An interactive reel is a reel cut into chapters, so somebody watching can jump to the scene they care about instead of sitting through four minutes to reach it.
The Videos page only ever accepted a pasted address. So filling it meant leaving the admin, finding each video on YouTube, copying its address, coming back, pasting, saving, and doing that again for every clip.
An embedded video is the single heaviest thing most actor websites carry, and almost all of that weight is spent before anybody watches anything.
A working actor accumulates media faster than they expect. Two rounds of headshots, production stills from four jobs, a reel, three clips cut from the reel, behind-the-scenes photographs somebody sent you.
Mark any video as featured and it moves to the top of your video page, full width, ahead of everything else.
The video pages on every design have been rebuilt. Same videos, new layout: a large primary player, a clean list of everything else, and a page that no longer takes four seconds to appear on a phone.
Are you an aspiring actor looking to showcase your acting skills online? If so, video content is the perfect way to do it!
Tip Thursday - Fixing the Blank Video Frames on Instagram Have you ever encountered a blank preview image on Instagram video?
Over the past year I've been digging through YouTube and Vimeo looking for reels. Trying to figure out what's good quality what's just plain horrible.
Acting reels, demo reels, sizzle reels... call them what you will. Right after your headshot it's the second most important thing you need to convince a stranger you are a perfect choice for their film.
First of all, if you don't have a YouTube channel yet, or you haven't stylized it yet, check out Part 1 to this blog: Free Banner & YouTube in 12 Easy Steps - otherwise you should be good to go to start applying these tips to your YouTube channel and to the way you advertise it.
I have previously spoken about starting a YouTube channel, but to this day I get questions from actors saying "I don't have YouTube, how do I upload videos directly to Web For Actors?" Well...