SAG Film / Taft Hartley

[Paris Remillard]

<you need to make $10k as an actor here to earn insurance here and almost no one makes it. I can't verify those numbers, but the point is probably accurate.>

It's $13,790 or 74 days of Employment for plan II which isn't as good, and $28,120 for plan I. But, yeah, as you said, the point is very accurate. Trust me, I live it every day. It's just funny to me that they would put that on their website. At least they're honest and realistic, I suppose.

It makes me think of when I went to a Commercial Theatre Production workshop last year, and the lawyer who was explaining contracts and capitalization mentioned how the wording of contracts for theatre investors had changed over the years from, "there is a chance that investment will not be recouped" to " it is likely that investment will not be recouped". At least they're honest about the prospects up front.

Also, here's a link to SAG's child labor handbook for whomever was asking about child labor. It doesn't deal with individual states labor laws, but it should give an idea of what you'd have to do if the kid was SAG.

http://www.sag.org/sagWebApp/Content...ungpersons.pdf

[Holosynthetic]

I don't like Actors Access because it charges $2 every time you submit for a role, that adds up after a while.

What do you look for most in a headshot while casting? I posted over at DVXuser with a newer headshot and they torn it to pieces saying it was horrible. I updated the colors a bit after getting some feedback and came up with:



Maybe you could give some feedback?

[Tom Lowe]

Lol, dude, this is a camera forum, not a beauty pageant.

The problem with going non-union is that like half of the actors in LA will simply not enter "non-union" as a checklist option when running searches on LAcasting, nowcasting, etc. So you just lost like half of your pool in one swoop.

I guess you could claim union, and then do your casting. If the non-union folks turn out to be as good as union, then you could decide at that point to go non-union.

BTW, I have heard it said, from actors, that one good reason a producer/director should go with SAG is because if one of your actors tries to bail on your movie before it's done, SAG can put pressure on them and make them report to set. In fact, I have seen this take place, and it saved the producer's ass, really. So it's a tradeoff.

I have also heard it said that you can make non-union actors sign a contract that will hold them accountable for a certain amount of money -- say, $20k -- if they bail on your movie and force a recasting and reshooting, though, I have no idea how this would hold up legally.

[Joel Kaye]

Maybe you could give some feedback?

You've got a great clean cut look but I'm not sure the leather jacket matches it. I think the general quality of the photo is fine though. It's as good or better than most headshots I saw on the last short I cast.

I see a little John Ritter in there.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Maybe you could give some feedback?

Re: head shot. I'm no pro, but I would say that picture is just fine proivded you're not cutting off the top of your head like the pic shown here. Other than that, it all comes down to the look that directors/producers are after for their feature. If your pic looks like someone they can envision for the role, you should get the audition. But this isn't a beauty pageant here like Tom said.

[donatello b]

a long , long , very long time ago when i use to operate the video camera for casting sessions for hi end commercials ... as soon as the actor/actress took 3 steps into the room 90% of producer/director/casting agent already knew if the person would be a call back - then all that person had to do was be able to read the lines or if no dialogue just had to do as instructed ... most already know exactly what they are looking for ...
BUT at least 3-5 times a week somebody would walk in that was NOT what they were looking for and would knock them over and they would have long talks about the possibility of changing the "look" to fit that person !!! it was about 50/50 if they went with new look ...

[Holosynthetic]

I apologize for asking for feedback from people who look at these all the time, next time I'll remain on topic even in the off topic forum.