Relapse of New Face Group. The Suspicious Modeling Agency
This is kind of a follow-up to a previous post. It has been quite a while since I originally posted about the so called "modeling agency" New Face Group (NF Group). They must still be around which means the word hasn't been spread far enough about this is a agency. There are a lot of agencies in Hong Kong, but this one just happens to be one of the newier ones. I think it is great that people are sharing their stories. I have a few more words to share.i) Statistics. This blog was more a general blog for people that I know, but I've received a lot of hits because of my posts on New Face Group. Since I posted in October people have used the following key words to find my site:
new face group (222 times)
chile management (12 times)
"new face group" (11 times)
new face nf group (10 times)
a.nf group (8 times)
nf group (7 times)
new face n group (6 times)
new face group model (3 times)
new face (3 times)
"new face group" hong kong (3 times)
newface group (2 times)
new face group + ivan (2 times)
new face group digit7 (2 times)
2/f, capital building, 6-10 sun wui road, causeway bay, hong kong (2 times)
nf group hk (1 time)
"nf group" (1 time)
"new face" group (1 time)
new face group agency (1 time)
new face group causeway bay (1 time)
new face group hk (1 time)
Well you get the idea. People are looking up all sorts of things about this agency.
ii) The Call.
About 2 weeks ago on a Wednesday, Ah Dee gave me a call asking me to submit photos for a job. It has been a while so I was a little surprised to hear from them again. I promptly told him I wasn't interested. Who knows what those photos will be used for. I'm also guessing that they'll try to get you in to make a Comp Card. Anyways I told him I wasn't interested and that should be the end.
iii) Another Agent.
Today while I was shopping for a birthday gift in Causeway Bay I was stopped by another person. According to his card his name is Ivan. Possibly I saw the name "Ivan Ho" but I'm not certain about his last name. I was near Sogo just outside of the Giordano Concepts.
He first started off saying he thinks he saw me in another advertisement. Then he asks me if I have ever modeled before. Since I'm so use to these people approaching me now and just so interested in watching how they approach the conversation I don't reply and let him do all the talking. Ivan starts going on about New Face Group and the type of jobs that they do. They apparently have me in mind to do ads for restaurants and magazines. He gives me his card and I accept it and I tell him that I'm kind of in a hurry. He asks me if I am "truly" interested. I don't respond and tell him I'm a hurry but I'll look at his card and give him a call if I decide that I am.
Now this is where the holes appear in his story.
1) On his card he is labeled as a "Production Manager". I don't know if New Face is suppose to be an agency or a production house, but why is the production manager out on the street looking for people to join their agency? I guess they are responsible for staffing but it seems like all the people recruiting for New Face Group are "production managers".
2) AFTER giving me his card he started pressuring me to give him an answer whether or not I am serious about joining their agency. When I told them I would think about it and I might call him back, I started walking away. He quickly walked after me and TOOK his card back. Isn't that a bit strange? The people I know that work for the well known agencies in Hong Kong tend to run out of cards fast (from what I've been told). Trying to take the card back tells me this Ivan guy has something to hide.
For those interested in reading the ongoing comments from the previous post take a look here.
I don't mind people linking to these posts from the online forums. Sorry it is completely in English but that's my mother language. If someone wants to translate the information and post it up on UWants.com or some other Hong Kong forum feel free to do so.
posted by Tempest7 @ 01:54
1 Comments:
Hello friends
I was also approached by " Edmund Chow " yesterday and also took a video clip at this office. I also filled in a form and unfortunately I have filled in my HKID no, email address and home address. I did not give them any other information.
The today i went up to take measurement but that lady did not ask me to pay the $960 for those photo shots.
she only showed me some of their ' production ' on newspaper and magazines and even advertisement on Road Show. Then she asked for my personal time table and said she will call me when there is job available.
She said that for those shots for newspaper, i.e. those for promoting a product, each photo shot took about 30-45 mins and i will receive a pay of about only $ 200-300 for each photo session, they will charge 80% of it .... anyway i had not experience in casting or modelling and i just took it as a game for fun; but for sure i will not give them any large amount of money, will not give them my credit card or bank account no.
now I even regret giving them my HKID no, email , home address and mobile phone no and took that stupid free video clip
Just see if they really call me for any of those photo taking job in future
27 April 2007
T Lam
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