Hello Guys! Sometimes seeing is believing, but you got to believe in order to see, and I mean have absolute faith in your passion.
Let me share with you my experience, if you strongly believe in something, go all out and get it. That's what i did. I really wanted to be an actor, I started my TV acting experience as an extra, in a local sitcom called My Sassy Neighbour, I was acting as a home buyer, who is extremely paranoid, who keeps asking lot of questions. I had to go for an audition for a company called Pigs Talk production, where they made me say a few lines over the camera. The lines that I recited, was for another character. I think the personality that caught their attention was the actions of Rowan Atkinson( pardon my spelling Black Adder) " Mr bean" .That gave me the break on the small screen and it was my first experience to see first hand, what happens behind the screens. How they would angle the light, so that the image we see on the screen is bright. How they have to do the sound, with absolute precision, so that there would be ambiance and continuity of sound with no overlapping. How we had to do a few second short, from different angles for couple of minutes, just to make sure that there is a flow in the story.We would be waiting for hours and hours, just for our part, and once we have done that, in the minutes, we have to wait again for the hours. The sacrifice we had to go thru. However, if you strongly believe that you want to make a mark in acting, you have to go through this experience. What does not break you, makes you. No pain, there is no gain.
Another chance, that I would like to share with you guys, is an experience of being a cop or a police officer in the episode called " Missing" stories of real life experiences that took place in Singapore. How ironic, mostly I was missing in that episode, only having a few glimpse of seeing me. I was to investigate a missing cheat, who was a great con-artist. My task was to go through the files and my famous carrying the evidence box, that would so happen to come out in the trailers. Most of my friends who knew me would get excited and share with me they saw me in the trailer. I would share with them, that would be my only part that I would be coming out. What an experience that was. It certainly gave me the exposure that I needed. Now people started to recognize me from that experience.
Soon after I was called to audition for a role as an Army Officer in a local short film call "Spoilt - Mdm White snake". A story about a Boy- Girl relation, and the hero would be having an army experience, and he would be attempting suicide. Guess who is there to stop him and threaten to punish him, you are absolutely right, Me. Stayed tune, I will be right back.
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