Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2014

active for acting december 2014

there is going to be christmas and a lot of fun stuff during this special month. but of course on thing will always be most important!

  • went to see "Mars Attacks!" from Theater Hora.
  • rehearsed with "die Freischwimmer".
  • went to Brig to sign for a bank account in Switzerland for the playades where my very best acting friend Eva Mann is a member. Met her very fun friend Cindy! And had a look at Brig. *Check*
  •  Got definitely into Jingle Jungle and signed the contract! Fingers crossed I'll get jobs now!
  • Asked Alice Brauner the CEO of CCC Films what she thinks of withoutabox.com
  • got an account on withoutabox.com
  • made a project to promote & distribute my movie from ZFF 2014 "Zufalls Zauber" starring Gabriel da Silva.
  • went to cologne for four days to shoot with Kunst & Verstand. Though I waited a lot and only could get 30 Seconds in front of the camera, it was an adventure and fun to meet other actors!
  • skyped with my acting friend Will Cohn
  • worked on my acting blog (a new one)
  • had a call with Kunst & Verstand where after he was shocked about my age. So I guess, that this is over.

Merry Christmas to all of you and a happy 2015!!!

Samstag, 1. November 2014

active for acting november 2014

Here I go again!!!


  • Received the new dates for rehearsal with die Freischwimmer.
  • Read the Play "The Balcony-Scene" by John Chapman & Anthony Marriot at Café Hubertus. I help direct my friend Eva Mann at LAWUA.
  • Instead of the Play "The Balcony-Scene" I found a lot about Romeo & Juliet among these, a monologue by Orlando Bloom.
  • Ask Testo about the new frame of work and set new dates. 
  • Had lunch with Eva.
  • Go to LAWUA with my friend Eva to see how she directs and what the progress of the play is, so I can coach them too.
  • Discussed with my friend Johannes Just from the Band Liricas Analas, if an artists management be wise already. we figured not yet.
  • Got a call from a director whom wants to produce a TV-Series and sent him pictures he requested.
  • Before I read the Synopsis.
  • Recalled him on Sunday and he wanted to meet me but I have an appointment at 16.00 o'clock! DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!!!
  • So I resent pictures of me and I hope he likes them.
  • Prepared for Testo shooting.
  • Called my mom if she could send me a picture with short hair form me, because I wanted to let this director know how I'd look with it. And of course I probably need her car, on that she offered me to buy one for me.
  • here some of the pictures I sent to him. Hopefully not to provocative.


    • went to see Rolf Sommer at Theater Rigiblick in his one man comedyshow "Sommer im Weltall"
    • The director was very unserious. No company name, no email adress of a company, a yahoo adress and you didn't find anything about someone called Marco online. I asked the production company mentioned in the email (letters, everyone can write some letters into an email, but not everybody gets a logo of a company) and so far they didn't answer. But an acting friend of mine got the same calls and emails from him and when her boyfriend called as her manager, it all lead to the presumption that it's about a pron. But honestly real pron productions are visible in the internet. So this one must be super faked!
    • Rehersal at Testo.
    • Shooting with Testo. I had something like my own actingcoach. The CEO wanted to make sure the Shoot is done the he wants. Really cool.
    • Forgot to take pictures. But I have one of the wall in my Hotelroom! It's a great message!


    Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2014

    how I'd plan my acting career if I could go back in time

    If I could plan my acting career again I'd do these things different.



    and of course I did all that already in my teens and not in my twenties.

    Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2014

    isabel's selfmade movies

    The Movie I did for ZFF Talent Contest 2014.

    A Video about my travel thorugh Namibia in 2008.


     
    An animation I did to promote the Theatre-Sport group HDTV I used to be Member of.

    Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2014

    movies I've seen on the 10th zurich film festival

    Here the List of Movies I've seen and what I think about them.


    • Labyrinth des Schweigens
      this movie impressed me the most. It's a really good german movie and I love the performance of the main actor and actress Alex Fehling and Friederike Becht. The cruelty of WW2 is being silenced by traitors as well as victims until a young judge makes it his issue. the story is based on history and of course the movie concerns a heavy chapter of human history or it's post effect on the world. Nontheless the movie is humanistic and tells the story beautifully.

