Tom Logan

Acting in the Million Dollar Minute, the Sequel (eBook, PDF)

The Art of Acting in TV Commercials

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Acting in the Million Dollar Minute deals exclusively with the art of acting in commercials. Updated, revised, and expanded for today's commercial actor, Tom Logan uses decades of experience to give the commercial actor insight into what happens on set and how a commercial is shot. He includes guidance on how to decipher the meaning behind the commercial script, begin and end each performance, immediately obtain the auditioners' attention, and beat out your competition. In addition, Logan offers direction on "taking the camera" from another actor (i.e., upstaging), working with the product, what separates the actor who got the part from the actors who didn't, and how to give the director a performance he can "cut" in the editing room. Compiled from thousands of comments from hundreds of casting directors, ad executives, producers, and more, Acting in the Million Dollar Minute provides practical advice from an award-winning director.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216250258
• Artikelnr.: 74834633

Autorenporträt

Tom Logan is a multi-award-winning director who has written, produced, and directed a long list of TV shows, feature films, and national and international TV commercials. He headed the TV/film & commercial acting departments in Los Angeles at two of the most prestigious acting schools worldwide-the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (1981-1989), and the American Film Institute (1980-1989). Logan is the author of the very popular Acting in the Million Dollar Minute, the Sequel: The Art of Acting in TV Commercials, Updated and Expanded. Tom has two sons and lives in Newport Beach, California, and on Lake Coeur d'Alene in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Importance of Commercials
Chapter 2: The Slate
Chapter 3: The Top Four Complaints about Your Performance
Chapter 4: Commercial Dialogue
Chapter 5: Basic Commercial Acting Principles
Chapter 6: The Hero
Chapter 7: Why Most Multi-Person Auditions Don't Work
Chapter 8: Multi-Person Commercials
Chapter 9: Openings and Closings
Chapter 10: Playing the Visual Environment
Chapter 11: Basic Camera Staging
Chapter 12: Script Terminology
Chapter 13: How Commercials Are Shot
Chapter 14: That's a Wrap