Wondering How Effective An Actor Website Is
Dec 1st, 2008 by Alan Yu
So I am just finishing the final touches in creating my website that I will use mainly as a portfolio for the acting work that I have done and for the future. I was just thinking how effective this could be in regards to actually using it promote yourself.
Speaking for myself, I know if I was looking for talent my first inclination wouldn’t be to say go to the search engine and find an actor. It would be more because I saw someone in a piece of work and was interested in learning more about them.
With that in mind, it kind of made me wonder if I am not or am putting enough content in it. At this point, it is mostly like a digital brochure where it has simply content and media about my experiences thus far. I am holding off from launching it though until I get this agent thing all sorted out.
If I were a producer or director, I would want to see an actor in another project. The next closest thing would be to see them on video doing scenes. I’d want to see a range of stuff, and hopefully whatever I’m looking to cast would fit somewhere within something I’m seeing.
I would vote for on-going video updates with you doing short scenes from the public domain or scenes written by friends (or yourself). You could just embed youtube videos on your site… and being on YouTube has search advantages.
As of now my current plan is to embed a demo reel of some of the work that I have acted in on the site. This is actually a very similar one to what I used to try and find an agent.
I was debating about using Youtube too but was debating if these types of reel are not suitable for that since I know most people there would rather see an actual film or full skit of some sort.