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The following should be a helpful outline of the whole process to hopefully help you get noticed and achive your personal success.

You don't generally just submit your headshot to a casting director or a agent of any kind in the business. There is a definite process you must follow to be successful in the entertainment business.

If you do get luck enough for them to actually call you back by submitting a unsolicited looking for work, the first thing they are going to ask is where do you attend acting and or modeling classes?

Most people have a huge misconception about the steps needed to take in order to get in front of that casting director or modeling agent. It is a much longer process than most would believe.

First and foremost they find you, you don't find them. It all starts with knowledge about the venture your taking on and all the requirements not seen from the front looking at all the glitz and glam of it all, that's really all in the movies. The behind the scenes are a whole different cup of tea. You will need to do a little research to find the school that has all the curriculum and activities your looking for. Most classes are about ten weeks long and about half way through your first class you will then have your photo shoot with a professional photographer, in three or four different outfits. It will take about two or three weeks for the proof sheet to get back. At this point you will be guided as to which ones will be best for your headshot, zed card or portfolio.

While you wait for the finished product, you will still be attending classes. After you have your pictures back it will be time for your first audition and this is the time and place to submit your head shot or portfolio and resume and any extra material they may have given you to fill out. It's pretty cut and dry once you get to this point, but it is critical you have the schooling to back up what ever direction your pursuing. There is far more work to being a actor or a model.

It's really just like anything else, you can't be a surgeon if you have never been to school for it. There are very few if any in the last several years that have been discovered in a local pub or market. Even if that were to happen I'm sure that people would still ultimately have to attend some sort of class to know what was going on and have to proper etiquette and be well spoken, etc. But these are the actual steps on how to submit a headshot to a casting director.

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