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Actor Showreel Questions Answered

Just a quick follow up to my showreels article a few days back. I was asked a bunch of questions on Twitter and in email – the ones that required a longer answer I thought I’d answer in more depth here. As a US actor now also starting work in

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A dialogue with my Inner-Critic

Creativity is difficult. When it flows, it feels easy, joyful. But sometimes, in fact, often – you find yourself competing with the multiple voices in your head. It’s easy to get trapped by the inner-critic in your brain. The critical voice that shuts you down speaks with such a strong

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Showreels from Scratch Service during Covid 19

Hope you are all keeping healthy. I don’t need to tell you how strange these recent weeks have been, because it’s been unusual for everyone! Naturally, there have been some changes to how I am doing business and I am writing this blog to outline them. Initial Consultation Meetings. Traditionally

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The Experimental Solo Showreel Project

Last week I was sitting in a visitors lounge at the James Cancer Center in Columbus, Ohio, allowing my mind to drift away from the loved one I was there to visit, re-focusing on my work back in London, on films and showreels.   View this post on Instagram  

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10 Tips for Self-Tapes

I used to offer a service for self-tape auditions. I stopped doing it because I believe a self-tape is best when it’s done exactly how it’s named; as a SELF-tape. A self-tape doesn’t need to be polished and shot perfectly. A casting director doesn’t want to think you agonised over

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Daniel Johnson
Writer, Director, Author
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