View Sample Modeling Resumes And Headshots
In this article we’ll discuss the details of preparing and submitting your theatre, film, or modeling resume along with your headshots. You can also view samples of resumes for headshots. Read carefully to get the greatest benefit.
Acting Career Information First
The good news is that there is actually very little special that you need to know about putting together a resume to go along with your headshots. The acting or modeling resume you use will be the same resume you use for every other situation, but will be accompanied by your headshots. Now there are a number of different ways that you can deliver these two basic representations of yourself as an artist, and they will mostly depend on the setting.
Acting As A Career You Sell Door To Door
If you are going in to audition for a show, you will obviously just bring your resume and headshot with you to the audition. Chances are there will be at least a few other people auditioning, and so the standard practice to make everything easy for everyone to manage is to simply staple your headshot onto the resume, so that the resume faces out in one direction and the headshot faces out in the other. That way each artist is represented by a single, simple sheet, and faces can easily be put together with names.
Acting Career By Numbers
The same basic principle applies to just about any setting; you want to try and make it as easy as possible for the people reviewing your materials to keep everything straight. If you’re applying for representation by an agency, they’ll probably ask you for nothing more than a resume and headshot, in which case it would usually be appropriate to following the instructions above. There may also be some specific directions from the agency, so be sure to follow them exactly as you want your materials to fit into their process naturally. If there are no details specified by the agency regarding the forat of materials they want to receive, there is no reason why you should not call the secretary at the agency and ask if they want the resume and headshot stapled together, and whether there are any additional materials they generally want included.
My Resume Is Smaller Than Your Acting Career
The resume for your acting career should only be one side of one page. Anything more than that, and you simply have to either shrink the size, change the acting resume format, or cut out some of the information because a single side of a single page is absolutely the industry standard. If you include more than that, you will probably not be taken seriously. I’ve seen acting resumes from establish film and theatre actors with many years of very noteworthy performances and stacks of awards, and their resumes are still exactly one side of one page. The idea of an acting resume is not to provide a comprehensive listing of every part you’ve ever had, but rather to provide a quick understanding of what you do. So as you gain experience and get better parts under your belt, you will simply be updating your acting resume to include your most impressive career highlights.
Model / Acting Career
For modeling resumes, the exact same is true, except you’ll often use a body shot instead of a headshot, or be asked to include both head shots and body shots. The resume itself operates on the same principle. Modeling is not computer programming or accounting; anyone looking over your resume is not trying to see whether you’ll be a dependable member of a team, they just want to see whether you’ve got the goods. So if you do a shoot for a big magazine, that looks great on your resume and should be included. The same goes for large commercial projects. As you gain experience and get bigger and better jobs to add to your resume, you’ll actually be replacing the older and less impressive experiences that appeared on your resume prior to that.
Acting Careers On The Internet
For an online resume and headshots, you’ll be aiming at a much more general audience. Usually you set up an online resume on the off chance that someone you meet at an industry party takes an interest in you and you have something tangible you can direct them towards in order to get a sense of you as an employable artist. You can view an example actor’s resume elsewhere on this site, but the same things apply. Just because it’s on a web page and is not technically restricted to the size of a paper page, don’t think that anyone is going to want to sift through every job you’ve ever had. Do not include your experience in the retail or service industries on your actor’s resume or your model’s resume whether it is in paper or online. Take a look at that example. You want simple, clean, easy to read, and ready access to your photos. It’s that simple.
More Acting Career Information
There are many more sample resumes for headshots available on the web for viewing, and you can even get a free online actor resume or free online model resume through a number of professional and commercial organizations.