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Monday, 24 August 2015

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU GET AN AUDITION FROM A MODELING AGENCY ?


 Make sure you get all the information you will need to be successful at the go-see.  



                1.  What is the job for:  who is the client and the product?

                2.  When is the shoot?

                3.  Where is the shoot?

                4.  What does it pay?

                5.  Does it require wardrobe that you don’t have?

                6.  What will you portray, and how will it be used?


                7.   Where is the go-see?

                8.      When is it?  (Usually it is a range of several hours - you want to be there near the beginning if possible.)

                9.   What role will I be playing, and how do I need to be dressed?

                10.   Who should I see at the go-see?

You should ask all these questions and any others that may occur to you when you talk to your agent.  If you don’t have a conflict with the go-see time, and tell your agency that you will be there, you are on your way to the next step in your modeling career.
Please bear in mind that you have just been given privileged information.  You should not share it with other models or agencies, and you should not take other people along with you to either the go-see or the shoot (unless you are a minor and need an escort).



If you get a call from more than one agency for a go-see, the general rule is that you should accept and tell the photographer/casting director that you are represented by the first agency to call.  That is the standard practice in the industry, and should be accepted by all agents.  There are some exceptions: when you have a contract with an agency that gives them preference (if you are called by several agencies for a job, and one of them has that preference clause in your agreement with them, you should tell the photographer you are represented by that agency regardless of what order the calls were received in.  You should also tell the other agencies who call you that you are doing that, since they may know that they called you first.  Another exception is if an agency gets a “name-request” from the client specifically for you.  In that event, you should accept the go-see as represented by that agency, even if you got a call earlier (not a name request) from some other agency for the same go-see.