    • and so it goes
      a classic among the film world. Two people in their late years find second love with each other. though the story truly is not one of the best, the two actors Diane Keaton and Michael Douglas make the best of it.

    • Bouboule
      coming of age in french. A nice movie about an overweight boy finding a mentor in a somewhat questionable security man. I don't like movies where the main character has now true growth in it, especially if it's a coming of age movie. It's nice but not much more.

    • Ruth & Alex
      this movie with Diane Keaton & Morgan Freeman I liked a lot better. It's not about just a couple finding new love. It has more depth to it, since the couple spent a lifetime with each other. They deal with getting older and a significant problem when becoming so.

    • Song from the Forest
      impressive but not truly making a point. a man living since centuries with an native tribe in Africa.

    • My old Lady
      here I need to read the play. A wonderful story about an inheritance with beautiful surprises. Actress Maggie Smith was just wonderful although I don't know how much different she is in other roles or in real life, but I believed her every second. Truly one of my favorites.

    • Cut Bank
      a movie about a village, a boy whom wants to leave and the men form there. Most impressed was I by a native american looking actor whom is not listed on imdb although he had a significant part to me. The biggest disappointment was the only bigger female role whom simply was a classical cliche but well played by Teresa Palmer. John Malkovich and Billy Bob Thornton are of course great. Best shot scene at the entrance where first Thornton then Malkovich is in focus.

    • Red Army
      wonderful documentary about the red army and it's glorious times. The most wonderful fact here, that male friends can forgive each other although feeling betrayed.

    • Ulrich Siedl – A Director at Work
      a TV Movie. It's alright.

    • The Green Prince
      this movie a documentary is truly one to watch. after this you have a small insight what it's like to be a spy. what it's like to be a real spy and the line being walked by them. It's also a movie about a friendship that should not be, but under unbelievable circumstances develops. Astonishing I'd say.

    • The Skeleton Twins
      this movie was to superficial for the rather heavy subject to me. Although I think, that making stories light for the audience instead of shocking them, I just didn't like nor understand what the key message should be.
    Sadly none of the seen movies made it on my favorite's list. Which means I'd watch any of them a second or even third time.

    Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 2014

    active for acting october 2014

    The 10th Zurich Film Festival was full on and I watched a lot of movies which you can see here.


    my voice for silence

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qE-A_-fKy0

    Freitag, 26. September 2014

    making of bubbles dance

    • first day of the shoot. My friend Eva and I discuss our dresses and I realise that all I have are dirty with stains. But Eva sais use it anyway nobody will see it.

    Donnerstag, 25. September 2014

    isabel's favorite books


    • Desiree by Annemarie Selinko
    • Truly Madly Yours by Rachel Gibson
    • Zauber gegen die Kälte, Giocconda Belli
    • Dreams from my Father, Barack Obama 
    • Die Weisse Rose, Inge Scholl

    isabel's favorite plays

    Theater Plays I love

    isabel's favorite movies

    isabel's acting-bucketlist

    Just had the Idea that I could actually create a Bucket list for me. Will not only be about acting, but mainly.

    • Become President of an Actingclub (I didn't know, but now that it's the case).
    • Be once part of a Filmcontest at a Filmfestival (Looks pretty much like it happens9:
    • Direct a Theater Piece (December 2013 was first night and last night).
    • Go for a skiweekend with friends (January 2013)
    • Go for a skiweekend at the chalet of my grandma with friends (November 2014)
    • shoot one of my owns skripts (happening now fall/winter 2014 with bubbles dance)
    • make a movie of a trip (Paris 2008, deleted my youtube accoutn once. It's gone. *feeling stupid*



    Still to do
    • win an award
    • be part of a feature movie
    • shoot my own feature movie
    • finish a script for a feature movie
    • set up a creative stage project

