Every guide here is a summary of other people's advice, and each one says whose. They are built from Acting Craft, our free library of acting advice on YouTube, searchable by what is actually said in the videos. The library holds 669 separate points across 96 videos. What these pages add is the choosing and the ordering: every claim links back to the video it came from so you can watch the person say it.
The self tape, start to finish
Twenty eight tips from fourteen videos, in the order you work through them: the room, the frame, the light, the sound, wardrobe, the slate, the read, then editing and sending.
Getting an agent
A talent manager on what he charges and why, an actor on the text message that got her signed, and the part most people get backwards about when to start looking.
Auditioning
The biggest of them. Eighty five points from nineteen videos on reading the script, building the person, what to wear, how to behave in the room, and the audition that turns out to be a sales pitch.
Marketing yourself
The headshot, the casting profile, which subscription is actually worth paying for, how to submit without wasting time in the casting office, and the arithmetic for working out whether any of it is returning anything.
The demo reel
Short, because the library says less about reels than about anything else here. Which footage earns a place, why one long file is the wrong shape, and when no reel beats a bad one.
Social media
How to choose a platform instead of defaulting to one, what to put in the bio, how a channel actually grows, and an honest look at what follow exchanges are and are not.
Classes and training
Working actors disagree about whether you need any of it and both camps are working, so the page starts there. Then how to choose a school, how to choose a coach, and the two things nearly everybody skips.
What is not here yet
That is every topic the library currently holds enough material to support. More get written as more videos are indexed. In the meantime the whole library is searchable by transcript, which is faster than any summary if you already know what you are looking for.
Nothing on these pages is our advice. Prices, measurements and percentages are quoted as the speaker gave them and may have moved. If we have summarized somebody badly, tell us and we will fix it.