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Web-based Talent Review

Submitted by: CrazyWisdom
Created: Jun 9, 2007, 4:02 pm

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A portal where acting, singing, et cetera talent could be reviewed by talent scouts, directors, music producers, et cetera. Scripts and specific competitions to demonstrate talent(s) would be on the site, and a prospective talent could develop and submit a video/audio submission to be reviewed. The site would have classifications for level/experience, could have public forums for suggestions/coaching/voting, and would require a membership fee so that it was not deluged with pranksters, et al.

I thought of this idea when I was...

Being tormented as my girlfriend watched American Idol.

Comments Posted

jill Posted: June 13, 2007, 9:06 pm

Like an on-line Idol. Why not? Good idea.

And people could make names for themselves as being worthy critics as well.

Go for it.

vanhees Posted: June 14, 2007, 2:06 am

Like it
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fossiloflife Posted: June 14, 2007, 2:38 am

interestin!

pantherswin Posted: June 14, 2007, 11:42 am

I just read this idea from someone else a few minutes ago! I am not sure who it was thought. Maybe you guys should try to work together. I think it is a great idea. But it will need alot of policeing on the web site.. How do you plan to make money?

GordonMcDowell Posted: June 18, 2007, 12:41 pm

In a sense isn't YouTube already a talent review? I mean the individual videos could be better tagged and organized. But if you're a talent scout I'd think you could already dive into the world of YouTube content.

GordonMcDowell Posted: June 18, 2007, 12:44 pm

I should have followed thru with that thought. Maybe, all that is needed is a way for people to submit their YouTube content to a contest site. If there's a competition for best acting (say) people could submit their favorite video (not even of their creation) to that category. So the video submitted by most people for a category wins. Anyhoo just a thought.

sajjadi335 Posted: June 19, 2007, 1:45 am

-13 for this idea? Where is the problem with it? It's not that bad!

CrazyWisdom Posted: June 20, 2007, 9:00 am

gordon, i wouldn't see it as an open talent competition, where people could just post what they had on youtube for example. the idea would be to have specific scripts, demonstrations of talent (eg play/sing this song this way, develop video of 'x', et al), et cetera so that people could be judged against each other more easily, as well as to not have to sift through random content.

donh Posted: June 20, 2007, 11:03 am

I'm not too excited about this one. I don't think it would be that interesting to watch and vote on a bunch of actors reading the same scene. Talent would only put together submissions if there were good prizes - either money or an audition for a famous director or agent or something like that. But if you did get some big names on board, you could get talent to pay to participate. You have to remember, people in that business are on high scam alert, so getting them to part with money won't be that easy. Is that your only revenue model?

Brenden Posted: June 30, 2007, 7:30 pm

Check out this: http://www.talicious.com/ similar startup

piyush Posted: July 26, 2007, 10:00 am

You should generalize this for all talent.. technology recruiting has paid off big for monster and the likes.

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