Do you need SlateShots for Your Actors Access Profile?
SlateShots are short videos that you can attach to your headshots on the leading industry breakdown website Actors Access. Including SlateShots with each of your acting headshots on Actors Access boosts your submissions to the top of the pile for casting directors to see.
A SlateShot video is less than seven seconds long, usually shorter, where you simply say hi and state your name. It allows people to see what you look and sound like on camera, but it also gives you an advantage when submitting yourself for roles.
Below is a compilation example of multiple SlateShots recorded during one of my acting headshot sessions and a before/after comparison of the audio from recording to post-processing.
How Do SlateShots Offer Me An Advantage?
When casting directors, directors, and producers are reviewing submissions for roles the default order in which submissions are listed are as follows:
Submissions with SlateShots and demo reels.
Submissions with demo reels but no SlateShots.
Submissions with SlateShots but no demo reels.
Submissions with no SlateShots or demo reels.
In short, submissions with SlateShots are seen ahead of submissions without SlateShots. In all circumstances, it’s better to include a SlateShot with each of your headshots than to not have one. Even if you have a demo reel, also having a SlateShot attached to your headshot will put you ahead of the submissions with only a demo reel. If you don’t have a demo reel, having a SlateShot will still put you ahead of submissions that don’t have SlateShots.
What Do SlateShots Cost?
There is no additional charge for SlateShots. We will record a SlotShot for every look and setup that we do. I include them with your session and the finished, edited videos will be included with your finished images. If you order extra images from extra looks, you will also get the relevant SlateShot for that look, so each of your finished headshots will have an accompanying SlateShot.
There is a fee to upload a SlateShot to Actors Access, but that is paid to Actors Access when you upload the video to your profile.
How Do You Record the SlateShots?
The SlateShots are recorded on the same camera that we will be shooting on. I use constant LED lights to photograph your headshot session as this allows up to easily record a SlateShot for you at the same time. While recording the SlateShots, I use a microphone mounted to the camera and enhance the audio in post-production. You can hear the difference in the Before/After video above.
How Do I Upload My SlateShots to Actors Access?
Actors Access has a great article in their help desk outlining how to submit your SlateShots on their website. I highly recommend reading and referring to that article as the process may change over time with updates to their system.
