I've recently been fooling around on my blog, writing the odd bit in preparation for launching my website (where my blog will eventually move to).
Anyway, every now and then I'm aiming to blog about certain humourous aspects encountered in being this creative industry.
For my first one I'm looking at people who exaggerate their careers, roles, agent status whatever! It can be a funny story about someone who sprouted off a list of films they had 'starred' in (only for you to find out they were non-credited extras), or it can be about twisting the truth with an agents.
This can also go further into lying as well, as many a time have I encountered actors claiming to be 'accent gurus' or director's overstating their film budgets to make it seem like they're going to challenge Michael Bay in blowing things up.
Feel free to share and if you would prefer it if I didn't lift the story to my blog just let me know ;) I'll credit you of course, unless you'd rather avoid that!
I suspect that the verification thing is a way of collecting data about employers, like they always ask me more data about each credit.
I don't know what they want to do with it, but I dread what they could do with it...
I will never give contact details of my employers, it's up to them to decide if they want to share it with a casting website.
I'm pretty sure that none of the pros actually verify credits, for all the reasons above, so it defeats the point; unless the point is to collect data...
To go back on topic, it may have been possible several years ago to lie of CVs; but nowadays with the internet, it's so easy to verify credits, that lying on the CV only makes people look bad.
I don't see the point.
It still happens though.
Hi All,
Look acting CV or not stretching the truth is always something that needs to happen and isn't anything anyone should feel bad about. I say this yet (hand on heart) have never lied on my acting CV. but I constantly change things on my day-to-day CV to get me work in between jobs. There is no difference. As long as the base of your little porky has some substance then as long as it can get you to where you want to be and get you doing what you want to do then go for it... you are actors...let the Casting direct make the decision as to whether you are right for the role - it is what he/she is there for. Actors put too much on themselves...let someone else take the strain for once...we are just here to enjoy it : )
Ethan
Hear hear re the abolition of credit verification and an extra hear-hear for Mandy Lomax who makes a VERY good point about the credibility - or otherwise - of some of those registered as employers and the criteria they should have to meet.
I had an "employer" contact me last week regarding a short film that was about ten pages of dialogue and was shooting the NEXT DAY!!
Of course, money wasn't mentioned, no doubt there was no money. How on earth does someone with that level of disorganised chaos get to advertise on CCP as an employer of actors ?
I recently worked with a director who told me he'd auditioned an actor who claimed in his CV to have been in a production that very director had worked on (which he evidently hadn't). He even tried to argue the point when he was questioned on it.
Exaggerating the truth isn't all that bad, but lying is down right stupid.
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