14 Steps On How to be a child actor | Hollywood Kid Actor Advise

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I Wanna be a child actor

1. Learn acting from a good school or from a playful empathetic acting coach
2. Practicing and practice your craft at home and with friends
3. Watch the classics child and adult movies
4. Observe People carefully and make stories on them
5. Look for opportunities in birthdays, school, parties to show your talent
6. Learn acting for camera and make your own Youtube Vimeo movies
7. Get Good pictures of yourself
8. Make acting resume
9. Learn additional skills. It can be anything from music to juggling to skateboarding to foreign languages to sports
10. Find, prepare and audition as much as possible
11.Prepare a monolog and be ready with it
12. Get a good agent or few good artist coordinator (India)
13. Prepare well for 'cold reading'
14, Be Positive

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What This Highly Successful Child Actor Advises

A Hollywood child actor Francesca Capaldi

Are you always hooked on to the Disney channel on TV? Then there is no way you wouldn’t recognize Francesca Capaldi. This cute, curly red haired girl starred as Chloe James in the Disney Channel sitcom ‘Dog with a Blog’. Residing in Carlsbad, California with her parents, Francesca is slowly but steadily making a mark in Hollywood. But did she always have her heart set on being an actor? You bet she did! She commenced her acting career at the age of seven with small roles in the Disney Channel Original Series ‘A.N.T Farm’ and in the CBS comedy ‘How I Met Your Mother’. In fact, she wants “to do it (acting) forever”! In her short career, she has already featured in the pilot for ‘The Goodwin Games’ and starred in Corbin Bernsen's television film ‘3 Day Test’. With her thick long red curls, it isn’t surprising that she was the voice of the Little Red-Haired Girl – the new crush of Charlie Brown in the 2015 film ‘The Peanuts Movie’.
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"When someone says they really want to be an actor, I always say if it's your dream, then pursue it, be devoted to it and never give up or get discouraged," Francesca exclusively tells.
But just because Francesca is an experienced actress doesn't mean she never worries about getting her lines right or snagging a role – and who among us hasn't been in that place before, even when it's when you're studying for a test.
"I always get so nervous before I go into an audition and I'll think, 'gosh I should've prepared more,' and I read it a bunch of times, but I'm always like I should go and study," Francesca says.
"Sometimes I just stress myself out because I think I should prepare more, but basically I would just go back and tell myself, 'Okay yes you should study now, come on, don't just say you need to do it, do it' and get into character more so that way I'm not as nervous, so that's what I would say to myself."
Even if you're not dreaming about becoming an actor one day, Francesca has some advice for the rest of us, who may be dealing with worries of our own – including mean comments from social media haters or school bullies.
"If someone is being bullied, I would say just never change for anyone no matter what. Just honestly be yourself and don't let anyone ever change you."
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6 Secret Tips For Parents On Bring Up A Child Actor

An excellent comedic kid actor

What Should Parents Do To Raise Their Child Into A Good Actor? 

Just Follow My 6 Secret Recommendations For Raising Your Child Actor

It takes a special clan to raise a child actor. Many talented kids dreams to be an actor gets shattered because their parents did not have the proper education of the process in being an actor.
No doubt they have their child’s best interests at heart, but with lack of education in the business, a parent can derail their child before they even get started.

1. How A Child Can Be An actor If Not Trained?

Acting is fun, but it is not a part-time hobby. If your child is serious about pursuing this field, you must cultivate a mindset, as one would do when becoming a professional musician, athlete, or dancer. Your child must train continually by an acting coach in order to stay competitive. When a child is in school sports, parents are diligent about never missing practices or games. However, when it comes to their acting classes, many parents do not attach the same importance and discipline. They find the money to invest in other activities, but fall when it comes to paying for artistic training. There are good acting classes and special child acting coachs; find one that is challenging that your child loves. Do your research. Preferrably, a great acting coach will enhance every area of their life.

2. Don’t Be Impatience And Rush 

Many parents rush their child to auditions straightaway. If a child is not emotionally and professionally ready, the process can be too scary, shut the child down, and make them want to quit.  Check in with your child’s acting coach and TRUST their advice if they are ready or not. It May take considerable period before they are ready to face auditions with improved chances of getting selected

3. Each Audition Is A Success

With every audition your actor has already achieved success. They are NOT easy to get. They have beat out hundreds, if not thousands for the opportunity. When your child is ready to begin auditioning, please understand that it can take 10-50 auditions before getting selected. If an actor is well trained, can take direction well, and has confidence in their acting craft, they will raise their odds of bagging a role. Each audition makes them better at what they love to do. The audition brings them into the sphere of new casting directors, producers, and directors.

4. Motivate And Give Positive Support 

The best thing a parent can do for their child actor is to take them auditions with positive support encouraging them all the time, regardless of how difficult, competitive and stressful the audition process can be. You too will be under stress. Don’t show it to the child keeping this stress to yourself. Your child will feel it.  One of the most difficult things about the auditioning process is not allowing tension and anxiety creeping into a child and especially in parents. Let it go, and this mindset is mandatory for the long-term success of any actor-child or adult. When it's over, don’t talk about the audition, unless your kid actor wishes to discuss it.

