1/31/2018 0 Comments As a columnist, I highly suggest posting digital tear sheets from magazine publications!Yes, magazines definitely want those who are published to show any support possible.
I'm unsure how many pinups who gain publication, actually have fans who purchase printed copies. Just like lots of models and photographers who gain publication don't always buy copies. Honestly I have 30k fans in my private fan group, and to this day I've yet to hear a single one say they are going to, or have bought a mag issue I've been in. Not to say other pinups don't have fans who buy issues, but lots of models also never buy a single copy. I helped a gal gain publication in the biggest pinup magazine in the world! As well as several other magazines, countless times. To this very day, 2 years after I got her published for the 1st time ever, and being featured in the biggest pinup magazine in the world twice, she's NEVER EVER once purchased a single copy! Purposely booked shoots for publication, took lots of planning, producing, writing articles and featuring her,... all that work several times, and over 2 years of gaining publication, and has never felt an obligation to show support and buy copies! Most magazines offer the option to purchase a digital copy of each issue, as well as just a printed copy, which usually comes with a free digital copy. They want you to buy a digital copy so you can extract your tear sheets and post them to promote the issue. Most mags will provide digital tear sheets upon request. Some, right away, others may take a month or so. Again, they provide them specifically so you can post and promote. I've never heard of a single pinup magazine that says they don't want those who've been published to get their digital tear sheet and promote, whether they out right provide it, or you must purchase. I always suggest extracting your digital tear sheet, post and promote each issue you've been in, and add those tear sheets to your portfolio. I think magazine publication tear sheets are awesome to add to your portfolio. Obviously if you have a website, you'd also post them there, and or blog once the issue has been published. I don't understand, can't relate and I disagree with never posting tear sheets. In fact I've only now heard of 2 gals who do purchase copies, but don't feel the need to post their tear sheets. It's very uncommon. To each their own though. There are a few key ways to show support once you're published. Buying at least one printed copy, if you can't afford it, at least buy a digital copy. Cross promotion. You post tear sheets, tag and or credit the mag, and share it on their page. Once they share it, that's called cross promotion. Or if they happen to post it crediting you, you then share it. That's cross promotion. Also taking a picture with copies of the issues you've been in, posting on your modeling page, and or on that mags wall, that's cross promotion. Which is very common, to show support and promote. To say that if you post your own digital tear sheet and promote it, will somehow cause your fans to not buy copies, I don't agree with at all! Are your fans really buying copies? And let me tell you, and every gal who's gained publication and never bought a single copy, there's absolutely no better feeling than to hold a printed copy of a magazine you're in, it's a great feeling! To look through it, to post images holding it, to have to show family and friends. Also to autograph and can do a give away, or sell to fans. Print is amazing, especially because these days so much is done online and digitally. Never underestimate the power, and positive emotions directly received by holding a printed issue in your hands. I've never once heard a single pinup mag say please do not buy a digital copy, post and promote it on social media. One time a mag said to not post the tear sheets they gave me until 2 weeks or more, after the issue drops. I stopped submitting to them. I don't like anyone telling me what I can't do with image's they do not even own. Other than that one specific mag, no others, including the bigger publications will ever object and be unhappy with those who've been featured, posting digital tear sheets, crediting the mag, adding the link to purchase, and showcasing their work by posting it on social media, adding to portfolios, etc. If you have no desire to post tear sheets, no desire to add them to your portfolio and your own website, that's completely up to you. As a professional pinup and vintage model, a pinup stylist, and pinup writer with my own column's, I highly recommend getting at least a digital copy, extract your tear sheets, and use them to directly promote that issue. If you happen to actually have fans that have proven to buy printed copies, and you feel it'll somehow hinder them, because you've posted the digital tear sheet, so be it. You know your fans, I don't. Make no mistake though, those that have ever purchased printed copies know how wonderful print still is today! Especially dolls who've gained publication, they know there's no comparison to looking at a digital copy online, verses holding and reading a printed copy! As long as you're actually making the effort to show any positive form of support, keep at it! Magazines will check your modeling page, they will check your other social media profiles, and they do talk among one another, with staff and monthly contributors. You can be slowly building a bad reputation for YOURSELF, and not even be aware of it! As a writer with my very own column's, I'm fully aware of just how much work goes into publishing just a single issue! It's a lengthy process and it's not simple either. If I select a model to be featured in one of my column's articles, and she never once buys a single copy, there's no way on God's green earth, if this becomes a clear pattern, I'll ever feature her again! A magazine owner I adore, respect and have worked with years now, recently said that if a model has gained publication in the past, several times and has never bought a single copy, she never ever will! I happen to agree after watching one gal gain publication over a dozen times, and 3 times in the biggest pinup magazine, then never ever buying a copy of any mag, to this very day! 2 years of being published countless times. You want columnist's to select you to be in articles? You want a magazine owner to select you for a cover over hundreds of other models? You want publication in the top pinup magazines? You want full featured spreads on you, with interviews and articles about you? NEVER EVER let publishers, columnists, or photographers that submit models, know that you've NEVER once bought a single copy, of past issues you were in!! That's a negative secret that will follow you if folks begin to find that out! Which they will. Can't exactly put it on the course of events in the past couple of months, past 6 months or 2 years ago, as to why you've been unable to buy a single copy of at least one mag you've been in, when it's literally been years of gaining publication. You didn't desire to buy a copy the 1st time you were in a magazine. Didn't desire to buy a copy when you were in the biggest pinup magazine in the world 3 times. Over 2 years of gaining publication, and as of a month ago, still not a single copy purchased, not even digital!!!!! Smh, smh. Folks can afford to go out, eat out, drink and spend money at bars, casinos, clubs, etc. Yet can't set aside 20 bucks to buy a copy! Completely different than someone who just can't afford it right away. You've made it clear what your priorities are, years now, which was to go out and run the streets, not save up and invest in copies. A reputation that folks do know about believe me! Anyway you decide to show support once you've gained publication, do it! Lack of it makes YOU look bad, not your stylist, not your photographer, but YOU! 5 bucks for a digital copy, or about 20 for a printed copy. You spent money on styling or stylist, money on wardrobe, money on a photographer. I think posting not only high quality images, but digital tear sheets as well, can show direct proof you're marketable! Meaning clothing designers, product companies, and clothing companies will see your tear sheets posted on your modeling page, then offer to hire you. They see you as being highly marketable, bringing promotion, cross promotion and advertising that's effective. Proving you're a social media influencer can bring job opportunities and money. Post your best images of you looking your best, and post tear sheets. It'll never, in my eyes hurt your career or goals. Pinup Talk host Dianna Prince