    Donnerstag, 11. September 2014

    active for acting september 2014


    This month I was just back home in beautiful Switzerland and went after my moneyjob, my projects and not much more.
    • The Moment I said that the guy from www.kunstundverstand.de might never call me back, he did! It was the first of September late evening on a sunday and a wonderful chat. He promised to send me some scenes which I should film-audition. 
    • Render the Video for my school audition so I can upload it on Vimeo.
    • upload it on Vimeo. Vimeo's sound quality is by the way better than the one of youtube.
    • send that school I applied the Video a second time.
    • Organize with my good acting/directing friend Eva Mann that we shoot my scene for www.kunstundverstand.de.
    • Get the Feedback from that School, that Lisa my second role from the movie Girl Interrupted was not good enough and that I should resend a Video with a monologue from a play.
    • Cancel my meeting with Eva because there where no scenes sent by www.kunstundverstand.de. They must be very busy.
    • At the same time I had to cancel for the shoot of my script "bubbles dance" because the camera man who hosts the blog Agentinnen.net couldn't. He is the nicest guy I ever met. I swear!
    • Then Eva and I wanted to meet nonetheless, but because it was such a nice sunny day, I asked three friends of whom I know they can photograph and Sophie came!
    • Shoot first part of "bubbles dance".
    • discuss with Eva our Project 7DaysPlaysSenses
    • Send the Invitation to participate of 7DaysPlaysSenses to my acting friends. (Sorry they're to many to actually list them here.)
    • At this very Moment I receive the Script by my contact from www.kunstundverstand.de!
    • My acting friend Rolf Sommer writes me and I respond. He is currently in the play "Achtung Schwiiz!" Which is already handled as the next swiss stage hit.
    • Eva whom is working for two amateurish Theatergroups as a director asks if I sent 7DaysPlaysSenses to my acting friends. I confirm I did and that I got feedback that it was the wrong time. (It's getting winter, Theater Season).
    • My Contact www.kunstundverstand.de from  calls me out of nowhere and wants to know if I got the Script and since I did why I didn't confirm so. I promised to get better and actually give confirmation. Then he asked me how far I'd live away. "About three hours by car." "Well do you have a car." "If I need a car I get a car." "So do you have an agent." "Yes, my agency is called ZAV." I was glad that I could offer at least one thing! "Oh well they are very complicated and really no good." I think, well thats what I got from them too. Or at least I believe that. In the end after I actually disappointed all his questions but for those that I have twitter and a Facebook fanpage. He asked me "Well, how did I get to you anyway?" And I answered "I have no idea. I just had an inbox message from my homepage where someone asked me how much I'd cost for a voice over." "Well anyway although you have no agent and no TV experience there is something to you. (IMAGINE SOMEONE TELLING AN ACTOR THAT!) Yes there is something. So just send me those audition tapes before the weekend. We need to know if we have to cast you for emotional or non emotional roles.
    • I had already planned to take the shots and so my Improvisation Theater Partners from "die Freischwimmer" had to help me out. So M&M did and we took the scenes after rehearsal. But of course the criminal scene was blurred.
    • So the next day I retook the scene with my acting friend Victor whom has just been an intern at Theater Hora.
    • cut the scene and upload them to Vimeo send them to my contact from www.kunstundverstand.de.
    • Send my application for the Casting of Mamma Mia the Musical.
    • and send the information to my friend Jeroen Dekkers whom already had the chance to go there, but since he was in NYC with me at that time couldn't participate.
    • Write my active for acting September article because it's already long and it's not even mid september (12th to be exact).
    • Just at the time I wrote this far, I received another scene from the guy from kunstundverstand.de.