5.  Don’t Direct The Child Or Movie On Film/TV Set

Once your child begins to work, my very best advice is: remain their parent. I have witnessed parents on set who do not remain in the background as support but instead try to network with people and crew. They make suggestions to the director, try to get their child more lines, talk the directors/producers for other projects, or nagging them for more information on the current one. Remember, filming on a set is team’s job. You are there for your child’s emotional support. You are there to ensure they are safe.So be that!

6. Trust your child 

When child actors achieves the proper skillset, they know “what to and how to” their job. They know what to wear for auditions. They know how to prepare their lines.

Last word of advice 

PLEASE do not coach them! A casting director can smell it from a mile away. When I began as an actor, my teacher said it takes 10 years to become a great actor. I did not like hearing this at the time. But I can now attest that she was right. Acting looks easy. It is not.
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Auditions | Why Kid Actors Should Practice Tongue Twisters

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Practicing tongue twisters

Is Your Child Talented But  Failing In Auditions?

Do The Kids have Good Voice, Diction, A speech With Clarity?

The Problem May Be With Dialog Delivery

How To Be Selected in Auditions By Impressing Casting Directors With Excellent Dialog Delivery

The Secret Is Tongue Twisters

What are tongue twisters?

The tongue twister is a phrase or sentence which is hard to speak fast, usually because of alliteration or a sequence of nearly similar sounds. It helps develop speech skills & helps in speech therapy for the kid and adult actors with speech difficulties. To get the full effect of a tongue twister you should try to repeat it several times, as quickly as possible, without stumbling or mispronouncing.

Tongue twisters are great for helping kids concentrate on working all their speech variation and voice articulation muscles.



And they’re just plain fun.


I've compiled below a list of some of my favorite that you can help your child to improve speech, voice, articulation and dialog delivery

How can you help your child to practice tongue twisters?

Before the practice

A.
Before practice and introducing tongue twisters ask your kid to crinkle their face as tiny as possible for 5 seconds.
Then to make their face as big as possible for 5 seconds.

B.
Then introduce the tongue twister and make your child initially speak slowly then loudly increasing the repetition speed of a tongue twister

C.
Make sure you encourage them to use a “stage voice” as if they have a listening audience in their school auditorium of a large number of people.

D.
Another great variation is to have to say the tongue twister in a different emotion. (Angry, sad, happy, scared, frustrated, confused, etc.)  Or, to challenge the child to begin happily but gradually get progressively more and angrier and then sad.

The Ultimate List of Tongue Twisters

1.
I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.

2.
One-One was a racehorse.
Two-Two was one, too.
When One-One won one race, Two-Two won one, too.

3.
Say this sharply, say this sweetly,
Say this shortly, say this softly.
Say this sixteen times very quickly.

4.
Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers! (Repeat. Increase the tempo.)

5.
Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed Shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack; Sheep should sleep in a shed.

6.
Red Bulb Blue Bulb Red Bulb Blue Bulb Red Bulb Blue Bulb

7.
Red Blood Blue Blood

8.
I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.

9.
She sells seashells on the seashore.

10.
Mix a box of mixed biscuits with a boxed biscuit mixer.

11.
A proper copper coffee in a proper coffee copper pot.

12.
Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.

13.
Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.

14.
I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have thought so much.

15.
How much wood could a wood chuck; chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood.

16.
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

17.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

18.
Sascha sews slightly slashed sheets shut.

19.
She should shun the shining sun.

20.
The big black back brake broke badly.

21.
The big beautiful blue balloon burst.

22.
A shapeless sash sags slowly.

23.
Smelly shoes and socks shock sisters.

24.
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

25.
Dick kicks sticky bricks.

26.
Shave a single shingle thin.

27.
Stick strictly six sticks stumps.

28.
Cinnamon aluminum linoleum.

29.
New York is unanimously universally unique.

30.
Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.

31.
Flora’s freshly fried fish.

32.
A bragging baker baked black bread.

33.
Buy blue blueberry biscuits before bedtime.

34.
She sold six shabby sheared sheep on a ship.

35.
The sixth sick sheik’s son slept.

36.
A good cook could cook as many cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.

37.
I saw a saw that could out saw any other saw I ever saw.

38.
Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said "this butter's bitter! But a bit
of better butter will but make my butter better" So she bought some better
butter, better than the bitter butter, and it made her butter better so it was
better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter!

If you understand, say "understand".
If you don't understand, say "don't understand".
But if you understand and say "don't understand".
How do I understand that you understand? Understand!

39.
I thought I thought of thinking of thanking you.

40.
Red bulb blue bulb red bulb blue bulb

41.
I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

42.
Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.

43.
Double bubble gum, bubbles double gum.

44.
If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

45.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

46.
If one doctor doctors another doctor does the doctor who doctors the doctor,  doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors?

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