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
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