Determining Your Product Type as an Actor

Video Transcript

"SCOTT DUPONT: Hi. Scott duPont. We're back. I'm the producer of a DVD called Acting-101 on behalf of Expert Village and the last segment we just did was how to identify your product type. And what was funny in between the break, the producer, she is sitting right over there, she saw my composite card and she saw--I was telling her the story about my product type and she goes, "Oh my God! We got to do an extra bonus segment." So this wasn't even slated to beyond here, but let me just tell you real quick. What I did, when I did my surveys, I did a hundred surveys at the airport went up to complete strangers and I asked the same questions I just had, I talked to you about my friend here John Wyrick [PH]. So here is what happened after I did a hundred surveys, 72% percent of complete strangers you cannot ask friends and family 'cause they won't give you an honest answer. They thought I was a golfer. I'm not a golfer, but guess what? If I'm going to an audition or I'm going to a [INDISCERNIBLE] for a print job, if the casting director and people out there that could potentially hire me and pay me a lot of money think I'm a golfer, I'm going to put a picture as a golfer, okay? So right here, here is a picture of a golfer, here is a picture of a businessman, and here is a picture of my wife and two kids. Now here's the joke. I don't have a wife and two kids, okay? I don't have a wife and three kids, but in the surveys I did, one of the questions is--are you married? Well, they figured out these complete strangers, they guessed I was 32 to 42 years old. They all guessed about 80% of them thought I was married, so actually have--I don't have a wedding ring now, but I've got a wedding ring in the flea market that I'll wear to auditions and I actually have this composite card or I'll give the impression that I have kids, so that Disney, Universal, some of these restaurants. When I walk into the audition, I am married. I do have kids and I'm the businessman because that's how I get cast. So anyway, we got some more exciting little venues coming up on Expert Village, but that wraps up this segment on knowing my product type."