My First Video Cover Letter! (aka Getting out of your comfort zone.)

One of my goals this year was to take bigger risks creatively.  A mini goal within that – create Video Cover Letters, or VCLs at Dallas Travers calls them.  A quick authentic video to introduce yourself to a casting director or producer.  It sounded like a cool, new take on a traditional cover letter and also a little scary…so I knew I had to do it!  We are already approaching the end of the first quarter of 2014…… and no VCLs so far…

However I was on Twitter a couple of days ago, and I came across a series of auditions for The Reel Deal – a new multi platform, celebrity lead, short film competition – a kind of American Idol for short film.  My first thought – I would never do a reality show.  But ironically the first round of auditions was a 90sec VCL – who are you? where are you from? why should you be picked?  It seemed like a sign – what better practice? And really, being flown out to LA for a week to make a movie – sounds awesome! My brain then came up with a hundred reasons NOT to do it – I have no time to do this,  the deadline is in 4 days, I don’t own a video camera, how can I do something super creative if I don’t know how to edit etc.  But I did it anyway.  I went simple, used the camera on my computer and did 5 takes.  I chose the 5th take.  Let me know what you think?  I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Are you going to try a VCL?

Talk soon