 Hi, my name is Beljika and I'm an actress based out of California. I make acting related videos every Monday, Thursday and Saturday. And today we're going to look at the new casting networks website. I logged in a few days ago when they first released the new website and my account was a little wonky. It was missing some buttons and I knew it was missing some buttons and missing just in general some of the things that it should look like because I had an Australian casting networks account that I created an account for just to see what the new one looked like about a month ago. And I just was like, oh, I don't know about this. This doesn't look right. And then I logged in again and realized, hey, it's starting to come together. So if you're if you already logged on and your yours is looking a little strange, be patient, log in every day as you would. And before we get started and looking at this really quickly, I do want to tell you that I'm not an expert because this just came out and I'm an actress. I use this. My agents also use this. So, you know, I'm just learning with you. I did read a lot of the information that they sent out and I have been just playing around with the website a lot to see how things work. So today we're just going to look at this website and then in the following videos, we are going to look at the media, how to rearrange photos, add them, how to add your agent, how to create a personal profile in case you do have an agent and you still want to self submit. So I'm going to be making a lot of videos, but still let me know in the comments if you do have any additional questions or things that you want me to look into for you. The last thing before we go on here onto the computer is that if you have an agent, especially if you have an agent, but just in general, and if you and you haven't logged on, please go log on right now because they changed all of the websites. So before you could have your username probably was like your first name, last name, something like that. Mine used to be that, Belgi Carodrias. But now they're having you identify yourself more uniquely by having a specific username that is an email. I can imagine that that makes the whole software very difficult to use for casting agents and, sorry, casting directors and talent agents. So go do that and make sure you log in. It's not hard at all. I promise I'll show you guys a clip of me logging into the website the first time around and then we will jump on this. So let's go look at the website the first time I logged in. Okay, so of course, click log in and then it's going to take you to pretty much the same thing that I was taking you before. I was thinking, should I log into the LA, San Francisco wasn't letting me log into the normal one. So I ended up changing it to the San Francisco one, which is my currently paid one. And because it was my first time logging in, I needed to do my old password and username. And then after that, it's going to ask you to now create your new account with your email and a new password. So instead of using the username they used to have now it's an email and then verify the information on this following on the following profile. And I do see that this is the San Francisco one. And for some reason, I decided to I ended up deciding to do LA. I think I was just thinking, oh, it must be the only one that's going to represent me. Well, this ended up being my San Francisco one. So it does have a primary location, a working location, and it has a bunch of different places that you can choose from. I ended up just typing it in and then for the age and ethnicity, and then that's pretty much it. And then it puts you through a few things. It tells you a little bit of the new stuff that they have available. So you can sign into one account and then be able to manage a few different or one login and manage a few different things. And then it tells you you can highlight your credits and the clip on top of your profile. So just a little easier to see and you can upload auditions straight to this website, which we will go over in a different video. And for this one, because I couldn't seem to find the claim additional counts button and did not have it, I ended up just clicking up here and creating a personal profile. Again, we'll go over that in a separate video. OK, so now let's look at this casting networks website. Like I said, this this now is my second time logging in. So let's log in. It still looks pretty much the same when you do the login because when you click log in on the casting networks home page, it still has you open up a new tab and go log in on another page. It's taking a little bit to load in a different video. We can go ahead and claim other accounts, but this one, I just wanted to show you guys what it looks like. I don't want to go into too much in this one because the video would be very long. So this is my profile, which it looks so much nicer than before. I still need to add about me right here. But for this one, like I mentioned, it is my San Francisco one for this account. It says my primary location, San Francisco, height, weight, age. I have a highlighted credit here. And then, of course, if you just want to add or change anything, you just press edit. But here are the photos, the videos for the photos. The biggest file that I did was four megabytes, which is a decent size photo and it was able to upload it. I do have more photos that I need to put here. Like I got some new headshots a couple of weeks ago. So you put them there, your videos. So these can be your reels or clips in general audio. So you can see it's a lot nicer for the credits. I don't remember if in the last one, in the last website, I was asking you like this, but I definitely need to add a bunch of credits and then lower it has more personal information, like my email number. And then it asks you about role preferences and appearance. So all of this stuff is really normal. Oh, this is a new thing that I don't know that the other one had or maybe I just never saw it, the copy, shareable profile file link. So then if you copy and paste it, you can see what your profile looks like and you can share your profile if you're seeking representation or if somebody's interested in casting you and they want to see something from you. You can share this with them and this is, you know, your little profile and they can see your skills if you have certain skills, your resume, everything that we were looking at in the profile. And of course, there's a preview link to the right here. And it's the same thing as if you were to copy and paste that profile link. But it's here it is. OK, yeah, it's the same thing. So let's go to the top and go through everything quickly. So casting billboards, this is where you find your audition. So because I am on my San Francisco account with which is attached to my agents, I cannot self submit on