Deadly Design Make-up wrote:
well it would help if you mentioned what kinda caracter your wanting to portray? like little red ridding hood or a sexy nurse  ect ect ect the list goes on and on and on

The character is called the 'letter carrier of good and evil' I think I can have a lot of fun with this. The trick is to appear good and evil at the same time: both approachable and treacherous.

Angelo Lorenzo  wrote:
well isn't the whole point of being a good model is having the ability to take the clothing and do the pose and expression for the photographer? It seems like you're just intimidating yourself because you haven't done anything really involving.

What you say is true and I guess I'm just apprehensive about this shoot because so far I've only done portfolio-building shoots and haven't had to fulfill anyone else's requirements.

Miss Anthropy wrote:
you're misusing the term. Character models and actors are usually people that have a very specific look about them. Often they are "mom" or "Dad" or "grandma/pa". They may look like someone famous, or be extraordinary in appearance, such as being very tall, short, fat,ugly, big, funny looking whatever have you.

I don't know what category you'd fit what you describe into but it isn't character modeling.

Thanks. I guess I'll do my research before posting again

michelle_d wrote:
The character is called the 'letter carrier of good and evil' I think I can have a lot of fun with this. The trick is to appear good and evil at the same time: both approachable and treacherous.

Could be a nightmare because you're a person in your own right trying to live up to the artistic picture in the photographers head and these can be incompletely concieved, ambiguous or hard to translate into real direction. I know that I don't deal well with ambiguity. But then again one could have fun with it. I think that you'd be good or evil in turns depending upon what sort of letter you were delivering. Sounds like it's tantamount to being the stork AND the grim reaper.

michelle_d wrote:

Thanks. I guess I'll do my research before posting again

Portraying anyone but yourself is character modeling.  Doesn't matter whether they're real or fictional.  If you're in a play about Cinderella and you are Cinderella, you're portraying a CHARACTER, no difference.

michelle_d wrote:
what a great site! how would you explain to people that you are a professional thug model..... lol.

Yeah I really liked that page. Looks like the outer office when they're casting a guy ritchie film. In fact I think that at least one of those guys WAS in a guy ritchie film!

Miss Anthropy wrote:
you're misusing the term. Character models and actors are usually people that have a very specific look about them. Often they are "mom" or "Dad" or "grandma/pa". They may look like someone famous, or be extraordinary in appearance, such as being very tall, short, fat,ugly, big, funny looking whatever have you.

I don't know what category you'd fit what you describe into but it isn't character modeling.

I'd just call it modeling.

Miss Anthropy wrote:
you're misusing the term. Character models and actors are usually people that have a very specific look about them. Often they are "mom" or "Dad" or "grandma/pa". They may look like someone famous, or be extraordinary in appearance, such as being very tall, short, fat,ugly, big, funny looking whatever have you.

Incorrect. Those are, in the industry, called 'type models', not 'character models'.

Character models are what we have been discussing so far: an alternate personality brought 'to life' by wardrobe, posture, accessories, a certain skill, etc. A character model can developed based on a type, but a character model is not simply a type model. The purpose of a character model is to define a unique and novel character.

A great example of a character model is Kill Bill's "The Bride": a somewhat gaunt but athletic blonde woman with a lot of attitude, wearing a yellow track-suit (a nod to Bruce Lee in Game of Death), and holding a Katana-styled sword. This is a character that has been been defined and marketed to the point that you can wear the accoutrements as a costume on Halloween and people can say "Hey... you're the Bride!"

Type models, on the other hand, meet specific criteria for a generic 'type' (or a specific celebrity outside of a specific role) that ellicits recognition based on familiarity: i.e. the grandma type, the skateboarder dude type, the awkward chubby guy type, the sleazy lounge rat type, a Schwarzenegger type or an Uma Thurman type, etc.

Note that if you get more specific in terms of definition (i.e. no longer a body-building former-actor-turned-politician with a goofy smile and a teutonic accent, but Schwarzenegger as Conan, or Schwarzenegger as Terminator), then you're no longer talking about a type, you're back to a character.