Are you counting on your kids 'wowing' agents and casting directors on in-person open calls, interviews, auditions and castings? Due social distancing and the ever increasing costs of conducting in-person open calls, interviews, auditions and castings - direct bookings are rapidly becoming the norm and 90% of the time there will be no in-person open calls, auditions, interviews or castings.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Make no mistake. This is a first impression business and how you present yourself is everything. So now is a good time to take a look at your headshots, modeling portfolio photographs and comp card photographs to see where you stand.
Request castings and direct bookings are crucial to your bottom line and how many of them you get will ultimately determine whether you succeed or fail. Are your kid's modeling portfolio photographs and comp cards more than 6 months old? Do you currently have professional looking / up to date comp cards on the racks in the office of every agency you are with or would like to be with?
If you answered "yes" to the first question and "no" to the second question, your kids are at a very serious disadvantage - especially when it comes to request castings and direct bookings. And it is much less expensive to create professional looking photographs and comp cards than to waste time and money going on fruitless castings.
Actual quotes:
"I recently took my daughter to an important casting in Miami Beach and a few minutes after we arrived the casting director came into the waiting room where about 30 kids were waiting to be seen. He quickly looked around and said, 'OK, everyone with photos and comp cards OVER 6 months old please go to the left side of the room and everyone with photos and comp cards LESS THAN 6 months old please go to the right side of the room.' Then he said, 'OK, everyone on the left side of the room with photos and comp cards over 6 months old go home. You just wasted my time as well as your own time by coming here today.' This was the second time this has happened to us in the last two months, but fortunately we were well prepared with up-to-date professional photos and comp cards and my daughter ended up booking both jobs - one of them for the biggest kids' watch company in the world and the other one - that paid $1,400 for 5 hours -for one of the biggest kids' shoe companies in the world and two of the resulting photographs ended up as double page ads in several issues of Vogue Bambini." G.W. - Coral Gables, Florida
"My daughter was booking commercials on a regular basis for about two years and during that time we were routinely updating her photos, that is up until about a year ago when we decided to take a chance by going on castings with outdated photos and comp cards. Long story short: Although we still got a few castings here and there, we went six months without even one booking and, as you warned would happen, I spent over $1,400 on gasoline driving back and forth from West Palm Beach to Miami with nothing to show for it." - L.C. West Palm Beach, Florida
"I was losing at least $200 a day every day that I had to miss work to take my kids on castings and I was losing another $400 to $500 a month that we were spending on gasoline to go to castings - with very few bookings to show for it. You were so right. Having great photos and comp cards saves money, and I'm not talking about saving a few dollars here and there, I'm talking about saving thousands." - L.S. Orlando, Florida
"I just finished going over my child's modeling expenditures for last year and I was shocked to see that I had spent over $1,200 making copies of cheesy looking home made comp cards at Walgreen's. And now, after looking at the comp card samples you sent me and after researching everything, I realize that not only did I spend $1,200 unnecessarily - I was making and showing portfolio photos and comp cards that were doing my kids more harm than good. I wish I would have listened to your advice early on instead of making such a costly mistake." - N.W. Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Want proof positive that having 'Photos by Moda Kids Photography' on your kid's comp card can make a huge difference in the quantity and quality of their bookings? Talk to a few of the parents of the dozens of top child models we have launched. (Complete documentation and phone numbers available upon request.)
Click HERE to request more info, dates and times
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Make no mistake. This is a first impression business and how you present yourself is everything. So now is a good time to take a look at your headshots, modeling portfolio photographs and comp card photographs to see where you stand.
Request castings and direct bookings are crucial to your bottom line and how many of them you get will ultimately determine whether you succeed or fail. Are your kid's modeling portfolio photographs and comp cards more than 6 months old? Do you currently have professional looking / up to date comp cards on the racks in the office of every agency you are with or would like to be with?
If you answered "yes" to the first question and "no" to the second question, your kids are at a very serious disadvantage - especially when it comes to request castings and direct bookings. And it is much less expensive to create professional looking photographs and comp cards than to waste time and money going on fruitless castings.
Actual quotes:
"I recently took my daughter to an important casting in Miami Beach and a few minutes after we arrived the casting director came into the waiting room where about 30 kids were waiting to be seen. He quickly looked around and said, 'OK, everyone with photos and comp cards OVER 6 months old please go to the left side of the room and everyone with photos and comp cards LESS THAN 6 months old please go to the right side of the room.' Then he said, 'OK, everyone on the left side of the room with photos and comp cards over 6 months old go home. You just wasted my time as well as your own time by coming here today.' This was the second time this has happened to us in the last two months, but fortunately we were well prepared with up-to-date professional photos and comp cards and my daughter ended up booking both jobs - one of them for the biggest kids' watch company in the world and the other one - that paid $1,400 for 5 hours -for one of the biggest kids' shoe companies in the world and two of the resulting photographs ended up as double page ads in several issues of Vogue Bambini." G.W. - Coral Gables, Florida
"My daughter was booking commercials on a regular basis for about two years and during that time we were routinely updating her photos, that is up until about a year ago when we decided to take a chance by going on castings with outdated photos and comp cards. Long story short: Although we still got a few castings here and there, we went six months without even one booking and, as you warned would happen, I spent over $1,400 on gasoline driving back and forth from West Palm Beach to Miami with nothing to show for it." - L.C. West Palm Beach, Florida
"I was losing at least $200 a day every day that I had to miss work to take my kids on castings and I was losing another $400 to $500 a month that we were spending on gasoline to go to castings - with very few bookings to show for it. You were so right. Having great photos and comp cards saves money, and I'm not talking about saving a few dollars here and there, I'm talking about saving thousands." - L.S. Orlando, Florida
"I just finished going over my child's modeling expenditures for last year and I was shocked to see that I had spent over $1,200 making copies of cheesy looking home made comp cards at Walgreen's. And now, after looking at the comp card samples you sent me and after researching everything, I realize that not only did I spend $1,200 unnecessarily - I was making and showing portfolio photos and comp cards that were doing my kids more harm than good. I wish I would have listened to your advice early on instead of making such a costly mistake." - N.W. Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Want proof positive that having 'Photos by Moda Kids Photography' on your kid's comp card can make a huge difference in the quantity and quality of their bookings? Talk to a few of the parents of the dozens of top child models we have launched. (Complete documentation and phone numbers available upon request.)
Click HERE to request more info, dates and times