Having made my living as an actor for over 30 years, one thing I’ve learned is that it’s not who you know that’s essential to being successful, it’s who you know.
Case in point: Recently, someone I’d worked with years ago remembered our experience together as a pleasant one and recommended me to a production company that was casting the host role for an infomercial. I was contacted by the producer and asked to send my materials.
After learning that I’d booked the job, I got very excited at the prospect of working on a type of project I’d never experienced before. Sure, I had seen plenty of infomercials, but this was my first time working on one.
When I received the script, it contained 32 pages of dialogue. Some of it was pretty technical, so I asked if there would be a teleprompter on set. Fortunately, the answer was yes. For anyone interested in working in infomercials, industrial, corporate, and educational films, being proficient and comfortable using a teleprompter is important. Quite often, you’re cast as an on-camera narrator, a role that requires the use of a teleprompter.
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For example, when I was shooting the infomercial, both
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