Offstage and became a productive

ARTIST - Please follow new DIRECTION from your

MANAGER who guides you to the Castability needs of your

AGENT who guides you to the Character needs of your

CASTING DIRECTOR who guides you to the Collaborative needs of your

DIRECTOR who guides you to the Storytelling needs of THE SCRIPT and your

PRODUCER who guides you to the Financial needs of your

INVESTORS AND THE HEAD OF PRODUCTION

who guides you to the Entertainment needs of your 

PAYING CUSTOMERS who are....

The Audience Offstage.

We must all follow guidance from The Audience,

The Audience are the greatest in numbers and power,

The Audience are the public Offstage choosing their stars Onscreen,

-The Audience Keeps Us All In Business-

Thank You.

For Our Universal Roots Rule the Route to Rich Rewards of Respectful Recognition.

PHILOSOPHY:

If .......................................by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son.

- D.Salvara