How to become a better Onscreen Actor

How to become a better Onscreen Actor

We all want to do our best and be our best onscreen.

Becoming a better on-screen actor involves a combination of training, practice, and personal development. 

Here are some tips:

1. Take Acting Classes: Formal training provides a foundation to build upon through learned techniques, constructive feedback, and experience in scene work. We also understand that not everyone has access to these types of classes so lean on some of the other tips.  

2. Learn to Take Direction: Being able to take adjustments and notes from directors or acting coaches is critical for actors to improve. Be teachable. 

3. Create Detailed Character Backgrounds: Fleshing out a character’s full backstory beyond what’s in the script provides richer subtext and informs performance choices.

4. Analyze Scripts Thoroughly: Understanding the subtext - meaning beneath the surface of the words - is vital for connecting with a character’s motivations.

5. Develop a Unique Acting Personality: Find your acting type and then lean into it. Strive to become more charismatic, develop an artistic persona, and maybe even come up with a stage name.

6. Observe Other People and Great Actors: Deconstruct your favorite actors' habits. How do they use their bodies? What facial expressions do they use effectively? Practice these gestures and expressions. This is a great alternative for those who may not have access to acting classes. 

7. Read Scripts: Read the scripts of your favorite plays and movies. Familiarize yourself with the classics, like Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekov, and Tennessee Williams.

8. Develop Audition Material: Some auditions will require you to read from a pre-selected piece or a portion of the script that will be used in the show.

9. Watch as Much as Possible and Have a Life Outside of Acting: This will help you bring more life experiences to your roles.

Remember, acting is a lifelong journey of learning and discovery rather than a destination. It takes time and patience to grow and develop as an actor. Good luck!

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July Statistics & Announcements

July Statistics & Announcements

Here are some stats for the month of July. This is also a post where we announce some new things and there have been a few of them.

Here is some information for the month of July

*Top Amazon Streaming rental for the month:

#1 Searching For Sasquatch 5: The Texas Screams

#2 Bigfoot Witness: The Jason Morse Story

#3 Searching for Sasquatch 4: Eyes in the Night

View minutes were down overall this month. This is normal for this time of years as people are still taking vacations and getting ready for school to start back.

 

*Top Overall Rentals of the month (includes all streaming services) -

#1 Bigfoot Witness: The Jason Morse Story

#2 Bigfoot: The Legend is Real

#3 Searching for Sasquatch 3: We Seek They Hide

The films are performing well, thank you all.

 

*Top Digital Purchases of the month -  

#1  Bigfoot Witness: The Jason Morse Story

#2  Bigfoot: The Legend is Real

#3 Searching For Sasquatch 5: The Texas Screams

This is purchases of a film as a digital download.

 

* On Amazon our overall watch minutes were down when compared to previous month.Which is about normal for this time of year.

* Top Selling DVDs:

#1 Bigfoot: The Legend is Real

#2 Bigfoot: Tracking A Legend

#3 Bigfoot: The Evidence Files

 

* Top Books for the month: 

#1 The Ivory-billed Woodpecker:Taunting Extinction by Guy G. Luneau

#2 Sasquatch Family Ties by Leo Frank

#3 Bigfoot Witness by Thomas Marcum

* Top Kindle Page Reads

#1 Sasquatch Family Ties by Leo Frank - Over 1,100 page reads.

#2 Loving Bigfoot: A Romance by Sandra Rains DeBusk - Over 530 pages reads.

#3 Cryptid Creatures: The Truth Exposed by Sandra Rains DeBusk - Over 440 page reads.

* Top Performing Audio Book:

   Buried Treasures by Sandra Rains DeBusk, narrated by Justin Lawhorne

 

* Top Song for the month:   

   Social Media Friend by Walter Shrum

* Royalties Paid out to our clients! Some streaming services have not reported for the month.

* We have films in 103 countries!!!!! An increase of 1 over last month.

