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What certain physical features do baseball scouts look for in amateur players? I was recently reading an article on how certain scouts and teams wouldn't sign a player with blue eyes. Apparently, players with blue eyes tend to have worse vision and can't see as well in the day than those with brown eyes (for example, Josh Hamilton). Another certain feature I read about that certain scouts look at is facial hair. For example, if an 18 year old has full facial hair means he has completely matured. So I was wondering, what other certain physical features do baseball scouts look at while scouting an amateur player? | Scouts look for players who are willing to learn and are coachable.You can have all
the physical skills in the world but if you have an ego or think you are the greatest
thing since sliced bread you probably won't get a second look.Mind you I am not
talking about players having confidence.Just the ones who assume they are to good
to fail. | Are body language,gesture,facial expressions all are equally important while acting? hi every1 i am an amateur actor and wanna b a professional 1 day!need ur favour!
i wanna ask u if facial expressions,body language,gesture all are equally important in acting?and how to improve or develop body language in acting? | | Yes in a lot of drama you need to go over the top with expressions and body language. You need to know the personality of your character so you can be either confident (open stance and head up) or shy (tucked away and head down) to make it seem more realistic and not like you are reading off paper. Body language and facial expressions are a lot more important in mime and melodrama but sometimes can be more important than the actual script because it is how people actually stand/walk/move. I find it easy to be the character. Think like the character and you will look like it too. Good luck. The world of theatre is harsh | How Can Amateur Actors Get Better? It's easy to act with facial expression and body language.
But everything changes as soon as you speak. | Of course.
The more you work the better you can become if you keep learning.
Actors have said they really improve when working with other very good actors. | I'm trying to set up a room where i can have cameras running 24/7. How much memory do I need? Im conducting amateur experiments involving facial expressions in relation to emotion and im setting up a room in my house where I have cameras, voice recorders, and things of that nature to analyze them. I will not do this without informing the people they are being recorded I just need to know where I can get cameras that are capable of catching micro-expressions and such and how much memory i would need to have the cameras running 24/7. | | You need the kind they use at gas stations. | Where can on the internet i watch amateur bloody street fights amongst women and women only? im interested? in watching real fights between women where i can see blood everywhere especially from the facial area, women who are trying to settle their differences.......... i.e. fighting over the same man, but i mean a real bloody fist fight. lets say that there's a crowd surrounding the fight and the crowd is watching and cheering them on as they fight but no one is doing anything to stop the fight.... | | Ewww. Maybe you need some help. Try youtube. they have everything. | How do you really pluck eyebrows? As an amateur in beauty care, I accidentally pluck some of my FACIAL HAIR instead of my real eyebrows. Now those hair are growing out along with my eyebrows and I look hideous with it. I'm really afraid to pluck them again but in the same time, I just want to get rid of them and trim my eyebrow properly.
Help? | | Go to a beautician | Amateur Modeling Questions? I'm an amateur model, and I have a couple questions about it.
1. What's the best website to be on to be discovered? I'm already on MM but it's not the best.
2. What are good poses i can do with my arms? I can't think of anything fun to do with them, but I'm getting tired of all the standard poses.
3. Is the hand(s) on hip(s) thing dying out? I see it all the time but I feel like it's just one of those cliche things that won't really get you anywhere.
4. What are some good websites for makeup/hair/facial poses I can do for variety? | 1)Try onemodelplace.com
2)Google "classic model poses", and go to your local art museum and study the works of famous artists.
3)The standard "hands on the hips" is cliche', just like the standard "Miss America wave". Just because everyone does it, doesn't mean it that it is a good thing to do. It is something that I never have a model/client do unless it is requested.
4) search different profiles (both photographers and models) on onemodelplace and look at all the different styles out there.
Good luck | What are some ways to cover your face? Creatively i suppose. I already know of masks. but what else? I'm doing amateur fashion photography using no facial expressions. like body language i guess :p | a scarf draped or wrapped around the face, a fan, a large leaf or flower, covering the face with arms, posing with the head turned or leaning back so far the face isn't seen. Perhaps holding up a purse, if it works with the other fashion you're shooting.
