Portfolio Tips

Portfolio Tips

Model measurements explained: how to measure yourself the way agencies expect

Bust, waist, hips, height, shoe and clothing size. Where the tape actually goes, which number people check first, and why flattering figures cost you work.

Portfolio Tips

Digitals and polaroids: shooting agency-standard photos at home with a phone

The first thing an agency asks for, and the thing beginners most reliably get wrong — because the instinct is to look good and the entire point is that you should not.

Portfolio Tips

How to build an acting showreel when you have no credits yet

You cannot get cast without a reel and you cannot get a reel without being cast. That circle is easier to break than it looks, and the first one does not need to be long.

Portfolio Tips

Build a comp card a casting professional can read in five seconds

Your card is your audition. What belongs on it, what order it should be read in, and the mistakes that get a profile skipped.