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hey guys I'm Ali and I'm the casting
director at ng M modeling I thought I
would share a few tips of what I'm
looking for in our castings and when we
have models out for auditions so one of
the first things that I look at is
actually social media accounts so one of
the things first things you should do
before even submitting to an agency is
to clean up your social media accounts
if you have things on there that are
inappropriate or that may be borderline
or don't have anything to do with
modeling it's important to clean those
things off of your social media or just
have an account that's specifically for
modeling but make sure that your social
media presence it's clean
because agencies do have an image to
maintain and it becomes a part of us as
well whatever it is that you're
portraying in your social media
next thing when you show up to an
audition or to a casting with us be sure
to show up in all black clothing that
way it's easier to just kind of take
account for each person kind of all the
same as opposed to oh this person was
wearing a red shirt or no we're not
looking for someone to stand out we want
you all to look the same so we can take
into account some other things as well
the other thing you should do is along
with wearing your all-black is to bring
some feels either wear them in or bring
them with you because this will be
important when they ask you to walk or
pose you'll want will want to be able to
see what you can do while you're wearing
heels next important thing is to bring a
comp card and not just something that
you print it off at home it's so
important to show us that you are taking
modeling see
even if you don't have a ton of
experience it is important to seek
somebody out or have some a professional
photographer make a comp card a
professional comp card for you because
that is going to make a difference for
sure with us is that we are looking for
someone who is serious about what
they're doing when you show up with
something you've printed off yourself at
home at Walmart whatever these are not
going to be taken as seriously as
someone who has taken the time and the
money to purchase and to have
professional comp cards also you will
want to be prepared to walk and pose it
is important for us to be able to see
what you know again you may come with
very little experience but take some
time you can watch some of our YouTube
videos right here and you could learn to
do some walking and some posing we're
not going to have you do anything
extensive but it is important to be able
to walk in those heels that you brought
with you and to be able to show us at
least a few poses and just be honest and
say hey I don't have a ton of experience
this is what I know or if you do have
experience then this gives you the
opportunity to show us exactly what you
can do the other thing is to come with
neutral or light very light makeup on we
don't want you to come with full makeup
full glam even if you're coming from
another job or from another audition we
don't want you to come with all that we
want to see what you actually look like
so we don't want you to come with all
this makeup covering up your face we
want to see your actual face what so
because it will help us to see what we
what projects we could use you for and
those types of things so be sure to come
with some nice light neutral makeup on
your face
next important thing I think is not to
compare yourself with others don't
compare yourself with other models that
you know are a part of an agency that
you're auditioning for um sometimes
they'll come in and say hey you know I'm
just like this person or I'm not like
this person just come in and and be
yourself because a lot of times we're
looking for people in several different
areas of modeling so not everyone that
we sign is gonna be exactly the same so
it's okay to just be who you are being
on time is really important why because
we have other things to do we have very
tight schedules and we have very full
schedules and often times on days when
we're doing auditions we have lots of
models scheduled if you're not on time
it's gonna make it very difficult to be
able to to take the time to get to know
you that we need because we a lot a
certain amount of time for each model so
it will be very difficult to get to know
each one if you show up late then we may
not even have time to see you so be sure
that you're there early or right on time
so that we're able to see you and give
you plenty of time to be able to get to
know you and you to get to know us next
you want to be prepared to answer
questions about what type of modeling
you've done and what type of modeling
you want to do so if you come with
experience it'll be good to be able this
is a great time for you to be able to
share with us what types of projects
you've done and have experience with and
there's also areas that maybe you would
like to expand into you can share a
little bit about that with us because
that gives us the opportunity to be able
to look for those particular
opportunities for you
it's okay if you don't have experience
some agencies would rather work with
models that are new so don't be afraid
to still send in an audition a submit an
audition for a time with an agency
because sometimes they are looking for
brand new brand new people and people to
be able to mold and and to teach so come
in with the attitude of being to teach
of being teachable and being able to to
learn new things and being open to new
challenges in that arena so just keep
kind of all these things in mind so
that's kind of look around 10 different
things that we're looking for that I'm
looking for at different auditions so
just keep those in mind we hope these
tips were very helpful for you for your
next audition whether it's with us at
MGM modeling or with another agency be
sure to keep these in mind because most
of the agencies do use this so we hope
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