this account because this account is the one that my agents used to submit. I know it's a little confusing. I wish there was just a drop down menu of like self submission, self submission, because obviously you're not going to submit on behalf of your agents. So there's a nice filter over here, a lot more filters. And then you can select your union, a list of unions. Roles, sorry, role, gender, projects, ethnicities, age. So and then they have switched to months for toddlers, which I'm sure it's very, very convenient for parents that have accounts for their children. But let me show you an example of me not being able to submit because this is my agents account. Wait, before we do that, I want to show you the filter. So now you can filter to see jobs in a bunch of different places. And let's look at the locations. OK, location three selected. So I selected LA and then NorCal, San Francisco and Sacramento because I'm able to work as a local in all of those. And that's why I was seeing an LA one. So let me go ahead and take this off just for to show you as an example of the San Francisco one. OK, so this is for background, it looks like. I don't know, business professional background, VG. So I'm going to submit to this role in the bottom and then it says create a personal profile, use our created personal profile using your profile. So you need a personal profile to submit to roles to casting billboard. You can create one now using the information from your profile. Don't worry, it's free to create. Yes, you can create one maybe later. I know I already have another LA one. We'll go through all of that together in the next one because I haven't done that yet, but I know I can't use the specific profile and I am paying for casting network. So I know I should be able to self submit because I'm paying for it. So that's what would happen if you only have your account that is attached to your agents, which is this one. OK, so we did that. We already saw the profile earlier and so now let's go to the media bank. So in the past, it was pretty hard to, you know, add and remove photos. But basically these when you go to your media bank, you see everything and then you can select to hide or not hide your media. And if and if your agent uploaded photos onto your casting casting networks, the one that's attached to them, you can't delete photos. It'll tell you media uploaded by representation can be deleted media bank. But you can hide it from your profile. And then if we go to something that I just uploaded right now, then I can delete the photo. So that's that. These are all of the photos and then I will go more into detail in the media specific video that will will will come out very soon. But then here are the videos and for the videos I. I haven't tried. I uploaded this video today just as a sample and that one was almost 100 megabytes, so it's pretty decent size. I know in the past, they have had a limit to 300 megabytes. And then the audio, it's taken a little to load. Here we go. And then audio, of course, and then you can add more. So that seems like it's so much more user friendly. And then your alerts, I don't have any. It has a filter, which is pretty cool. So I can do. I just want to see like the May alerts. Well, I guess that's one of the. OK, here we go. It was just a little slow. Yeah, I don't have any alerts from May. And then the last thing is your submissions. I haven't submitted to anything yet. I haven't submitted anything yet on this account because it is attached to my agents, but that's pretty much it as far as like the main section. And then if you go up here to the right on your name, I did create a personal account here just to see like what that was because my claim additional accounts button was not here the first time I logged in, which is why I created that one. But so this is just another account. So this is the one I have with MDT with my agents in San Francisco. And then this one is the one I created because I couldn't find that button and then account settings, account details, notifications so you can get email, text messages, membership and billing. Of course, that's where you can change from monthly to yearly profile settings and see this is what with this one looks like I haven't activated at all or anything. Oh, yes, that's another cool thing that I remember. So let's go back to profile settings and I'm going to click on the one I have with my agent so you can drop your representation here if you or drop the profile so that you're not attached to like that specific agent if you got a new one or whatever. And then you can book your book ad booked out date. So if you book a job and you know, you know, I can't audition for anything for these days or have a wedding or a vacation or something. You can add it here, which is pretty cool so that when your agents are submitting you to something, they're like, oh, they're out of town. So, you know, they're not even going to be able to do this. Waste of time. Let's not submit them to that. Claim additional account. So this is where I would add my LA casting account. But we're going to do that in a different video because I don't know how long that's going to take. And then that's it. Log out. So this is the new casting network page or website. It definitely looks really good. I have heard of a lot of people who are having issues with it that it's a bit buggy. Definitely the first time I logged in, I was missing a lot of things. Now it's starting to work a little bit better. It still takes quite a while to load certain pages. But I know just with, you know, any other thing, sometimes any other website things can get buggy. I understand that stuff like this can sometimes take a while, especially when you have so many actors and talent agents and casting directors that use these websites, you know, they're using it all over the world. So I'm being patient and hopefully a lot of things change. So even you seeing what we just went through today, once you log in, it might be a little bit different. If you don't have a casting networks account and you're considering it, I definitely suggest researching in your area if there's actually jobs around you or if you're going to be doing it remotely that you are actually close enough where you can drive over because a lot of the time they will not pay for your gas or travel or anything like that because these casting networks is more oriented towards the commercial side as far as I know. And some background stuff, it's just not worth it to get it if you aren't going to be able to actually use it. So make sure you do your research on this. I have a lot of other videos on casting networks, you know, the previous website version, but it's still pretty much the same service. Look out for the other videos. Like I mentioned, let me know if you have any additional questions. 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