Your Headshot

One of the most important requirements you need is your headshot. Thousands of actors go out to casting calls and hand in their headshots that look like them. Right? No. Not all of them do! The worst thing you could do other than having a bad audition, is handing in a headshot that doesn't look the way you did in front of a director or producer. When they want to pick you for a possible spot in their show or movie, they refer back to your headshot and your resume.

That's not a good thing and it happens quite often.

Your goal is to provide the best headshot you can. As you are getting your headshot done, you are looking your "best" and while you are doing your audition, you may not realize your look isn't matching up to your best photo. It's certainly not the best way you should be presenting yourself.

If you have many headshots, don't pick the one you did several years ago, or you looked thinner than you do now. If the director or producer likes the way you are, they are wanting how they seen you to match with your headshot. That is the most important part of discovery for them to remember you as you were. Pick a headshot that isn't more than a year old, until you can be certain the photo you have looks like you are in that current day.

Headshots are a way for them to place that image of you back into their mind and make futher decisions about you and filed for future use.

Correct way:

"Oh, yes! I remember him. Nice photo"

Wrong way:

"WHAT? That's him? Can't be!"

You see, photos have as much as an importance as your audition. It defines you and you want the casting directors to remember who they seen that day and in the future. Thus, all of this giving you a possible call back for the spot.

Good luck in your decisions and remember to properly do your headshot and you should be ok.