How do you make the move from amateur to professional work without having to either have the training of an acting school or employ the connections of an agent? Georgie and Pierce are here to provide you with a plan to shift you into the higher gear of paid work and professional projects.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Invest in your toolkit. Get your headshots, showreels and CVs refined and perfected. 
• If you cannot yet afford professional headshots ensure you have a clear, good-quality photograph free from distractions. Get your professional headshots done as soon as you can afford them.
• The purpose of a showreel is to be an accurate representation of your screen acting abilities. There are people who can produce a professional showreel for you. 
• Make your cv a little more jazzy with the help of cv creation websites. List all your relevant skills clearly and put in your social media links.
• Sign up for casting sites and use them regularly. You will have to pay a fee to use them.
• Constructively recognise your strengths and weaknesses and start to work on them.   
• A following on social media is a selling point and is very useful for networking. Be aware that when people are considering you for a task it is very likely they will be looking you up on social media.
• Networking and working consistently with the same people can build the seven points of contact that can gain trust with operators within the industry.  

BEST MOMENTS

‘We mean having them at a high quality. It’s more important to have a headshot or a showreel that is a really good quality one than going gung-ho and having one anyway.’ – Georgie  

‘What a lot of people do is sign up to them, pay the subscription fee, and then don’t use them! You need to make sure you’re using them consistently.’ – Georgie  

‘It comes down to self-awareness and being honest with yourself about your weaknesses and then really levelling up as you go on because we are all good and bad at different things.’ – Pierce

‘There is a real difference between who you know and who knows you. You can know XYZ person, but unless they really know you in return, unless they like you, unless they trust you, chances are you won’t be cast in those projects.’ – Pierce 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

https://chat.whatsapp.com/LUWz5ZlIg0sH0F27Zs7Cnq

https://www.actorswarehouse.co.uk/

https://Www.instagram.com/Actorswarehouse/

https://Twitter.com/Weareacting/ 

ABOUT THE HOSTS

Georgie King and Pierce Connelly are a couple and business partners with experience in TV, film and theatre. Co-founders of The Acting Warehouse, an organisation dedicated to helping you achieve turning your passion for acting into a full-time career, they are here to guide you to get out there, find opportunities and land roles. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: [email protected]

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