You need to decide what kind of an actor you want to be & what environment you want to be in.
Do you want to stay at a community level or do you want to become an actor with a wider platform reaching a wider audience with little or no room for anything but your work when undertaking a professional project that you are being paid for?
Food for thought.
If you want to delve into film then I would say categorically do not go near a local theatre school of acting because there you will be taught to overact and that will be unacceptable in film. I would suggest a local Theatre group instead, Shakespeare if possible.
With film acting, where the camera is right in your face you cannot get away with being fake so you need to learn your craft. Remember you are one person within a large team working together to create a masterpiece so need to bring it when you hear action. Every time!
Film acting technique is very specialised. It’s a journey where you start finding out about yourself about what makes you tick what brings out what emotions in you? It’s about research, it’s about questions, it’s about solving the puzzle that is your character & building from the ground up the person you will embody.
Most of the work you will do as an actor will be at home on your own so you need discipline. And a passion for your work that drives that discipline. Then when the homework is done you will have the creative freedom to play in rehearsal. Try things out with your fellow actors. Fail and succeed and fail again and succeed again. All the time building the performance with your team.
So, in short it is vital that you think about what kind of an environment you want to be in as an actor & what level of work you are prepared to put in to get into that environment. Then choose your training ground.
