Headshot Blog/Acting Advice

Actor Headshots need to be retouched.

Nuff’ said.

But how much retouching is enough, and what, really, should be retouched?

This video walks an actor through the basic elements that need retouching in their headshot.

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Be honest.

If you saw a businessman on a corner, dressed in suit and tie, desperately begging for work, you’d ask yourself:

“Why doesn’t he do something more effective?”

The standard actor dream seems to be: do good work, get discovered, become famous.

Believe it or not, the toughest part of the equation is actually the “do good work” part – simply because most actors don’t have the faintest clue how to really land the work that will get them discovered.

As actors (at least in the traditional sense), we often feel at a loss… we can’t do our art until a script exists, a director is attached, and a production is in the casting process… that’s a lot of steps before the actor is ever involved (and an oversimplification at best). And once a project is at the casting stage, we’re stuck competing with the ba-jillion other actors (and wannabe’s) who want the same part we do.

So what’s an actor to do?

Stop Acting Like an Actor & Act Like an Entrepeneur

An entreprenuer is a person in business for him/herself – that’s the simple definition.

I would go even further to suggest that a TRUE entrepeneur is a business person who recognizes opportunity, and uses opportunity for business… …

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