Child Modelling JULY 06

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Marymay -you can look up car park charge for Cavendish square on NCP website -says it is £1.60 for 15 mins www.ncp.co.uk/parkwithncp.htm.Good luck for casting tmrw . Is it for Debenhams? DD had a casting at their head office last year in that street.
Mratty. Good luck for tmrw.How did Next casting go today?
Sounds as if there are more castings/jobs arounds as school summer hols kick off!
Good luck to everyone else going to John lewis casting over the next couple of days too!!!
Heard that dd has been confirmed for M&S job on Friday. Great news, as no casting but she did do a 2 day shoot for them last month.
Have a good evening everyonexx

thorntons - well done on the M&S job! The casting was fine, if she gets the jobs it will be shooting between now and Saturday. There was only one other girl there but we were very early.

Mratty,thanks! Fingers and toes crossed for your dd. She has a very, very good chance especially as she worked for Next very recently.

hi thortons..thanks for that.yes it is for debenhams .what at debenhams i dont no just said they wanted the look of a english rose so dd got to wear a skirt .she normally lives in jeans.do you remember if you were at the casting for along time.thanks

Hi Marymay. DD has to try on an outfit and had a polaroid taken -we were there about 20 mins. Was well organised I doubt there will be many kids as there isn`t much room if held in same place ( Debenhams press office) .The Debenhams peeps are really nice. Good luck !

tavalana> What time are you and your sis going tomorrow, and how old are your LO's?

2manypimms> Ohh NO, thats very unfair. How is the LO's scar looking now. Are any of the products that your using working?

Hope everyone is ok, and good luck for everyone with castings.

mrratty> fingers crossed for your LO.

xxx

hi yummy> nope ds hasnt got a casting, has been pretty quiet for us for a cpl of weeks. suits me tho as i am v busy at the min with interviews etc. fingers crossed his pics have been used for mothercare and elc at the end of this month!!!

Hello again - what a day - car broke down, was supposed to be at school trip meeting for DD1. breakdown man took car to garage, sister-in-law fetched kids, nice garage man took me home - panic - half hour to meeting and dh at work still - only solution, grab oldest child's bike. Great there, uphill all way back. God, my legs are killing me - and as for unmentionable aches - ouch, anyone got a valley-cushion??!!

Julie - thanks for the CS info - they replied to my e-mail saying that she is unable to consider children in dd's age group at present (she's 3). How old is your LO? Do they have many little kids, I didn't have time to go through all the pics but the first few and last few pages were all teenagers.

mimi - he is with UA and is 4. what about yours?

mrratty - how is the school about taking her out. is there a set no. of days? thanks ds is starting reception in sept.

2 many - am i right he had an accident at a shoot and they didnt even use the shots. if i am what a bloody cheek!

do you get paid when you go to a casting?

UA have just sent me my password so off to have a look. couldnt believe it when she said they touched up his photos.

Good luck those with castings. Very exciting. I hope one day we get jobs - when I decide who to go with (BK have offered. Waiting to hear from MOT) Will prob go with MOT if they offer.
Re cynicism from husbands (see long way back on this thread - earlier today!) I do hope that it isn't agencies on here trying to self promote - cos I get a v friendly vibe when reading the thread and messages... even when peoples kids are up at castings together - everyone just seems excited to meet up, rather than competetive pushy mums!
Anyway - didn't have a question... just a good luck message to those casting.
Byeeeee

hi there I think you were refering to me. If you were no I dont even have a child with any agencys. I read through and someone asked a queston last nite about an agency that my sisters kid is with. So i put my knowledege on here to try and help. Some see that as promoting, but take what you will from that. I was only trying to share what i knew to someone that asked, thats all.

it is normally friendly on here an dthe whole website is a bundle of info on all sorts of things, not just modeling and that.

twin - i have only heard great things about MOT jnr. did you try B&B or Kids London? i went through a real fed up stage when ds got some no's and even worse no work but did stick with it when i really wanted to give up. think what kept me going with it was people telling me he was gorgeous and shod do modelling and knowing that he loved the attention he got at the shoot we did. really happy with our agency now have a really friendly feel about them. good luck.

All the bits I picked up don't seem to have much effect. It is still red and will be for a while. Feeling a bit "pre" at the moment so this is bugging me more than it should, I guess. But, heck...SOME shot should have been good enough during the 45 minutes of photography!!!

The phone has been silent since putting DS back on the books last week. I didn't expect to have him innundated with queries, but just a SNIFF of a casting would have helped him along greatly. (He is now worried about his scar and wondering why people don't want him....the DOWN side of modelling!!! A fickle industry!).

Her school allow everybody to have 10 authorisied absence days to use as holiday so they count model days as holiday days. Her teacher finds it very exciting so never makes me feel bad about taking her out. Not sure what will happen if she goes over the 10 days!

is that 10 days a year or term?

Ten days a year!!!!

Rupert - WHAT? There is more on the Mumsnet website than the modelling thread!!!????

surely thats not enough? what happens if someone is in a show or something, that happens all the time with things like oliver etc.

I think thats different and down to the policies of the council. Some schools don't allow anytime off some as much as you want and othrs limit the number of days.

2Manypimms - Hey ,are you sure ds pic wont be used? Why dont you ask B and B to speak to the client and confirm. ..Especially in light of what happened .I am sure he will get castings/jobs very soon.

I was browsing through last night and theres loads of info on things nothing to do with kids at all. Loads of people help with laods of things too so it is a good place to put a question if your worried about something and someone always seems to come along and offer advice. You cant get that anywhere else that i can think of

thats not fare mrratty is it, so kids in one area can model more than others? There should be one rule for all

Thats just the ways things are, lifes not always fair!

reminds me of that story in the paper the other month about the lady that couldnt get the cancer drug becauase too expensive but other areas were able to provide it cause they had more funding. Whats that all about?