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Hey there, actors! 🎭 We've got a new article up on our blog that might just help you out. It explores when it's okay for actors to decline work, and trust us, it's not just for the A-listers! Check it out and empower your career decisions. https://www.createyourreel.com/actors-turning-down-roles/
Discover when it's acceptable for an actor to turn down a project, from conflicts with what you're selling to not aligning with your values .
Update on the potential SAG-AFTRA strike. So much at stake.
Hollywood studios are showing growing interest in artificial intelligence, but the industry's organized labor groups have qualms about automation.
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Discover the power of personal websites for actors! Learn how a personal website can be a game-changer in your acting career, offering unique branding, complete control over content, and improved visibility. Don't let tech worries hold you back - it's easier than you think! Explore the essential ben...
Deidre, your journey from Atlanta to Create Your Reel and your subsequent successes are truly inspiring! ✈️ We're thrilled that our professional and patient service helped you secure an agent and start getting auditions. Your high recommendation validates our mission. Thank you for trusting us! 🎭
Raja, it's amazing to know that our work played a significant role in your booking on FOX's Arrested Development! 🦊 Your positive feedback on our direction and the team's brilliance motivates us to keep striving for excellence at Create Your Reel. We love you too and can't wait for your return! 🎬
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Felicia, your recommendation means the world to us! 🌍 At Create Your Reel, we aim to deliver a fantastic experience with perfect lighting and quality reels. Your kind words affirm our commitment to provide a joyful and professional service. Thank you for your trust! ✨
Quick question.
How’s your concentration?
More specifically…do you find it difficult to focus or concentrate, especially during auditions, performances, or just in your everyday life?
Here’s what you need to know…If you are unable to focus on what you want to focus on when you want to focus on it, without realizing it, you are at a serious disadvantage when it comes to:
Memorizing lines
Staying present in the moment
Maintaining Consistent Character Quality
Accessing and expressing emotions
…and the list goes on.
If this sound like you, CYR friend John Sudol Acting Studio founder of the Language of the Face, has something going on that I think you might be interested in.
He’s put together a FREE 2- Week Concentration/Focus Boot Camp: Harness the Power Within, Elevate Your Performance, and Awaken Your Concentration Potential.
Over the course of two weeks, John's going to guide you through a series of exercises and activities that will challenge and strengthen your concentration abilities. These tools and exercises will empower you to overcome distractions, enhance memory retention, and maintain unwavering focus even in challenging situations.
The Concentration/Focus Boot Camp starts June 3rd, Registration ends June 2nd - so you need to act quickly.
To Register OR to find out more click the link: https://www.emotiontrainingcourses.com/courses/the-concentration-boot-camp.
Possible SAG-AFTRA strike? | Is Poor Concentration Killing Your Career - https://mailchi.mp/createyourreel.com/reel-vs-real-why-footage-from-real-projects-isnt-working-for-you-16888401
Hannah, we're thrilled to hear your praises! 🌟 We pride ourselves on our creative sets and our dedication to getting the perfect shot. Looking forward to working with you in the future! 🎥
A SAG-AFTRA strike is looming. The DGA may also strike. Stay informed.
It’s likely going to be slow for the next 3-6 months. What better way to use that time than to get your actor tools in order? When we come back from this (and we WILL come back from this) the industry is going to be even more competitive.
EXCLUSIVE: In a seismic development for the indie film sector, which could have ripple effects across the whole film and TV ecosystem, bond companies are refusing to insure movies ahead of a potent…
It was a pleasure working with again, Joe!
Joel was such an amazing guy to work with...a Director's dream!
📽️ Want your reel to stand out for all the right reasons? Focus on showcasing your acting chops, great writing, and excellent production quality.
📸 Headshots alone don't cut it anymore. Invest in a reel that truly represents you and your talent.
🎬 Your reel is your chance to shine. Ensure the writing truly reflects your casting and helps bring your character to life.
: Do you get completely stressed before taking headshots? 😨
• CYR friend and headshot photographer , has a tip for you.
• 👉“It’s not about dressing yourself, it’s about dressing the character.”