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1/30/2018 0 Comments Advertising Has Never Been FREEI thought I'd chime in on the new Facebook policy change and the change on YouTube. Ok so originally Facebook was created to connect friends and family. Actual friends you know and family. A way to share photos and communicate all in one area. Obviously somewhere along the way it drastically changed. Facebook has increasingly become more about biz, promotion and advertising. 1st let me say, no matter who you are, what yiur advertising, etc., it's no small chore acquiring tens of thousands of followers, or hundreds of thousands of followers. No doubt in my mind that it took years to build up a page to the tune of hundreds of thousands of followers! Lots of daily promotion, cross promotion and being involved in lots of production, this is often or daily. I don't think those that have been usung Facebook as an outlet to advertise, and have an issue with the new policy, fully grasp the concept of how biz actually works. Has nothing to do with Facebook. Marketing, advertising and promotion costs money, plain and simple. There was professional marketing companies before Facebook, before the internet, since it began, and in my opinion always will be marketing pros. These people are experts on marketing, social media marketing and advertising. They get paid ti advertise for you. So the fact that folks are saying Facebook is going to show less biz ads, less biz page posts, unless you pay for sponsored ads, well hello! Facebook wasn't even originally created for biz. And look how many millions of people use Facebook to promote, for free. How many other sites habe as many people daily, have free advertising, free pages, etc., where you yourself can build your page to hundreds of thousands of followers, or millions, advertise daily, all for free? With the marketplaces, now folks are advertising items for sale. I just don't understand why any adult in biz, who wants to advertise, wouldn't expect it to cost money! Businesses big and small, any brand, all must advertise, and have an advertising budget. It's not just big businesses who incorporate a budget each year for advertising. I've seen gals with a home biz place sponsored ads. I've seen a photographer with no studio, place sponsored ads. I recently saw a gal entered in a major pinup contest, place a sponsored ad on Instagram. To even think for one minute you can have any successful biz, minus advertising, you're clueless! Stop looking at all the years and years Facebook has allowed millions of people to promote for free 24 hours a day! Who cares how much Facebook is making. You place an ad in a magazine it costs money. You place a radio spot ad, it costs money. You want to reach thousands, tens of thousands of people on a regular basis, daily? Why would that be totally free? It's like with folks that say they refuse to allow their work to be published, because mags don't pay! So, say you want to place an ad in the local newspaper, or in a fashion magazine, do you think it'll be free? Do you think they don't have tons of people paying to place ads every single month? If you have the means to promote to tens of thousands of followers or more daily, and yiur biz is successful, then I can understand not feeling it'll benefit you to pay to place ads in mags. All I'm saying is, it's extra publicity, it's additional promotion, to thousands of people. Place a full page ad in Vogue magazine. 50k! Yep 50 grand at least, or a full page ad, just to run in a single issue!!! There are people offering services, building their brand as an artist, and those that promote events etc., on all levels not just big biz. They don't have tens of thousands of followers, hundreds of thousands of followers yet, and that's what they desire. So I can it being extremely beneficial to them, to place sponsored ads, to build their brand by increasing their followers. However if you're not often or heavily involved in biz, selling a product, offering services, or producing anything, why place a sponsored ad? There are many ways to advertise and build your brand, but not many that are completely free, and you can do daily. How many people are you actually reaching on your own? Think also about the huge stars that are making money left and right by endorsing products and companies. They directly use Facebook and IG to promote products, and make so much money jist by mentioning it, wearing it, etc. Last year for Valentine's Day, Kim Kardashian created and posted a list of her favorite Vday gifts to get, and to go buy. I believe within less than a day one of the necklaces on her list, not only sold out, they had orders for thousands and thousands more! There are biz that pay these stars upwards to 15k just for posting a little bit about their product. Yes folks just for posting something once on their page, 15 grand! It's no secret and nothing new. It's like a designer sending a star a ten thousand dollar gown to wear on the red carpet. It happens often and it's all directly based upon advertising! I understand not everyone has money every month for advertising. I understand even those with hundreds of thousands of followers may not have a monthly budget to advertise, or pay a marketing pro. However I can't feel bad! Advertising had always cost money!!! Even if you have all the time in the world very single day to promote, there's still no way you'll be able to reach as many people, as you can with advertisements. Unless you're happy with the amount of followers, and your biz is successful, obviously you need to advertise more. As far as YouTube. Do you know how many people have no clue that folks hage been getting paid monthly, for several years now, on a single video? I know gals that are pro pinups, who do more than model. They are clothing designers, hairstylists, mua, pinup academy owners, and pinups who do photography. They have hundreds of thousands of followers on their YouTube channel. Some folks are truly clueless, not knowing just how much these gals are making monthly, by each view in each video! I've seen people not even in entertainment, or folks that have triplets and post cute videos, same as animal videos, and they make good money because of the amount of views each of their videos get every month. So many people don't even know YouTube has been paying to have ads pop up in videos, and therefore paying you per view. Now they're making it harder to get paid on YouTube. Well frankly I'm not surprised! They've been shelling out tons of dough all these years to endless amounts of people who have YouTube channel's. People reakky should change their thought process on this, and mentally adjust, adapt and accept the sheer fact that, yes advertising costs money! Facebook isn't going to shove your public page posts to everyone for free anymore. So be it. Save up, sell unwanted items, increase your biz, rates or price of your products, then use that money to advertise. In the regular world of biz, an advertising budget is extremely common! Doesn't have to be big, huge successful business. But I'll tell you what, those big biz didn't build their brand, and become successful, as well as stay successful, by NOT marketing! What if you are or were able to build your page up to hundreds of thousands of followers on your own, then what? Whether you've done the leg work for several years or you've paid a marketing company, it's still very much going to be solely go to you to produce new content, to be involved in productions, to post and interact with your followers. What if someone handed you a public page with 100k, what is your marketing plan? Do you have a campaign, slogan, and plan to promote to and utilize that many followers? Marketing pros have knowledge and resources the average person does not have. Lastly I want to state my opinion on having tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of followers, and not making monthly income from them. There are stars that have talent and don't have talent, that have millions of followers because they were involved in a major production. Could be a cover of Vogue, modeling for Victoria Secret, starred in a motion picture, etc., etc. It takes work to gain covers, movie roles, and more. But it's almost automatic that their fan base grows overnight and at a fast pace. You get involved in, or wirk with major productions and those with a huge social media following, it'll cross promote back to you. I've always been puzzled to find out just how many gals are known in the pinup industry, successful at being published, magazine covers, and currently have hundreds of thousands of followers, and somehow aren't making money monthly from their fans! Kim Kardashian. Ok no talent, yes came from a rich family, and became a huge reality T.V. star. Yes it took years and yes age has over 100 million Instagram followers! She has her own app on her own website. I believe it's just 3 bucks a month for her app. Let's break it down to stats and marketing numbers. 1st, her website was designed to a professional level, high quality. That means she paid a graphic designer, web builder. That also means paying a monthly fee to have a host, to have been maintenance, and possibly to have someone run it daily. If say, idk, just 10 million, that's 10% of 100 millions fans, purchase her app, at 3 bucks a month,..... uhhh hello people that's money, a lot of money, and obviously the majority of it is sheer profit. Just 3 bucks a month, but millions of fans buying. I think if most of the folks who actually have 100k, or more, had the money to advertise professional they would, but mire so to have someone run their page and website. Time is money, and there's plenty of people who have the budget, but do not have the time, nor the resources. I laughed really hard when a gal I've known over 15 years, said she's now famous on Instagram! I was like, hummm famous? What did you do, how did it happen, what are you doing with your fan base, and how many fans? Because I've never seen or heard of her, as far as being a social media star. She has 20 something thousand followers. Lol, I can't consider that being a star. She has no pro pics, no modeling pics. She's not in entertainment, not offering services, has no business. She's not a model, dancer, actress, designer, etc. So how are you famous? Anyhow it's all a matter of perspective. There are stars within every industry, that are not known all over the