Booking Your Self-Submitted Audition, Part 1 of 5

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SAG Sample Résumés
Headshot Comparison
Résumé Comparison
Hey everyone,
Welcome back. So we’re going to have a series now talking about self-submission. When I started 3,900 years ago, you could not self-submit. Oh, you could in Drama-Logue and Backstage. You’d send stuff off, but it was pretty hit and miss. But these days, it has never been easier to promote yourself and your career through online services and submissions, etc. So I’m going to talk about that – the tools you’ll need to do it well and what to look out for.
So first and foremost, let’s just talk about having a quality headshot and resume. I think we’ve done a previous blog about taking a good headshot and the world of difference between having your buddy shoot a shot and having a pro shoot a shot. In fact, here’s an example of a killer headshot, and here’s an example of one done by a friend.
Night and day. See the difference? Okay. So. You want to have a good headshot, especially early in your career when you don’t have many credits, many relationships going for you. That is your calling card, and you need to have something that really is powerful and pops.
Okay, but now you flip that thing over, because they’re going to flip it over, and you have your resume. There’s a whole resume formatting system that’s needed. But here’s what I want to talk about: let’s just say you’re starting out and you don’t have many credits. You don’t want to lie. You don’t want to add a bunch of stuff that’s not accurate. I get that. And yet, everyone understands you have to start from somewhere. So really what I’m trying to say is: be honest, and yet do your best to start filling that thing out.
And there are ways that you can have a resume that is thin with credits but still looks professional, and the more you build it and start to advance it, you continue to add those things. But what I want to say is: make sure that it looks professional, so that it shows you in the best light possible.
Okay? So we will include these in here. I’ll try to attach an example of somebody very early in their career, with hardly any credits, and then someone maybe a good couple years in with more happening and you can compare the two. Okay? So there it is. We’ll just start with resumes, and next week we’ll work onto online submission.
 
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