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Editing and Sharing Self-Tapes
A guide to editing and sending self-tapes from Spotlight’s Audio Visual Specialist, Nicholas Peel. You’ve set up and filmed a self-tape, made sure the lighting and sound are on point and now it’s time to share your video with the casting director, but how should you do that? Nicholas Peel gives his tips for basic video editing, converting your file into one that casting directors…
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Dare to Dream
We need dreamers now more than ever, but how can you make those dreams become a reality? Actor and Spotlight adviser Justin McDonald offers his advice. Now more than ever we need the dreamers to step forward. I’ll share my dream. I see a roaring twenties; a healthier, happier, closely connected planet and a booming…
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A Young Performers Guide to Keeping Creative
Verity Naughton’s young performer’s guide to keeping creative through COVID-19. With classes closing and uncertainty about when they will begin again, Verity Naughton took to Twitter to share her ideas about how young performers can keep creative. With her kind permission, we’ve published her list to help inspire Spotlight members. Read a play. Jump on video chat…
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Lighting and Sound for Self-Tapes
A guide to lighting and sound for performer self-tapes from Spotlight’s Audio Visual Specialist, Nicholas Peel. If you’ve read our article about setting up and filming self-tapes and are ready to learn more about lighting and recording sound, then this is the guide for you! Nicholas gives his tips and kit recommendations if you’re ready to take…
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Tips for Taking Your Show to Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Top tips if you’re thinking of taking your show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. A lot of work goes into taking shows to Edinburgh, but showcasing your work at the Fringe could be a hugely beneficial experience. We spoke to performers at the festival to get their advice about how to go about planning and…
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Audition Insights from Casting Director Irene Cotton
Casting Director Irene Cotton speaks to Lauren McCrostie about auditions and how performers should approach the process. Knowing you’ve done your best comes from knowing you were as prepared as you could be Irene Cotton Casting Director Auditions are a number of things; anxiety-inducing, exhilarating, stressful, time-consuming, financially draining and potentially career-jeopardising. Despite all this, they…
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Ways to Fund Your Performing Arts Training and Career
Funds, bursaries and awards you should know about to help to pursue your passion in the arts. We all know studying doesn’t come cheap so it’s reassuring to know that there is financial help available to help talented students, performers and theatremakers. We’ve listed some of the bursaries, scholarships and awards available to help cover the costs of studying…
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Radio and Voice Studio Setups Explained
Award-winning audio writer, director and producer Jack Bowman explains the various types of radio and voice studio setups performers may encounter. Audible Studio Setup Audible like to cast big names for their audio output. If you do work for Audible, you will likely receive the script in advance however it’s not uncommon for the rest…
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How to Negotiate
Scotwork director and senior consultant Richard Savage shares his secrets to make us all better negotiators. Negotiation is an art, not a science. Richard Savage Negotiating is a key part of any agent’s role and not something you as a performer should be clueless about either. We can often feel powerless in the industry when…
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Spotlight Membership FAQs for Agents, Performers and Casting Professionals
In order to join Spotlight as an agent, casting director or performer you will need to meet certain professional criteria. This page sets out our current joining criteria. We continuously review our processes and we work alongside other industry organisations and professional bodies to support and keep in line with current industry standards. Skip to a section: Agents Joining…