Paper bags or lampshades would work, too, though they're a little cartoonish :) | Amateur fifteen year-old writer seeking literary critique? Please don't be discouraged by the length? Hello there. I'm a soon to be fifteen year old (January 23rd is the date people), and I'm writing a story on Fanfiction. I've posted this excerpt up before, but I added a few changes to it. Would you mind taking a look, and answering some questions for me? Thanks a million!
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Sometimes I wish God had made me differently, that he would have taken his time creating me so that I could be a true stunning beauty. But with a semi-slender, semi-hooked nose, facial hair, and wide hips, it seems like God was in a rush. Sometimes I wish he would have taken the time to create me like he did Tyra Banks or Aishwarya Rai. They're so exotically beautiful and everyone thinks they're attractive.
So instead of a body like Aishwariya Rai, and the confidence of Tyra Banks, God gave me a set of wide hips, a hairy body, and weird feet. No boobs either. I don't think God was in a very good mood on January 23rd.
I pinch the fat that hangs off of my hip as I look at myself in the mirror.
"Look at this," I mutter to myself in disgust. "Fat, fat, fat, fat, fat!"
I turn to the side so that the profile of my body is reflected in the mirror, and suck in my stomach. Why couldn't I have abs? Why did I have to have a plush belly? And why did I have to tower over all of the boys? Why couldn't I be a tiny little pixie like Alice Cullen and Bella Swan from Twilight? It seems like guys are more attracted to those bodies than these ones.
Finally fed up with my body, I breathe out and allow my stomach return to its usual disposition (a slowly declining slope), and drop any pinched fat from my fingertips like a bad habit. Wrapping the towel around my pear shaped body, I pull out the drawers beneath the mirror and pick out a lime green volleyball shirt and a pair of Adidas shorts. My hair is still dripping from being fresh out of the shower, and it soaks my shoulders, forming little pools in the hollow bowls of my shoulders. It's no longer the warm, comforting solution that drips from my hair, but instead a freezing and ice-like one. It reminds me of the times Soraya and I went ice skating.
She would always scrape off the "snow" at the end of the blade, and dump it down my back. And then me, being the cool person that I am, would hop around the aisle like a deranged rabbit.
I uncover my body and wrap the towel around my head like a turban.
A smaller section of the honey-glazed chestnut drawers holds other articles of clothing, and I open one up to pull out my undergarments. My skin is still wet and soft, so I carefully slip in to them so that they don't roll up. I don't care what people say - cotton panties kick ***.
I look at myself in the mirror again. No doubt I've gotten taller, and my hips have widened quite a bit. I get inches upon inches taller, and yet my boobs remain the same size. Why couldn't I have big boobs like Ashley Thompson? All the guys stop in the hallways to hug her. Why can't I have big boobs?
On the counter of the drawers is tall bottle of Jergens baby lotion - just another reminder on how I'll always be a baby to my parents. The scent of Lilacs clashes with the scents of saffron, curry and cumin, and soon the room smells like a storage room for spices and perfume. However strange the scent might sound, it is entirely appetizing. I breath it in, my eyes rolling back as I open my mouth to taste the spices in the air. My mind races with thoughts of what mom has prepared in the kitchen. Quickly, I dress myself so that I can go sneak a peak at what I might savor tonight. | Its a good start...I just wonder where your going with it. You said its fanfiction so what story does it fit with? Fan of what? There is a lot of teen angst in there and it will put off a lot of readers...your going to have a limited fan base but I don't know if that matters if it fits with a story for fanfiction so I apologize if that is how its supposed to be.
I would recomend at least hinting and giving some sort of idea of whats to come. Anything that gives the readers a clue of who this is and why she is thinking like this. Where the story is going.
