TASK 1a: Professional Profile

Professional CV's

As professionals we need CV’s for everything we may want to achieve and do. We all rely on our CV and Headshots to provide us with auditions and jobs. This baffles me and made me realise how much we, as professionals, need to keep our CV’s up to date whilst having a headshot that represent and resembles who we are.

When looking at my professional CV I realised how little information was on it about myself and how my headshot, what I have previously done and the audition that day will get me a job rather than the way I conduct myself in rehearsals or my personality. This makes me think to myself how vital it is to land that first job and to make a great impression straight away as the industry is so small and everyone knows everyone. Even from the BAPP induction I met people who knew of people I had worked with, which reminded me of how we are all so intertwined as we all have our own links in some shape or form.

Luckily as well as my CV I am on the database ‘Spotlight’ which is such a fantastic website database for professionals online. This network holds CV information, additional information, voice reel, show reel and other professional photos/headshots of yourself. Spotlight gives you enough space to market yourself for Casting directors, directors and choreographers to understand more of who you are and what you can do.

The big question is what do Casting Directors looks for in a CV and headshot? and further more do they all look for the same thing?

On my CV it includes;

- Agent

- Name

- Spotlight View Page

- Height

- Hair Colour

- Nationality

- Eye Colour

- Vocal Range

- Training

- Dance I specialise in

- Other things I can do

- Accents

- Theatre and TV Credits

Here is my CV before I amended it:


Before CV Updated

As you can see I have highlighted what must be changed and updated on my professional CV for me to sell myself as best as I can on paper. I personally think a tidy CV is one that a Casting Director will have more joy looking over.

Here is my updated Professional CV:

Updated CV

I always think to myself:

‘’Life as a professional is tough and the competition is such a roller coaster journey where we are all faced with many ups and downs along the way, but once we are on top it is such a great view.’’

Profile

When looking at writing my profile I took the current information off my CV but then made a list of other things, alongside stage school and jobs, I have achieved in the area of the ‘Performing Arts’. I wrote it all down and then started to piece bits together that were relevant at this moment in time.

My list of Current and Past achievements

I found this a delight to look at to see how much I have achieved since being graduated and what I achieved when aspiring to become a professional within the industry of ‘Performing Arts’. Once looking through my portfolio of shows from when I was 3 years old to 18 I can see such a wide variety of shows/concerts/dance shows I have been involved in and enjoyed each one individually.

I never know how much to incorporate into a profile but as I do not get the chance to involve it into my CV I knew I wanted to involve previous experiences as well as present, as it was that previous knowledge, experience and training which got me to where I am today.