* More updates to the ZMP Online Store - (https://tinyurl.com/y6bmplnc)

* Sign up to our streaming service for $3.99 a month (https://www.blackstar-tv.com/)

* New Books Released - There were 1 new books released by ZMP in the month of May.

 

#1 The Night The Stars Aligned by Jeff Lilly

 * New Films Released - There was 4.

#1 Cultured Bigfoot

#2 Write of Passage: An Author's Journey

#3 Paranormal Bigfoot

#4 Native Bigfoot

 These films have been picked up by several streaming services and are waiting on placement.

* New Audio Books in Production:  Currently have 1 in production  and 1 in the process of making it to retails.We are finding out that many narrators just are not dependable to complete the jobs.

* New Books, films and audio books are on the way.

* New streaming services that carry or will be carrying our films:

 Mometu - Available on Roku and  Fire TV. This FREE streaming service has picked up many of our films. They are looking to make a big splash in the streaming arena.

 

* Continuing Marketing Campaigns and encouraging creators to promote their work.

* Make sure to subscribe to our Youtube Channel - Click Here!

 

* New Books & Films in the process of being released. More good things coming!

** Still looking to Sign, Publish and distribute books and films ..even short films and music videos! Contact us!!

 

We also offer wholesale pricing to book stores, gift shops and retail outlets. There has been some nice growth for ZMP in this section of our business. Anyone wishing to add any or all of our products to your retail shop, feel free to contact us via the contact form.

 

There are a lot of cool things in the pipe that we just can't talk about yet....so stay tuned!

 

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November Statistics & Announcements

November Statistics & Announcements

Its that time again, the time were we look back at the previous month and see how it all went. And this is normally the post where we announce some new things. This year is almost over and overall it has been a nice year of growth for ZMP.

 

First, we need to convey that this November continued the trend of numbers being off when compared to previous years. There could be many factors that contributed to this, but this time of year there is normally an uptick. So far there really has not been much in the way of a holiday uptick but sales have remained steady.

 Here is some information for the month of November.

* Top Amazon Streaming rental for the month: Bigfoot: The Legend is Real with over 100 watch hours!!! wow!!!! (https://amzn.to/3B6J8hh)

*Top Overall Rental of the month - was once again Bigfoot: The Legend is Real! The film continues to perform well, thank you. (https://amzn.to/2HZBZJG) The film has also found its way to numerous streaming services.

* On Amazon our overall watch minutes were about the same when compared to previous month. The numbers on Amazon are down due to Prime becoming a curated service and due to films appearing on numerous other streaming services.

* Top Selling DVDs:

#1 Bigfoot The Legend is Real 

#2 Searching for Sasquatch

 

* Top Books for the month: 

#1 The Ivory-billed Woodpecker:Taunting Extinction by Guy G. Luneau

#2 Sasquatch Family Ties by Leo Frank 

#3 Cryptid Creatures The Truth Exposed by Sandra Rains DeBusk

* Royalties Paid out to our clients!

* We have films in 92 countries!!!!! An increase by 2

* New streaming services who picked up some of our films: IBCN TV.

* More updates to the ZMP Online Store - (https://tinyurl.com/y6bmplnc)

* Sign up to our streaming service for $3.99 a month (https://www.blackstar-tv.com/)

* New Books Released - There were 1 new books released by ZMP in the month of Nov.

* New Market Added - Many of our published books have been added to Barnes and Noble!

* New Books & Films in the process of being released. More good things coming!

** Still looking to Sign, Publish and distribute your books and films ..even short films and music videos! Contact us!!

 

We also offer wholesale pricing to book stores, gift shops and retail outlets. There has been some nice growth for ZMP in this section of our business. Anyone wishing to add any or all of our products to your retail shop, feel free to contact us via the contact form.

 

As the year is coming to an end, the outlook for the new year is really shaping up to be our best and biggest year ever! There are a lot of cool things in the pipe that we just can't talk about yet....so stay tuned!

 

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