I have tried this out below.
"My name is Sarah Dunn.
I am a 26 year old Singer, Dancer, and Actress.
I graduated in 2009 from Liverpool Theatre School with a Level 6 National Diploma in Professional Musical Theatre.
Following on from graduating, I moved to London where I followed suit in auditioning/working like the majority of graduates. I moved back to Stafford, my home town in 2012 where I choreograph for the district operatic society.
I have been fortunate to travel for 8 months during 2013 as well. I now work full time and now, back in the UK, persuing the auditon route again.
My full training credentials are as follows;
Liverpool Theatre School – Trinity College London Level 6 National Diploma in Professional Musical Theatre
ISTD – Advanced 2 Tap, Advanced 2 Modern and Gold Jazz
RAD – Grade 8 Ballet
and now Middlesex University for the BA Hons in Professional Practice course.
My skills include Strong Tap, Jazz, Ballet, basic Latin, jazz partnering
Confident tonality and vocal harmonies
Choreography – Musical Theatre, Jazz, Tap, Modern Dance
Accents - RP, General American, New York American
My most recent credits are as follows;
Choreographer for How to Suceed in Business Without Really Trying for Stafford and District Operatic Society
Singer on Keith Forrest’s songwriting EP
Regular Guest singer on Tonka Talks Stafford FM Radio Show
Actress/Singer for TV Pilot Re-Edit Me, with the National Film and Television School
Featured Singer/Dancer for Showbiz with Sky One
Makeup Model for Face ON Magazine
Dancer for Oak Jeans Fashion Shoot
Choreographer for Hot Mikado, with SDOS
Backing vocalist for Sleeping Beauty Rock n Roll Pantomime.
Whilst I am to continue working and I am interested in developing my career and specifically would like to qualify as a teacher. Following on from the BAPP course, I endeavour to obtain a PGCE. I would like to teach secondary Dance or Performing Arts.
I have adopted a lifelong approach to personal development."
I found creating a CV in a textual way interesting. I personally find this far less eye catching, than my professional CV which I send to potential employers. Please see below.
Another interesting concept is a Video CV. Now for a performer, I would say this is more of a Showreel. Please see mine below;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCDQcrjJFIM&edit=vd
However there are many ways to do this.
From reading an article on Recruitment Times http://www.recruitmenttimes.co.uk/video_cv_gocv.php, they referenced Elle Woods Video CV from the film Legally Blonde. It touches on some very important issues. Mainly, how to get noticed?
They comment on Elle Woods pink scented CV, and also, her video resume (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NotqNgDLzU4)
On Recruitment Times, they stated some figures;
"In the Vault.com survey, 58 percent of employers surveyed said they would watch
a video résumé “out of sheer curiosity,” 31 percent responded, “definitely, I
think they are valuable" and 11 percent said they would not watch because it
"would not be useful.”
In the performance world, a showreel can be one of the most successful ways of securing an audition, or even a job.
Granted, employers may turn off before the video has finished, but maybe, this is the way forward for employment?
Your comments on Showreels are interesting - I work mostly in Cabaret and many Cabaret performers have a showreel to show the sheer variety of styles they perform in. For an Actor I suppose this could also be a good idea to show character range but it would be more of a challenge than say, a Dancers showreel which would be more visually exciting.
ReplyDeleteI've often wondered myself whether people actually watch showreel CV's!
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I've successfully had auditions from my showreel, and I know many actors who use them to secure auditions. I'm still not sure how I feel about the "Video CV" concept. Singing, dancing and acting is very much as you see it. But I suppose many people could come across different on a video CV as they have time to plan it, instead of the natural slightly more nervous person an employer would meet in an interview.
ReplyDeleteI think the way you have laid out your profile CV makes it very easy to read. It is definitely less eye catching that the CV's we give to employers but I think your version is a great way to make people want to read more as the text is broken up into chunks.
ReplyDeleteI agree that showreels are a fantastic way to show what you can do and are necessary although I have never really thought about Video CV's. I can understand why a percentage of people surveyed thought it 'would not be useful' as it would be easier and quicker to read a CV on paper although I suppose if it were read then you would get to see personality and not just a list of credits.
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