House Of Style Productions

marc grant, david hamilton, and holly starr
presents

The Ez Entertainment Book

 Focus
"Making It"
Knowledge, Wisdom, and Guidance for The Talented at Heart
by
David Hamilton

Always promoting you and your crew, staff, or support team !

pictures left to right, Big Lou, Pauly, Lil Shaun, DJ Skribble (MTV) Myself with the mic and Pudgy

Keeping Focus
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When I first put together the show "The Bad Boy Broadcast" in Orlando, I had to find a way to promote our show against our competition. We had a great support staff, and as shown above, all on our team was eager to be out in front of as many people as possible to build word of mouth. I can not mention enough in this first chapter that being out in the public with your talent is everything. In this picture above, my crew had never been on stage in front of 1000's of people, with the exception of DJ Skribble, but they learned fast how to adapt to the change from entertaining in clubs for friends to entertaining 10,000 live. Once you focus on your craft, acting, singing, talking, etc....... you will be able to perform anywhere without thinking about the 10,000 people, but being in tune with your focus on yourself.

Focus on your talent is step 2 of building yourself up.

1. discover your talent
2. formulate a plan to focus on
3. practice your art ( always ) everywhere you go
4. promote yourself ( shows ) word of mouth....
5. which will all help you build a buzzzzzzzzz

If you are a future actor, stand in front of a mirror and read lines, write your own, act out parts, re write written script from movies and act the part out yourself, and focus on the emotion and action you are delivering in the mirror. I also suggest you spend time in book stores and fun places that sell reading materials, and expose yourself to as much new material as possible.... On the next page you actors and writers will learn some new tools from an awesome writer named Amanda Bernero. If your a singer, sing for people all the time, at weddings, parties, wherever you can sing for people. If you are a painter, set up your craft at a fair, work out a deal with a booth where you paint for people on the side and the stand gets a % of the money you make, the same goes for a band you might be in. I used to teach drum lessons to a friend of mine in high school, I used to notice how I would learn something as i taught him something completely different. This is simply because as you practice, teach, or perform, you are also constantly learning new and improved technique, so therefore, it is about focusing on yourself that will help you elevate your craft.

I made a suggestion to a friend of mine today as I was writing this chapter of my book. My friend is helping promote the band I am working with and he asked me what I thought about doing some free acoustic shows. My response was, since the band is in LA, why not set up an acoustic set on Venice Beach, and play for tourists while we hand out flyers. To get on the beach, let's go to a tattoo shop or tobacco store and offer them 50% of the money people give to us for playing. This is creative focused promoting, and it works! Focus to who you are and what you are about is everything. Building a focus comes from a lot of work and soul searching as to who you really are, what you really want to do in life, and how much energy and dedication you are going to put into your work. 

The next guest in this book talks about the importance of focus, networking, and how it relates to building yourself up as an artist.... Meet Tara and see how she lives in Hollywood....

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