you have to be real careful with ads like these. You really have to understand it from their perspective as well. These companies get paid based on how many people actually come. That's why they have the open calls. So, you fork out the money to go to this look see in hopes of signing with 1 or more of the agencies there. I know they have a lot and very few are picked but there is a reason. Modeling is tough to break into, even more so than acting, so I would suggest to anyone trying to be a model not just to focus on modeling but acting as well. These agencies have very specific ideas of what they are looking for. They chose individuals they feel, based on industry standards, are going to financially benefit their agency the most. So they look for people with specific looks, physical characteristics etc. Unfortunately, that is the way the industry works.

To their credit, sure they overcharge, but they cannot promise every paying person their dream. The industry is really hard to get into, most people who enter young are lucky while everyone else has to scrap their way up for years full of auditions and waiting jobs to only find that they have wasted years of their life with no way of going back to college. If it isn't easy for those people, it isn't going to be a hand me out to someone putting up 300 - 800 dollars. What I find bad about these showings though, isn't the cost, but the quality of the experience. You have ONE shot at that moment. You either make it or you don't, and that one moment is very short amongst the many faces there. Its a bit better than pulling a name out of a hat at getting picked. And even if you are picked, either you are picked by a serious agency or one that just wants your money. I think proscout is doing a decent task, granted they could be more ethical, but they aren't the money grubbing agencies, just the people putting you in touch with all agencies for a moment. If your dream is worth spending years of your life working toward, then it is worth a couple of hundred and a weekend for another shot at the opportunity.

To their credit, sure they overcharge, but they cannot promise every paying person their dream. The industry is really hard to get into, most people who enter young are lucky while everyone else has to scrap their way up for years full of auditions and waiting jobs to only find that they have wasted years of their life with no way of going back to college. If it isn't easy for those people, it isn't going to be a hand me out to someone putting up 300 - 800 dollars. What I find bad about these showings though, isn't the cost, but the quality of the experience. You have ONE shot at that moment. You either make it or you don't, and that one moment is very short amongst the many faces there. Its a bit better than pulling a name out of a hat at getting picked. And even if you are picked, either you are picked by a serious agency or one that just wants your money. I think proscout is doing a decent task, granted they could be more ethical, but they aren't the money grubbing agencies, just the people putting you in touch with all agencies for a moment. If your dream is worth spending years of your life working toward, then it is worth a couple of hundred and a weekend for another shot at the opportunity.

ok well i got one of those cards saying that i nailed the interview. but 900$ for that modeling thing with all the agencies is kind of alot for just meeting with a few agencies with only a 50/50 chance of making it. i want to be famous. can i do it without having to pay so much to some pro scout thing? is this just a con?