Are you ready for a close up shot? Being a star takes more than being lucky. You can learn to recognize your natural talents and develop them into skills that allow you to climb to stardom. You can give yourself a shot at fame and fortune with the help of hard work, career management, and self-advertising. You think you have what it takes?
Steps
Part 1 of 3: Developing Talent
Step 1. Find a talent that matches your natural abilities
You have to specialize if you want to be a star. What will be the characteristic by which people will recognize you? What is the ability, skill or talent that will take you to the top? Think about what is easiest for you and pay attention to the people who advise you so that you find the quality that will make you a star.- Are you a gifted athlete? When you and your friends get together to play a sport, are you always the first one they choose or are you the one who scores the most points? If so, you might have what it takes to be a sports star.
- You love the music? If you enjoy singing, playing an instrument, or dancing to music, you might have what it takes to be a pop star, singer, or rock star.
- Do you have the gift of loquacity? Are you a convincing and organized person and a leader among your friends? Do all people listen to what you say? If so, you might have what it takes to be a politician.
- Do you love to pretend? Do you enjoy movies, plays, and television? Have people ever told you that you have a dramatic presence? If you're a good actor or actress, you might have what it takes to achieve stardom in movies.
Step 2. Find an instructor
Help is required to develop your talents and turn them into star-level skills. You have to get an inner source of information and learn to hone your skills from an expert in the field, whether you want to be a professional in acting, sports, politics, or music. Start by taking acting or music lessons. Get private instruction for the sport you practice. Secure an internship with a local politician or volunteer for a campaign. Learn as much as you can from the people you know who know more than you.Find some exemplary role models in your field. If you want to be an actor, what actors do you admire? Who would you want to emulate? Find someone who will be the basis for shaping your career
Step 3. Study your work
Perfecting your work will require a great deal of effort, whether you do it with the guidance of an instructor or on your own. Studying acting should be an every day of the week occupation if you want to be a star. You should rehearse your lines, even if you spin the hamburgers. You should rehearse your practice routines, even if you take the bus to school.
Absorb all the audiovisual media you can. Watch classic movies or listen to the kind of music you hope to create
Step 4. Practice
Develop a regular practice schedule and dedicate as much of your free time as possible to honing your talents so that you become a star. First-time politicians should practice speeches and public speaking. Musicians have to practice scales. The actors have to practice their dialogues and study their scenes. Pop stars have to take care of their dance moves. Athletes have to train.
Be cautious to focus on what is appropriate. It can be tempting to get caught up in the superficial if you're an actor. Updating your social media, checking TMZ and other sources of gossip is not considered as a practice to be a star. That is a waste of time. Study your work
Part 2 of 3: Advertise Your Skills
Step 1. Get a job that requires little or no experience in the industry
Being recognized is the hardest first aspect of being a star. Make the initial contacts that matter in your industry by starting at the bottom. Make your way and trust that your talent will take you to the end.
- Do you want to make movies and have your name on the marquees? He works as a chief electrician on a film production. A common part of Hollywood is being a person who takes seats, who works too much and who is part of the technical team. You'll be closer to acting and working by harnessing your skills to be a makeup artist, backup cameraman, or member of the lighting crew.
- Politicians usually start working on other campaigns. Give your time to the politicians you believe in and make connections that will help you in your professional career as a politician.
- Athletes must work training or performing other jobs in stadiums. Work as an usher to get into the games for free or work at the concessions. Get your tickets at the stadium and one day you could get onto the field.
- Musicians must work for other bands and collaborate with others. Learn to manage the live sound and help out on the premises, or get a job selling merchandise from the band you like. Be a transportation and assembly manager for the band team and learn what life is like when an artist goes on tour. Stay close to the action.
Step 2. Start networking
Make sure you stay in touch with everyone you meet along the way as you progress in the industry. Try to meet people who are in the same boat as you, whether they are musicians, actors, politicians or aspiring athletes, who are on the same level as you and who have similar goals. Support them and celebrate their successes and accomplishments. Work together to achieve your mutual goals.- Stardom can be very competitive; it is true that there is not much space at the top. However, being caught up in tough rivalries can bring you down much faster than it can get you promoted. Be a positive person.
- Be an easy person to find. Create a LinkedIn page or professional social media page so that you can keep your industry and personal contacts separate and make your relationships more manageable.
