Model Tips
Article 1
Use Your Acting Skills and Earn $250/hour
By Aaron Marcus of (OMP Member #74938)
If you ever need to find additional work while pursuing a career in the acting or production field, then you might want to consider commercial modeling. If you are only interested in acting, don't dismiss commercial modeling too quickly.
Commercial modeling has nothing to do with fashion or runway modeling. It is a still picture of a commercial. It is acting without words. Commercial modeling, unlike fashion, has no height, weight, or age restrictions. Commercial models appear in literally thousands of different types of ads ranging from insurance to cars. Photographers love hiring actors, because they can take direction, and provide a variety of layers of believable emotions.
The majority of the bookings for commercial models are not the 16-18 year-old ingenues' with the perfect bodies, instead the majority are the urban professional, family, professionally oriented type jobs. Some of the most successful models are between 30 - 50 years of age.
Most people who are not getting the work they desire are not lacking in talent, but are simply unprepared. Learn as much as you can before trying to get started. Commercial modeling can be a wonderful way to use your acting skills and earn money. In the Baltimore/D.C. market we earn $125-$150/hour, New York - $250/hr and L.A. $187.50/hr. The hours are extremely flexible. You can leave your "regular" job, do a print job for a few hours and go back to work.
Before I became a full-time actor and commercial model I put myself through two years of college doing this work part-time. It can be a lot of fun and financial rewarding. If interested, you can read more about commercial modeling at my site, www.howtomodel.com
About Aaron Marcus
Aaron Marcus has been a full-time actor and commercial model since 1986. He has been cast in 1113 (to date) acting, voice over and modeling jobs.You have seen Aaron in projects such as: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Homicide, Life on the Street, The West Wing, The Prosecutors, Broadcast News, Cry Baby, Korea Gate, Stage Fright, America's Most Wanted, General Lee, "11", Worthington P.C. and HBO's The Wire. He has been hired as a stand-in on projects such as: Silence of the Lambs, Guarding Tess, The Pelican Brief, Twelve Monkeys, Runaway Bride, Syriana, Burn After Reading and the TV show "24".
Aaron Marcus has appeared in print ads throughout the United States, Europe, Netherlands and Asia, and has appeared in magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Reader's Digest, Parents, TV Guide, Sports Illustrated, Details, New York Times, Money, Maxim, Forbes, Mirabella, Wall Street Journal and People.
How to Become a Successful Commercial Model
Aaron Marcus has written what many consider the most important book for commercial modeling entitled, How to Become a Successful Commercial Model. This informative book can be purchased during Aaron Marcus' seminars, at his web site, www.howtomodel.com, or any book store. He also writes and publishes The Tear Sheet newsletter, a quarterly commercial modeling/acting newsletter.
The Best Way to Get Work as an Actor/Commercial Model Boot Camp
Aaron Marcus has offered his Boot Camp over 400 times throughout the US, Canada and Australia. If you visit www.howtomodel.com, and click on the Boot Camp link, you can see a video from a seminar, and read more about the topics discussed.
(410) 764-8270, aaron@howtomodel.com or visit http://www.howtomodel.com/
Aaron Marcus has written what many consider the most important book for commercial modeling entitled, How to Become a Successful Commercial Model. This informative book can be purchased during Aaron Marcus' seminars, at his web site, www.howtomodel.com, or any book store. He also writes and publishes The Tear Sheet newsletter, a quarterly commercial modeling/acting newsletter.
The Best Way to Get Work as an Actor/Commercial Model Boot Camp
Aaron Marcus has offered his Boot Camp over 400 times throughout the US, Canada and Australia. If you visit www.howtomodel.com, and click on the Boot Camp link, you can see a video from a seminar, and read more about the topics discussed.
(410) 764-8270, aaron@howtomodel.com or visit http://www.howtomodel.com/
ONE·MODEL·PLACE™ is a Portfolio Hosting Site. The images and materials, claims and statements, expressed, implied or guaranteed by members and non-members on this site, are the sole responsibility of those individuals. All information accuracy, copyright credits, image copyrights and usage, and other forms of information are the sole responsibility of each member or poster.
ONE·MODEL·PLACE™ does not guarantee, warrant, or confirm information posted to profile display pages or to the messages boards. - OneModelPlace.com User Agreement
© 1996-2010 - ONE·MODEL·PLACE™ - All Rights Reserved - Reproduction in part or whole without written permission is prohibited.
OneModelPlace.com™ and its affiliated sites, are owned, operated, maintained and hosted by TvTaxi, Inc.
Originally Created by and Software © 1996-2010 Stuart Burden.
© 1996-2010 - ONE·MODEL·PLACE™ - All Rights Reserved - Reproduction in part or whole without written permission is prohibited.
OneModelPlace.com™ and its affiliated sites, are owned, operated, maintained and hosted by TvTaxi, Inc.
Originally Created by and Software © 1996-2010 Stuart Burden.