Managing Audition Nerves Part IV: Maintain Creative Expression
Don’t Let Creative Expression Get Lost in the Weeds. Audition advice from Arts Advisory Board Member Dmitri Yevstifeev
Managing Audition Nerves Part III: Organize Mock Auditions
To best prepare yourself for what a real audition might be like, set up several mock auditions in a variety of settings that mirror the stressful conditions of an actual audition. At each mock audition, challenge yourself!
Managing Audition Nerves Part II: Get Centered
The Centering Process is a simple technique that quiets the nerves that can affect you physically, mentally, and emotionally when you’re about to step into a room or onto a stage for an audition.
Managing Audition Nerves Part 1: Arrange Logistics & Stay Calm on Audition Day
Most of your attention should be focused on the important stuff like practicing audition repertoire & setting up mock auditions, but the practical side of planning auditions should not be put off! Follow these guidelines & you will avoid unnecessary distractions & stress at your audition:
Puzzling it Out: Writing for Performing and Visual Arts Applications
You show your academic side through your transcript, GPA, and test scores, but you can reflect more deeply about who you are as a person and an artist through your artistic resume and activity list and, most importantly, your writing.
Why School Rankings Don’t Matter for Music Degrees
In the world of music, a school's rank holds little significance when it comes to measuring the quality of education and future success. Fame and the name on a college diploma do not determine one's worth. Instead, factors such as personal talent, dedication, and individual preference play a bigger role. There are many factors that transcend notions of "rank" when choosing a music school.
Making the Most of Your College Visits
I just came back from a whirlwind, but exhilarating visit to six Boston schools. With this fresh in my mind, I have some tips on planning your college visits and maximizing your time on campus.
Film Quick Takes: Script Study
Short, focused exercises to build your filmmaking skills. Studying a full-length film script can provide valuable insights into the creative and technical aspects of filmmaking, as well as improve your own writing skills and deepen your appreciation for the art of storytelling.
Film Quick Takes: Three-Point Lighting
Take three still portraits of friends or loved ones using a three-point lighting setup. Three-point lighting is a basic lighting technique used in photography, videography, and filmmaking to create a visually pleasing and balanced image. Learn the steps to set up three-point lighting in this blog.
Film Quick Takes: Ordinary Objects
Short, focused exercises to build your filmmaking skills. Find a very ordinary object. Using different camera angles, lens lengths, and lighting techniques, take three photos that reveal a new way of seeing the object
Film Quick Takes: Creating Meaning From Sound
Short, focused exercises to build your filmmaking skills. Go to a place that holds a lot of meaning for you. Record audio that captures why the place is important. Place this audio recording in the timeline of a film editing software program. Find images and assemble them in a timeline so that they illustrate the meaning you captured in the audio recording
Film Quick Takes: Tell a Story Using Five Still Images
Short, focused exercises to build your filmmaking skills. Telling a story using five still images is a great way to convey a narrative in a visual and concise way. Here are the general steps involved in creating a story using still images.
BA, BM, BME, BFA, BMT! Music Degrees Explained
It’s like alphabet soup—BA, BM, BME, BFA, BMT. They’re all music degrees, right? Yes, but the curriculum is very different and geared to what you want to do with your career.
Find Your Film’s Story: Brainstorm & Be Messy
You must let it be okay to have bad ideas. Remember that writing is a process. It goes well, and it goes poorly. It is always okay to struggle. You are more than any process. Hesitate to cut things out, even if they don’t make sense! There will be plenty of time to trim away later in the writing and editing process.
Find Your Film's Story: Delve into Character
Character journey is the heart of filmic storytelling. We’re all engaged by characters who face challenges and are transformed by them.
Find Your Film's Story: Work Backward
What you don’t have in resources, you have in freedom. Think about what change or effect you want to create—not what you want to say, but what you want to ask. In other words, what do you want to try?
Find Your Film's Story: Use Your Voice
Many, many short films have been made—but not by you. Think about what it is about your specific experiences, identity, place in the world, life journey, interests, or outlook that you can grow into a character, story, or fictional world. The important thing is—what questions can you ask that no one else can?
Application Deadline Pressures? Nerves on Edge? Overwhelmed?
Crunch time looms large for college applications! This creates stress in most households. Here are some tips for parents to learn how to balance your participation in the process.
When the Search for a Performing & Visual Arts School Goes Virtual
Whether you are a dancer, conceptual artist, actor, designer, musician, or some other type of artist, you will see a difference in the way conservatories, arts schools, and college and university performing and visual arts programs are reaching out to you. Face-to-face meeting and travel restrictions have historically, and understandably, had a major impact and influence on student and family decisions to pursue a school or drop it off their list. Because of the pandemic, institutions have been forced to reduce activities traditionally conducted by college admissions offices.
Nine Pointers for Your Portfolio
A portfolio is a collection of your best artwork. It highlights your experience, showcases your ideas and skills, and demonstrates your ability and potential as an artist.