Summer is calling. We’re moments away from family reunions, vacations, and long weekends. So, here’s a bit of advice that will keep you in good graces with your talent agents and potential clients: If you know the dates you won’t be available for auditions or jobs, be sure to “book out.”
Booking out should be done by email or online, depending on your agent’s specific policies, typically a week or so in advance of the dates you won’t be available to accept auditions or bookings. Otherwise, your agents will figure you’re available and count on you.
Additionally, if you know you won’t be available for the dates of the shoot or recording session, you should not accept the audition. Never audition for anything unless you intend to accept it. That’s common professional conduct whether you’re a union talent or not.
Keep in mind this isn’t just good advice during the summer months when you’re heading out of town on vacation, the same booking-out requirements apply during the holidays in December, for afternoon getaways you don’t think matter to anyone but you and your loved one(s), when you’re heading to the dentist for a cleaning,
Summer is calling. We’re moments away from family reunions, vacations, and long weekends. So, here’s a bit of advice that will keep you in good graces with your talent agents and potential clients: If you know the dates you won’t be available for auditions or jobs, be sure to “book out.”
Booking out should be done by email or online, depending on your agent’s specific policies, typically a week or so in advance of the dates you won’t be available to accept auditions or bookings. Otherwise, your agents will figure you’re available and count on you.
Additionally, if you know you won’t be available for the dates of the shoot or recording session, you should not accept the audition. Never audition for anything unless you intend to accept it. That’s common professional conduct whether you’re a union talent or not.
Keep in mind this isn’t just good advice during the summer months when you’re heading out of town on vacation, the same booking-out requirements apply during the holidays in December, for afternoon getaways you don’t think matter to anyone but you and your loved one(s), when you’re heading to the dentist for a cleaning,
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