Chad
29th June 2006, 13:02
Here's an interesting bit of news. According to the following article,
http://www.canada.com/topics/lifestyle/style/story.html?id=449c9132-aa3f-4d2d-a56d-2c000e458803
Liis is going to be filming a program of modelling tips, which will be broadcast on a Canadian digital TV channel, later this year.
Modelling always seemed to me about individual style, and no two models pose quite the same way, so there are things about the craft that probably can't be taught. On the other hand, for beginners, I image that there are a lot of basics, like facial expressions, stance, walking, etc. that could be shared. To use an analogy, you can't teach someone to be a great painter, and you can't give them talent; but you CAN teach them about proportion, perspective, drawing materials, etc.
Here's the relevant bit from the article:
The Canadian plus-size model, whose face and physique has appeared in Canadian Living, Chatelaine, Wedding Bells and Today's Bride, wants to be a mentor of the modeling world, helping young women prepare for the camera and the catwalk.
...in July [Liis] will shoot a series of half-hour TV shows on the subject for Canadian Learning Television that will air in the fall.
It's entirely possible that her advice and insight will be helpful -- modeling is not an easy industry to break into even if you're not plus-sized -- but the interest in her course is also the result of the reality-show trickle-down effect, which is convincing an ever-growing audience that they, too, can be taught, trained and tweaked into doing almost anything...
But Windischmann says she is not selling good-looking snake-oil, but offering a cautionary modelling tale.
"I'm not telling everybody that you come to my class and you can become a model," she says. "But here is the information that you need to know from an insider that is not going to lead you astray. Whether an agency accepts you or not, I can't guarantee that. But this is the best shot you have."
http://www.canada.com/topics/lifestyle/style/story.html?id=449c9132-aa3f-4d2d-a56d-2c000e458803
Liis is going to be filming a program of modelling tips, which will be broadcast on a Canadian digital TV channel, later this year.
Modelling always seemed to me about individual style, and no two models pose quite the same way, so there are things about the craft that probably can't be taught. On the other hand, for beginners, I image that there are a lot of basics, like facial expressions, stance, walking, etc. that could be shared. To use an analogy, you can't teach someone to be a great painter, and you can't give them talent; but you CAN teach them about proportion, perspective, drawing materials, etc.
Here's the relevant bit from the article:
The Canadian plus-size model, whose face and physique has appeared in Canadian Living, Chatelaine, Wedding Bells and Today's Bride, wants to be a mentor of the modeling world, helping young women prepare for the camera and the catwalk.
...in July [Liis] will shoot a series of half-hour TV shows on the subject for Canadian Learning Television that will air in the fall.
It's entirely possible that her advice and insight will be helpful -- modeling is not an easy industry to break into even if you're not plus-sized -- but the interest in her course is also the result of the reality-show trickle-down effect, which is convincing an ever-growing audience that they, too, can be taught, trained and tweaked into doing almost anything...
But Windischmann says she is not selling good-looking snake-oil, but offering a cautionary modelling tale.
"I'm not telling everybody that you come to my class and you can become a model," she says. "But here is the information that you need to know from an insider that is not going to lead you astray. Whether an agency accepts you or not, I can't guarantee that. But this is the best shot you have."