Portfolio Update for Florida!!

This might be my last post before I go to International Talent Showcase in Boca Raton, Florida....SO EXCITED TO GO!

One of the competitions that is mandatory to participate in is the Photography competition. It's fairly straightforward - you come to the stage, state your name, height, (and age, if you're under 21 - HA!) into a microphone, and they put up a headshot and full length photo on the monitors behind you.  These are pre-selected photos that you submit before the competition.  No problem, right?  Except I didn't really have any decent photos!  Sooo...I spent a few hours last Sunday with Andria Lambert of Lambert's Creative Photography (go LIKE her on Facebook!).  The results were no less than amazing.  I've posted a few of the good ones on my Headshots and Photos page, but there were many more I could have chosen as well.

After almost a year of preparing for this, I waiver back and forth between feeling completely confident and excited to disbelief that the time is finally here!

Mariana has improved 110% since we started.  The first few workshops, I was really wondering if I was making a mistake trying to bring her to a professional showcase when she seemed so young and unprepared. Now, I see a confident little kidlet who is ready to clean up the competition and win some awards!  If we've gained nothing else from this whole experience, we've both grown in poise and confidence.  If it turns out that we're not ready to take on the industry at a global level, we've at least improved our skills for our local market.

Here goes nothing...

Modeling Job

So....the modeling job last Tuesday...

Interesting start to a modeling career.  It was kinda what I thought it was going to be when I first heard about the job - a training manual for Acosta Sales & Marketing's new employees.  I was a "merchandiser", which means one of Acosta's employees.  I had a nametag with my name (that was kind of weird) and everything.  Lots of pictures stocking and unstocking shelves.  I also was the "employee" to be photographed with the company big-wig, "store manager", calling in sick (yay for acting skills!), and walking in to work.  Have you ever had to stay perfectly still and yet appear to be walking at the same time?  I can now say I have.

One of the great parts about this job was getting to work with some of Carolina Talent's finest models...Bill Sykes (who is also in the movie with me), Li-Lun Chen, Nyquell Terry, Mike Cross, Stephan Soper and more.


So, what's next for me?  I've got an ITS workshop this morning.  Runway and Monologue and Commercials, oh my!  Also, sometime this weekend I'll be videoing an audition for a movie that's filming in Winston-Salem.  Cross your fingers for me on that one - it looks like a good one.

Time to Update the Resume

Carolina Talent uses the 800casting system for their clients and talent.

Here is my 800casting profile...

As you can see, it has a space where you declare that you're an actor, singer, stage actor, etc.  If you notice on mine, I checked the "model" box as well. I've got some decent pictures up....what can it hurt?

I booked the very first modeling job I was submitted for!

Now, I'm not getting whisked away to NYC to take pics on top of the Statue of Liberty in an American flag floor-length sequin gown with hair that could get caught in a ceiling fan and day-glo makeup. This isn't ANTM.  I'm doing some pictures for an internal project for an international marketing agency's Charlotte operations.  I'm not exactly sure what all it will entail, but I do know it's being shot in a grocery store.  Glamorous? No. But it's a paying job and credits, and seeing that the "model" box was checked "for the heck of it", I'm not complaining.  Far from it.  Work is work, and I am excited for this new opportunity!


Also worth mentioning:

The Cast List for In the Interest of Justice

The cast list for the movie John & I are doing is posted!  So great to get a look at all the other actors I'll be working with!