Movie Actor
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Education & Training
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Skills Required
Speaking
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Active Listening
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Reading Comprehension
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Social Perceptiveness
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Critical Thinking
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Monitoring
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Job Description & Duties
- Study and rehearse roles from scripts to interpret, learn and memorize lines, stunts, and cues as directed.
- Work closely with directors, other actors, and playwrights to find the interpretation most suited to the role.
- Learn about characters in scripts and their relationships to each other to develop role interpretations.
- Collaborate with other actors as part of an ensemble.
- Perform humorous and serious interpretations of emotions, actions, and situations, using body movements, facial expressions, and gestures.
- Attend auditions and casting calls to audition for roles.
- Portray and interpret roles, using speech, gestures, and body movements, to entertain, inform, or instruct radio, film, television, or live audiences.
- Work with other crew members responsible for lighting, costumes, make-up, and props.
- Sing or dance during dramatic or comedic performances.
- Read from scripts or books to narrate action or to inform or entertain audiences, utilizing few or no stage props.
Salary
Outlook & Growth
Location/ Hours of Work
Values
Relationships
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Achievemnet
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Independence
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Works Cited
Reflection
Career Research – Reflection
Writing Organizer – Fill out the writing organizer based on what you learned from the unit and the project.
Topic from Unit
Fill in what you learned about yourself from this unit.
Values
I have learned from this unit that my top three values are achievement, relationships, and support.
Skills
I have learned that some of my best skills are critical thinking, learning strategies, monitoring, active learning, time management, management of personal resources, negotiation, persuasion, coordination, system evaluation, installation, and troubleshooting.
Interests
I have learned that my top interests from this unit are social, artistic, and enterprising.
Which job did you on for the Smore?
On Smore, I completed a project on the career field of acting
Reflection Essay - Now that you have reviewed your values, skills, and interests from the unit, write a reflection identifying how your values, skills, and interests would be helpful for the job you presented in your Smore. Be sure to provide specific examples for values, for skills, and for interests and tie them directly to the job description, educational and training required, and skills required to perform the job. Compose a well structured and grammatically correct essay below.
Will Pappas
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Reflection Essay
Identifying all of my skills, values, and interests seemed like it would be predictable what I would like and dislike. Although some of my skills, values, and interests were parallel to my predictions, some of the careers associated with my range of skills, values, and interests were surprising. When searching through O’Net, I filtered my results based on my skills, values, and interests. The jobs that I have wanted like a physician’s assistant, sales, and physical therapist all showed up at the top of each list for my different areas. Though, what stayed consistent on the lists a few lines below was an actor. Me an actor? Really… I thought that I must have put in the wrong information on the O’Net search tab. Though, it seemed that all the information was entered correctly and I researched actors for a bit. I have found out that a lot of the skills that I have are intertwined in the career of acting. Values that I have such as relationships and achievement were ones that I have as most important to me. Having pride in your work and forming relationships are important in acting which are important to me. Skills such as judgment and decision making, time management, and coordination are not foreign to me. The skills of enterprising and being social is what I wanted in a job as well. It is interesting how a different perspective on a job can change your way of thinking about it. Things that you may not have considered can make you miss out on a big opportunity. The thing that I have learned most from this unit is to keep your options open when it comes to finding a career that you will enjoy. Most people miss good opportunities based on presumptions that they may have about a job.