hey what's up guys welcome back to my channel today I have Brianna with me
Brianna is a model she's signed with Wilhelmina just to give you guys a quick
backstory we actually were represented by the same agency in Chicago and we've
worked together in some fashion shows and things like that so in this video
Breanna was to share with you guys her story on how she got scouted and how you
guys can get scouted as well as a model so stay tuned so I started modeling when
I was 15 it was a summer 2009 I want to say and I was leaving a Bears game with
my family and this agent I don't know this woman at the time walked up to me
and it's like oh my god you're so beautiful you should you should be a
model if you ever thought about modeling it was just like a creepy person go and
turns out she was a scout freely gave me her business card please please call me
we set up a meeting a week later I got signed with one of the greatest agencies
in the world it was so pumped and the kind of ball 2
started rolling I met with them and it was just we're gonna sculpt you we want
to do everything I didn't pay anything you don't pay anything if you sign with
the right agency a real agency because they're gonna make money off you so it's
not a give us a couple thousand dollars and we'll get you started like the only
thing I would say you ever should pay for when you sign with an agency is the
web fee either it'll be an annual rate or it'll be a monthly but it's never an
upfront charge they'll just put it on your account and then when you book a
job we'll just deduct that from your first pay out comp cards that's another
expense back in the day it was like a portfolio book charged but
now everything's digital so you guys are lucky you're very lucky you can just
have an iPad and clients are fine with that and you can update it and you don't
have to pay for the updates that way so it actually works hugely in your benefit
other than that there's not anything you should be paying for like three things
that's it a lot of people get really it's a huge misconception they're like
this agency's gonna sign me but they want five grand like they're not a
legitimate agency a photographer might they might want you to shoot with a
photographer and to do that obviously everyone has to pay the bills so you
might have to pay for like one photo shoot but there are million
photographers this day and age that want to do club work that you could hit up
and be like hey can you do a look for me you go look for yourself and then you
can just kind of build yourself but then again like you your research you have to
really look at what you can bring to this photographer and what they can
bring to you and then if there's a makeup artist involved like what can you
add to their book because at the end of the day it's just how are we all
benefiting from this it's you don't want to be on a project where you feel like
well that was fun but I'm not gonna be able to use any of these photos so if
your agency that you're shooting a bunch of Chara furs and it's not what they're
looking for to add in your book then they'll kind of put you in a place where
it's like hey you haven't given us what we need yet so we're gonna have to have
you pay this guy so he can give us what we need but again it's not the agency
being like give us this money and that could be anywhere from 150 bucks to 800
bucks I would say stay in the nice Middle bracket and never go over 5
because you can get amazing work for five hundred bucks ten years in the game
and I love it it so I mean if you are looking to be a model it's not something
you feel passionate about it's not it's one of those things if you have it you
have it like you have to have the energy have the personality it's not a matter
of just being beautiful and tall and thin anymore because you can be any size
any height it's just more about like the person you are and people love to say
that models aren't that bright and don't have that much going on but with social
media I think we got a huge platform to just vocalize who we are
how we are as people and kind of the struggle as we go through in the
industry and if you can embody that personality that you have with your
family and your friends and bring it to an agency when you meet them for the
first time they can actually see you in your life and know what they're gonna
get every time you're working with clients and how you'll end up selling
yourself just offset first impression so I think it's really important to just be
as real as yourself don't try to act like this cold this is how you think you
should behave and this is what you think they want because it doesn't matter what
they think what you think they think it's just what you think of yourself
what do you believe and just go to an open call like reach out to agencies a
lot of them have you can mail photos and in whatnot like
I've sat with my agents before and just seeing them throw those away so I highly
recommend just go into an open phone so I mean I would just I wouldn't waste
time submitting photos because you can't get someone to energy on the photo you
can see that they look great but go to an open call you can google them look up
the agency that you think you're interested in study their boards like if
I'm Brown girl 510 curly hair I'm not gonna look for a
bunch of agencies in Asia it's not the market that's gonna work for me and the
agencies are like well we signed you but now you're not working and it's just
sitting on a board sign it's not really so do your research look at agencies
that have girls similar to you they have similar photos that they kind of market
in the same way if you want to go for that crazy editorial look for that
editorial agency if you want to be more commercial and bubbly and book things
like Target and Nike and Lululemon like look for those kind of agencies because
they're all around there there are a million different kinds of boards and
just kind of find what fits find what fits for me and I love it alright guys
so that's it for this video if you guys have more questions feel free to hit
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