Headshots & Resumes for Kid Actors

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SCOTT DUPONT: Hi. Scott duPont. Welcome back on behalf of Expert Village. What we'll going to talk about now is about head shots for kids. There's a few rules that are slightly different for kids than adults in the acting business. And the tips I'm going to give you don't have to spend a ton of money, okay? But there are couple of general rules I'm going to go through with you. First of all, if your kids are very, very young like 4, 5 or 6 and they're changing very rapidly, you can actually just get a nice snapshot initially, and then make some nice copies or duplications of it because they're changing so fast you don't want to hire a $500 photographer and print it in color initially, especially when you're just trying to get an agent or you're just trying to get your first few jobs. This was actually one of the first head shots for Colby O'Donis here, and Colby was actually the host of this DVD which I produced called the "ABC's of ACTING (How to get started in the business!)". Now, Colby, he shot his first few head shots in black and white because it's a little bit less expensive. He went to one of the duplicators around and there's actually several in LA, New York, Miami, Orlando, all over. One that comes to my mind is Photoscan and you can do a Yahoo or Google, and they will actually--wherever you are in the country, you send there the digital file or the photograph and they will reproduce hundreds and hundreds of these things at a very low cost. I think it's about $89 for 250, give or take. Now, eventually, when your kids get a little older and if you have a little extra money, then you can upgrade to color. And on the back of your head shot, what you want to do is put the name, okay, your name as the parent who they're going to contact, your contact phone number, or eventually the agent if you're lucky enough to get an agent down the road. And then this is really important. Don't put your age. Put the date of birth because that way they'll be able to look if this head shot is two years old of Colby's and they look at his date of birth, they know how old he is then because lots of these head shots will stay in casting director's or director's files for many, many years; in that way, they'll know whether your kid's look has changed. So, that's just kinda scratching the surface on head shots and we'll be back more for our next segment on Expert Village.

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