Properly lit, properly framed, properly recorded — with someone reading in opposite you. Plus vertical promo cuts for the profiles casting actually scrolls.
No — they do different jobs. A self-tape answers one specific brief and is deliberately framed flat and plain. A showreel is a calling card built to be watched cold by someone who has never heard of you. Use a self-tape for the job in front of you and a reel to get seen for the ones you have not heard about.
Most self-tapes are lost to the room, not the acting. A beige wall, a window behind you, a phone on a stack of books and audio recorded from four feet away — none of that is a performance problem, and all of it costs you the job.
Bring the sides. We light you, frame you, read in with you and record clean audio, and you leave with a file you would be happy for anyone to open. Where the deadline is tight we turn the file around the same day.
We cut a vertical version of your strongest moment, sized for Instagram and TikTok. £49.99 alongside any session.
Burned-in captions so it plays with the sound off — which is how most of it will be watched.
Sized and exported for Spotlight, Mandy and Casting Networks as well as social.
Not really. A self-tape answers one brief for one casting team and is framed flat and plain on purpose. A showreel is a calling card built to be watched cold. Use a self-tape to get the job in front of you; use a reel to get seen for the ones you have not heard about.
You bring the sides, we light and frame them properly, read in with you and deliver the file the same day where we can. It costs a fraction of losing a job because the audio was bad or the wall was beige.
A short, vertical, socially-native cut — often built from your reel footage — for Instagram, TikTok and casting profiles. Casting assistants genuinely do look, and a vertical cut travels where a landscape reel does not.
Book a session or just ask us a question — we're always happy to talk through your reel.
