Self-taping 101: Everything you need to know to successfully audition

Learn the industry standards and common pitfalls that come with making a self-tape from an actor with over 60 credits!

Get a downloadable Self-Tape Setup Map 

Since the pandemic, film and TV auditions have gone almost completely virtual (at least for the first round), which means for you as an actor today, self-tapes make the world go around. They are the main way for you to show what you can do with a role, to book work, and for casting offices and filmmakers to get to know you.

There are right and wrong ways to execute each element of your self-tape.  Some issues can be so bad that casting may not be able to share your tape with production and may not have time to give notes for you to do it again. Most aren’t ‘deal breakers’ - they just make us look a little worse, and don’t really help us ‘shine’.  

A well-made self-tape can make a huge difference in how casting views both your talent and your professionalism. When you make simple mistakes on your self-tape you are signaling one of two things to a casting director, either you don't know better, or you don't care enough to fix it. Either can be disastrous for how casting views you not only for this audition but for future auditions with their office.  

Kym Jackson literally wrote the book on being an actor in LA – THE HOLLYWOOD SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR ACTORS. She’s also had credits in over 60 features and TV shows including THIS IS US, S.W.A.T., N.C.I.S. and THE SECRET SHE KEEPS. Oh, and she’s a member of Mensa as well!

Kym will walk you through self-tape equipment and technical setup, then share performance tips, before moving on to editing methods and finally exporting and uploading your self-tape auditions.  She will show you how to execute each stage of self-taping in a way that supports and enhances your performance, so you can avoid mistakes that distract from it.

PLUS! you will receive:

• A downloadable Self-Tape Setup Map 

"Stage 32 is the leader in entertainment industry education and I am honored they invited me to join their team of expert instructors. The next Meryl Streep or Robin Williams is out there just beginning their career and I love the idea that I might have the privilege of helping them along their journey!" - your Stage 32 education Kym Jackson