The North Face

Tucker did his first modeling job and it was for North Face.  Go here and here to see it on the website.  Just in case those links don't work forever, I'll go ahead and post the screen shots I took.

This was by far one of the easiest modeling jobs we have done.  Probably the easiest.  We were there for less than two hours total.  I also think that Tucker being older and not completely terrified of a bunch of strangers staring at him made it a breeze.  He was very nervous though.  We have lived here for almost three years and during this time the other kids have done several modeling jobs yet Tucker hasn't done any.  I think there are just more jobs for the younger kids.  Waiting so long made it a little scary.  

I love to see the background photos so here you go.  They usually have some sort of sheet with the clothing items and also a picture of the model on the sheet.  Sometimes they even have stick type people in certain positions.  I think this is just so everyone is clear on which models are wearing what and what exact poses they need.

The model always gets called over for hair.  Sometimes they get dressed first and sometimes they do hair first.  For Tucker this took about 10 seconds.  They pretty much left him as he was.

There is usually a lot of waiting and downtime.  But not on this day.  They were ready to go, so Tucker went straight over to the other side of the room and got started.  I also think it was so quick and easy because he was the only model, there was no one else he had to coordinate with.

Sometimes the photographer has certain poses they want the model to do and sometimes they want them to just stand there or move around on their own.  It just depends on the photographer about how vocal they are and how much direction they give.

There is always a snack table.  Usually it has lots of candy for the kids and juice boxes or other random things.

The photographer has their camera set up to display immediately on the computer so they can look over at anytime during the shots. 

 

This was a really easy shoot for Tucker.  Everything they had him do was not really a problem.  He even got to play with a tennis ball for a few pictures.  It is kind of cool how the tennis ball was not in any of the pictures.  Even the ones that were instantly showing up on the computer.  I'm not sure how they did that.

Check out the video of Tucker modeling.  Sorry there is no sound, the microphone on my phone was broken.

Overall, this was not a high paying job.  Probably close to $100 after we take out the money we spent on tolls and parking.  But it was a really fun experience.  I know Tucker is glad that he got to try it out and see what the modeling world here in Japan is all about.