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TIPS FROM THE TOP
Tina Randolph
Zuri Model and Talent
Interview continued from page 49.
the kid’s face. We want to see their full
body as well, but we want all the shots
to be framed where we can actually see
the kid’s in good light without shadows
across their face. Professional pictures
for submissions aren’t necessary. Once
we get going, they will be. But some
kids have professional pictures done
and they’ll catch our eyes better. So, I
think professional pictures are always
the better way to go.
necessarily commercials – those are
under the commercial umbrella.
Then theatrical would be?
Theatrical is anything television based.
Any of your TV shows, your films, your
web shows, web series, anything along
those lines. Then theatrical agents, additionally, certain ones handle professional theater as well.
You were talking about commercial, Then print?
theatrical, and modeling… can you
explain each of the differences and Print is all your modeling for all the mawhat they each are?
jor companies. There’s definitely better
print agencies. There’s definitely better
You can have a different agent represent commercial agencies. And there’s defiyou in all of the different divisions and nitely better theatrical agencies. So it’s
a lot of people don’t know that. The all along in finding what’s kind of the
first division is commercials.
best match for your kid.
What is commercial?
Commercial is basically anything that’s
going to be on TV in an ad or a promotional way – your infomercials, sometimes the voiceovers, things that appear
between the Disney shows that are not
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What do you think is the best age to
get a child started?
You know, if this is something that a
kid wants to do for their life, its’ going
to be something that the kid asks for.
So I think what’s the best age? As soon