Acting as Your Job: A Step by Step Guide on How You Can Become a Working Actor

By PJ Medina

After the success of my first book MODELING AS YOUR JOB, a step- by- step guide on how you can become a working model. It seems only natural for the series of AS YOUR JOB, to follow with ACTING AS YOUR JOB and here is the reason why. It is a natural transition to go from a career in modeling to a career in Acting.

After five years of research and interviews I wrote this book ACTING AS YOUR JOB a step-by-step guide on how you can become a working Actor. In this book I am going to take you step-by-step and show you exactly what you need to do, to become a successful Actor. In seven steps from never have acted before to landing your first gig as an Actor.

In this book I will cover the unions, Acting schools, Acting coaches and how to land an agent its all here step-by-step and by the end of this book you will have all the tools necessary to become a working Actor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481708630

PJ Medina

I too like you dreamed of someday becoming a model and seeing myself on a giant billboard on 42d street and Time Square. But unlike you in those days the early 1980’s there were no books on the subject of becoming a Model or very few. So after having doors slammed in my face and losing money on useless schools, pictures and three years of my life trying to make a career I gave up my dream of ever becoming a Model. However through mi trials I have learned a great deal. One day a friend who was starting his own career as a Model asked,” How do I go about landing an agent? So I told him what little I remembered. It turned out that the little. I knew was a lot of information. He turned to me and said, “Why if you know so much won’t you manage my career? I replied, “I can’t manage you, you have to mange yourself” At point the seed was planted for this book. So I began a quest researching books, talking with people in the business and interviewing fashion designers to understand what they are looking for in a Model This book was born Modeling As Your Job A step-by-step guild on how you can become a working Model.

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© 2013 by PJ Medina. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse 01/17/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-0862-3 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-0863-0 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013931047

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgment

Author’s Notes

Introduction

STEP ONE

Acting Is A Funny Business It’s The Business Of Pretending

STEP TWO

Acting Is Putting On The Biggest Front

STEP THREE

So You Want To Be In Pictures

STEP FOUR

United we stand divided we fall! The unions

STEP FIVE

Have your people, call my people, the agent

STEP SIX

Casting Whom?

STEP SEVEN

Getting the job, making the money let the games begin

Acknowledgment

I want to start by thanking Jesus the Christ for rising from death to give me the forgiveness of my sins and the power of the Holy Spirit to live new lives for the Father’s glory.

I want to thank Pastor Paul A. Stoot and The Greater Trinity Missionary Baptist Church for taking me in as their son and showing me unconditional love.

To Paul A Stoot Jr for being a beacon of hope not just to myself but also to many countless young men and woman whose lives are blessed by this man of God.

Let’s not forget my mother Maria Gonzalez, Porfirio Medina, Samuel Medina, and Wilma Medina for being there for me in the good times and the bad times.

For the amazing and talented Nicholas Spaccarotelli who shot the cover of this book, I am so grateful to you.

I want acknowledge two very important individuals who have been with me by my side and never stopped believing in me and in this journey Joseph Montalvo and Damian Contreras I shall always be indebted to you guys.

Michelle Rodriguez Lara for making sure it all makes sense I love you.

And lastly, I would like to give a special thank-you to all who made Acting As Your Job possible.

I am aware that gratitude is the greatest amplifier of life;

I say to you I am truly GRATEFUL to you

for purchasing this book.

Author’s Notes

It is my beliefs that the As Your Job brand is in no question the best how-to series of publications in the market place today. No other publication can match this level of success that the As Your Job can.

Here is the reason why, only the As Your Job publication focuses on not only the fundamentals but also on what a person should be thinking, doing, and their personal finances. This series puts it together in a simple to read step-by-step process that anyone can understand. The AS YOUR JOB publication literally takes the person by the hand and step-by-step walks them though the process.

No other publication can collapse the time frame it takes a person to for fill their dreams, like the AS YOUR JOB can. This series points out all the common mistakes and pitfalls and show you the reader a clear path.

This is why I am so proud of the AS YOUR JOB book series and if you’re like me and like this book why not tell someone else, tell a friend or two.

Also available are:

Modeling As Your Job

Acting As Your Job

Coming soon:

Recording Artist As Your Job

Personal Trainer As Your Job

And more to come.

Introduction

My mission statement is to inspire others to live out their dreams; To be, do, and have anything that brings them joy, love, and happiness.

I would like to start by thanking you for two reasons, number one for having the courage to take action on your dream of becoming an actor so many people dream of someday becoming an actor and because of fear never take action, as years and even decades go by they never take action, allowing fear and procrastination to stop them, they just sit on their dreams, till one day they wake up old and tired thinking to themselves if I only tried, dealing with the regret.

As with everything in life there are no guarantees.

However you must believe me when I tell you, you can be, do, have anything you dream of and I mean anything.

What I want you to understand is that there are three basic things that prevent a person for living out they dream of becoming a working actor and those three things are:

1)   The way they think

2)   The business aspect of it

3)   Their finances

Let me explain what I mean by this statement.

One, when I talk about the mind or the mindset what I am referring to is what is known as internal dialogue. The things you tell yourself when you’re by yourself or the thoughts in your head, maybe you may want to call it the little voice in your head. I’m too fat, I’m too short, I’m not good looking enough, I’m