Stewart CohenDirector/DP/Photographer, Stewart Cohen Pictures · Director/DP/Photographer @ Stewart Cohen Pictures | Film Production

he Secret Sauce to Landing Roles 🎬

29 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief interview, two speakers discuss practical tactics for actors and performers to stay visible to casting professionals and to submit video auditions correctly. Speaker B emphasizes maintaining wide availability, actively following up with clients, expressing gratitude, and using on‑set moments for networking as key ways to keep one’s name in circulation. The conversation then shifts to a technical guideline: audition videos should be shot in horizontal orientation unless the brief explicitly requests a TikTok‑style vertical format. The advice is presented in a conversational, instructional tone aimed at helping talent navigate casting processes efficiently.

Is there any secret sauce to like how you keep your name out there?
Besides like submitting and making sure my availability is wide open, just following up with people and clients, you know, thanking them for their time. When you're on set, that's a great time to network.
Okay, and this is a question. This is a true/false question. Vertical or horizontal on the videos?
Horizontal, unless if they state we want a TikTok-styled video. And they will specifically state that. If they don't say that, then it's always gonna be horizontal.
Perfect. Good. We love that too. A lot of people give it vertical and we're like, ooh, makes it hard to show.