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About Me Video for actors
About Me videos – Why they are so important for actors (and for your visibility) Three days of filming, lots of talented acting students and plenty of moving moments in front of and behind the camera. What was going on?About Me-Videos 2025! 🎬 An About Me video is an absolute must-have for actors today. It doesn’t just show your performance, but above all you – your personality, your voice, your charisma. Because: Casters no longer just want to see beautiful
Podcast Moderation
Podcasts are springing up like mushrooms everywhere. Businesses, insurance companies, publishers, TV stations, political and social groups, to name just a few, all choose podcasts to expand their social media offerings. Podcasts are approachable, authentic and give the listener the feeling of being there. Studio Vocal Acting offers the new moderators practical coaching. The second season of the Industry Insights podcast is currently going online. Just listen. The moderator duo happily told me: “We are also heard by the European
About Me Videos for actors
The About Me videos are an important acquisition tool for aspiring actors to apply for the first days of shooting. Despite Corona, we were able to realize all videos this academic year 2020/21. The overall concept for this was developed by the lecturer Carola von Seherr-Thoss, and this year Alex Schaad, director and former HFF student, was also at the camera again. Each of the students develops their own “script” for this and then selects the desired image and sound
How are stage and business related?
The theater stage and the business stage have a lot in common. In both cases, it is about presenting your role well, mastering the looseness of the game and being able to act and react in an up-to-date, flexible and creative way. Many tools from acting and speaking training can also be used in business to further develop presence, voice, facial expressions and gestures according to requirements. More on this under the link to FOKUS online
Homeoffice – Present digitally
The online presentation coaching in the Studio Vocal-Acting in Munich is aimed at professionals who take on a high level of responsibility in their job and want to optimize their digital performance in their home office. Here you can find out how your home office can become an effective stage. You will receive important tools on the topic of setting in the home office, voice and speaking as well as video use and camera perspectives in the home office. You
Content, voice ans presentation – Core elements for a good presentation
Presentations have an important function in the business context. It’s about winning over the audience, but also about concrete goals that are being pursued – for example, about getting new orders or follow-up orders. A presentation coaching must therefore start at different points – the content, the voice and the presentation. >> Read more
The movie “Hello Again” has its world premiere
The film “Hello Again”, directed and screenplayed by Maggie Peren, has its world premiere in the pop-up drive-in cinema at the Munich Film Festival. I have been supporting Maggie as a coach in the development of her screenplays for many years. This is often a process that extends over several years and many drafts of the script, which makes it all the more gratifying when the film then celebrates its premiere on the big screen. Screenwriting coaching, which focuses on
Coaching online
Good coaching can also take place online, as the corona crisis taught us. Studio Vocal-Acting now also offers online coaching for speech and voice training, presentation, filming and casting preparation. This opens up completely new possibilities for coaching; for example by switching on via zoom directly in your own home studio or at your own workplace. There is more independence from space and time. Just try it! We have also switched to online teaching in university teaching, so the “Media
E-Casting with your Smartphone
Nowadays, the training of young actors should be as varied as possible in order to be able to provide optimal preparation for the young actors’ first years as a professional. This is exactly where the practice-oriented projects of Carola von Seherr-Thoss, who has been a lecturer in the drama course at the August Everding Theater Academy for over 20 years, come in. One of these projects is the smartphone e-casting workshop, in collaboration with Martin Douglas, who founded the Castconnectpro
Bring momentum into everyday life: Short training for body and voice
Great challenges – whether of a professional or private nature – are easier to master if you have a relaxed attitude. So today I would like to give you a few suggestions to get you out of the “everyday mode” and into an energized “presentation mode” quickly. The moving breath opens the voice , strengthens the presence in the room and releases the body gestures. This is how speaking is fun! With the following exercises you can easily release physical blockages,
8 steps to the perfect presentation in Studio Vocal-Acting
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Do you often have a presentation in a larger group and want to improve your performance? Then your repertoire should not only include chic slides. Convince your audience of yourself and your ideas! Whether it’s a board presentation, a specialist speech or a keynote at a conference, with these eight practical tips you will make your appearance an event that will inspire your viewers: Be present and use your effect on the audience to
Studio Vocal-Acting now on YouTube
Das Studio Vocal Acting mit Carola von Seherr-Thoss ist nun auch auf YouTube zu Hause. The Studio Vocal Acting with Carola von Seherr-Thoss is now also at home on YouTube. We would like to make inspiring and motivating videos available for you there at regular intervals. Visit us on YouTube!
Surprising insights into university teaching
Carola von Seherr-Thoss has been teaching actors at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding in Munich for almost 20 years. As part of her sabbatical semester, she wrote an entertaining, humorous and at the same time informative essay about two training modules – storytelling and speech formation in the acting department. The special thing is that the actors always have their say here. They describe their experiences vividly and authentically. This is how university teaching is fun! There are two
Storytelling – Develop Content that will be remembered!
Storytelling: winged words – proverbs and common idioms In your story you can be exactly that – icing on the cake – with which you manage to make your listener or viewer remember it for a long time. The more complex the content, the more important it is to find simple, to the point sentences that are quickly and lastingly anchored in the listener’s mind. And how do we best remember new things? By linking it to what is known.
Studio Vocal-Acting is featured on Crew United
Studio Vocal-Acting is now also represented on the Crew United acting portal : Here you can get an overview of the film projects for which Carola von Seherr-Thoss has coached actors.
Image video – Digital products need a face.
Digital products need a face. n times of the turbulent Internet, websites not only require good technical know-how. More and more companies advertise with image videos on their own website and try to activate or retain customers with YouTube marketing. The right “image” is important here. In order for the image video to appear as authentic as possible, it is advisable to get your own employees in front of the camera. Above all, digital products need a face, they have
