Just because you live in a small town doesn’t mean you are limited by the resources available locally. You can read acting books by all the great teachers, filmmaking books by great directors and producers, and of course you can watch all the television and movies that anyone else can watch.
Try to study and appreciate the sensibilities of people who you want to work with down the road. In the same way people from other countries often learn English from watching American television, small market people can learn big market lingo and skills by studying them through whatever media they can find.
1. Get to know the local film commission. Almost every region or decent sized town has a local film commission. Guess who the film commission deals with all day long? They deal with movie and TV producers who want to come to their area to shoot. If you volunteer or work at your film commission, you might be the one who talk to these producers. Need I say more?
2. Get to know the producers. Even the smallest towns have people who dream of being big time movie makers one day. If you don’t think there’s a film industry near you, think again. There are always people who are stepping out of their comfort zones and
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