    • Filmed the scene with my wonderful friend Victor whom had a fun experience with the camera, which you can see here.
    • Rendered them in Adobe After Effects.
    • Uploded them on Vimeo.
    • sent them to www.kunstundverstand.de.
    • Got the Feedback form www.kunstundverstand.de and redid the whole thing.
    • He from www.kunstundverstand.de called again and the longer I talk to him the better I like him. Awesome guy.
    • At this point I felt like I was in the mood he wanted for one of his texts and retook it on my phone and sent it with the other two.
    • His Answer on that was: "I'm positively surprised about that change. The last Video is good to proceed and build up on it." If you want to know which video he meant, watch it here.
    • Went to the big film premiere of "20 rules for Sylvie" in original "20 Regeln für Sylvie" a very nice swiss movie who pushes the border of being too much only a little. It also has an actuality with the conflict of being a "french-swiss" from the mountains and going for the big swiss-german city. My friend Alex Lampart did the Make-up! And the Movie stars Carlos Leal and Viola von Scarpatetti. And yes I went to the Afterparty and yes I went to work with only 2.5 hours sleep.
      Myself, Manuel Miglioretto, Alex Lampart
    • My wonderful acting friend Rolf Sommer organized a free ticket at Casino Theater, Winterthur for me to see his show "Attention Swiss" original "Achtung Schwiiz". I loved it! A really good comedy because it breaks every cliche as soon as it's brought on stage. And Rolf turns from a upper class Gentleman to a lower class working man. Hilarious! Worth watching.
    • Preparing for Bubbles Dance Shoot 2! *Excited*
    • Beloved Alex Lampart who had to create my blue eye for the scene was on time and did great work!
      Alex Lamparts work.
    • turned out that the guy with a lot of camera knowledge who created the platform agentinnen.net actually got sick and forgot to tell me earlier but 30 minutes later than he should have been at my place. 
    • Cool as Eva Mann my beloved acting friend would say, I again called all of my friends and one of my best, Anja, actually stopped learning on exams, to help me. She's wonderful. If you ever want to see her on stage, she plays annually at the amateurish theatre group friesenberg. She is also talented in filming as we figured out that day. She is our main Camerawoman now!
    • Became President of a Theaterclub in Naters (State of Wallis), my friend Eva had to build one for her projects. The vote was set in two minutes.
    • Tried to create a crew for the 72 Contest at Zurich Film Festival. Probably I just send in one on my own.
    • Had a nice show with HDTV tonight (25.09.2014) at Kanzlei Club with M&M my Improvfriends from die Freischwimmer. It was a little like coming home since I used to be with HDTV as well once.
    • AND I got my Badge for Zurich Film Festival!!! Whoop Whoop!
    my bag, my badge, my festival
    • Then the subject for the 72 Contest at Zurich FilmFestival was announced and I had a blast creating my 72 Second-Movie, because everything just fell into place. Conan & I went to get the light from Filmtechniker Kollektiv on friday, and although we've been late, they gave us all we needed! On Saturday we shot the movie, then I went for a Birthdayparty. On Sunday I cut my Movie with in 30 minutes and then my friend Marc called his cousin Jan and within 50 minutes we had a great selfmade soundtrack instead of my own piano tinkling! AWESOME! If you want to VOTE FOR US, CLICK HERE!
    • Then I went to Zurich Summit with my friend Eva Mann. Before that I had a nice talk and shoot on the greencarpet with Fabio the Photographer from Mediadom.
    © Fabio Confessore
    • Finally I went to see the Movie "Labyrinth des Schweigens" starring Alexander Fehling and Friedericke Becht. Both great and I loved the Movie a lot. Although it's a difficult topic, the movie is done with decency. 
    • Went to the SBKV (Swiss Guild of Stage Performers) event for actors and met a lot of fun, guess what, actors! 
    • Then I went to a ZFF Talk with Peter Fonda. Nice.