world, but famous within that industry. Advertising, marketing, promotion and cross promotion, is REAL biz. High and low end biz, brand new and experienced artists, etc. If I had 100k, 200k, 300k, 500k or more, you best believe I'll be making a monthly income from my fans! Website membership. Autographed prints, calendars, posters and more! Fan club membership, image galleries that cost to view. If you could literally make just a single dollar from 10 thousand fans every month, that's obviously 10k! 20 thousand fans pay you just 1 buck every month, that's freaking 20 thousand per month folks! It's possible, it's common, it's no secret and it's been happening for several years. Think about that. Think about how marketing is key, and has been around and super powerful since long before the internet. How do you think big brands, no biz, major productions even gained success? By advertising heavily, and not just here and there, or on occasion, but often for years and years. It costs, period. There's just no way I'd ever expect to make money and be successful at anything I do in biz, without investing money, within advertising daily. Having ads in mags placed for free, featuring my work for free, cross promoting my work online, etc., all free of charge, has been undeniably valuable! No matter how many groups you're in and post on daily, how many pages you share your work on, or how many other social media platforms you use daily, you'll never ever be able to reach the amount of people, you could by placing sponsored ads. Even if you have 100k, you're still not reaching 100k, and there's always more people, newer people that can be, and will be reached by advertising professionally. I decided last year, that this year I'm going to create a budget for advertising, and place sponsored ads monthly on Facebook. Maybe once a week, idk yet, but it's definitely within my plans to succeed. And that's exactly what it boils down to, a plan. Publicity agents, biz mangers and talent agencies are providing valuable services, important information and enhance your biz or career,.... They don't work for free! Your either paying them a monthly fee or they're making a percentage of your money, that they directly helped you make. To gain fans is work in itself. To keeo them, is even more work. I see folks with hundreds of followers, and not posting often, not posting new content, not doing any cross promotion what so ever, and never involved in any production. Then I see those that were obviously doing all that, and built a page with tens or hundreds of thousands of followers, yet aren't doing anything new. They aren't producing, posting new content, aren't promoting, and aren't doing any cross promotion. I can't possibly grasp being shocked, or confused as to why they've not gained any new followers. I can't understand being shocked that their loosing followers. No activity, no advertising, no production and no cross promotion. Like I said, if someone did just hand you a page with tens or hundreds of thousands of followers, then what? Are you prepared to do all it takes to gain more followers, keeo followers, and advertise daily? People advertise in biz to make money, plain and simple. Ticket sales, mag sales, record sales, product sales, etc. You're investing money, to make it back plus a profit. Websites cost, photo shoot wardrobe costs, I mean there's overhead indeed, and it must be a key element in your plans for success. If you know your biz has a slow season, you'd plan ahead, and save up during the busy season. Or you'd plan to increase your rates during the slow season. Then there's offering your returning clients a discount, or special package rate. Just because you have a small biz, just began offering professional serves, or are brand new in entertainment, doesn't at all mean you should be clueless to advertising. Don't expect any service, or anyone who can directly bring you money, followers, increased traffic, etc., to be FREE! There's no way with the enormous amount of people making so much money by promoting on Facebook, that Facebook would continue to not make any money from those millions and millions of people! You're on Facebook to connect with friends and family, or for biz. Costume designer Orry-Kelly and Marilyn Monroe during a fitting for the production of Some Like It Hot he won an Oscar for his work on the film. It bothers me to realize the overall outlook so many people have towards pinup. As though it's not a real industry, with real careers, real magazines, real designers, etc! Pinup is a huge, and profitable industry, with many careers, businesses, publications, designers, stylists and companies.
Just because you haven't grasp all that, doesn't make it irrelevant. Just because you have no clue about marketing and how it work, does not make it less powerful, and a fact. If you think small,..... It's just like nothing very low budget producing a high quality product. To reach a high level in biz, within any field and industry, everything must be high end, high quality. That means MONEY!!!!!! I know a gal who's an artist that draws. She gained over 10k followers on her YouTube, after a couple of years. She records herself drawing images, that she was already paid to draw. Then she posts those videos as demos, and promotes them by sharing on Facebook daily. She said she makes about 100 a month from the video views, and uses that amount every month for drawing supplies. She said she makes about 300 a month on commissions to draw pictures for clients. So let's do the math here. She makes 200 bucks profit every month. She uses Facebook and YouTube for free to showcase her work, advertise and gain new followers. But she's actually making a profit by those fans that become clients. 200 profit every month solid, can be nothing to someone, and others can feel it's a blessing. Could use it for bills, food, entertainment, travel, school!!! Or invest it all back every month towards your own biz. Save it, invest it, etc. If she's providing a service of drawing pictures, and making money on video views at 10k followers, imagine how much someone with hundreds of thousands of followers are making, just from YouTube video views!? Even at 500k followers, there's still more out there! Still must continue to advertise and post new content. It basically never ends, if you expect to make money from fans. Columnist Dianna Prince 1/26/2018 0 Comments Dianna Prince 2018I have one ultimate goal. It consists of several smaller, and even smaller goals. It's a plan, a serious plan. All the success I've had thus far came from the smaller goals. They each had to be achieved, one by one individually, to add up to the success of this ultimate goal. Some of the smaller goals I achieved weren't actually small. They all took serious dedication, knowledge, skill, time and money. Every single one! So they're all very much accomplishments within themselves. My ultimate goal can not be achieved unless I continue with achieving several other goals 1st. I'd say I'm pretty close to achieving this major goal. However not close enough. As i head into my 5th year as a pinup, my outlook and focus is completely different, than years ago. People can set goals, achieve and be proud of them. Yet those goals are merely celebrated only, not an actual key element to a bigger goal, a plan which requires those smaller goals to be achieved. For me, not only do I seriously value accomplishing every goal I set, they are all key elements to man or success! I must remember all of that, and as brash as it may sound, I must continue to seek inspiration from vintage starlets and models, and not seek it from those around me. My academy is fabulous, it has very little to do with my career as a pro pinup and vintage model. Although, my success as a pinup has everything to do with, and heavily effects my academy. My career as a pinup, and the success I've had, has everything to do with me! My drive, my dedication, my talent, and without a doubt came from working with actual, factual PROFESSINALS!!!!! I get caught up focusing on my academy, which pays me. I get caught up on my columns, and articles I must write monthly, in a few magazines. I also must focus on my upcoming shoots, planning them, and doing them. Then there's submitting my own images, following up, release forms, etc. I get caught up researching, blogging, promoting, every single day! What I MUST remember, the overall plan, the big picture, the ultimate dream, can't and won't happen with me focusing on all the above! As well as taking the time to concentrate on planning my goals, my shoots, my career as a pinup. Right now folks what I need the most is covers, full features done on me listing me on the cover, posters featuring me, any press, any quality and credited production, publicity, and cross promotion from heavy hitters. I need to ONLY shoot with top quality producing photographers, THAT HAVE THE SAME GOALS, AND BIZ WORK ETHIC!!!! Nothing on a high level, or the highest level, can be achieved with anything low quality! I'll say that once more. If you want high level opportunities, productions, magazines, etc., every aspect MUST 1st be high quality!!!! Magazines for instance. Do you as a model or photographer feel you can achieve a high level of success overall, and get published or land covers in the top pinup magazines, with low quality images? Good, ok, decent images aren't even good enough! I assure you it's a fact. High quality styling, but low quality images. High quality styling, unflattering clothes, no variety of facial expressions and poses, but high quality photography. Etc, etc. The combination and recipe for success involves key ingredients. No matter who, what, when, where or how, those key elements must ALL BE HIGH QUALITY, to create high quality. So back to my ultimate goal. I can see it happening this year. I can predict it not being deemed as a big deal to lots of folks. I can see it bringing amazing opportunities, and it in itself is no small chore to achieve. Everything in my Pinup career from over 4 years now, that was high quality and successful, especially those on a high level, will all ensure this happening. This goal also isn't something that many modern-day pinups, or current pinup or vintage models have achieved! Not very many major things involving pinups are out there, that very, very few have achieved! I have doubts of course, I mean it's a huge goal! I know one day it'll be achieved. Right now I just keep my eyes in the prize, yet use my focus, and energy on smaller, still very important goals. I can think of a few goals I have that may be smaller than my ultimate goal, however they aren't by any means small. A few are also major, one in particular I've tried 4 years now without success! Wouldn't consider it small. But I feel I can live without ever achieving it. My ultimate goal, oh no no, can't rest, refuse to die until it's achieved! Dianna Prince 1st image, images by Fred Young
