FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
Do you accept onto your books everyone who applies
?
We
receive over 100 new applications a week. We keep those we deem suitable on file
and will contact you when we have our auditions.
On joining TOP TALENT can you guarantee my child
work?
No
Agency can really guarantee you work . Once your child’s photograph is
circulating it is ultimately up to our clients who they choose for each job.
What we do guarantee is the fact that we only take onto our books those who we
feel we can successfully place in jobs. After all, it is also our reputation on
the line. It is for this reason we have selected only a few people.
How will I
know when a client is interested in me?
We will contact you if
you have been successful in a casting. We will endeavour to get feedback as to
why your child may not have got a certain job. Often, it is merely down to the
look really. Do they look like the part or not?
Why is there a fee for the agency?
We aren’t charging a fee to join our agency. The registration fee is merely
to cover the photographs essentially as these can normally cost between
£100-£200 to get done by yourself. By taking lots of children’s photo’s in one
day, makes the photographers rate much lower and therefore also for you. The
registration fee covers babies to Teens and costs £100 and includes entry on our
website, which will be our primary tool for getting your child work. Your child
also has their own page on our fully searchable website database featuring three
different photos per actor/ model. Our website is managed by an independent web
design company that is not part of our agency the web design company charges for
their services. The same goes for the printer and distributor involved in our
casting book. Also, we do not sell advertising on our site which helps us
maintain a high level of quality and prevents conflicts between our clients.
I have my own website, can't you just tell
clients to see me there?
No. If you are a model or actor with our
agency you have to have your photos on our site. It would be extremely
unprofessional of our agency and time-consuming for our clients to be directed
to dozens of individual websites to find the right model for the job. In
addition, our agency must maintain control over the quality of photos and the
manner in which our models our represented. Clients want to book actors quickly
from an established and professional agency.
I'm always
hearing that you should not pay an agency to go onto their books.
Often people hear that you should not pay to go onto an Agency from Adult
models and Adult Agencies whose running operation is completely different from
the Children’s scene. Adults are regularly sent on go sees and castings - in
other words they hawk themselves around town to introduce themselves to
photographers and magazine editors at their own expense. They have to be on the
scene and be seen constantly. Children's agents on the other hand organise set
auditions and can also pay an audition fee. Mainly for photographic castings.
Clients will also be less inclined to work with an Agency who does not supply a
high quality, well presented Casting Book containing photographs of their Actors
and Models. At TOP TALENT our registration fee also covers your entry and
page in the casting directory online.
Who will
take the photographs?
We use renowned photographer Mark Thompson
for our in-house shoots. He is a great photographer that has worked
extensively in the industry. We take all our
folios 'in house' to provide a constant high quality and standardized layout to
give it a clean and fresh look.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to drop us an email at: admin@toptalentagency.co.uk