Also, the story jumps a lot. I know its a persons mind so its going to jump but for a story its usually easier to stick with one train of thought. Especially when introducing a character so you can get an idea of what she's like. Unless of course your trying to imply that she's scatterbrained. The only paragraph I had any real trouble with was the last one. You say the smell of lilac mixes with curry and cumin but never explain where thats coming from...what causes these smells? If its supper than just rephrase the sentences a bit so thats clear.
Lastly who is Aishwarya Rai? I've never heard of her... I'm not big into pop culture so I could just be showing my ignorance....but you should stick to comparing her to people that the general public would know.
Sorry if I sound negative this is a good story and you have talent so don't misundestand me! Its just hard to get a feel for whats going on and why this is significant without more of the story. Keep writing! Good luck! | Acting? HELP!!! ALL ANSWERS EVERYONE!! EXPERTS and AMATEUR PERFORMERS!? I want to be an actress and I think i have some talent, but your best might never be good enough so i would like to gather many tips and advice you have, please! ANY!!
1)How do you CRY?
2) Shouting and give energy?
3) Give seriuos monolgues?
4) Key Body language and body movements..
5)Act hurt mentally and physically?
Also anytips on clarity, voice projection,facial expression, all to do with drama and making it into the business!
I try to do 'real' facial expressions, but my face just looks stupid and over dramatic!!
Who are your favourite performers and WHY, what do they do so right??
Ive tried to look at the internet but it only helps to an extend and not many others have asked this question.
what do you think is powerful in a performance??
THANK YOU !!
PLEASE!
Also how can i get started in the industry? | The truly good performance is the one that has the most work.
As talented as one might be, as you probable are, it means nothing until true work is done. How to work is the next question. Look through newspapers and go to community theaters to find work, keeping in mind that no job is too small. If you are in high school as I am, join theater and do VERY WELL on SATs so as to get into a good acting college. Then, it's a matter of system to aproaching a role. Here is mine:
1. Study your character's RELATION to what she is thinking about, the possibilities of thought ranging endlessly within what writers call the five conflicts: spirit (God, Satan, etc.), physical things (a tree, water, a piano, etc.), another person or people (normally people mentioned or focused on in the show you are doing), an idea (love, hate, death, etc.), and the most interesting, herself. These will be evident in the play, which we'll get to in an example, later.
2. Create the character's physical response to these things, the expression of the face and it's changes, the movements and forms of her body, and her voice.
Here is an example:
In the Shakespearean play Julius Caesar, the main character Brutus has a wife named Portia, from whom he hides secrets, blaming his pacing around in the garden at night on physical ailments. In this monologue, Portia proves her love and honesty by cutting her thigh, the pledge of a Roman soldier to his master or leader.
PORTIA
"I grant I am a woman; but withal
A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife:
I grant I am a woman; but withal
A woman well-reputed, Cato's daughter.
Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Being so father'd and so husbanded?
Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em:
I have made strong proof of my constancy,
Giving myself a voluntary wound
Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience.
And not my husband's secrets?"
The first "conflict" on which Portia focuses is an idea, that of a woman in Roman society. Women in the time were granted extremely minimal power or influence. After the first conflict, we hear her speak of her husband Brutus, a person to person conflict. Next is an internal conflict, which is her own strength; then, objects, which are her thigh and a knife.
This is purely an overview of the depth of this monologue.
So, then you construct your character's physical responses to these conflicts. Portia is an overtly graceful character, considered beautiful and elegant, so the actress would create bodily movements of flow and confidence. Her face would be soft and gentle, but nonetheless constant. As her speech becomes more and more intense, her voice, completely imagined by you, does too. Always remember that these are created by you, your imagination and no director's or producer's. Be creative, be original.
Of course, much of Hollywood and Broadway have forgotten this art, and so for you to do well you MUST TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY. Train it, discipline it, love it. Then, as Proverbs says repeatedly, attain wisdom. Learn from every experience you are given.
My favorite actor is Marlon Brando. You can see a completely diverse depth in each character he portrays. If only he had taken care of himself.
Never think your face looks stupid or overdramatic. Beleive in yourself and know that work is work, the more you try, the better you get. |
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