Mark Chapman: Actor in Bosham, United Kingdom.

Hello Kathryn,thanks Venise :) I'm extremely excited to be connected with all of the awesome people on here

For books on the subject try An Actor Prepares and Building Up a Character both by Stanislavski. You may have read these already but always worth a mention! Good luckx

Thanks Mark,I appreciate this :)

Leathur Roks!!! I've been on 100 sets and still learned something new today on the set of the series pilot for "BOOM"

If you're acting for your love of acting and not the pay, then extra work is the best work. You get to converse with other actors, not as much pressure for lines, and you get to have fun with your characters back story. Main cast, have to follow the script, you as an extra can do things that the leads cannot. If your in a market scene you can interact with others, maybe plan to start a tussle, haggle over an item. Your job is meant to not distract from the main action, but enhance it. I did some extra work as a soldier in a student military movie. I actually planned a brawl with another soldier, we ran it by our director and he thought it would add to the scene. You can't always get away with that on large films, but you might be able to slip something in.

Never turn down the opportunity for work... they have often times added speaking roles to a very FEW extras just because they had the look they were looking for. Also its the people you meet doing this that may know someone that knows someone that could use you in their next project