Entertainment Career

You could be the proud parent of the next big child star. Naturally, you’d want to support their dreams and help them put their acting prowess to work. But first, a reality check: Even if your kid has plenty of talent, finding success in the entertainment industry can be quite challenging.

"50 Things to Know About Acting" by author Justin Heller offers an in-depth approach to the craft of acting, including the ins and outs of managing a career in show business, the culture of working on a film set, and the process of creating characters that leap off the stage and/or screen.

This is an excerpt from the book Creative Writing Career: Becoming a Writer of Movies, Video Games, and Books. This section comprises the entire section on video game writing, to include video game writer interviews, and is Part Five of the book.

Win the Runway is a go-to guide for models who want to storm the modeling world and take their career to the next level. Author Amanda Van Annan shares her wisdom from 20 years as a successful model. She reveals tips, tricks, and hacks that will help potential models navigate agencies, open-calls, castings, and photoshoots. The audiobook offers advice on how to behave and conduct yourself throughout your career, while also making you aware of the perils of the industry.

The key to success can be summed up in three words, and they're not what you think. This book details my frustrating financial journey, but making it a journey is what led to success. By learning from my mistakes, you might have the opportunity to reduce the time, energy, and money required to achieve financial success. And you can laugh at me along the way.

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How this self-taught designer decided to live her entrepreneurial dream during the pandemic

Koval founded "A Little Anarky", one of Delhi's largest video and content production companies, right after college. As a sole founder, she constantly tries to find new ways to balance being a writer/director and an entrepreneur. That generally results in great puns and cool content. She also runs Bedlam, a unique event and performance space which holds the largest Women's Open Mic in India.

10 Tips for Promoting a Local Screening of Your Film describes some ways to promote a local screening. It suggests different promotional strategies for putting on your own event or helping an organization promote your screening. Then, the audiobook focuses on how to use Eventbrite and Meetup to sign-up attendees and receive advance payments. The audiobook is formatted like a journal, so listeners can write down their ideas for what to do after reading each tip.

10 Tips for Making a Final to Do List for Distributing Your Film summarizes the key tasks to do to successfully distribute your film. It features key marketing and promotion tasks, such as creating a poster, trailer, and press materials, setting up a website or page on your website for the film, making arrangements with a website, and more. The book is part of a series of short books, in which each book features tips and techniques for becoming more successful in the film industry.

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Photographer Lee Jones gives some advice for beginner photographers, as well as displaying some of his work. Learn to become a professional in the world of photography.

Professional guitarist Ged Brockie, who has worked in the music business for more than 35 years, considers the reality of working in music. He also discusses the skills needed to survive in this demanding business as a guitar player.

If you want to use SCRUM to develop movies and TV shows, Agile SCRUM for Film-Makers is the reference guide you've been looking for. Author Carey Martell explains the principles and method of SCRUM and describes flexible, proven approaches that can help you implement it far more effectively in your production team.

Got five minutes? Great! Listen to this book to get ideas on how to get your voiceover business going.

With national coverage of the first edition in 1997, Tracks found an eager audience, including many parents needing to inform their children's choices for the future. Over 15 annual editions, the title has been revised and updated. The new edition carries work descriptions, listing pay scales and qualifications to degree level, with advice from professionals in the field, and chartered institutes.

It is something of a cliché to say that an actor’s life was like a movie he or she might have starred in, but in the case of Myrna Loy, the cliché is true. It is easy to picture her as a little girl, riding the range with her rancher father, sitting around the table and participating charmingly in family discussions of current events.

In the 1960s and 1970s, no actor personified cool, calm and collected like Steve McQueen, whose suave anti-hero protagonists made men jealous and women swoon. As actor Donald Logue puts it in The Tao of Steve, “Steve is the prototypical cool American male. He's the guy on his horse, the guy alone."

Art has been a staple in most cultures across the world, firmly having rooted itself as a means of communicating one’s understanding of themselves and the world around them. A great number of people in the world develop a natural passion for the act of creation, irrespective of talent. However, most of those who pursue the arts start off self-taught, and when they get to the point where they can take classes, there is a mix of bad habits and misunderstood techniques that they have to unlearn in order to improve.

When the phrase “the King” is used in the context of American music, most people think of Elvis Presley, but Presley was just a baby when the title was first conferred upon Benny Goodman as the King of Swing in 1935. The Swing Era was a magical period in American history between the hedonism of the Roaring Twenties and the rebelliousness sparked by rock music beginning in the 1950s. Swing music was rooted in ragtime, blues, and jazz music that had long been popular in African American enclaves in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and New Orleans.