The most correct option is to trust the professionals, choosing a model school with a positive reputation and an effective training program, proven by many years of experience in the fashion industry. How to find a model school for children so that the child receives the necessary knowledge and skills? What should you pay attention to?
Model school at the children’s modeling agency
Such schools of models are the most common. And many parents bring their children there for their development, in order to understand what the modeling business is. They are admitted to modeling schools based on casting results. Tuition is paid. The study period is from 3 to 9 months or indefinite until the age when the graduate transfers to an adult modeling agency.
The curriculum usually includes subjects such as fashion shows, acting, choreography, and photography. The child will receive the necessary knowledge, in practice he will understand what it means to be a model. The agency organizes for its students participation in screenings, filming, TV projects. For many teenagers from 11 to 14 years old, this is quite enough to become more self-confident, to understand how interesting it is to engage in modeling.
Model school at a large international agency
There are practically no such model schools for children, including adolescents 11, 12, 13 years old. Such schools usually accept girls and boys over 14 years old. There is a strict selection here, they accept those who meet international standards in order to promote abroad and conclude contracts and receive an agency commission from them.
Modeling agencies without traditional schools
Agencies that work exclusively with foreign contracts. Usually, employees of such agencies find promising models that meet a number of requirements: height, figure, hair, face, invite to a casting, sign a contract. They are looking for new faces and train them themselves for free, in order to then conclude a contract with a well-known brand and receive their agency commission. But they are not interested in models under 15.
WHAT MODEL BUSINESS RULES DO PARENTS NEED TO KNOW?
Modeling in the fantasies of teenagers looks like a dream job, but in reality everything is not so rosy. This is a tough business where no one gives any guarantees. The child will have to go through many castings, go through rejections and, perhaps, even criticism, and it is important to be ready for this.
If you decide to do without the help of a modeling agency and independently promote the child, then be ready to devote almost all your time and considerable money to making the child notice potential customers. Parents often have no idea how the modeling business works, so they sometimes find themselves in unpleasant and even dangerous situations in Asian countries, where they go with a teenage child, having signed a contract on unfavorable terms.
There are many unscrupulous agents in the modeling business who do not consider it necessary to worry about models, their health and use them as a consumable to make a profit. Comfortable conditions should be created for the models on the site: a separate closed area for changing clothes and control so that during filming, poses and clothes are not explicit.