How hard is it to get onto disney channel? (auditioning)?

Question

like to get in the backround of a movie..like a crowd or something

Answer 1

hard of course....

Answer 2

there is a lot of good info about disney auditions, your resume, headshot, getting an agent, extra work, etc on this site:

http://actinginfo.blogspot.com/

Answer 3

Just make sure you know the time they shoot it, and just go. Tell them you want to be a backround, and your aloud.

Answer 4

If you just want to be in the background of a movie, your odds depend on how many movies get shot in a location near you.

If you're in one of the big production centers, you'll get lots of opportunities--not necessarily with Disney, but gosh, does working for Dreamworks or MGM offend you? :-)

If you're far from LA, New York, etc., then you'll have to rely on films that do location work--every so often one of them will pop up in Cincinnati Ohio (or Florence Kentucky).

Often those opportunities will be advertised in a local newspaper in the jobs ads.  You also will want to keep up with online adverts.

When the shooting occurs, you and everybody's cousins will show up early in the morning.  One of the assistants to the assistants to the director will look the crowd over and will exclude anyone who looks wrong or who seems to have a bad attitude, so stay very calm, professional, and patient and don't try to call undue attention to yourself.

You and your fellow 'crowd' actors will then be expected to keep out of the way while they set up the shoot--take along your game-boy or a deck of cards or something to kill time with.  Keep your ears open for your call and don't wander about; they will boot you if you are not ready to work when they are.

After the right amount of footage is in the can, they'll pay you.  And if you're there all day, there will be lunch, at which point you might even get to mingle with a few minor professionals in the show (odds of the stars rubbing elbows with the extras are slim but once in a great while it happens--depends on the star, George Clooney seems to enjoy being an ordinary guy sometimes).

Note that this sort of work will count for almost nothing if you ever contemplate a career as an actor, but as an occasional diversion it can be fun.

Answer 5

Considering every child actor (or every child, for that matter) wants to land a role on a Disney show, it's nearly impossible.

If you want to work as an extra, it's much easier.  Just check the casting notices for extras, and you can usually just show up.

Answer 6

first things first- you have to have an acting agent(i have one) and you have to live in hollywood or be able to get a acting agent there other wise you don't have much of a chance. your agent will e-mail you or call you when there is auditions for commercials and stuff but you would have to get really, really lucky to go to an disney channel audition- right place at the right time kinda thing. also you might want to start at a local theatre or something to build up a resume.