    Sonntag, 31. August 2014

    Stücke mit Berühmtheiten


    En Suite   Spielalter: 30 bis 80   Autorin: Sigrid Behrens   Verlag: Drei Masken


    Sie ist die Ikone der sechziger Jahre: Audrey Hepburn, im kleinen Schwarzen, mit Zigarettenspitze und verführerischem Blick. So faszinierend das Bild, das die Nachwelt von Hepburn festzementiert hat, auch ist, so einseitig ist es: Sigrid Behrens sucht nach den Facetten dieser beeindruckenden Persönlichkeit, schaut hinter die Fassade und gewährt in ihrem Monolog einen Einblick in das Leben des Filmstars, der öffentliche Empfänge und Dinnerpartys mied und stets den Rückzug ins Private suchte.

    active for acting june 2014

    Nothing much happened here. I was in preparation for a longer Trip.


    • Meeting with the President of the Spreitenbach Amateurish Theatre to get the DVD of my first piece I directed called "Hausbesuche".
    • watch the swiss National Circus called Knie and their clown of this year David Larible. He is a really sweet & funny clown.
    • Meet my acting friend Deborah Meister to discuss the american acting market and how it works. She is in LA now!!!
    • a Birthday Party performance at Dampfschiff, Brugg for a friend of my Improvgroup "die Freischwimmer".
    • Fly to NYC for my Acting Summerschool at Bill Esper Studio
    • My Birthday.
    • Start classes at Bill Esper Studio. For course information please look here
    • Meet with my swiss acting friend who lives in NYC Nadine Kübler. We were on the High-Line which is a really nice Park now.
    • Travel Brooklyn: DUMBO, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Carussel
    • Visa confirmation Meeting with the Visa responsible at Bill Esper. (This is important, if I ever want to come back to the US.)
    • Rehearsal with my first acting Partner, charismatic Noor Hamdi!
    • Gay Parade NYC. watch performances from different cultural background.
    • spend a wonderful evening with all my classmates from acting class at Artbar! It became my favorite bar, especially because of the lounge in the back.
    • watch "Twelve Angry Jurors" with my classmate Harry Lipstein. Whom taught me to always ask good questions!

    Freitag, 29. August 2014

    active for acting july 2014

    I was in NYC at the Bill Esper Studio Summer intensive for seven weeks.


    active for acting august 2014

    For this month I did following tasks to get further with acting.


    • wrote email to GZSZ Caster (heard nothing back)
    • Recontacted a director who was currently shooting a film and said I'd get a casting but then he declined it two hours before (heard nothing back)
    • Tried to contact another director whom I had the phone number once for a project I had written due to his inspiration to it, sadly the phonenumber expired. So I worte the production company where he works. (heard nothing back)
    • finished two scripts for film 
    • wrote a blog platform for an interview (I postponed the interview)
    • sent music sheets to my cousin to rehearse a song for an audition, but then decided to better go with two monologues.
    • shot myself with those two monologues for that particular audition
    • cut that movie for the audition
    • applied to that school I auditioned for
    • sent the video to my dayjob in hope to render the movie smaller (didn't work)
    • told my homepage guy to make some changes (he did)
    • finished my english intro text for my homepage (he did implement that too)
    • reshot the movie for the audition due to the requirements
    • recut it as well
    • then I shot another video for a company which was in contact for a movie with me during July, www.kunstundverstand.de.
    • sent that video to them (it was really bad).
    • organized a camera man for the script "bubbles dance"
    • sent "bubbles dance" to the camera man
    • asked my friend Eva Mann if she would play one part in "bubbles dance" (she is a director for theater in Switzerland her Homepage is here.)
    • Shot myself as Lisa and Viola (but Youtube deleted Lisa due to being to similar to another video. So here the Vimeo links: Viola, Lisa)
    • sent the Link to the school for audition (heard nothing back)
    • had a inspiring meeting with Amanda working for cfd I know her form the "Vagina Monologues" Project in 2013. We discussed my script bubbles dance. 
    • another meeting with my wonderful friend Eva Mann (www.evamann.ch) to find a date for bubbles dance and discuss her idea of 7days-pieces-senses to make a showcase to see other swiss artists and actors.
    • research the best stock photo sell page for me and decide for alamy. (might make me less dependent on my money job and more flexible for acting)
    • go through the whole process for a week to get 4 pictures uploaded and their requirements set.
    • called back the guy from that company whom wanted a video audition. then he promised to call me back. after ten minutes I retry. He is angry that I disturb him. (heard never again of him) I guess he works for this company: www.kunstundverstand.de/
    • Write on my story which should get a book. (If it gets a bestseller, they might make a movie of it and then I want the main part)
    • accredit myself for the Zurich Film Festival
    • Ask acting, directing and music friends if they want to be part of the first 72 hours contest the Zurich Film Festival does.