{"id":35,"date":"2025-12-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-actor-portfolio-pro\/2025\/12\/04\/a-self-tape-setup-that-costs-under-200\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:00:00","slug":"a-self-tape-setup-that-costs-under-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-actor-portfolio-pro\/2025\/12\/04\/a-self-tape-setup-that-costs-under-200\/","title":{"rendered":"A self-tape setup that costs under $200"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have booked jobs from a tape shot on a phone propped against a stack of plays. I have also lost them to tapes where you could not hear the reader. The gear matters far less than people think, but the basics matter a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The whole kit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A plain, pale backdrop \u2014 a painted wall is fine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One large soft light in front and slightly to the side.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A clip-on microphone. This is where the money goes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A tripod that puts the lens at eye level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep the reader quieter than you, frame from mid-chest up, and slate exactly the way the brief asks. Casting directors are not grading your lighting. They are grading whether they can hear you and believe you.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casting directors are not grading your lighting. They are grading whether they can hear you and believe you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-self-tapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-actor-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-actor-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-actor-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-actor-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-actor-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-actor-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-actor-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-actor-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-actor-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-actor-portfolio-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}