I need to get a good head shot (or two) for my upstart acting career.
I have almost no Acting experience to put on the back of my headshot print (yet), [other than doing a radio show and stand up comedy] so I'm thinking of skipping the usual large Head Shot piece and starting off with a smaller POSTCARD size calling card, where I can put a minimum on data about my experience on the front and leave the back blank.
I want to try out for commercials, or something that doesn't require much acting experience.
I met a young woman who's already got several LO/NO roles on student films and a few paid non-union commercial gigs, and she had no experience when she started out just a few months ago.
She's currently using the postcard size head shot with two pics on the front (head and full body) - and her relatively short resume on the back.
I talked to one photographer who thought an OUTDOOR shot, against the water where I live would be good for a headshot.... and said not to do anything with my hair or makeup that I couldn't re-create for a casting call. He said, producers want a picture of the real person, not some glamour photoshop'd version.
I think I agree with everything except the doing the shot outside concept - because I haven't seen any examples of outdoor shots on the 50 or so headshots I saw at a recent industry mixer.
I thought he might have suggested that because he DIDN'T have a studio. (Ah, me of little faith!)
He wanted $150 for the shots - which seemed reasonable.
Any tips would be appreciated.
Cheers
DreamLarge
I have almost no Acting experience to put on the back of my headshot print (yet), [other than doing a radio show and stand up comedy] so I'm thinking of skipping the usual large Head Shot piece and starting off with a smaller POSTCARD size calling card, where I can put a minimum on data about my experience on the front and leave the back blank.
I want to try out for commercials, or something that doesn't require much acting experience.
I met a young woman who's already got several LO/NO roles on student films and a few paid non-union commercial gigs, and she had no experience when she started out just a few months ago.
She's currently using the postcard size head shot with two pics on the front (head and full body) - and her relatively short resume on the back.
I talked to one photographer who thought an OUTDOOR shot, against the water where I live would be good for a headshot.... and said not to do anything with my hair or makeup that I couldn't re-create for a casting call. He said, producers want a picture of the real person, not some glamour photoshop'd version.
I think I agree with everything except the doing the shot outside concept - because I haven't seen any examples of outdoor shots on the 50 or so headshots I saw at a recent industry mixer.
I thought he might have suggested that because he DIDN'T have a studio. (Ah, me of little faith!)
He wanted $150 for the shots - which seemed reasonable.
Any tips would be appreciated.
Cheers
DreamLarge
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