Updating your headshotUpdating your headshot regularly is important, usually it's advised to change headshot twice a year, especially after returning from a resting period where it's harder to get back working because of the gap of non-employment. Your headshot, along wise a good and tailored CV, is going to make you come back stronger and will make you stand out for casting directors and agents.
Also, from the very first experience with having a photoshoot done to the next ones, you will have understood better what works and what doesn't for you and will have a better idea of what you want from your headshot. Very important is to comunicate this with the photographer and also on the types of castings you want to go for. Now, most casting directors, also accept color headshots as well as the old blak and white version, so it' s a good idea of asking your photographer of having few version in color as well, so you can have a different range of pictures depending on the kind of job you want to apply for. Here is an interesting article extract from The Stage. |
The importance of being you all the time...
Here I decided to share with you 4 different headshot I have done in my career from when I first started out after graduating in 2008, until today.
As you can see, in only four years I've dramatically changed appearance because of the normal mutation we all have with time and because of the trends and different hair/make up styles we (especially women) acquire along the way.
It has happened to me before, to be turned down for a casting or I got asked by my agent to update my headshot because it wasn't portraying my look and presence anymore.
Michael Wharley, London based photographer, regularly writes on the stage and here he gives his advices on how to take you best shot and how the evolving business now offeres other ways to promote yourself! which links back on what discussed on The Modern Performer. Find here one of his articles.
"You must be real at all times!" is what Pippa Harrison, head of client relations at Spotlight, shares in Wharely's article.
As you can see, in only four years I've dramatically changed appearance because of the normal mutation we all have with time and because of the trends and different hair/make up styles we (especially women) acquire along the way.
It has happened to me before, to be turned down for a casting or I got asked by my agent to update my headshot because it wasn't portraying my look and presence anymore.
Michael Wharley, London based photographer, regularly writes on the stage and here he gives his advices on how to take you best shot and how the evolving business now offeres other ways to promote yourself! which links back on what discussed on The Modern Performer. Find here one of his articles.
"You must be real at all times!" is what Pippa Harrison, head of client relations at Spotlight, shares in Wharely's article.