2nd image by California Photo Dreams 1/24/2018 0 Comments Artist DevelopementHello dolls. Welcome to 2018, a brand new year of management and production. Let's go over a few things. For the 4 dolls I currently manage please make an appointment to go over your 2018 goals with me, in person or via messages. Up to you. It's imperative that we go over your pinup goals and create a solid plan to achieve them all. I want to make it clear that I only represent and manage dolls in pinup, who shoot pinup. I'm not interested in anything outside of pinup or vintage, and I don't offer any services in modern styles, etc. As most of you know everything takes time and has it's own process. Being patient is key with waiting on edits, waiting for issues that fit sets you already have, submitting and waiting for issues to drop, as well as the entire process of planning each shoot. There have been and will be times that a set of you has been turned down by more than a single mag. At that point I'll suggest posting the set, unless you want to keep waiting until the set is accepted. If you do any non pinup shoots, please do inform me. I'll happily support and share anything you're involved in, in biz that's positive. However I will not share low quality images. I will not submit nor feature non pinup, and low quality images in my column's. I ask that you do not send me any style images that are low quality. I also suggest never posting low quality and or unflattering images. If in doubt, please ask my advice. Must have a back bone, take constructive criticism well and value the advice I give, enough to take it. I was just reading a post by one of the top pro pinup photographers in the biz ,yesterday. Interesting to finally hear a pro photographers be totally honest about models with a low quality portfolio and small social media presence, wanting a free shoot. This is why I've always said, on your fan, or modeling public page, keep selfies to a minimum. Don't post unflattering images, cell or pro. Don't post any image that's out of focus, low quality looking photography, or any images where you look unflattering. Harsh lines or bags under the eyes, bruises, scars, unflattering poses, etc. They not only do absolutely nothing for your career, bring you absolutely no biz opportunities, bring you no money, and won't help you achieve your goals,..... They can and will hurt and hinder your goals. Low quality images, make you, your styling and wardrobe look low quality! I've said countless times, your fans are not the only one's who look at your page. If you contact anyone about biz, and direct them to your modeling page, or if someone saw your page link or an image shared from your page, they will undoubtedly check it out, look you up, and research. Top pro photographer's will never agree to trade and not research you and the images you post! If you're paying them, they may not care, so they won't research you. But make no mistake if they are willing to shoot trade, or it's a paying you shoot, they will want to see your past and current work. As you should with them and anyone you plan to work with, research 1st before booking. I'd love to see all of you become a clothing or product model. It takes time. Building your brand and social media following is essential. Being published as often as you can, is another element. Showing your best as much as possible is also important. Designers, clothing stores and boutique owners will always research you before they ever send you a single thing for free, to model. If they're selecting model's for paid gigs, before they ever agree to pay you, they'll have to see your best and you at your best! Also shots of how you look now. Dolled up and in edited, high quality images, that flatter you, in poses that flatter you, etc. I understand loving an outfit or your entire look, in images, but if they are low quality, I see no point in posting them. I'm glad your fans are so supportive. Fans are great at support by compliments. Just keep in mind most aren't pros in modeling, not pro's in pinup, and have no clue what high quality is, at all! Weigh out things and then you decide what's most important. Getting 100 likes on a low quality pic, that totally unflatters you, plus tons of compliments saying how hot you look, by fans who aren't paying you, aren't sending you things to model in, not a pro photographer, not a mag owner, etc. Or, a pro pinup photographer, pinup mag owner, producer, or clothing company, seeing that low quality image, that your fans loved, and deciding not to contact you for work, or declining your offer to work with them!??? I suggest caring less about your fans pumping up your head with compliments, and care more about what pro's think, those you desire to work with one-day. Believe me they'll look, or already have. So damaging your chances should be more of a concern that getting compliments by fans. You can post a flattering image that isn't low quality photography and still get a million compliments. My question is though, if you had a choice between gaining opportunities that are helping you achieve your goals, or are a goal, are they more important that getting attention from your fans? Goals should be more important, in my opinion. I don't suggest having the option to message you on a modeling page or fan page. Several reasons why, and the biggest is the amount of time involved in replying. I feel it's a sheer waste of time to message fans back and forth. The more you reply, the more they'll keep messaging you. Saying you're married, or have a mate, means nothing to men if you interact with them personally! Especially if you message them back several times. Unless you're selling things, offering a service, or own a biz, I see no point in allowing messages from fans. Aside from getting attention, compliments, which you can get by posting images, what is spending your time replying to messages from fans, really doing to enhance your career, helping you achieve goals? Think about that. I'm not here to set goals for any of you. I'm here to help you create a solid plan to achieve them. I'm here to help you develop essential skills and important knowledge. I'm here to be up front and honest about how realistic your goals actually are, or aren't. I don't suggest booking pinup shoots without informing me. I don't suggest winging it with doing your own hair, unless you can definitely create pinup styles to a high quality level. I never ever suggest wearing non pinup looking wardrobe during a pinup shoot. During our meeting I will go over the actual definition of a manager, a talent managers role, duties and what I personally think a manager does. I'm going to be offering a service where I'm just submitting your unpublished sets. This service will be for those not able to shoot often, those shooting non pinup and have very little pinup biz for me to manage, or anyone not able to take my constructive criticism, can't take my biz advice and use it. Anyone who does not wish to research, train and improve. I'll happily take pay to simply submit your images, as well as promote it every month. The process of submitting and promotion, isn't hard at all, however it takes time, skill and knowledge, plus resources. For a small monthly fee I'll submit, follow up, and promote you and your work. If it's not about pinup and vintage, not high quality, and I have no say so in career decisions, you can't take my biz advice, or I disagree with too many career choices you're making, I can't represent you, manage you, and I can't help you with your career goals. $25 a month to submit, follow up, get your high quality sets published, and promote your best. I'll always take bookings to style and or photograph you all. As long as it's pinup, yes. But I can't feature you in my column's if your entire look isn't pinup. This is what I mean by you giving me power and creative control. If you choose wardrobe that looks unflattering on you, I must be honest and tell you. If you're doing facial expressions and poses that are unflattering, or the same exact ones at every single shoot, regardless to the theme or style, I'm going to be