• Download her free 👚WARDROBE GUIDE at poyeyphotos.com/headshot-wardrobe-tips/
• See visual samples for each of your looks.
• Show up prepared and nail your headshot session!💖
: Do you get completely stressed before taking headshots? 😨
•
CYR friend and headshot photographer , has a tip for you.
• 👉“It’s not about dressing yourself, it’s about dressing the character.”
• Download her free 👚WARDROBE GUIDE at poyeyphotos.com/headshot-wardrobe-tips/
• See visual samples for each of your looks.
• Show up prepared and nail your headshot session!💖
The WGA is striking. Here’s a great article that gives you all the details.
https://deadline.com/feature/hollywood-writers-strike-wga-explained-1235341146/amp/?fbclid=IwAR08UR6zm-Ohs-mPNDDXlOUHsSO5im-iGLRIHw36qiA5SQHM-EH6b5TSicI&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
Hollywood has been a union town for close to 100 years. In that time, there have been a little over a dozen major labor strikes, the last being the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America work stoppage, w…
Being stuck in a rut is never fun, but it’s not forever.
When I’m stuck (usually writing scripts for clients or writing my own material) I have to step away from the computer, get outside for some fresh air and move my body.
In what ways do you break through being creatively stuck?
What's on your reel is just as important as what's NOT on it.
We see the same mistakes over and over with actors that come to us for help with new footage or editing.
Scroll through for some valuable tips that can help tweak your footage and level up your career!
Still waiting for footage from that indy/short/student project? Or maybe you got footage after waiting forever for it and it’s unusable? 🤬
We hear this all the time, and it’s why we launched our business back in 2009.
No need to sit around waiting. Take your power back and create the footage that’s going to serve YOU - not the short film, not the director’s vision, not the writer’s story…YOU! 🔥
Can you answer yes to any of the following?
✅Feel like your acting career has become just submitting to the void?
✅Feel overwhelmed with surviving as an artist in this economy?
✅Been at it for a while now and feel discouraged? 😵
If so, you’re not alone. ❤️
If you’re willing to move out of those feelings, I invite you to attend the 🔥FREE 5-Day Challenge for Actors Who Want to Level Up🔥from actor & career coach, Jodie Bentley.
From March 20th-24th, you’ll learn about branding, marketing, productivity, finances, and sales. All the things you need to level up your acting career. 💪
Jodie is SO inspiring in all things business. This will be a literal game-changer. 🥰
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Really enjoyed having on set. A few live feed pix and “obligatory balcony shots.” 😂 Stay tuned for final cuts!
was so lovely and easy going on set. He really brought his A-game! You can see his great energy in the live feed and balcony pix. Congrats on the recent engagement to ! ❤️
This is what perseverance looks like.
This is Lesley Patterson. She won a BAFTA on Sunday for best adapted screenplay, but the BBC cut her acceptance speech from the programme. They found time for inane interviews backstage, but not the story of how a 3-time World Champion Triathlete became a BAFTA winning scriptwriter.
On retiring as an elite sportswoman, she was asked, “ What’s next?“ She replied, “I am going to move half way across the world from my home here in Scotland, become a scriptwriter and win an Oscar.”
That was more than 16 years ago when she landed in LA and set out to make a new version of the silent movie “All Quiet On Thé Western Front.” She bought the rights from the estate of the writer who wrote the best selling book that was made into an Oscar winning film. Over the course of 16 years she pitched the idea to anyone who would listen. Listen they did but no one was interested in a German language film about World War 1 without a star.
She used all he savings and remortgaged her house to keep her dream alive, but the dream was about to become a nightmare when she was told raise $10,000 or lose the rights to the film.
She was turned down by everyone she tried to borrow from, but fate played its hand. There was a triathlon taking place with $10,000 prize money.
Exactly the amount she needed. She entered and began training. The day before the race, she fell from her bike and broke her shoulder. She was down but she was not out. She strapped up, cycled, ran and swam a mile using her legs and one arm. She won the race.
The film as we know it was made with money from Netflix, and now she’s won a BAFTA. Maybe she wins an Oscar?
