Actors Biogs
Thu, 24 July 2003, 01:05 pmGreg Ross36 posts in thread
Actors Biogs
Thu, 24 July 2003, 01:05 pmIn light of boulevards of broken dreams and worthless receipts, is it feasible or warranted for this site to provide an area where actors can post a jpeg photo and a three line biog, with contact details?
Re: The Biog idea ...that got Bogged
Thu, 29 July 2004, 05:43 pmsebastian wrote:
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> In July 2003 there was an idea put forward by Greg Ross about
> a Biography page that Community actors can post there JPEGÂ’s
> and a three to four line bio of themself.
> Did this idea fizzle out or is it under construction?
There was a flurry of enthusiastic discussion for a short time, but nothing practical was ever put into motion.
If you read all the arguments in the above thread, you can get a good idea of the major obstacles.. which are yet to be overcome.
A poll held at the time indicated that most actors would use it if it didn't cost anything...but were much less enthusiastic about its benefits if they had to spend much to be part of it.
And the truth is, it wouldn't be viable for the ITA to maintain unless there WAS a charge for the service.
The same poll and related discussion drew a very poor response from any directors or casting agents...and what's the point of paying to publicise yourself if no directors have indicated they'd be bothered looking at it?
There are national and local organisations that run a professional services that are more likely to get results, because that is ALL they do. Obviously there is a higher cost involved....but how does the ITA compete with that level of service?
The counter-argument has been to suggest that those facilities are mainly geared for serious professionals, and there is a demand for a service only used by amateur communities...
The trouble is, most amateur communities aren't looking to search the ENTIRE internet for performers...so unless the database is highly organised, continually updated, and contains enough information to allow definitive searches, there's a good chance it will be flooded with too much information and become useless. My own fear is that it will become a billion entries from around the globe that say "13yr old girl looking for a job" ...except with pictures!!
> say there is a person who is out there who wants to do a
> short film and they want to do a pre screen of people who
> have replied to their audition post. They could look in the
> database and check out if they look the part.
I think a far easier solution, given that everyone who responds to an internet post is already computer literate, would be for the actors to obtain their headshots in an email-friendly JPG format (which they'd have to do anyway, were there a database), and send them on to the director they're responding to. Does the same thing, doesn't it?
Cheers,
Craig
>
> In July 2003 there was an idea put forward by Greg Ross about
> a Biography page that Community actors can post there JPEGÂ’s
> and a three to four line bio of themself.
> Did this idea fizzle out or is it under construction?
There was a flurry of enthusiastic discussion for a short time, but nothing practical was ever put into motion.
If you read all the arguments in the above thread, you can get a good idea of the major obstacles.. which are yet to be overcome.
A poll held at the time indicated that most actors would use it if it didn't cost anything...but were much less enthusiastic about its benefits if they had to spend much to be part of it.
And the truth is, it wouldn't be viable for the ITA to maintain unless there WAS a charge for the service.
The same poll and related discussion drew a very poor response from any directors or casting agents...and what's the point of paying to publicise yourself if no directors have indicated they'd be bothered looking at it?
There are national and local organisations that run a professional services that are more likely to get results, because that is ALL they do. Obviously there is a higher cost involved....but how does the ITA compete with that level of service?
The counter-argument has been to suggest that those facilities are mainly geared for serious professionals, and there is a demand for a service only used by amateur communities...
The trouble is, most amateur communities aren't looking to search the ENTIRE internet for performers...so unless the database is highly organised, continually updated, and contains enough information to allow definitive searches, there's a good chance it will be flooded with too much information and become useless. My own fear is that it will become a billion entries from around the globe that say "13yr old girl looking for a job" ...except with pictures!!
> say there is a person who is out there who wants to do a
> short film and they want to do a pre screen of people who
> have replied to their audition post. They could look in the
> database and check out if they look the part.
I think a far easier solution, given that everyone who responds to an internet post is already computer literate, would be for the actors to obtain their headshots in an email-friendly JPG format (which they'd have to do anyway, were there a database), and send them on to the director they're responding to. Does the same thing, doesn't it?
Cheers,
Craig
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