She was a dynamic runway model in the 90's who had an extremley successful career. After her career she became a judge on Italias Next Top model. Now this obviously wont happen to all of us but is this picture she is observing the fasion shows in Milan and taking notes because she has been hired as a critic. She said at an interview at the show “They asked me to do it this once, so I said yes, let’s give it a try,” She later said that it was a fun job but she would rather be in the show.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Many of you out there will be wonderful models. For a few years... then you will take on a different career that you maybe went to college for or whatever and you will grow up too tell your kids "I was a model when I was younger." The others though will grow up to make a life long career out of this and branch out to different areas of the industry. A good example of how this can happen is this lovely lady Nadege du Bospertus She was a dynamic runway model in the 90's who had an extremley successful career. After her career she became a judge on Italias Next Top model. Now this obviously wont happen to all of us but is this picture she is observing the fasion shows in Milan and taking notes because she has been hired as a critic. She said at an interview at the show “They asked me to do it this once, so I said yes, let’s give it a try,” She later said that it was a fun job but she would rather be in the show.
She was a dynamic runway model in the 90's who had an extremley successful career. After her career she became a judge on Italias Next Top model. Now this obviously wont happen to all of us but is this picture she is observing the fasion shows in Milan and taking notes because she has been hired as a critic. She said at an interview at the show “They asked me to do it this once, so I said yes, let’s give it a try,” She later said that it was a fun job but she would rather be in the show.
Lights, Camera, Test Shoot!
My first test shoot was this weekend! What an awesome expirience! The shoot took place at Attic Studios in Queens New York and was a test shoot for the agency I'm signed too. The test shoot is the shoot that takes place before you get any jobs. In my case BMG is going to take the pictures from this shoot and put them on their website in addition to giving me a copy of them of course and posting them on a website, modelwire.com. ModelWire is a website that agencies work through to connect with clients.
The photographer was excellent, his name was Udo Spreitzenbarth, a German born photographer. Aspiring models, this is for you. The test shoot cost around eight hundred dollars. Anyone that tells you that your agency is suposed to "Take care of everything" is wrong. Nobody is going to take pictures of you for free until you prove you are a worthy model. Nobody told me this, this is what I've learned so far and come to the conclusion of. Should you be catious? Yes, but don't shy away from an opportunity like this just because there is a price tag on it. The money will come later but like you've probably heard before, and it's true, you do have to spend money to make money.
Anyway, the shoot was a lot of fun. There was music and everyone was very friendly. It started out with hair and make-up then onto the stylist. The hair and make-up guys were hilarious, the hair stylist (roberto) was a professional dancer in his early years and was teaching me ballet while I waited for the photographer to get ready. The outfits the stylist, Yuko dress me were rediculous. I loved them of course, I wanted to take then all home with me but sadly I could not :(. I will post the picture from the shoot on here as soon as I get them. Shouldn't be too long, they said shortly after Christmas.
The photographer was excellent, his name was Udo Spreitzenbarth, a German born photographer. Aspiring models, this is for you. The test shoot cost around eight hundred dollars. Anyone that tells you that your agency is suposed to "Take care of everything" is wrong. Nobody is going to take pictures of you for free until you prove you are a worthy model. Nobody told me this, this is what I've learned so far and come to the conclusion of. Should you be catious? Yes, but don't shy away from an opportunity like this just because there is a price tag on it. The money will come later but like you've probably heard before, and it's true, you do have to spend money to make money.
Anyway, the shoot was a lot of fun. There was music and everyone was very friendly. It started out with hair and make-up then onto the stylist. The hair and make-up guys were hilarious, the hair stylist (roberto) was a professional dancer in his early years and was teaching me ballet while I waited for the photographer to get ready. The outfits the stylist, Yuko dress me were rediculous. I loved them of course, I wanted to take then all home with me but sadly I could not :(. I will post the picture from the shoot on here as soon as I get them. Shouldn't be too long, they said shortly after Christmas.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Need Helping finding an agency?
One of my biggest problems and I'm sure many other aspiring models have the same problem is finding an agency that you want to get signed too. If you google "top modeling agencies" legitimate agencies 99% of the time will not show up. It will most likely say something like "learn to be a model" or "apply to our acting and modeling school" which will end up costing you a lot of money. The best and most effective way to get signed and/or scouted is to send pictures to the agencies themselves. All legit modeling agency websites have a recruit page where it lists an email that anyone can send pictures too. If they like you they will call you and do what they want with you. But how do I do that? I'll be happy to help there. I'll be posting a list of legitimate modeling agencies around the U.S. This should help you all avoid the great inconvenience that I had to face for my nearly two years of searching for my wonderful agency, BMG models. 
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Welcome to my Blog!
Hello everyone! This is my blog about my experiences modeling. I am a seventeen year old guy who has been pursuing modeling for the last two years and just recently got signed. It has been a long tedious journey.There are a lot of scams and people out there that will take advantage of young hopeful minds. I found that out by meeting those scum myself. The purpose I want this blog to serve is to help you aspiring models differentiate between legitimate agencies and people that want to help you from the ones that want to offer you false hopes of success in order to get your money. I will write about my personal experiences, photo shoots, traveling, castings etc. as well as the helpful hints I pick up along the way. I want to help those with high hopes and big dreams achieve their goals and have success. My first shoot is coming up on the 9th with with BMG models and I'm looking forward to sharing what I learn with you all. So stayed tunes :)
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