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If you are figuring out how to make a slate shot that actually helps your Actors Access profile, start with the headshot it will sit beside. The goal is consistency. The mechanics of how to make a slate shot are simple, but the presentation choices matter. The person in the seven second clip should feel […]

If you have spent any time on Actors Access, you have probably seen the term slate shot sitting next to one of your photos and wondered whether it was something you were supposed to have. Most actors find out about it sideways. An agent mentions it in passing, or a submission screen asks for one, […]

Actor and corporate headshots may look similar on the surface, but they are built to do completely different jobs. One is designed to create trust. The other is designed to create curiosity. That difference changes everything about how the image feels when someone sees it for the first time. Over the last 30+ years photographing […]

Barry came in carrying something a lot of actors carry: a LinkedIn photo he’d been using as his headshot. It was a perfectly fine image for a professional networking profile. Warm smile, approachable energy, nothing technically wrong with it. But it wasn’t doing what an actor headshot is supposed to do. It wasn’t communicating range, […]

Most actor headshots don’t fail because they’re bad photos. They fail because they’re solving the wrong problem. The assumption is: if I look good, auditions follow. Casting decisions don’t work that way. They happen in seconds, based on a question that has nothing to do with how attractive you are or how well you were […]

Most actors in NYC and New Jersey who aren’t getting signed aren’t being held back by talent. They’re being held back by materials that aren’t ready- and most of them don’t know it yet. If that sounds familiar, here’s what’s actually going on and how to fix it. Why Actors in NYC and New Jersey […]