According to Model Scouts.com when you handle your career by yourself, you are really at the bottom of the barrel with respect to your job opportunities. You will most likely be doing non-paying modelling jobs and you will get no exposure at all to other clients. It’s really a dead-end proposition.
Read why you need them here:
Here are FOUR Reasons why you should find yourself a legitimate modelling agency right now.
https://www.modelscouts.com/blog/modeling-agencies
Your Safety
A professional modelling agency will have established relationships with many of their clients. Your agency will know who your clients are, where your job will take place, and most important, they will know that your safety is being addressed at all times; from the safety of your working conditions to the people you will be meeting on set. You need a professional modelling agency to take care of the screening and verification of your clients before you go on jobs.
On the internet you never know who you are going to meet. Accepting modelling jobs from people you have never met and that you have no way of verifying is an extremely risky undertaking.
Get Paid What You Deserve
When you work with a professional modelling agency you know that you will be getting top dollar for the work you are doing. For example, if a client wanted to hire you to do a commercial print ad where your image will appear in a magazine, on clothing tags, and on a billboard, would you know what to charge for that? Most models have no idea what a fair price would be and often sell themselves short, missing out on thousands of dollars. A professional modelling agency will make sure that your image is being used in an appropriate manner in consideration of your career objectives.
Many shady clients will hire models online rather than use a professional modelling agency because they know you are inexperienced and they can take advantage of you. Often, they will not pay you what the job is worth, and many times they won’t pay you at all. Since you don’t really know who they are, you have little recourse to get the money that you deserve. Moreover, you will have no control over where your image will end up. Before you know it your photos will be all over the internet, you didn’t get paid for your work, and there’s not a thing you can do about it.
More Job Opportunities
Since a lot of top companies, fashion or corporate, are now using modelling agencies to find their models, you will be exposed to the best job opportunities. For example, if a particular model that a top client wants to hire is unavailable, you could be presented to that client as an alternative, and voila! you could get the booking. The mere fact that you are in the vicinity of agents, bookers, models, and clients will increase your job prospects by about a 1000 percent!
International Exposure
Models can be represented by modelling agencies in different markets. Scouts from international agencies often visit other modelling agencies outside of their own markets to scout for new models. Even if you are working at a local agency in your area, international scouts will often stop by looking for new faces. Most models are discovered simply by being in the right place at the right time. When you are signed to more than one agency, all of your agencies will work together to promote you and guide you through your modelling career.
PRO MODEL AFRICA can help you
Pro Model Africa is a modelling agency, based in Namibia, with a global presence. We were established in January 2016 and have been identifying and nurturing new modelling talent for the past 3 months.
We have a unique training program where models will be schooled in:
- Discipline
- Posture
- Walk
- Still frames
- Personality/First impressions
When a new model joins they are assessed, given a grade, and guided through what aspects need improvement. When the required standard is reached then they graduate as a PMA Model. It is at this point that they are ready for commercial modelling, whether it is editorial or runway.
Maria Nepembe and her team have joined Pro Model Africa to take it to the next level. The models will benefit from Maria’s extensive regional and international experience, along with her team to develop the models to the highest international standards.
Pro Model Africa is located in the heart of Windhoek in the beautiful Kaiser Krone courtyard at numbers 8-11. We have a photographic studio and accompanying beauty services so models/clients are assured of looking their best before a photo shoot. We work with local and international photographers and video producers. Our clients range from individuals requiring a model portfolio to international boutiques where we do total brand management.
Exciting projects you are working on?
We don’t sleep! We have so many ideas and so many enquiries for potential assignments. We can’t reveal too much but we’ll be leveraging on our pool of talented professionals, our studio, beauty facilities and our extensive connections.
Plans for your first year in business?
Establishing our models and, hence, our agency as the default destination of choice for all modelling services in Namibia and beyond.
Integrating our other business portfolios, for example, photography, marketing/PR and beauty services, to enable us to offer total brand management and other corporate offerings.
Thoughts on the modelling industry in Namibia? What you would add and subtract?
We are inclusive. We will work with everybody. We will add a global view and thorough, professional ways of working.
Find us:
We are at Units 8, 9, 10 and 11 Kaiser Krone (by Town Square), Windhoek.
Email: promodelafrica@gmail.com
Instagram: promodelafrica
Tel: +264818083827 or +26461234803.
We are open Monday to Friday 8am to 6:30pm and Saturday 8am to 2pm.
Our web site www.promodelafrica.com will be launched imminently!