honest. Artist Development classes are extremely important to me, to see you all doing on a regular basis. If you're actively modeling these are classes, combined with a meeting, to update and inform, as well as teach and train. One hour a month in person, it can actually be during the styling portion of your shoot, or after a shoot is over. Or 30 minutes via phone, or live chat. Any pinup questions you can, any concerns, any new plans, changed plans, or new goals, will all be talked about during that 30 mins. I've decided to effectively make this a requirement. I shouldn't be guessing what your current goals are, guessing what upcoming shoots, events, or upcoming plans within pinup. I shouldn't have to assume what your plan is to achieve each of those goals. So please make a note of this, from now on there will be a required monthly meeting in the form of a complimentary Artist Development class. You book an appointment, one hour in person, or 30 mins via cell or live chat. If I'm only submitting and promoting you, then Artist Development classes are not required every month, but still free if you book one. Few other things to keep in mind. I will not submit nor feature non pinup images, non pinup styles, or low quality images. It's best for all your pinup shoots you plan everythingin detail with me before a shoot. And to ensure we get what's needed and required for pinup magazines, give me as much creative control as possible. Another important piece of advice I suggest taking. Wherever it's financially possible always invest in a professional photographer, if available, book a pro pinup photographer. To have a better chance of being in the top pinup magazines, you must shoot with a great photographer, a pro photographer. There are times I will invite you, and ask one of my personal photographers to photograph you, or I find a photographer who's willing to shoot trade. However they are going to ask to see your port, your pinup page. There have and will be times where mag owners, and photographers will decline. If you invest and pay a pro photographer, then you can be for sure you'll get high quality edits, and in a timely manner. And they won't decline payment to photograph you. Just like there's photographers at all skill levels, same applies to models. A photographer can have a camera, photograph models, and produce low quality, good or decent, great, or flawlessly fabulous images. Models can have done many shoots, invested time and money, been published, they are still all at different skill levels. Being published doesn't automatically make you a professional. Just because you invest doesn't automatically give you skill. That's why part of a managers job is to mold clients, help them become marketable, help them succeed at goals their client set. There's a difference in the definitions of a aspiring and amateur pinup, a part time and semi pro, and there are different levels within being an actual professional pinup. To have big goals means a detailed plan. Considering your finances, time, and competition. There are a million gals running around calling themselves a pinup model simply because they've gain publication. Model yes, but professional by definition, highly skilled, no need for improvement, successful, resources and connections, and making money from pinup? No. I don't think it's necessary to have an actual manager, if you have nothing to manage. Not necessary to have a pinup manager if you're not mainly shooting pinup. No point if you aren't willing to train and research. No point in a manager of you can't take advice, can't take feedback. That's why I now offer the service if only submitting and promoting. A stylist may or may not care about your pinup goals. A photographer being paid to photograph you, may not care about your pinup goals. Magazine owners, and fans may not care about your pinup goals. Managers, agents, publicity reps, etc., do care about your pinup goals, do care about your success, building your brand, helping you take advantage of biz opportunities. Managers and agents also very much care about you beung marketable, and how representing you reflects on them! If you're unskilled, uncomfortable, late, unprepared, cause drama or delays, any one or all of those things directly reflect, and will effect me as your manager. Anything in pinup you do reflects on me. That's why I say, really sit and think do you need, and do you want an actual manager?!!! Or do you need and prefer to pay someone monthly to submit and promote your work? A stylist gets paid ti style. A photographer gets paid to take your pics. A magazine owner, no matter how nice they are to you, are concerned about high quality content and making sales, not about your career goals. Tons of fabulous and very exciting things in the works for 2018! Communication, research, dedication, investing, promoting, publications, magazine covers, events, shoots, and more! Team effort, joint effort, commitment is essential! Vintage Stylist Dianna Prince
Dianna Prince Muse Management Ann Margret in all shots in this blog. 1/22/2018 1 Comment COPYRIGHTS, RELEASES & CREDITINGQuestion? How many model's enjoy logging onto social media and seeing an image of them, minus credits? Well no photographer, professional or amateur enjoys seeing images they took, posted without crediting them, period! Some may very well care more than others, but no one actually enjoys it! It should be common sense, regardless ti not knowing copyright infringement laws. It shouldn't even matter who owns the images, who paid who, when or where the images were taken. You know who took those images. You know who did your styling. Photographers knkw who their model was. Whether you paid, got paid, or it was equal trade, crediting is standard! Those that don't list credits, are fortunately, in the minority. Stand out in a negative way, and look unprofessional. You can be a housewife, student, single mom, amateur, part-time, semi pro, or pro, listing credits has NOTHING to do with any of that. Like having fun during shoots, no matter why you're doing the shoot, or who you are, it's one thing we all have in common. Well, so should be listing credits! I've left groups, stopped following pages, unfriended people, and stopped working with people for that exact same reason, no listing credits. Can be of other models, of me, or of images I took, I SERIOUSOY dislike seeing no credits listed. Honestly I feel that stylists get the short end of the stick. Crediting models and photographers can be common, so is failing to credit your stylist. It's uncool. Unprofessional. Here are the excuses often told when not listing credits, that aren't professional. 1. It's been years and years since we took those images 2. I had a disagreement with the model, or photographer 3. I paid for the images I've always felt that even though photographers own the copyrights, even without a signed release, it should be common courtesy to credit the model, unless you both agreed not to. Here are the only exceptions that I see as professional, if credits aren't listed. 1. A vintage photograph, that you can't find credits to list 2. An agreement between a model and photographer, stating they will not list credits 3. An advertisement, where the company, producer, or photographer owns the copyrights, and us using images for ads With models it's so easy to spot an unprofessional model! Same with photographer's. Images minus credits, dead give away. This is an essential reason as to why lots of photographers will not provide unedited images. They won't provide edits without their watermark, etc. If you're proud enough to post images, why wouldn't you list credits. Like I said, you know who was involved in the production of creating those images. So what you took and own them, so what you paid, or got paid. It's all about the agreement, to not list credits. Otherwise, just them!!! I don't expect Revlon ads to list the model and photographer on the ad. I don't expect billboards, book covers, advertisement flyers, biz cards, etc., to list credits on them. But specifically if your a model, or non model who paid to be photographed, you should be listing credits ALWAYS! I went to someone's IG profile because I saw a familiar looking pic., a pic I took. No crediting me. I then saw several other's, that I took, no credits listed. Same exact person who was given my academy policy link a few times, same person I personally reminded twice on Facebook, to list credits. To this very day, her model mayhem, IG and Facebook have images I took without crediting me. Recently she signed my academy release. Still to this day has images posted minus crediting me. I sent release forms via email to several academy models. I made it crystal CLEAR I will not grant permission to post images I took unless it is signed and returned! One gal still hasn't sent hers back, and is still using images I took. I sent emails stating that she does not and will not have my permission to post any images I've taken of her, UNTIL I get that release Copyright infringement laws are serious, easily reported and images removed from Facebook quickly. No agreement to not list credits, no signed release, don't own the copyrights? Expect issues if a release is requested and you never sign it. Expect issues if you fail to list credits. Pinup Talk host Dianna Prince This includes atlering any images you do NOT own. If you haven't asked for permission, and do NOT have my permission to alter, add filters, etc., that IS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!
