German / English – The 66 Basics for Model Castings, Jobs and your next Agency Visit

In der Modelbranche ist Englisch sehr essenziell für die Arbeit. Wer also bei Agenturbesuchen, Modelcastings, Fotoshootings und einzelnen Modeljobs, egal Onlineshop oder Kampagne, überzeugen will, muss als Model englische Anweisungen verstehen und umsetzen können. Nicht nur im Ausland – Auch in Deutschland werden viele Shootings durch ein internationales Team produziert. Während der Produktion wird also oft Englisch gesprochen, du musst Anweisungen von Fotografen und Managern dabei immer verstehen können. Für Models die im Ausland arbeiten wollen, sind ebenso schon in Deutschland die ersten Skype-Calls angesetzt, natürlich in Englisch. Kurz: Englisch ist sehr wichtig! Deshalb sammeln wir für dich die wichtigen Basics. So bist du bei deinen Nächsten Agentur Besuch oder Fotoshooting gut vorbereitet. Hier findest du alle Artikel zum Thema Karriere & Model werden.

Overview – The 66 Basics for Models

1. Clothing – Basics for your next model job
2. Body – movement and gestures
3. Posing – Photoshooting & Jobs
4. Emotions – pictures say more than 1000 words

Basic English – Agency, Shooting, Casting or Job

Clothing – Basics for your next model job

Your first job with an English-speaking client is coming up? Here are all the basics for fashion shoots and accessories for image and commercials:

German / English

The evening dress – evening dress
The sleeve – sleeve
The swimsuit – swim suit
The bra – bra
The leisure clothing – casual clothes
The size – size
The trousers – trousers
The blouse – blouse
The dress – dress
The clothes – clothing
The skirt – skirt
The shoe / The shoes – shoe / shoes
The bag – bag
The handbag – handbag
Change clothes – to change clothes
The accessories – accesscries
The sunglasses – sunglasses
The mobile phone – mobile
The watch – watch
The drink – drink
The hat – has

Body – movement and gestures

After you have internalized the posings, you will find in the following list all the important terms for your body, from head to toe:

German / English

The posture – posture
The attitude – stance
The shoulders – shoulders
The chest – chest
The waist – tailed
The hip – hip
The legs – legs
The hands – hands
The feet – feed
The face – face
The mouth – mouth
The eyes – eyes
The nose – nose
The arms – arms
The nails – nails

Posing – Photoshooting & Jobs

With this vocabulary you’ll learn all the basics for your next photo shoot. With simple nouns and verbs about moving in front of the camera.

German / English

The body tension – body tension
The pose – posture
The body – body
relax – to relax
anspannen – to strain
danzen – to dance
move – to move
sit – to sit
umdrehen – to reverse/to turn
jump – to jump
avant-garde (atypical posing)- avant-garde
drehen – to turn
wechseln (Pose ändern) – to change
ins Profil drehen – to turn in profile
The back – back
The back view – back view
The front view – front view

Emotions – pictures say more than 1000 words

For models one thing is always essential: emotions. Therefore, here are all the important adjectives on the topic of photo shoot, model casting and agency visit:

German / English

smile – to smile
laugh – to laugh
serious – (to be) severe, honest
angry – (to be) angry
crazy – (to be) crazy
arrogant – (to be) arrogant
self-confident – (to be) confident
sexy – (to be) sexy
cute – (to be) cute
shy – (to be) shy
in love – (to be) lovly

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Credits: Photo by Raisa Kanareva, fotolia.com