Companies that recruit models outside want you to pay for a photo shoot, and some of them need to be taken as a model card. A model card is a data card that models introduce themselves, with your photos and personal information printed on it. Being a model, whether part-time or full-time, strictly speaking, requires a model card. But the model card is not necessary, but it is easier to introduce yourself to model users. Just as business people need business cards, it doesn't matter whether they have them or not. However, the production of model cards is not as simple and low-cost as business cards, and the cost of taking pictures and printing is relatively high.
Therefore, nowadays, those brokerage companies that cheat money and fake models are defrauding you of high money in the name of needing a model card, because, first, it doesn't cost that much money to make a model card. Second, after they make a sample card for you, they will not provide it to the employer for reference at all. They just tell you that no one has chosen you and asked you to go home and wait, and there is no news from now on. Because the production cost of the sample card is very small, how much they charge you is equal to how much they cheat you.
Some companies require you to pay some money in advance and deduct the rest from future activities, which is also a kind of fraud. They will only give you the activity fee you owe, not give you money, or give you less money, so that you can do the work for them in vain. Once you have collected all the fees you owe, they won't give you any more activities. Are you willing to do this useless labor? You'll lose more then. But if you don't do it, what you have already paid will be wasted, and they will not be returned to you when they die.
Note that some companies tell you that you can also go outside and make your own model cards, which is actually a kind of fraud. Because even if you go out and ask, if you add photos, it will be more expensive for anyone to do it than for them, so you will definitely come back to them to do it. They have all figured it out, and they know that you will definitely go back to them to do it. In fact, the model card is just an excuse. When they finished the model card for you, they said that no customer would choose you as their model, so you have to wait. Therefore, there will never be any news, which is equivalent to making a model card for nothing. Whether they show it to customers, only God knows!
In fact, the cost of a model card is mainly to take pictures. As long as you have the right photos, making a model card basically doesn't cost money. You can also make it into an electronic version and do it yourself. It is stored in your mobile phone and sent to anyone who needs it. No cost at all. Some companies say it is a commercial sample, which is pure bluff. This is just a model card.
A truly honest modeling company will never recruit amateurs for the society, but sign contracts internally through professional channels. Players who have graduated from professional colleges and participated in major draft activities have to sign up without saying anything. At the very least, they must pass the audition screening activities organized by insiders for free. It is possible to sign you up after seeing the photos they took for you with professional requirements. Note that there is no preset hardware condition except that the audition must be female, but the software condition is that you must not refuse to take nude shots. Therefore, if the above situation has nothing to do with you, then the real company basically has nothing to do with you. A real company helps you get a sample card for free.
If you are in Beijing, or you can come to Beijing, if you need your parents' written consent when you are a minor, you can take part in a free audition organized by insiders as a kind of exercise before entering the business. This is necessary, at the same time, it can prove whether you are the right material, and real and regular companies or customers will choose you as their model.
I don't know how tall you are. If your body is not up to the standard of catwalk, there are no requirements for other models except ideological requirements. As long as customers like you, see you pleasing to the eye and are willing to take you as their role model, you can do it!
The so-called ideological requirement is that no matter what model you make, you can't avoid nudity. For example, Taobao models often need to show their sexy underwear, and everything is exposed. What's the difference between them and not wearing clothes? Changing clothes backstage is also done in public, so you can't avoid anyone. Many dressing assistants are men, and makeup artists are also men. Always need to make up every inch of your skin. Some designers need to modify your clothes on the spot and sew them temporarily. Photographers take pictures around you. Some Chinese and foreign models gather in modeling activities, and it is very common for models to rush around naked. Models can't avoid so many men when they change clothes. Men have long been commonplace and no one looks at you. Moreover, at present, foreign modeling activities are all female models appearing naked, showing hats, shoes, jewelry and so on. No one can say whether China will do the same in the future. So you can't be a model without the ability to be naked in public. Therefore, when auditioning, it is required to audition naked directly in public. Anyone who can't do it can't be a model.
The same is true of plane models, and mannequins also belong to plane models. Any graphic modeling agency is the main task. Girls who model in the it industry are all covered up by plane models. In fact, there is no one who doesn't want to be a mannequin. Whoever says no, you will be put in the cold. Who is so stupid not to do it without being eliminated? Therefore, it is necessary to ask you to be naked in public without knowing what model you will be in the future, even when shooting on location. If you can't do it, you will definitely lose at the starting line!
Don't get me wrong, the nude of these models at work has nothing to do with sex. Many girls keep saying that they want to be models, but they only see those female models with infinite scenery on the surface, but they don't know how they become models behind them. Except for direct customers, no one in any model recruitment company that girls can contact mentioned this matter to girls during the fee-based recruitment audition. Liars are afraid that mentioning it will scare them away. Who are they fooling? But when girls come into contact with real free audition activities in the entertainment circle, they often dare not even think about it. Here's the thing! Besides, those swindlers wagged their tongues behind their backs, fanned the flames, spread rumors and slanders. The girls have become the accomplices of swindlers, all of whom have been sold and are still counting money for others. There is nothing anyone can do about it.
Seeing your post asking about the application opportunities of models like this involves the question of whether to find a company. Actually, it depends on how you plan to be a model. Do you want to find a job online for a long time, or join a modeling team, and they will assign you a job? Joining or not joining this team has advantages and disadvantages. It's too difficult to find a job without starting a job. You may not find a job for a month. How can you work hard as a model? Of course, it doesn't matter if you are a part-time job and you have to go to school at ordinary times. Then it doesn't matter if you don't join.
If you want to join a team, there will be more activities, but no team is limited to ordinary models. Without exception, the team will pick up some models that you don't want to do. For example, mannequins, painted models and other models that need to be exposed, because these model activities earn a lot of money, and the remuneration is ten times, one hundred times higher than that of ordinary models, or even unlimited. Any team, including all the models in the team, is eager for these activities, but can you? If it doesn't work, you choose life, it will be broken, and you will soon be left out or removed from the team. If you can do it, it's easy. Go to the free audition activities in the circle. The training requirements here are the same as those of the model schools. You can not only exercise your camera sense and expressiveness, but also help you find a modeling job, killing two birds with one stone.
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