A Clearer Way to List What You Have Worked On
Credits on your actor website are now grouped by medium, and the form for adding one has been rewritten around the fields the industry actually uses.
The old form asked the wrong questions
It had one flat list and a free text field for everything. That produced credit lists where a student short sat above a network series because it happened to be added first, and where the same production appeared three times under three spellings.
The new structure
Credits belong to a medium: Film, Television, Theater, Commercial, Voice, New Media. Each medium is its own block on the page, in an order you control. Within a medium each credit has:
- Production title
- Role, and role type where it applies: Lead, Supporting, Series Regular, Guest Star, Co-Star, Featured, Ensemble
- Company, network or venue
- Director
- Year
- Genre, covered in genres for every project
- A link, if the production has a page worth pointing at
Every field except the title is optional. A credit with a title and a role is a perfectly good credit.
Role type is the field people skip and should not
"Guest Star" and "Co-Star" mean specific things to the people reading your list, and leaving them off invites the reader to assume the smaller one. If you were a Series Regular, say so. If you were background, do not list it at all, which is the honest version of the same advice.
Do not list everything
A credits page is an argument, not an archive. Fifteen strong credits read as a career. Fifteen strong credits followed by thirty student films read as fifteen strong credits diluted by thirty student films, and the reader stops before the end either way.
The rule most working actors settle on: once you have professional credits, the unpaid ones come off. Our piece on creating a resume page covers the same ground for the resume itself.
What this makes possible
Grouped credits are what the sorting controls operate on, what the timeline view is built from, and what feeds your downloadable resume so the two never disagree with each other.
Existing credits were migrated into the Film or Television group based on what we could infer, and anything ambiguous went into a group called Other for you to sort. That is a five minute job and it is worth doing.
No credits page yet? Create a free actor website and add your three strongest.
