Books

How to Build a Great Acting Showreel

You can now buy my first book, the Amazon Kindle release, ‘How to Build a Great Acting Showreel: Showreels from Scratch, Casting Types and Editing Your Demo Reel’.
 
Over the past year, as we all spent most of our time indoors enduring countless lockdowns, I was able to engage with far more actors than ever before. I did numerous online showreel projects with actors – collaborating with people worldwide through social media. 
 
The lockdown gave me the confidence to realise how much knowledge and experience I have in this area – and how useful it can be for actors. 
 
The article I wrote after watching hundreds of showreels in one day, was shared by hundreds of actors and casting directors, and it led to a great discussion with Emmy Award winning casting director Chase Paris.
 
It was after viewing so many showreels and speaking to so many actors, that I decided to write this book. It’s a labour of love, using my knowledge and experience from many years in the industry – providing advice on how actors can massively improve their showreels. I hope you enjoy it! 
 

‘If you need to create a showreel, whether it be your first or your fifth, then read this book! Dans expertise will help take your showreel from a bunch of put together clips to a marketing tool that presents you in the best Light and helps you get those jobs’.

Debra Baker

Actor

'I wish a book like this was around when I first started. Informative and accessible. Thoroughly recommend!'

Aaron Gordon

Actor

'I wish I had this book when I started out as an actor it would have saved many years working it all out. A very honest and detailed book on the ins and outs of showreels this information is gold dust and will help many people.'

Jack Bradley

Actor

Exclusively available on Amazon Kindle

'A showreel is an actor's most powerful tool when it comes to casting, so it's important to get it right. Common glaring mistakes get made time and time again. Daniel has many years of experience creating showreels and showcasing actors in the best possible way.

His online tips and blogs have inspired so many actors of all levels of experience, so it's great that all his wisdom has now been compiled as one in this wonderful and essential' book.

Lewis Allcock

Actor

I wish I had this book when I started out as an actor it would have saved many years working it all out.

A very honest and detailed book on the ins and outs of showreels this information is gold dust and will help many people

To the point and full of information if you have no idea about how to handle your showree or even why you need one you have to to read this

Jack Bradley

Codetic