So, the last couple of hours have not been the most interesting – in fact, they were frankly pretty dull and repetitive. They have been spent working my way through the font of information that is Contacts, narrowing down the list of potential agents I can look to target and collating them onto a spreadsheet (gotta love a good spreadsheet).
From my initial trawl I have got it down to just 410 potential agencies – that is excluding modelling agencies (‘why have you done that?’ I hear some of you gasp), ones for circus performers, lookalikes, magicians, stand up comedians and short & tall actors and also ones that are located a long way from London – after all I don’t want to be travelling to Swansea, Dublin or Edinburgh just to meet them for a coffee!
Stage one completed now what follows is the more interesting bit – researching the shortlist (yep 410 is a shortlist) and finding ones that I think I would like to work with and hopefully reducing the number further – after all the printing and postage as it stands is going to be astronomical!
As a positive side note, I met up with a friend of mine earlier this week who is part of a successful co-operative agency and has offered to introduce me as a prospective member. As I said to him at the time, I don’t think I am sufficiently prepared to move forward at this stage (indeed, without renewing my Spotlight membership I can’t) but in a month or so it will definitely be of interest.
Whoever said ‘showbiz’ was all glitz and glamour!
William Baylis 