So if you didn’t know this story, you do now.
What a great shoot with today! Excited to share a little sneak peek of her live feed and some BTS shots. Talented, and a joy to have on set.
Hey, fellow actors and creators! Retta here, sharing something awesome to help you start the new year off right.
January 1st isn't somehow going to be magically different if you don't DO something different.
IDK about you, but I'm ready for a new strategy for 2023 that I can get excited about...and that gets results.
Click the link below to join CYR friend Jodie Bentley in her FREE masterclass next week where she'll cover reframing negative self-talk, how to stop being drained by old fears and obligations, and her badass Goal Setting System.
Learn the proven 3-step system to accomplish what you know you're capable of in the new year.
Here’s what you’ll learn in the Write Your Dream Role Live Workshop:
* Emily’s favorite tool to create 3-dimensional characters
*Have a chance to get Emily’s feedback on your character
*How to tailor this character to your unique acting strengths
Oh, did I mention this workshop is FREE?
Head over to for the link!
How nice to receive a hand-written thank you card from a happy client!
Sat down to be interviewed by last week. Stay tuned!
to last weekend. Had a blast directing and with as our fabulous DP. Keep your eye on these up-and-comers!
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Michael Biehn almost didn't get the role of Kyle Reese in "The Terminator" (1984) because in his first audition, he spoke in a Southern accent as a result of working on a part for a stage production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (he didn't get the role). During a talk with Biehn's agent, the producers mentioned that they liked Biehn's performance, but they didn't want Reese's accent making him seem too regionalized; this puzzled the agent, who asked "What accent?" After the mystery was cleared up, the producers called Biehn back for another audition, and he got the part.
Biehn initially thought the movie would be a silly low-budget time-travel movie, but decided to audition anyway. Any misgivings he had about taking part in the film were instantly abated when he met James Cameron, who showed him detailed storyboards and gave him an expressive overview of the story, winning him over by his passion and clarity of vision. Biehn would be a frequent collaborator of Cameron over the next decades.
On the chase scenes in the film: "Looking back on it, I realize we were really going at some high speeds those nights. One night, my adrenaline was running so high I actually tore the steering wheel off, and I just looked over at Linda [Hamilton] and said "Here, you drive!"
On not spending much time with Arnold Schwarzenegger on set "I saw him around, you know. He was doing his thing, I was doing my thing, but I didn't really get to talk to him because Linda and I spend the entire film running away from Arnold."
"I do firmly believe that I've been overlooked, especially in 'The Terminator.' Jim Cameron was saying to me at the time, "I don't know Michael why you are not being offered more movies now." All of us expected it, you know? But now, five or six years later, when everyone has seen the movie five or six times on video people are beginning to realize how good it was and what a good performance it was. But I have to say I don't feel shortchanged and I don't resent anything. I think it's best in the long run. Look at the Brat Pack: those guys got so much so fast that they were never allowed to really struggle and know what good chances they had in much of the work they were doing. So even though I felt that some of my work was overlooked at times I know that it has made me stronger and better and it has made me work harder to get other jobs and be good in them." (IMDb)
Happy Birthday, Michael Biehn!
Episodic season is almost here and you know what that means...
A rollercoaster of self tape and reel submissions!🎢
In preparation for this stressful time for actors, Loren Chadima from Intentional Acting and I are going LIVE on Instagram on Monday, August 1st at noon PST to answer any questions you might have about self tapes and reels.
We're here to help you get booked!✨
So get your questions ready and mark your calendars.🤩
ESPYs
ca·reer
/kəˈrir/
noun
An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.
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A successful career takes time. Stay focused. Enjoy the journey.
As my dad always used to say: Patience and persistence.
What are you doing for your career today?
💥 4th of July Minilogue Special 💥
Agents, managers and casting can "get" you pretty quickly...but only if you have the right reel footage.
That's why we created the Minilogue format - because this industry moves fast.
Minilogues communicate your brand and your talent efficiently and effectively.
GET THE DEAL: 10% off as many Minilogues as you'd like to shoot.
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Does not apply on deposits already made.
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Let us help you get the career you want and deserve!
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