Subject I've wanted to cover awhile now. This information is for all the aspiring and amateur pinups that are brand new to pinup & publishing. There's a lengthy process to gaining publication. The process isn't a difficult task, but it's lengthy and definitely takes time, as well as patience. I've noticed so many gals entering pinup failing to comprehend that there's a biz side. As with any and all career fields within an industry, there's always a biz side. There are dolls that assume pinup is easy and they can jump right into a brand new field and industry, and have overnight success. Those that have success within pinup have been at it for years and years. You can book a shoot, plan the details and your looks, do the shoot and by the time you receive edits and submit, it can be several weeks, up to several months later. There are times I've planned a shoot that was a week away, weeks or a month or more away, took only a week to receive edits, while many other times it took over a month. Then there's magazine deadlines. You may do a shoot for an upcoming issue that won't be published for a couple or even several months away. I planned an epic recreation, took almost 2 months to plan and prepare for, got edits within a couple of weeks and submitted. At that point from booking a date, planning with my photographer, and shoot date arrived, got edits, it was well over 2 months. A magazine offered me a cover with the set. However the issue wouldn't be out for 6 more months! So it took weeks of planning ahead, weeks of communication, weeks before the shoot, weeks after, until I was able to submit the edits. Then 6 whole months more, before the issue was published. If you've been selected to be my featured model in an article, then there was additional work involved by writing and submitting your set plus the article. Time writing, time organizing and labeling each image, and time submitting, along with communication back and forth with mag owners. If you don't plan on keeping biz commitments I'm pinup, aren't sure if pinup is right for you, etc., don't do shoots that are specifically for magazine publication! Stop wasting so many people's time! Gals quit pinup because they can't afford it anymore. They quit because they no longer have the time. They quit because they've entered school, don't want to be associated with pinup in the future. And countless times gals have said they aren't doing pinup shoots anymore because a boyfriend doesn't approve anymore! Or they can't understand, even with no experience or skills, that they still have to invest. Things like mags not paying, you have to purchase issues you're in, etc. All thingsthat have been a part of this biz and hasn't recently changed at all. Things that were there when someone begins in pinup, and things that'll never change. I'm not here to judge why anyone enters a brand new field and industry, no skills, no knowledge of pinup history or current events. No experience and no accomplishments within pinup,.... yet expects success! They expect free shoots with those who are pros, expect pay to shoot, payment to be in mags, and many other unrealistic expectations. However I will judge those who are so misguided that they commit to things involving others, then bail before production is complete! I speak for anyone who is directly involved in helping pinups gain publication. Stop shooting to be in mags if you can follow thru, and can't be patient! I had to pull 2 sets of a single gal recently. One set was selected to be in the biggest pinup magazines in the world, with article! Not easy to get accepted in that mag! They, like most mags, plan ahead. They have deadlines, but have hundreds of submissions every issue. There are endless amounts of pinups, aspiring and pro, who'd die to be in that mag. All the top pro pinups and professional pinup photographers want to or have been in this mag. It totally makes whom ever is submitting look awful to submit, get selected, then have to inform the mag, the set is no longer available because the model flaked! Decided AFTER getting involved, booking and doing shoots, after the time editing, article writing, etc., they no longer want to try and be a pinup. No matter what biz, career field or industry, no one enjoys having their time wasted! Way ,way too many aspiring pinups that don't get involved, make commitments, then bail! Way, way too much competition in this biz and in publishing. I don't care if pinup is a once a year treat, on occasion treat, part time or full time. Aspiring and amateur, semi pro, pro or top in your field, you don't become a professional, and build a solid reputation by acting totally unprofessional! Professionals didn't just wake up one day, soon after entering a brand new industry, a suddenly begin acting professional in biz! The frame of mind, work ethic, commitment level and dedication, was there from day one, and followed them. You act like a pro, to become one! If you can't keep commitments that involve months of work and being patient, then not only is pinup not for you, so is any real biz, within any and all industries. Level of commitment must be there from day 1 and throughout. My advice is, ALWAYS research FIRST, before entering a brand new field and industry!!! No knowledge, then you must gain it. No experience, you must gain it over time. No skills within pinup, you must train and practice. No solid reputation, no social media fab fan, no brand yet? It takes years of investing BOTH time and money. Years! To expect the high level of success a pro pinup has, to happen to you overnight, and without investing, is quite foolish. Regardless to why you don't want to be involved in pinup anymore, KEEP your commitments, then disappear. You, as an amateur pinup may not be fully aware of the entire process, the amount of work involved, or care about building a bad rep,.... However anyone who has, is or will put in all that time, they care! Unless someone makes it completely impossible and extremely difficult for me to keep a commitment I've made, even if I'm done working with them, I finish, wrap up and complete my biz dealings, before I move forward! Shooting specifically for publication, then bailing after work has began, backing out of a commitment, is just as bad as the gal who did countless shoots specifically to be in mags, gained publication dozens of times, and to this day has NEVER once purchased a single copy! Maybe if you're a flake, and plan to never reenter pinup, then you could care less about the bad rep you've built. Don't care what so ever how it makes you look to the top pinup mag owners, how to appear to stylists or photographers. Possibility you don't care about the negative pattern of biz habits you're establishing, that will undoubtedly follow you. That's fine but if you do ever plan to, or there's even a slight possibility you'll return to pinup, START to care! Start to grasp the importance of researching and planning ahead! Nothing in the biz side of pinup has changed! Research before you begin and during. Plan ahead and KEEP your word! If you can't stay in pinup long enough to wait in issues to drop, have a history of breaking commitments, then don't enter, don't book publication shoots! Don't shoot to gain publication, then never once buy a single copy! If you can't afford to be in pinup, wait until you can. No one in this biz who's a pro, will ever be able 15tu relate to spending money, up to hundreds just for a single shoot, that is for publication, gaining publication, then refusing to invest and show support by buying at least one copy, every time you're published. Makes absolutely no sense at All! You get selected to be in the top pinup magazine in the world! Yet you bail because a boyfriend suggests quitting pinup! You gain publication in the biggest pinup magazine in the world, more than once, then years later, months later, still fail to buy a single copy!! Epic fails people! Shoot just for fun ONLY, shoot to get pics for your mate, shoot to add new website content, shoot to post new content for your fans, shoot to get head shots, biz cards, for advertisement and promotion. STOP shooting specifically for publication, then flaking! If you don't care about the negative rep, folks talking and suggesting to not work with you, etc., that's fine. At least care about the negative biz habits you're creating for YOURSELF! Those habits and unprofessional pattern of actions, will follow you and stat with you, unless you make a conscience effort to change. No one I know of, or ever heard of, in biz, enjoys having their time wasted! Delays, set backs, or production completely stopped, because of one person. Being late, unprepared often, causes those negative reactions. Making commitments and bailing causes a negative reaction! Dianna Prince Images of Ann Margret
