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Below are just a few of the many models in New York available through our agency:
These are just a few of the New York male and female models, actors, extras, and real people are available through the D2 Models agency for commercial print, fashion editorial, runway,and other professional paid assignments.
A commercial print model is a model whose image is used to help advertise products, services, brands, or experiences to a specific audience. Commercial campaigns may appear in magazines, catalogs, websites, social media, digital advertising, point-of-sale materials, and other print or online media.
While advertisers continue to place significant emphasis on Millennial and Gen Z consumers, many campaigns are now designed to reach several generations and demographic groups at once. As a result, clients increasingly look for New York commercial models who reflect a wider range of ages, backgrounds, lifestyles, and appearances.
Model agencies have evolved along with that demand. D2 Models represents New York models for commercial print, advertising, and still photography, with a roster built to help clients cast campaigns that feel relevant to the audiences they are trying to reach.
An extra is a model or actor who appears in the background of a photo shoot, commercial, television production, film, or other video project. Many productions distinguish between background extras and featured extras, but in either case the performer is generally not cast as a principal or supporting role. Extras help create the environment around the action, whether that means filling a restaurant, office, city street, party, store, airport, or virtually any other setting a production needs to make believable.
Extras casting in New York City also gives brands and productions an opportunity to reflect the diversity of the people who actually live, work, and spend money in the market they are trying to reach. Compensation for extra work is generally lower than for principal, supporting, or featured commercial roles, but the experience can be especially useful for developing talent. Working as an extra gives newer models and actors the chance to learn set etiquette, understand production workflow, follow direction, hit marks, work around cameras and crews, and develop the professionalism expected on larger bookings. D2 Models represents a diverse roster of New York models and actors, many of whom are available for background and extras work throughout New York City.
Real people casting is another increasingly important part of commercial and entertainment production. In its most common sense, real people casting refers to casting people who are not professional models or actors. But clients may also be looking for experienced talent who bring a genuine occupation, skill, lifestyle, or relationship to the project. That might mean a real pastry chef, real race car driver, real nurse, real musician, real mother with her baby, or an actual group of friends rather than performers simply portraying those roles.
Because real people searches are often highly specific and time-sensitive, they require more than simply submitting names from an existing talent roster. D2 Models can conduct real people casting in New York City to identify individuals, families, professionals, groups, and other authentic talent that fit the particular needs of a commercial, advertising, fashion, television, film, or branded-content project.