[ SECRET POST #4790 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4790 ⌋

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OP

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the insight!

Follow-up query on the demo reel angle, as that's slightly confusing to me: does it have to be made up of professional acting stints? Because if a demo reel is one of the components you need to get considered with or without a diploma, how do you build one up with acting gigs if you need one to get a gig in the first place?

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

If you're brand new and have no experience, you can build a demo reel by taking certain one-off classes (shorter, much cheaper, and not the kind that involve a diploma). I believe there are also people who offer demo reel services, where you prep a scene, read it on camera, they film it and fill in the lines opposite yours from off camera.

To my knowledge, you generally need some kind of a demo reel to get an agent - and obviously a demo reel of credited work is significantly better than a DIY demo reel. But for newbs, DIY (class work or hiring someone to film demo footage for you) is usually all they can provide at first. But having classes to put on your resume also helps, and being drop dead gorgeous helps hugely (if you can swing it, lol).

My knowledge of all this comes from working as a background actor for five years. So I don't have any personal experience (you don't need a demo reel or much of anything really in order to be a BG actor). However, a TON of BG actors are aspiring actors, so you hear them talk about what they're doing all the time. Also, I'm in Vancouver. Standards might be different in LA.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

*That should say perform it on camera, not "read."

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

One more thing to add:

As far as I've been able to gather, having acting experience - especially if its in union productions - is probably a better foot in the door for most newb actors than having a degree or a diploma from an arts college.

A degree proves you're serious about acting, but it doesn't prove you can act. Whereas having multiple credited acting parts proves you were able to convince a production to cast you and it happened more than once so it probably wasn't just a fluke.

However, if you come out of your degree program with a lot of proof of your acting accomplishments from your time in the program (like you joined numerous theater productions and/or independent film productions), then obviously that's going to be a big help, too. But it's really the proof that you acted in some things and were at least decent at it that the agencies like, one way or another.