While I appreciate the trend of self-taping so that I save the time and costs of travelling to an audition - where I'm taped - I feel that the casting directors really *should* get more creative in their ability to watch *my performance* instead of how well lit, framed, edited, green-screened, and processed my recording is. THEY are ultimately supposed to be supplying the AD, DP, lighting, costumes, sets, grips, sound techs, etc. so why has it become the ACTOR's job to impress - with the quality of the *video* being submitted? Yeah. I know. This will be an unpopular opinion, but I've generally found Casting Directors to lack any kind of imagination. If they did their job, they could watch my reel - or any of the 500 films I've appeared in - featuring hundreds of different performances and characters - and not require me to record *their* specific lines in *their* specific costume in *their* specific lighting - to decide if I can act or not. Grumble grumble. So. I've taken to just making my own films instead of begging to be in theirs. :) To be clear, I appreciate this article and the information in it. I'm just unhappy that it is needed.