Finishing Off the Headshot Ordeal

Now figuring out what to order was complicated in this case, because I was basically starting over. I chose one "edgy" headshot as my standard theatrical headshot and one lighter headshot for sitcom, commercials and other less "edgy" roles. Both of those I had printed up as 200 photo prints. I had another more smiley shot I figured I'd use strictly commercially (see photo) and so I had 500 of those printed up as lithos, as well as 500 postcards and 500 business cards. The postcards and business cards both have my union affiliations and phone number. Actors often include their agency information and/or e-mail address. Since printing these pictures all up in different formats, I've seen that this particular shot is actually one of the best photos of the bunch, insofar as it has sparked the most vocal response (glad I used it for my business package of postcards and business cards), so I'm planning on upgrading the print quality when I run out of lithos. I probably won't use photo prints, but I will go to Reproductions and have them do the work because the last picture, a commercial smiley shot with me wearing eyeglasses (a more specific shot for which I only ordered 100 prints), turned out great.

The total process took over a week, because I wasn't happy with my tests and had to take a couple of days to wait for re-tests. Finally, I got all my pictures together and started updating all the casting directors (commercial, film and TV), agents and managers I've met with my new photo, sending each of them only the one that was most appropriate for them. By that I mean I sent the general commercial shot to commercial casting directors (there's a lot of them, so I actually just sent them all postcards with a label stuck to the back that highlighted my top credits), I sent the theatrical headshot to most of the film-oriented people and TV drama people, and the lighter, sitcom-y shot obviously went to the casting directors who cast sitcoms. The agents and managers are trickier, since they want you to come in specifically defined, and it's harder to decide which way to go. I ended up sending them the lithos (the ones that got the great response), mainly because it was cheaper and I had more of them to go around... Not exactly rocket science.

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