PICTURES are a MODEL'S first & most important TOOL.
It's nearly impossible to command professionnal rates for bookings (jobs) when you look like an amateur. If you don't have a modeling composite, you ARE an amateur.
Your modeling photo test must be done by a savvy modeling photographer. A portrait or wedding photographer won't do. Modeling photography is a specialty. The minute I view a photographer's book, I know whether he/she understands our business. YOU, as a novice, will not. That is why you need professional help.
CLIENTS go to an agency's web site to find available professional models & actors. Without your modeling photos, they'll not find you there. Someone else will be seen and ultimately get the booking.
How will you work if no one knows you exist?
Clients RARELY have time to surf the Internet for models, because time IS money. Instead, they'll go to the web sites of modeling agencies in the market where the job will be done to find who they need. WHY? Because the agent has already done the homework--weeded out the applicants who won't succeed and signed those who will. The client knows that an agency model is a professional model. There's no guessing game there.
Your COMP card is your modeling BUSINESS card. It is simply a compilation of your best photos strategically arranged on a 5.5“ x 8.5” card stock presentation. Your agent will need them for promotional purposes, and YOU will need them when you go on every modeling go-see, on-request, interview, casting or booking.
Your BOOK. You'll need your book to house your photos. And you'll take it with you to all modeling opportunites, BUT, if you cannot give them a COMP card for their files before you leave, they have nothing with which to remember you.
COMPOSITE CARDS
are a necessity. |