Welcome to the TradeVine whose purpose is to encourage the entertainment industry to read their trades: Variety, Backstage, Hollywood Reporter, etc. Enjoy learning about your industry.
Each Friday, The TradeVine seeks out a few of the informative trade articles you may have missed. Please visit the trade, itself, for the entire article.
Back Stage, April 29th – 6 Résumé Basics Actors Must Know, by Clifton Guterman.
Does an impressive and nicely laid out résumé really make a difference in the audition room? Often.Can a questionable or vague document raise eyebrows and undercut a fabulously acted appointment? Sometimes. Are there specific ways to impress and, alternatively, pollute an opportunity? You bet.
1. A professional résumé should include your name, a working phone number and email address, always (either yours or your agent’s).
2. Most theater casting folks don’t tend to care much about notated physical stats like height, weight, hair color, and eye color.
3. In general, the order for credit categories can vary. common groupings/headings stacked from top to bottom: Film/TV, Commercials/Industrials, Broadway, National Tours, Regional Theater, Academic Theater (if you’re still at a stage in your career where including school productions is helpful)*, Training (college degrees and specialized class work), Special Skills (dialects, musical instruments, vocal ability, dance, etc.) Only include a category if you have something to list underneath.
4. Please share show titles, roles, directors, and producing organizations. Casting directors and directors often reach out to others in the biz to “check in” about actors.
5. In general, 100 percent honesty on paper is your best friend. Beware a vast list of quirky special skills if you can’t legitimately execute all of them on the spot.
6. Finally, carefully look over your own résumé before every audition. Refresh the memory. Where have you worked, with whom, when, etc. What experiences would you happily, voluntarily discuss? Who on your résumé might have a connection to that day’s auditors or company?
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Hollywood Reporter, April 28th – Like the Academy, BAFTA Is Reviewing Its Members’ Voting Privileges, by Scott Feinberg.
Like the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts is currently reviewing its membership rolls to decide who should retain voting privileges for its annual BAFTA Awards. But unlike the Academy, whose efforts have proven controversial, BAFTA’s review has gone much more smoothly, winning the approval of the majority of its members. BAFTA shares a considerable number of its members with the Academy. And its new rules, while similar to those the Academy has instituted, are actual stricter.
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Variety, April 29th – Prince Music Piracy Jumps More Than Tenfold After Artist’s Death, by Todd Spangler.
Internet pirates went crazy downloading Prince songs the week following the legendary musician’s death. During his career, Prince actively fought piracy and unauthorized posts of his material, even threatening to sue fans who shared links to file-sharing sites with his songs. The surge in piracy of Prince’s work following his death isn’t surprising. It’s worth noting that sales of his albums shot to the top of iTunes, Amazon and other services the day news broke that he was found dead, just as the deaths of artists like David Bowie and Michael Jackson precipitated a rise in purchases of their music. But the piracy numbers show that illegal sharing of songs remains an ongoing issue for the music biz, despite broad digital distribution of music on paid download services and streaming outlets like Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal.
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