Selfies: The Gateway To A Modelling Career?
Nowadays, everywhere you go, you’ll see people taking selfies. Celebs like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton brought selfies into the mainstream, allowing them to evolve into what they are today. For many, they can be the start of a successful modelling career.
A drunk student starts a revolution
Selfies are the perfect depiction of technological progress. The first self- portrait in the form of a photograph was taken by Robert Cornelius in 1839. He tried to improve a new form of photography and chose himself as the model . Let’s just say it wasn’t the most attractive thing in the world. It wasn’t until 163 years later in 2002 where the next selfie was taken. A student in Austrailia used his camera phone to document a bleeding lip (a result of a drunken fall). With the constant development of smartphone cameras came the constant development of selfies- celebs and stars loved the idea. Even former US President Barack Obama started taking selfies. After 2010, the cameras on devices became so good that you could also film videos with them: this is how vlogging became popular. Many people filmed and posted short monologues of themselves in the car as a home video in their own four walls, for example. The idea of using selfies to kickstart your career, however, is a very new idea..
Expensive and bad quality video applications
Using videos to apply for jobs and auditions isn’t a new idea- as soon as normal people could afford a camera, they started to use them to film themselves. However, the videos always came out very low quality or it was too expensive of a process. This meant it was very difficult to audition via video because it didn’t convey any naturalness at all.
A Smart(phone) Solution!
A selfie video can easily be shot in HD quality and most people are used to filming themselves in such a way. You can use editing apps to improve a recorded video and film yourself practically anywhere!
Tips and tricks
Many agencies appreciate an introduction video filmed like this, it means they can get a good impression of your personality and how you present yourself. When filming, do something you love and keep it fun! It doesn’t have to just be one scene either, you can film multiple and cut them together. Film a video today and submit it to starboxx right away!