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1. Create An Actor Hub Account 2. Find Actors And Other Talent For Your Projects 3. Post A Casting Call 4. Contact Actors GlossaryAccount Info, Account Options, Age, Age Range, Allow Contact, Basic Resume Info, Birthdate, Body Type, Call Description, Call Is Live, Call Offline Date, Call Title, Compensation, Email Address, Confirm Email Address, Ethnicity, Eye Color, Featured Resume, Gender, Hair Color, Height, Is Paying?, My Actor Notes, My Favorites, My Call Replies, Display Name, First and Last Name, National Call, Password, Password Confirmation, Pictures, Project Preferences, Project Type, Replied Calls, Results View, Resume Document, Resume Sections, Is Searchable?, Skills, Weight, Unions, Your Links, Zip CodeActor FAQDo I have to fill out all information for my resume?Why is my resume not in the search results? I don't have any unions selected in my resume. Why don't I come up in a search for non union actors? How do I know that the person contacting me is really a casting director? Casting Director FAQWhat does it mean when my call is "live"?How do I know if my call is live? Why can't I contact some actors? Other FAQIf your site is free to actors and casting people, who pays for site hosting and maintenance?What are the advertisements on the right side of the page? The site says that my email address is never displayed. How can people contact me if they don't have my email address? How The Site Works Actors
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GlossaryAccount Info Main information relating to all Actor Hub accounts: Email Address, Password, and Name Account Options Options on who can contact an actor and if their resume should be searchable Age The actual age of an actor. Actors do not enter this as a number, they enter their birth date so age is always up to date. Age Range The range of ages that that an actor can play. Allow Contact Who is allowed to contact an actor. "Registered Users" will let anyone with an Actor Hub account contact them. "Casting Directors" will only allow users who signed up for an Actor Hub account as a casting director to contact them (not other actors). Note that Actor Hub does not verify that people who sign up for Casting Director accounts are actually casting directors. Basic Resume Info Main information section of an actor resume. It includes gender, ethnicity, height, etc. Birthdate An actor's actual birth date. Used to determine their age. The date is never displayed on the site, only the actor's current age based on their birth date. This is so the age is always current. Body Type An actor's body type. Call Description Main text of the casting call. Call Is Live If the call is currently live on the site. This means that actors can search for it and reply to it. Whether or not this is selected, the call will be offline when the offline date hits. Call Offline Date Date a casting call will automatically go offline. It cannot be more than 90 days from the date the call was created. If the Offline Date is before the current date and "Call Is Live" is checked, the call will be searchable and actors will be able to reply to it. Call Title Short description of the casting call. Compensation Actors can choose if they are interested in working on projects without payment (student films, independent projects, etc.) Email Address A valid email address MUST be entered to create an Actor Hub account. A verification message will be sent to the email account when a user first signs up to verify the email address. Users' email addresses are never displayed on the site. Users who want to contact an actor will fill out a contact form, which will send a message to the actor's email account. Confirm Email Address Re-enter your email address to make sure it is correct. Ethnicity Your ethnicity. Only one answer is allowed. Please choose the one that best describes the way you look. Eye Color An actor's eye color. Featured Resume Featured resumes are well formatted, professional looking resumes that Actor Hub tries to promote. Visitors to the site can search resumes based on if they are featured and several random featured resumes appear on the Actor Hub home page. In order to be considered for being a featured resume, an actor must select the "Would You Like To Be Considered For Featured Resumes" option on the "Manage Resume" Page. Gender An actor's Gender (Male or Female) Hair Color An actor's hair color. Height an Actor's height. Is Paying? Whether or not there is monetary payment for working on a project. Please only select this if the project is definitely paying, not on projects that have deferred payments or profit sharing. My Actor Notes For Casting Directors, they can search only for actors that they have written notes for. My Favorites For Casting Directors, they can search only for actors that they have saved to their Favorites List. My Call Replies For Casting Directors, they can search for Actors that have replied to any of their calls. They can also search for Actors that have replied to a specific call. Display Name How an Actor Hub user's name will appear on the site. They can include their middle name or middle initial. If they want to hide their name from site visitors, they can only enter their first name. This is the only way that a User's name is displayed on the site. The First Name and Last Name fields are never displayed. First and Last Name Used for sorting search results, displaying the actor directory, and for our records. The First and Last Name information that you enter is never displayed on the site. National Call Nationwide call for actors Password Your password. You will need to remember it because it will be required every time you log into Actor Hub Password Confirmation Re-enter your password to make sure it is correct. Pictures Actors can upload up to 12 pictures with their resume. The first image will be the default image that will appear in search results. The images can be reordered so that any uploaded image can be set to the default image. Project Preferences What types of projects an actor is interested in working on and if they will consider non paying projects. Project Type Types of projects that an actor is interested in working on. This is NOT necessarily the types of projects that they have worked on previously. Replied Calls Actors can search for calls that they've replied to. Results View How results of Actor Searches are viewed. If you are logged in, you can see a detailed view with your notes and if the actors have replied to your calls. If you are not logged in, you will only be able to see the default view. Resume Document an Actor's resume in either word(.doc) or .pdf format. It is optional. It will be available for download on the actor's resume page. The information in it will not be searchable. So any information should also be put into the main resume information of this site. Only one resume can be uploaded. Note that this document is freely available to all site visitors, so be careful about including personal information (name, phone number, address, email address, etc) Resume Sections This is for other information that an actor would like to display with their resume. These can either be in table form (for example, a "Film Experience" section with the column headers "title", "role", "director", and "year") or as text in paragraph form (for example, "Goals", "Additional Skills", etc. Is Searchable? Whether or not an actor's resume will appear with search results. This could be unchecked if you are currently too busy to start new projects or if you only want people that you direct to your resume to see it. Skills Non acting skills that could be needed in acting roles such as singing, dancing, playing a sport, playing an instrument, etc. Weight An actor's weight in pounds. Unions Actor Unions to which an actor belongs. Note that not choosing any unions and choosing "nonnunion" are not the same thing. Not choosing any unions means that you didn't give any information in this optional field, choosing "nonunion" means that the actor is not in any union. Your Links The web address (URL) of an actor's resume on Actor Hub. There are 2, the main link and the additional link. The additional link will redirect to the main link. The default main link is the display name with spaces replaced with dashes. The default additional link is the display name with spaces removed. Zip Code Zip code. This is used to determine locations. An actor's zip code is never displayed, only the city and state that it is in. Casting call zip codes are displayed. Actor FAQDo I have to fill out all information for my resume? No. None of the fields are required. When you don't fill them out, they don't appear on your resume. So if you don't enter your weight, rather than saying "weight: no information", the weight field will be skipped all together. However, that if you leave any field blank, you will not come up in searches for that field. Why is my resume not in the search results? In order for your resume to appear on the site, you must set "Should your resume be searchable on the site?" to yes. Also, you must have at least 1 image with your resume. I don't have any unions selected in my resume. Why don't I come up in a search for non union actors? There is an option under Unions called 'non union' that you must select. As with any field, if you don't enter any information, it is assumed that you are skipping that field. How do I know that the person contacting me is really a casting director? You don't. Anyone can sign up for a Casting Director account, we do not screen this information. So as with answering any ads, use good judgment. Casting Director FAQ |
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