Step 3. Take whatever job you can get
Is there a job to run on a political campaign? Is there a job to be the substitute on a team that is the worst in the league? Is there a job for an advertisement for a hemorrhoid cream? These jobs may not sound like ideal for a first-time star, but it is a job. Think that this will create your experience, that it will contribute to your story about your change from poverty to wealth at some point in your life.
Use every opportunity as a possibility to prove yourself and to transcend circumstances with your abilities that can make you a star. Be the star that you are
Step 4. Be a professional
The amateurs show up half prepared, drunk and almost gone at an audition; movie stars show up well rested, rehearsed, and ready to perform. Rock stars don't party the night before they perform, they make sure they're ready to give a great performance. Go to each job with professionalism and composure. Behave as if you belong to that place. Act like a pro and you will act like a star.
Step 5. Get a representative
It can be very difficult to get all the contacts you need in the industry if you do it on your own. In most fields of entertainment and politics, you will need to reach out to a representative who can represent you and who can get you auditions, contacts, and jobs while you focus on the most important part of being the best you can be.Typically, reps take a percentage of what you earn, but sometimes they don't at first. You may have to be willing to make periodic payments to your representative to get you to work up front. Be wise when choosing a representative that you will work with and who will get you the contacts and jobs you need
Step 6. Recognize breaks when they come up
Whether or not you believe in destiny, it is true that a star needs to learn to recognize breaks when they present themselves and to accept every opportunity as a possibility to increase their star power. Forget your ego from time to time and give yourself a chance to succeed. Just one shot can make the difference between a regular job and full stardom.
- A small, one-line dialogue in a movie with a respected director may seem like a pittance, but it means you're working with the best. That is an opportunity.
- A pre-big band gig may seem like a career throwback if you've toured on your own, but how about a chance to do it for a hero? That occurs only once in a lifetime.
Part 3 of 3: Handling Stardom
Step 1. Keep challenging yourself at your job
It is important to stay busy when you have climbed to the top. Celebrities appear and disappear, take advantage of their fifteen minutes of fame and disappear in that same time. However, real stars can learn to negotiate their careers into challenging, interesting, and exciting work that people will enjoy seeing and living in the future.
- Take on various roles and do things that will demand your fans' conception of you as an artist if you are an actor. Think of the movie "Milk: One Man," A Hope with Sean Penn, the movie "My Left Foot" with Daniel Day, and the movie "Monster: Serial Killer" with Charlize Theron.
- If you are a musician or other type of artist, push yourself to maintain the high consistency of your music. Take some time in your recordings and in your presentations. Don't go for cheap and commercial.
- If you are a politician, diversify your interests and be willing to change over time. Embrace the causes that will put you on the right side of history, instead of following the votes in opinion polls minute after minute. Have integrity.
- If you are an athlete, stay focused on being fit and being very prepared. Don't get distracted by clubbing, updating your social networks or doing things that happen off the field. Be the best.
Step 2. Maintain a healthy relationship with the media
Stardom can be a very heavy weight to bear; even strong and talented people can succumb in the spotlight. Learning to negotiate stardom is a challenge that you must seek and that you must deal with as soon as possible. Learn to share your time in exchange for being a celebrity.
- Learn the names of the reporters you work with regularly and talk to them as you would to anyone. Don't let it go to your head and think that people are inferior to you. If the paparazzi are following you, give them five minutes of your time in exchange for some privacy at night. Give them a bone to gnaw on.
- Public angry reactions, like that of Charlie Sheen, John Edwards and Chad Johnson, are hard to overcome. Learn to recognize when you may need a break to avoid destroying your career.
Step 3. Get away from the spotlight for a while
Bright lights can melt stars. Let yourself rest, relax and spend some time away from being the center of attention so that you can resume your professional career as a star rested and ready to work.
If you've done big blockbusters, go somewhere and do a little play that you believe in. Dedicate everything you have to intricacies and art. Record your next album in a distant studio instead of a local one
Step 4. Stay healthy
Stardom symbolizes a fast life, always moving, sleeping little and exhausting. It can be very difficult for some people to eat the right things, avoid drugs and alcohol, and maintain a healthy relationship with sleep. Schedule regular doctor visits and see a nutritionist to make sure you're getting enough vitamins and nutrients in your busy life, as well as being very healthy.