Actors Reels exists for one reason: to make sure your talent isn't lost behind a badly-lit, badly-cut tape. We film reels that look like the work you want to book.
Every session is run by a director with over thirty years of industry experience on set, working from a private studio at KORD.Media in Manchester. You are directed through the piece rather than simply recorded — the reel is treated as a performance, not a capture session.
We've sat on both sides of the camera — and we know a reel can open a door or quietly close one. Too many talented actors are let down by footage that doesn't reflect what they can actually do.
So we built a studio around the performance. Cinematic cameras, considered lighting, a director who actually directs, and an edit that treats your monologue like a scene from a film. The result is a reel you're proud to send and that casting teams remember — at a fraction of what London studios charge for the same brief.
Nerves never make for a good reel. Our whole process is designed to take the pressure off so you can do your best work.
We start with where you are — student, working, switching agents — and what you're trying to book next.
We help you choose and workshop monologues that play to your strengths and playing age, before a camera rolls.
On the day we guide each take in person — adjusting, encouraging and finding the truthful moment.
We grade, cut and sound-design your reel so it lands like film and is ready for Spotlight and agents.
Every session is run by a director with over thirty years of industry experience on set. You are directed through the piece — given adjustments, alternative approaches and as many takes as the slot allows — rather than simply recorded.
Cinema cameras and glass, with lighting built for each piece rather than one flat setup, and sound recorded on lavalier and boom. Everything is then edited, colour graded and sound-finished before delivery.
KORD.Media, inside the Bonded Warehouse at 18 Lower Byrom Street, Manchester M3 4AP — in St John's, five minutes' walk from Deansgate and about fifteen minutes from Piccadilly by tram.
Because a calm set produces a better take. Nobody walks through your eyeline, nobody is waiting for the room, and you are not performing a grief monologue while another shoot records next door.
Book a session or just ask us a question — we're always happy to talk through your reel.
