Author: Anna Stanley Publisher: ISBN: 9780962197239 Category : Languages : en Pages : 442
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Anna Stanley, a pageant director (since 1983) and the author of The Crowning Touch: Preparing for Beauty Pageant Competition (1989), also wrote the first edition of Producing Beauty Pageants: A Director's Guide (1989). In the '90s, this first edition was used in the production of The Secret World of... series for The Learning Channel. Twenty-five years later, Anna has written Producing Beauty Pageants: A Director's Guide, 2nd Edition. Nine years in the making, not only does it feature entirely NEW pageant trade information, Producing Beauty Pageants has also been expanded into a series. The Producing Beauty Pageants series includes: A Director's Guide, 2nd Ed. Creating a Synergized National Pageant System Brokering a Pageant through Barter Contestant Handbook Sponsorship Fee Optionals Open Call Directing a Fundraiser Pageant A Guide to Pageant Terminology (FREE e-book) If you want the convenience of interactive hyperlinks to the references in this book, you will need to purchase the e-book version of the same title.
Author: Anna Stanley Publisher: ISBN: 9780962197291 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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When I began producing pageants in 1983, I held Informational Meetings to tell prospective contestants about my pageant. If I could personally meet prospective contestants to explain the pageant process, I would have a better chance of getting these girls to attend my motivational deadline-to-register event: a pageant commercial filming, boutique photoshoot, or pageant workshop. Besides, an Open Call session was the best place and opportunity for me to educate prospective contestants about sponsorship support, such as how to pitch to sponsors, collect sponsorship fees, and return to the deadline-to-register motivational event to become official contestants. Meeting prospective contestants also built a foundation of trust. After every Open Call session, I set a deadline to collect the first sponsorship installment (never a deposit, as this is too easy to walk away from). To motivate the deadline date and encourage many Open contestants - usually ending up to be about 40% - I needed to have an enticing motivator, such as a pageant commercial filming, a boutique photoshoot, or a pageant workshop. I truly believed that the deadline - and all that it encompassed - had to be the secret to my huge contestant numbers. It didn't occur to me, at least not until years later, that what I was doing before the deadline was the result of huge contestant entries. Whatever this powerful industry secret is called - Informational Meeting, Contestant Meeting, Contestant Call, Recruitment Meeting, Registration Night, Casting Call, Orientation Meeting, Orientation Tea, Open House, Open Call Workshops, Pageant Informational Meeting, Pageant Meet Up, Trunk Show Open Call, and last, but not least, Open Call - it is incorporated by the #1 youth pageant system in the world, National American Miss. You might be wondering what is so secret about Open Call in the pageant industry, because you may have already heard about it. Open Call is simply the strongest contestant recruitment tool designed, even though we borrowed the terminology from the modeling industry. Open Call is designed to secure the GREATEST PERCENTAGE OF CONTESTANT ENTRIES. Pageant directors who do know about Open Call, yet choose not to employ it, probably don't understand its strength and, therefore, can't perceive the financial impact that it can bestow upon their pageant system's bottom line. Pageant directors who do employ it, like International Junior Miss, USA National Miss, and last, but not least, the most successful of all, National American Miss, often make Open Call appear as inconsequential; after all, it is rare that successful pageant directors want to admit to the secret of their success. They probably fear that their competition (other pageants) will also employ Open Call, segment the contestant pool, muck up their business model, and affect their income. This is unlikely to happen. There are many newbie prospective contestants - more than enough for every pageant system out there. You just need to know where to go, to get the girls to come to you. The non-Open Call pageant producers' attempts to reach out to the same demographics - before they are snagged by Open Call pageants - often prove fruitless. What generally happens is that the non-Open Call pageants prime those girls for Open Call pageants! Pageant directors who plainly don't know about Open Call - well, what they don't know can hurt them. I asked Kathy Raese, director of Porcelain Dolls Nationals and Heavenly Angels, if she employed Open Call in her pageant systems. She replied, "What's that?" While I did include Open Call in my business model, from the start, it wouldn't be until years later before I truly understood the Open Call mantra: going to the girls, to get them to come to you. Producing Beauty Pageants: Open Call shows you just this.
Author: Oluwakemi M. Balogun Publisher: Globalization in Everyday Life ISBN: 9781503608856 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 256
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The Nigerian beauty pageant industry positions itself as working to symbolically restore the public face of the nation while seeking to materially shift the private lives of affiliates on the ground.
Author: Sarah Banet-Weiser Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520922603 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 302
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Sarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual. She focuses on the Miss America pageant in particular, considering its claim to be an accurate representation of the diversity of contemporary American women. Exploring the cultural constructions and legitimations that go on during the long process of the pageant, Banet-Weiser depicts the beauty pageant stage as a place where concerns about national identity, cultural hopes and desires, and anxieties about race and gender are crystallized and condensed. The beauty pageant, she convincingly demonstrates, is a profoundly political arena deserving of serious study. Drawing on cultural criticism, ethnographic research, and interviews with pageant participants and officials, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World illustrates how contestants invent and reinvent themselves while articulating the female body as a national body. Banet-Weiser finds that most pageants are characterized by the ambivalence of contemporary "liberal" feminism, which encourages individual achievement, self-determination, and civic responsibility, while simultaneously promoting very conventional notions of beauty. The book explores the many different aspects of the Miss America pageant, including the swimsuit, the interview, and the talent competitions. It also takes a closer look at some extraordinary Miss Americas, such as Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America; Vanessa Williams, the first African American Miss America; and Heather Whitestone, the first Miss America with a disability.
Author: Anna Stanley
Author: Anna Stanley
Author: Anna Stanley
Author: Anna Stanley
Author: Anna Stanley
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