How To Get Booked For A Modelling Job
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How To Get Booked For A Modelling Job
Liz Fuller shares tips for models on casting. While emphasizing the importance of signing to an agency, she also provides tips for those who are booking jobs on their own, including an emphasis on safety.
How to book a modelling job. Well, booking a modelling job, there's 2 ways of looking at it. Firstly, you should be signed up to an agent, and it's the agent's responsibility to do it all for you.
In which case, you just turn up to the casting, hope you get the job, phone your own agency at the end of the day, and they will tell you all the booking details. If you work for yourself and you're one of the models now that are trying to get their own work, and there are hundreds and thousands of you on Facebook, kind of promoting yourself, and I think it's brilliant, but just be safe. If you're going to book a modelling job, somebody has no doubt approached you, you go to meet them.
Please be aware of your safety. Go to, of course, that audition or casting, to meet the photographer, and when you're there, make sure you've got your model card. Leave the model card behind, make sure you're polite.
When somebody is also looking at your book as well, if you really want to nail that audition and get the job, don't talk through every single picture. It's the most annoying thing. If you're ever casting a girl and your model book comes over, if you go "And yes that picture was this and that picture was that", you don't allow the person casting you to form their own thoughts.
So just push your book over, be strong, confident, let them do the talking. Leave your model card there with your phone number and then when they do get in touch with you, and let's hope they do, make sure you know the date of the job, the times of the job, what they expect of you. Do they expect you to turn up with your own clothes and your own makeup done? Will there be a makeup artist? There are lots of questions that you can run through if you're going to have to start booking your own job.
Just be safe though, because there are a lot of dodgy photographers out there and people that are now looking for these models that are working for themselves. Ideally, try and be signed to an agency, because the agent will look after you and book the job for you. Good luck. .