1/21/2018 0 Comments Who's Your Competition?I'll never understand nor relate to entering a brand new field and industry and not planning to train! Everyone needs improvement and knowledge! I understated wanting to get dolled up, take pics, have fun and get published! Non of that has anything to do with training and practicing. Then there's the biz side of every industry, no matter what level you're at, there's a biz side. To think you don't need improving is totally unrealistic! To think you don't need knowledge is unrealistic. Out of dozens and dozens of aspiring and amateur pinups, that I've met and styled, very few never needed any training. Very few knew everything about the biz side of pinup. That's why my biz is called an academy. Aka school, aka to learn! I don't expect gals brand new to pinup to have skills, have experience, have knowledge and accomplishments,... yet! Yet, meaning I do expect them to want to learn and make the time to improve. Once you set goals knowledge and skill are essential! I seriously dislike the fact that there's such a lack of motivation to learn and train! No, but motivation to get styled, shoot and gain publication. If you don't have a plan and plan ahead, how can you expect goals to be achieved? Once pinup is no longer a hobby, that means goals. Goals mean a plan, a realistic plan. Steps and a process to accomplish every single goal, big or small. Time, money, research, train,.... years of all of those essential things! I say this all the time because it's completely true. There's only like a million beautiful pinup models out there. Just like in modern fashion modeling, the same applies. To compete means equal or higher skills, equal or higher knowledge, equal energy, equal dedication. Everything must be equal to actually compete. Competitors are not actually YOUR competition if they have a higher level of skill, knowledge, experience, dedication. I mean in reality theres no competition for someone highly skilled, by someone with no or less skills. Also, things like resources and connections. Politics. You have more money, you have more time, you have more connections in your industry. So, goals can be achieved faster in most cases. As well as, opportunities may come to those who are fully ready, and in the position to take advantage. I look at magazine covers and all I see is, time, skill and money! Sure a beautiful model, but if everything is high quality, that means money! Money was invested in styling, wardrobe, studio, hotel suite, props, equipment, editing software, etc. Fashion, bridal, fitness, pinup and more, high quality images on magazine covers, equal MONEY. And once again, the skill level must be high from the model and photographer. So It's everything. I see academy dolls that seem to have a lot of time daily to be on social media, but in my opinion they need training to improve, and develope new skills. I could, and I have years ago, post about pinup posing classes and very few gals will book. Classes where you attend to learn, to gain knowledge, to improve skills you already have, and to gain new skills. If I were an aspiring or amateur pinup, and there was a pinup school or pinup classes in my city, I'd so be there! If they were affordable, and by a professional pinup, I'd so book and attend many! I could offer a free class, if there's no styling plus images involved, just pinup posing demo and class, maybe 2 gals will show interest and 1 actually attend. I add styling, wardrobe, images and publication,.... here come the aspiring and amateur pinups. Which is great, I'd want all those things too, and my academy offers all those things. My point is you can't become a pro pinup without training, without researching. You can have the time and the money, which are essential, but what about your skill level. In pinup, just like any style modeling, there are different levels. Not everyone can or will reach the highest level. There's a difference in an amateur model, verses a professional. Difference between a professional, verses the very top in their field. If everyone had the same skill level, same experience level and same accomplishment level, then everyone would just be a pinup. Not defined as an amateur or professional. Your competitors, if you're an amateur and they're a professional, don't see you as their competitor. Once you break it down there are still a ton of professional pinups. Then there are those at the highest level in our biz. Same with pinup magazines. Some are brand new, some have been around years. Some publish any quality sent, some are selective and others extremely selective. Some have a few thousand followers, some have millions! Some do cross, others don't. Different levels. There's competition to be the top, or main model with certain photographers. Competition to be a spokes model, or clothing model for a company. Competition to host pinup events, will pinup contests and pageants. Competition to shoot with top pinups for trade or pay! If you want to compete with actual professional, 1st create a plan to become one!!!! Aspiring and amateur pinups are only in competition with each other. Develop your skills and knowledge 1st! Vintage Stylist Dianna Prince All images in this blog are of Joan Collins.
Common sense, yet something I can not only understand , but now I can relate to, as well. I see companies big and small, designers, magazines and more, who cater to the public and or work with several models, maybe once, maybe a few times, or maybe often. Most have a main model, a spokes model, a main product or promotional model. Usually this means that model in particular, being their main model, shoots and models for them often. That model may receive trade shoots, modeling in exchange for clothing, or images, and or magazine publication, pay, etc. Or they receive a huge discount on shoots, receive tons of promotion, publication, and covers. It all depends on the company, designer, producer, or photographer. They have the option and power to choose whom ever they please to be their main model. Millions of models want the many positions out there as a spokes model, product model, clothing model,.... main face of a business or product. So I say the competition is there. Very similar to landing a magazine cover. It can boil down to the owner, or producers personal taste once the smoke clears, and they've received hundreds of submissions for the cover. They're left with numerous sets that fit the criteria and are equal in high quality everything. I see certain mags, certain photographers, and certain business from modern to fashion, who have a main model. Someone they've chosen out of many qualified and unqualified models. That someone has something unique, in their mind. I was watching a favorite documentary of mine, again, recently and a song writer from the 50's was talking about a producer and song writer who fell in love with a young singer and made her a star. She said that she feels his other groups did suffer because everything was geared towards that singer, he fell in love with, and her group. However all his groups had fame, records and made money. He made many decisions with each singer and group because he owned everything, the copyrights to the songs and names of groups. It's similar to Berry Gordy. Obviously he produced so many stars, but certain groups he molded and made them into huge stars. He invested extra time, extra focus and money on groups like The Supremes because he knew they could be successful. And Diana Ross who he knew would be a huge star one day!! I remember Ronnie from The Ronettes saying she knew she wanted to sing, sing rock and roll and be a success. Berry Gordy said Diana Ross had big dreams of fame and success. One of the members of The Supremes said Diana had a voice that was good but many others had a great voice. To her Diana had a unique sound. To Berry Gordy Diana Ross had drive and huge dreams. A writer said that Ronnie had a unique look and sound, and she herself said she was very determined. Many gals had the voice, maybe less drive and determination and smaller dreams. Maybe the others had a common look, common sound and didn't stand out, to THOSE producers and writers. I think choosing a main model goes beyond being beautiful, " to most people ". How many times has a model submitted for the cover of a mag, got turned down. Then saw who did get that cover and thought, " I'm just as pretty as her, as attractive as her. My images were just as good and high quality as hers ". Well so were a ton of other sets submitted with a beautiful model, fabulous styling and wardrobe, and high quality photography. So why they selected her, you may never know. Could be their main model already. Could be a model that brings them a lot of biz. The mag owner could be a photographer too, and that's his main model he shoots with often. There's a reason for that too! When I speak of a well rounded pinup with the total package, if you take away the word professional, EVERYTHING else still applies, which is how you become a professional in the 1st place. Researching, communication, obligation and commitment level, sacrifice, drive and determination. Making it a top priority to be informed, on time, organized and prepared, EVERY single shoot!!!!! Those are the reasons someone who's a professional would keep working with an amateur. Being a professional pinup means way more than being attractive, investing in shoots and gaining publication! Way ,way more goes into the definition of a professional pinup. If I have a doll who's got all the above plus 2 essential aspects are involved, time and money, then that's who I go above and beyond for and invest my time and money on, and with. If you're late often, horrible communication, bad at planning ahead, can't keep commitments, unprepared, and CONSTANTLY late, there's no way when choosing a top model, a main model, that it'll end up being you! No magazine owner is going to choose and model who's not supportive, to be their main model. If you lack in biz skills or they know you've never once bought a single issue, why would they choose you? Why would a pro photographer offer you trade or pay you, and make you their main model if you're slopy in biz?! For my pinup academy each year I select one model to be the official model. Beauty and my personal taste are definitely a huge, initial factor. However it's also their drive, their goals, their professionalism from day one. And yes the final decision is based upon who can fulfil the requirements. Gotta have time and money to be active in pinup! For 2018 it was a no brainer who I'd choose and ask to be The Official Model For The Pinup Master Course and The Dianna Prince Pinup Academy. If you ask me, I lucked out! Total package! Beyond just lots of promotion she'll be involved in, I have huge goals for her. I'm excited and look forward to working with her every single shoot! Another huge reason I selected her, the excitement and positive feelings and outlook, EVERY shoot! Plus everything runs smooth and positive results produced! Dianna Prince Kara the official model of The Pinup Master Course and The Dianna Prince Pinup Academy 2018
1/9/2018 0 Comments Do you need a manager?" So what are the differences between model managers and model agents?
