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Course 4.6: Preparing yourself for the job

Course 4.6: Preparing yourself for the job

Today we have some advice concerning the preparation before a modeling job. As we already mentioned numerous times: preparation is key in building a career as a model so let us guide you. The mirror is your best friend. Spend at least 5 minutes every ...

Course 4.7: Act like a professional model

Course 4.7: Act like a professional model

Some of the aspects we’re talking about in this lesson have already been mentioned in previous lessons and are as simple as ‘be dedicated’, ‘make sure to be in time’ or ‘make sure you look clean, and rested’ but there’s more to it. We like to point o

Course 5.1: The origins of modeling

Course 5.1: The origins of modeling

Let’s start at the beginning - the origins of modeling; Because even now the craft is vastly different then modeling say... fifty or sixty years ago… Nowadays we have models like Doutzen Kroes, Gabriel Aubrey and Miranda Kerr showing us what to buy, ho

Course 6.6: Preparing your performance

Course 6.6: Preparing your performance

If you will be acting in a play or a musical, you will have to memorize the script, although you won’t be expected to remember all the lines immediately. The first few rehearsals, you can still hold your script. But it’s best, to memorize your lines as

Course 6.7: The audience

Course 6.7: The audience

Hi! You’re watching the seventh lesson of our ‘Introduction to stage acting’. In the past few lessons, you’ve learned the basics of being a stage actor. But one important ingredient is still missing: the audience! In the end, they will be there, so it’

Course 7.1: Getting a great job

Course 7.1: Getting a great job

Welcome to the iCasting Academy. We hope you’ll enjoy this course and that it helps you in making your first steps as a professional in the casting industry. Now, this course will teach you all about the basics of getting a great job using the iCasti

Course 8.7: Directions in television and screen presenting

Course 8.7: Directions in television and screen presenting

Okay, so what exactly is meant by television and screen industry? It has a lot in common with either theatre and movies, but still there are some differences. For example, television uses a lot of teleprompter or teleplay (projecting the script right u...

Course 9.1: Stage Acting

Course 9.1: Stage Acting

If you decide you’d like to become a stage actor, there are lots of styles to choose from! You’d probably think of plays at first. Even though this is a very common form of stage acting, it is definitely not the only one! And if we were to focus on pl

Course 9.2: Screen acting

Course 9.2: Screen acting

Well, of course you won’t be starring alongside Angelina Jolie next week. Becoming a star is hard work! You may never walk the road to fame, but it’s still possible to make a nice living out of acting jobs. And even the biggest stars once started all t

Course 11.1: The origins of hospitality

Course 11.1: The origins of hospitality

This course is called ‘Introduction to Promotion and Hospitality’ and, as the title suggests, is all about the hosting and promoting industry. In the following eight lessons, I’ll tell you as much there is to know about working as a promotor or host to

Course 11.2: Hosting today

Course 11.2: Hosting today

We hope you’ll like the following lesson and that it gives you a better understanding of the current hosting industry. Because that’s exactly what we’re going to talk about in this lesson. We’ve already discussed the origin of the hospitality industr

Course 11.3: What kind of host am I?

Course 11.3: What kind of host am I?

Since we’ve already seen how diverse the hosting industry can be and what sort of jobs you can encounter out there, it’s time to take it another step further. So, for the following couple of minutes, we’re dissecting the hosting industry and line up th