Acting Audition Head Shot Tips

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Dr. Charles Grimes and I'm speaking on behalf of Expert Village about preparing for the business end of an audition and preparing for call backs. Along with your resume is what actors call a head shot, which is simply a shot of you from about the shoulders up that shows your face. You want to think about making this a picture that is professionally done. If you're friends are very good at digital photography you can perhaps use them. You don't want to spend too much. You don't want to obsess over having a great picture. Just have a decent one. You want this to be a picture of you at your best, not too casual, not too formal, not too made up, you want it to look like yourself but the best side of yourself. The best possible version of you on any given day. Here we have some examples: This looks too much like a high school yearbook, we don't want that. This is a person who is not happy to be in front of the camera that wasn't a good shot. So think about finding someone who can bring out the best in you, and have a pretty picture of you, but not too pretty. Often nowadays, you might want to put a smaller version of your headshot on one corner of your resume. And here's another headshot from a friend of mine which is quite pretty. And you can shrink the picture down and put it on the corner of your resume and that way the director doesn't have to flip over from your resume to your headshot to figure out who you are. If your headshots aren't great, don't worry about it, you're there to be an actor, you're there to do a job. They won't hire you because you're pretty, they'll hire you because you're good."