<p>Most of the kids I know have 2 photos on their headshot/resume. They have the headshot photo, then on the resume itself a contrasting photo in the upper left hand corner.</p>
<p>In my D’s intro to professional theatre class, they re-did their resumes and put a small pic on the top left corner that contrasted with their large, regular headshot. FWIW</p>
<p>Sure, put the tiny contrasting photo on the resume if you like but not a composite headshot. Maybe I misunderstood the question. Good luck!</p>
<p>Don’t feel you have to do that, however. My D’s agent never suggested that we do anything other than standard headshot/resume.</p>
<p>Please remember, this isn’t for a professional audition. The headshot is there simply to remind a large group of (generally) visually oriented people, exactly who we are talking about. “Here is Jenny’s picture.” “Yes, I recall her, she sang…” In other words, please don’t stress out about the headshots. But as KatMT says, make sure it looks like the person auditioning. We will see hundreds of auditions over months. Having a picture where we need to remind ourselves, “yes, but I think her hair was much longer and red at the audition” becomes rather difficult. (It isn’t as if my memory is improving with age. :)</p>
<p>One place where my son auditioned, they took a snapshot instead of asking for a headshot. Might have been Emerson.</p>
<p>Yes, prodesse, it was Emerson. I’ll never forget because that’s the trip when they lost D’s luggage. Lesson learned: everything needed for audition goes in carry-on (make-up, flatiron, dance clothes and shoes)!</p>
<p>Although it is not necessary to have professional head shots taken for college auditions, we decided to make the investment so our D would have them available for auditions during senior year, and for summer productions once she started school. We are hoping the photo will be appropriate until Junior year of college, but 2 years is probably more realistic.</p>
<p>We thought the photographer did a great job capturing the real person. I did a lot of shopping around and found an excellent photographer with a stellar reputation who did multiple looks, had no time limit, did his own retouching on up to 2 photos, gave us hi- and lo-res copies of our favorite two shots, with and without name and white border, in color and B&W, and 50 prints of excellent quality. Nobody has mentioned cost, but we got that for approx $500, in NYC. Including a professional make-up and hair artist.</p>
<p>Invest now or later, but professional head shots are very good to have.</p>
<p>I love all these great suggestions! This is all so foreign to me! I am going to try to narrow it down:) Actors Paper for resume? and what type of paper for headshots? thx</p>
<p>We got my daughter’s headshots printed on heavy paper so she can print her resume on the back with our inkjet printer, no need for actor’s paper, and she can change her resume as she adds shows/awards. For schools who want resume and headshot separate, she just prints a separate resume on regular paper.
Headshot was taken by a great photographer in NYC who worked with D until he captured her personality. Some schools say any photo is ok but the skeptic in me says if a majority of students are coming in with professional headshots, I’m not sure that’s how I want my daughter to stand out. On the other hand, I am sure people on this site have stories of how their kids did just fine with a nonprofessionally taken photo. JMHO</p>
<p>We found a great resource called The Actors Photo Lab online. You can get photo reproductions and 8 x 10 resume paper from them. Most of the schools to which our daughter applied requested the resume be stapled to the headshot - they preferred to keep them separate rather than printed on the back. The 8x10 paper is very inexpensive – I think under $10 for 100 sheets. Well worth it for not having to cut resumes to size. I believe we paid less than $100 for 100 headshots with border and name and 100 sheets of the resume paper. We had the opportunity to proof,etc… Very easy company to work with. And the turn around is fast. I’m sure there are others that provide similar services as well so you might compare costs but this was very affordable. You’ll just need to be able to email your them so it may require permission from your photographer. Like others have said, the separate resume is good as you can print them as you need them so if have additions and changes between auditions it is not a big deal to add them to your resume. Definitely recommend this over printing the resume on the headshots.</p>