Get your acting rated before casting sees it.
Upload a self-tape, or record one in the app, and Sides watches the whole take. You get a score out of 100, a verdict, notes pinned to the moments that made it, and the one thing to change on the next take.
Tape strength
74/ 100
Your face goes still for nine seconds at 0:21 while Fletcher talks, and that is where the take stalls. The flinch at 0:59 is the moment we actually see you take the hit.
Since your last take
The count stopped being recited and started being a decision.
Betterbreath and filler, feeling it, not showing it
Your next take
Stay alive while the reader talks
Run the scene with your own lines silent. Only listen, and let your face respond to what Fletcher actually says, especially through the stretch around 0:21. Then add your lines back in.
How you'll know it worked
Something moves on your face before you speak, every time.
Feedback you can act on in the next take.
Not a vibe and not a generic checklist: specific moments, in your tape, with what to do about them.
A score and a verdict
A score out of 100 and where it lands: Developing from 50, Callback-ready from 70, Bookable from 85.
Notes on the timeline
Every note points at a moment in the take, with a timestamp and the frame it happened in.
One thing to change
The feedback ends with a single adjustment for the next take and how you will know it worked.
What moved since last time
Tape it again and see which areas got better and which slipped.
What Sides looks for: 7 areas of the take.
Each area is a set of checks that casting cares about. Every check is graded landed, partly or missed from what is actually on the tape.
- Knowing the lines
- Did you know the words, keep the writer's rhythm, and recover cleanly if you slipped?
- Your choices
- Do we know what you want, what you think of the other person, and who you are playing?
- Believability
- Did the feelings look real, arrive on their own, and have a reason we could see?
- Listening
- Were you alive while the other person spoke, and did we see you think before you answered?
- Voice
- Could we hear every word, and did your pace and volume change with what you wanted?
- Body and stillness
- Did you move the right amount for a close frame, and did your hands mean something?
- Camera, light and sound
- Framing, light on your face, the reader's level, and the slate.
How the feedback works.
- 01
Upload or record
Record in the app, or upload a take you already have (MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV or WebM, up to 150MB).
- 02
Sides watches it
It reads the face, the voice, the listening and the frame across the whole take. Feedback is usually ready in a few minutes.
- 03
Read, then retake or send
Start with the one thing to change. Retake, or send with a reason.
Questions about self-tape feedback
- Can Sides rate my acting?
- Yes. Sides grades a self-tape across 7 areas casting looks for, from knowing the lines to listening and the camera, and gives a score out of 100, a verdict, and timestamped notes with the one thing to change on the next take.
- How is the score worked out?
- Each area is a set of checks, and each check is graded landed, partly or missed from the tape itself. The score is out of 100, and the verdict follows it: Developing from 50, Callback-ready from 70, Bookable from 85.
- Does it tell me if I will book the role?
- No. It tells you what is on the tape and what to change. Casting decisions depend on much more than one take, and Sides does not predict them.
- How long does the feedback take?
- Usually a few minutes after the take finishes uploading.
- Is it free?
- The free plan gives a preview read with your score on one tape a month. Paid plans unlock the full feedback, and you can buy one full analysis for $12 with no subscription.
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