Movie Training & Film Making Tips – Volume 4
Movie Training & Film Making Tips – Volume 4
In this installment of film making tips, I want to discuss hiring of actors.
Let’s face it, when you’re first starting out, you don’t have the kind of money you need to hire somebody like Johnny Depp. You’re going to be dealing with unknowns who may or may not be very good. So what you want to do when hiring an actor is look for somebody with two things…looks and personality.
Let’s start with looks first.
Like it or not, when people go to watch a movie, they like looking at people who look the part. Notice I didn’t say, look good. There are plenty of character actors out there who are less than handsome to say the least. However, they look the part. So, you want to look for people who, right off the bat, look the part. This will actually make up a lot for any lack of acting ability.
Then we have personality.