A model managers job includes finding the model “scouting”, introduction and guidance of the model to the model business, development of the model including the initial models portfolio or digital photos to be introduced to partner model, agents and clients, public relations companies, and helps to make a career plan and keep the model on a path toward success. Managers juggle the model business professional demands, placements with the right partner retail agencies and model agents, travel documents, visas, contracts and appearances that come with a prominent career ". Source http://m-a-m-a.org/model-managers-and-model-agents/ Columnist Dianna Prince here. The difference between them verses agents. And why someone would, and when someone who actually need a manager or agent. There are casting companies in acting, that you pay monthly to book you as a background actor. There are casting agencies and agents that are directly involved in casting models for paid work, and help them get professional images and often training. However the top modeling agencies will not sign a model who needs training. If so, she has a 1 in a million look and every requirement physically is there. Managers perform many services. Not a calling or casting monthly service. Not someone who's being paid to do marketing solely. They don't just submit models, agents do that. The primary focus of a manager is to manage a career. You 1st have to have one. Usually in fashion modeling, you get an agent 1st, then a manager once you have alot to maintain. However a manager will mold a client, help them develope a style that's marketable. Managers sit with clients and create a solid plan, a realistic plan to achieve goals that model set. A manager is all about helping createa package. A well rounded, talented, knowledgeable, experienced and skilled model. Manager's and agents work together creating that total, perfect package. Do you have that? Are you willing to give others the power to make decisions on your hair, your makeup, your clothing, who you shoot with, what events you'll attend, what mags you submit to, etc.,.... A talent, the talent. It means an entire package. No it's not good enough that you have invested. No, it's not good enough that you're having fun. No, it's not good enough that you love your images, loved the outfit you picked. I could go on and on. It's not good enough that you are great at communication, on time, organized. All those things plus so so so much more are what define the total package! Talent being super important! So you're great with the bu z side, and believe that's essential. But you lack in skill. Or your skills are great, but you are horrible at communication, always late, unorganized, etc. That's not having the total package. That's what managers and agents are for, and work together to accomplish. Manager's of talent in real biz, normally have a contract of 2 years minimum. They evacuate the model, listen to her goals, research what's she's done, and then decide if they, as a manager, can fulfill the expectations, help achieve goals. ALSO a manager decides if that model is someone who will listen to advise on biz, if they will take constructive criticism well, and have a much needed back bone to survive in this biz. It goes way beyond you as a model paying to have someone provide a few services, that an actual manager provides. It goes beyond you having the money, period. Money for shoots, for wardrobe, money to enter pageants, money for a monthly fee to have someone submit your images, etc. If an agent or manager is legit they will be selective. Top quality, well know magazines are selective. Designers and clothing companies that hire models, are selective too! Photographers that pay models, book them in paid gigs thru agencies, get them in magazines they are on staff at, they are selective as well. So it comes down to spending time and money, which is an investment, to create the total package. It takes many professionals to be involved. And it honestly takes years and years of hard work. Finding your own niche, developing your unique style, then knowing how to present it. It's not about what everyone else is doing, it's about knowing where you need improvements. Researching and training, veryyyyyy essential. Managers and agents are selective and they will be totally honest, always. I mean as far as your look needing to be changed, your biz habits needing to be changed, being honest about low quality images taken of you, etc. I can submit and promote a model that's a pinup. But to manage a model, she must 1st be a total pinup. That'smy choice. The pinup look. The vintage look. 2nd she must handle the biz side in a professional way. They must take advice and use it!!! They must respond well to constructive criticism and feedback. They must be willing to altered, adjust or even change things, at my suggestion The models I manage I expect to come to me with a list of goals. Then create a plan together, that will include and involve changes if needed. If someone isn't completely involved and active in your career and goals, they aren't your manager, they aren't a manager. Your manager should always be heavily involved in your career and all aspects of it. Like I mentioned above, there are awesome marketing companies that offer services to build your fan base, or bring your website increased traffic. That'sa monthly service that you pay for, and they don't do anything more. They are not directly involved in your career or decisions effecting your goals. You pay, they promote. Very similar to photographers who charge you, but do have select models they trade or pay. They get paid to take your pics., not to be involved in your career goals, etc. You pay, they take your image's and anyone else who pays. Some photographers shoot trade with anyone. Stylists as well. Calling services, as well. You're paying them to do a job, not to help you create the total package, a marketable package, mold you into and help you develop your talent. THAT'S WHAT MANAGERS AND AGENTS DO! How many times have we seen an artist be tied down to a contract with a manager or agent and couldn't wait until it was over? Or change managers and all of a sudden their career blew up! Some changed managers and their entire look changed too. How many times have we said, why did they do that video, attend that event, wear that outfit,.... it can easily be the case of their manager! Look at how many stars changed their look over the years. Someone was involved in those decisions. " my manager said not to do,.... ". " my manager encouraged me to,... " " my manager got me that connection, that cover,..... ". Endless examples. So again I say and will end with, managers and agents are directly involved in your career goals and decisions. They are directly involved in developing you as a talented artist who has the total, well rounded package. They'll give advice, resources, knowledge, connections, promotion, publicity, and constructive criticism and feedback! Vina Fay Wray was a Canadian/American actress most noted for playing the female lead in the 1933 film King Kong as Ann Darrow. Through an acting career that spanned 57 years, Wray attained international renown as an actress in horror movie roles. Wikipedia Canadian-born Fay Wray was brought up in Los Angeles and entered films at an early age . She was barely in her teens when she started working as an extra. She began her career ... Open on imdb.com Birth Name: Vina Fay Wray Born: September 15, 1907 in Cardston, Alberta, Canada Died: August 8, 2004 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA (natural causes) Height: 5' 3" (1.6 m) King Kong 1933
Actress Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and director Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) travel to the Indian Ocean to do location shoots for Denham's new jungle picture. Along the way, the actress meets and falls for rugged First Mate John Driscoll (Bruce Cabot). Upon arriving at a mysterious island, Ann is taken hostage by natives who prepare her as a sacrifice to the enormous ape Kong who rules over their jungle. But when Ann is rescued and Kong is captured, the real trouble begins.Release date:April 7, 1933 (USA) IMDb |
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