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Actor Website Tips | Get domain names with your name or stage name in it. That's how people will find you.

There are always different opinions out there on what the first step of getting the website should be. Without any doubt, I strongly believe that the first step should be finding the right domain name.If you're not...

Fun Facts | Websites for Actors

Build your #actor #website while waiting for food.

Actor Casting Hints | Impress Casting Directors

Try to make it your own as long as it feels natural. Could be a voice inflection, or your stance.

Actor Dictionary | Testing

TESTING is one of the most over-looked, but under rated tasks that is executed by a director or producer. Testing is done in pre-production and it' exactly what it sounds like. The purpose is to gather your creative team with your talent and test how the different visual creative elements look on camera. This includes costumes, make-up, hair, production design and even rehearsal. This process is absolutely essential and beneficial for a number of reasons.1. Gives your creative team an opportunity to make sure their vision looks the way they want it to look on camera. Often times creative problems will arise and you dont want to be sorting out these sort of issues during production. This is fairly obvious.2. Allows your actor(s) to interact with the artists and build a good rapport with them before production. This is extremely important as you do not unseen personality clashes to occur during production.3. Allows your director to make sure his creative team is on the same page as him/her.3. Be sure to take pictures of hair, make-up and costumes especially after the actor and director has approved of them. As a producer, this protects you if creative disputes arise during production. For example, if youre on set ready to shoot, and the director is happy with an actor' make-up but the actor is not, you can use the previously taken photo, which was approved by the unhappy actor, to help you deal with the actor.Make sure you give yourself plenty of time at least one month before shooting starts in order to allow your creative team to test with the talent.