Has ny1 done e proscouts thing?

Question:if so how exactly does it work

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: if so how exactly does it work

Ugh. Okay, I'll admit it, I went to Proscout when I was younger. Definitely one of those mistakes I learned from. It was expensive to attend, and like all of the aspiring actors and models out there, I thought that if someone in the right place could just see me, my career would take off. It doesn't happen that way.

It was huge and chaotic.You don't really get any personal critique or one on one time with anyone who can actually teach you something. There were some seminars, but nothing you couldn't find somewhere else for a lot less money. The whole thing was actually rather long and boring. I found someone else there who was also more interested in acting than in modeling - and Proscout really didn't have much there for actors at all. So we both commiserated on that point.

What happens is that you're given a number, which you wear on your clothes. You come with two pictures of yourself (or they will take them there for a price) and then you stand in line and eventually walk down the runway with everyone else while agents from various places watch and if they're interested in you they will write down your number. Later the various agencies will read a list of numbers they would like to see - and the people who are called go into this big room and stand in line to see someone behind the table from that agency. They had several schools attend, too - and so you get called and go in, only to find out that they want you to go attend their schools and take their classes.

All of this, of course, is after a huge seminar where they brainwash you into thinking that tons of people have gotten huge contracts from being "discovered" at Proscout. Very few have in fact gotten any jobs in this way.

I don't think anything really came of it for the people I met there who were aspiring models. It is such a long shot to even be noticed in such a massive cattle call. It's not worth the money at all - and you feel a bit duped at the end of it when you come away with nothing - not even a new piece of knowledge except not to waste your money on something like that again.

So, I would strongly advise you to save your money and if you are seriously interested in acting and modeling, follow the advice of the people who know what they're talking about in this forum. Get into acting through classes and going to actual auditions - not falling for these over-blown cattle calls that make you pay money to attend.

It should never cost anything to audition or be seen by a modeling agency.

they charge you lots of money and you go and participate in this huge mass audition where, unless you are very very good and very very photogenic you have wasted your time and money.

Yes, Proscouts is a scam. Anyone claiming to be an agency or a talent scout who charges you money up front is a scam. That is not how agents or casting directors make their money, don't be suckered into it.

I went to it once. When they asked for money, I left.
Real agencies will not ask for money upfront. So don't go and waste your time.

Don't go its not worth it and you don't want to waste your time over people who are trying to scam you like that.