Learn How to Act in South Florida

24-11-2008 by admin



With a tradition of over 100 years in making movies, and being in the top of the movie production in America, South Florida is having this industry very well developed. Hundreds of actors are working in movie production studios, theaters and television stations located in South Florida area.

One of the reasons of the great success of the acting art in South Florida is the number of acting schools offering quality education to the young actors who aspire to a bright career. For the youngest ones many summer camps are offering educational programs and creating interest to the kids for acting in school plays and children shows. This can be a valuable experience for the future development as an actor.

Venue Actors Studio located in Pinellas Park for age 13 and up is offering group programs for developing improvisation and presentation skills, especially for teenagers.

The Actors Workshop of South Florida for the young people is focused on the improving the improvisation and audition techniques and scene work.

University Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, The Acting School of South Florida from Hollywood FL, Palm Beach Acting School, all these are just a small part from the long list of acting schools in South Florida.

Before choosing the classes you intend to participate, get familiar with the offer of the school. Some of them have developed training programs and classes focusing on different media like film, theatre, on-camera or improvisation. But still most of them will prepare you for performing in all the media. And finally if you want to gain more confidence in your presentation skills, private tutoring is the right option for you to choose.

Being an actor is a job full of rewards, especially if you reach the top. It means to film in different locations, to meet new people and fellow actors and to be under the spot light and in the magazines. On the other hand, acting it is not like a normal, steady job from 9 to 5, but more like a constant search for the next role to play. As soon as you finished your part, you will be looking for another one. And this rule applies to the big actors as well, if you consider the fact there are about 50 big movies shot each year. In this matter, it is extremely useful to have an agent, who will help you so much in getting you auditions, meetings with casting directors and other people involved in the business.

In order to achieve these goals, you need to work a lot. You have to constantly improve your skills, to be always open to what’s new in the business, to attend to seminars and classes and to be able to show your acting talent in the best possible way.

You need to have interest and patience to watch the great actors at work in different types of productions from classical movies to the new arrivals, from short or mute movies to foreign productions. Also watching the live performance of theatre actors is providing an excellent way to learn new tips and tricks in acting. With our little article we hope to be helpful to all of you who wish to make a great career in acting.

The Transformers 2 Character Mikaela Banes

23-11-2008 by admin



The movie is marked with technology based on mechanical characters. We see an air of battle and combat in between Decepticons and Autobots. The human characters bring in the touch of reality, inculcated with the emotions of anger, fear, love, and hatred. Mikaela Banes is one of the human characters in the movie. She is a female who embodies sweetness and soft feelings, and she is the girl friend of the protagonist Sam Witwicky.

Though she is a female, yet she is courageous and is also incarnated with positive feelings. That was her positive instinct which made her help Bumblebee in Transformers 2007. She took him with her by tying him with a vehicle just in the middle of the battle without considering the life threat she was facing herself, right at the time when Bumblebee was injured and direly needed help.

She is marked with the liking for fixing cars. She is known as ‘the beauty with brains’. She is mechanically skilled because of her father. In the first part of Transformers, it was revealed that her father was a car thief. The Transformers is marked with the harmony of development of a new relationship between a teenager boy and girl. However, there are some speculations about their relationship in Transformers 2. We find references from many sources that their relationship undergoes some issues.

In the original comic series, Mikaela is shown mourning over the death of her boy friend Sam Witwicky. She still acts as an ally to the Autobots to fight the evil forces of Decepticons and their Construction. However, in Transformers 2, we don’t see either of these; Mikaela mourning over the death of her boy friend or working alone as an Autobot ally.

Her character is marked with courage and bravery, which is not a common characteristic of females. She gives complete hand to her boy friend in helping Autobots. She is not scared off by the Decepticons, which somewhat gives her a mechanical touch.

The character of Mikaela is shown morally and physically strong in both Transformers 2007 and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. However, Autobots are shown as unbeatable powerful structures that are speedy and near to perfection in their conducts. They still need the humans to gain certain information to destroy Decepticons before they destroy the earth and Autobots.

We see in Mikaela a person who has the capability of choosing between the right and the wrong. She leaves her pompous friends and takes a ride to her home with Sam in his wrecked looking car, which in fact was an Autobot.

She has complete trust in his boy friend and even goes in the custody of secret services with her friend without a show of remorse. It is remarkable that she goes to any length in order to help her friend.

We see the dignity of her character in Transformers 2007, which is carried forward to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. She is shown as a woman who is concerned about the respect others are giving her. If someone is disrespectful towards her, she too is merciless and harsh towards him, but that too is in limits. She embodies a perfect woman who can face any kind of situation with complete dignity.