Let’s face it: Sometimes the job of the stand-in on a TV and film set can get a bit monotonous. You might get so good at your job that you find it lacks any real challenge. What to do?

Well, how about a challenge?!

We’ve invented a series at Stand-In Central called Stand-In Challenges. Stand-In Challenges are games you can test yourself in as you work as a stand-in, in order to help develop your skills and become an even better stand-in.

If you like them or have an interesting experience trying them out, please let us know about your adventures by chiming in in the Comments section of the challenge. Below is our third Stand-In Challenge: The Stand-In Resolutions Game!

– The Editor

The New Year is upon us, and it’s time to think of our professional goals. If working as a stand-in is a part of your professional goals, it may prove interesting to list out some of those goals to then evaluate at year’s end whether you achieved them.

What Might Some Stand-In Goals Be?

You can set your own stand-in goals in the Stand-In Resolutions Game, of course. To get you thinking, here are some ideas:

  • Stand in regularly for one actor on a TV show or film.
  • Become a utility stand-in on a TV show or film.
  • Stand in for a lead in a film.
  • Stand in for a series regular on a TV series.
  • Make the “stand-in shortlist” of three casting directors (meaning, you end up on a list as a person-to-call when a project needs stand-ins).
  • Stand in for the same actor on more than one project.
  • Stand in for two months on the same project.
  • Make your primary income be from jobs as a stand-in.
  • Use your stand-in job to land principal acting jobs.
  • Use your current stand-in job to network into another stand-in job.
  • Stand in on a pilot.
  • Diminish your work as a stand-in and increase your principal acting work.
  • Become an actor’s exclusive stand-in.

Check in at Year’s End

Right now, set in your calendar the last Monday of the year as a point at which to evaluate whether you achieved your stand-in resolutions. Of course, achieving some of the above goals may be a matter of luck (for example, a matter of what jobs come to town that might be suitable for you), but some of the goals may be achievable by investing energy and effort in their direction.

If you nail all of your resolutions, then celebrate on New Year’s Eve! And even if you didn’t — if you were able to achieve even one of them, rejoice. Reflect back on your experiences standing in over the year. You probably had quite a trip when you think back over the work.

Have some other things to add to this challenge? Have you been able to achieve you stand-in resolutions before? Post below!