Portfolio

welcome to my model lifestyle channel myname is daniel maritz and in this video i'm gonna talk about how to get a goodmodel portfolio if you have not subscribed yet. please subscribe so you can see somenew and upcoming videos so let's get into this all right guys so what is a modelportfolio? well a model portfolio is

basically your best pictures that you canshow to the client so that they can book you for jobs that's basically it but let's get into this a little bit more. you might get a book like thisthis is my model portfolio i'm from south africa and my mother agency is bossmodels now this is their book and what

you do is you take one of these booksyou go to the casting and you show it to the client and a client look throughyour book and they see what kind of model you are now i'm more of acommercial type of model which is more smiling more natural you can see it in the photos and they go through these pictures and they see basically the experiencethat you have as a model and they book you based on your portfolio but also howyou appear to them in the castings

and how you fit their clothes so themodel portfolio is very very important to get jobs. the better your model portfolio is the better chances you have for better and more jobs so how do you get a good model portfolio? well if you'rea beginner number one you have to do it as many test shoots as you possibly canthe quicker you get a better portfolio set up together the better chances youhave to get good modeling jobs how do you get test shoots?

well youragency can probably help you with that they have the contacts. they just set up a test shoot and that's how you start to get pictures. now the pictures that you haveto focus on first is you have to get at least a good headshotit's very very important then you also need some picture that shows off yourbody then you can bring in different styles you can bring in the businesskind of clothes, suit clothes and you

can bring in sport clothes. varieties keyyou have to give different angles as well. look in the mirror and see whichsides of your face looks the best is it the left? is it the right? then whichside the smiles you know from the camera straight from the camera to the left orthe right so look and practice. also your frowns: you have different frowns look at the mirror, practice a little bitand see what is really good so that when

you do the test shoots you can give avariety of expressions, variety of poses and a variety of angles that you do infront of the camera all right so you do the test shoots. so after you've done a coupleof test shoots, you would be able to go to some castings and hopefully you can booksome jobs so at the beginning you need to do a lot of test shoots, right thenas you start getting jobs, you'll start to get more and more pictures, butgetting new pictures will never stop this is something that you willcontinually do - as a model even if

you're experienced it doesn't matter youneed to continually update your book so that it corresponds with your age andalso with your experience alright guys so now you know how to get a good modelportfolio thank you for checking the video please subscribe if you liked thevideo and also if you want to know more about modeling well i have added mymodel course in the description where i give you all my best tips that i havelearned over the last 10 years of being a male model

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