I responded to an ad on Backstage for Rose Talent seeking Commercial Actors.
I was called in for an audtion at Space Station Casting. Soon after I was emailed by Kelley Wallce stating that she was considering me for her agency and she wanted me to take a commercial class to brush up on my audition technique before coming back in for a callback.
She recommended 5 classes. The first was in bold and was Hey I saw Your Commercial by Mike Pointer.
I decided to sign up because I had never taken a commercial class and have been taking a lot of new classes recently.
During Mike Pointers classes he doesn't teach much. He spends most of the class trying to sell you DVDs, books, ad copy, or get you to sign up for his next level. He is a self help coach on the side and prints all his own material. It's all very smoke and mirrors feeling.
After I had taken 2 classes I reached out to the agent. She said there was a problem with the studio and she wanted me to self tape my callback. I sent it in.
SHe suddenly emails me back and says that she is being told her Rose Talent name is too close to Rose Talent Management and she has to close her agency and refer me to her "sister agency" Thrive Artists, run by someone named Julie Warner. I emailed Julie Warner and got no response and Kelley disappeared.
Thrive Artists website is suspicously similar to Rose Talent in their design and content.
I searched for Rose Talent Management and could not find them ANYWHERE.
I contacted the first actress on Rose Talent's web roster and she claiimed that she had NO IDEA who Rose Talent or Kelley Wallace was and that she was NOT affiliated with them. She said the headshot they were using was FOUR YEARS OLD and she hadn't used it ever since.
I mentioned Mike Pointer and she said OH MY GOD, I TOOK MIKE POINTERS CLASS FOUR YEARS AGO WITH THAT HEADSHOT, ONLY TIME I USED IT.
This to me is proof enough that Mike Pointer creates fake talent agencies and lures actors into his classes and then dumps the fake agency pulling the rug out from under the actor.
This has been reported to SAG-AFTRA and the LA Consumers Complaints Department.
Mike Pointer invited me to his free class. I was looking for a commercial class, so I signed up. The minute I did, he told me I would have to pay a $25 fee to reserve my spot, but it would be returned the week after or applied to my classes if I chose to take more. His "class" was him basically telling us all the amazing people he's coached and worked with and how they hire him long term and fly him places. There were wasn't a lot of diversity in the pictures, which is kind of weird cause he's a black dude. He kept talking about the "rat race" of the industry and how minorities who aren't cute or popular have a hard time. Someone asked him to explain and he said "Asians and Mexicans are in right now." Um... Okay. I'm a black guy, so I was kind of put off by that.
Then he kept talking about his faith and spirituality and God and that was annoying too. 2 hours had gone by and we hadn't learned anything. Then he showed us a list of places we shouldn't go and people we shouldn't talk to, and went on another rant about how only 5 or us will work once a year and all these agencies are rip-offs and badmouthing people he didn't agree with and how God was going to come back. LOL. Okay. by now I just wanted to get out, but he was trying to sell himself because he was running out of time. He asked the people who had paid the $25 deposit to sign their email addresses on a special piece of paper with our names and I thought it was to get a cool gift. Later I found out he charged all of us for the full amount of $217 twice in a month! When I asked him about it, he said that I signed up and that's why I gave my email address and that it wasn't his fault that I missed my class. I never went to one class, I just ran out of there, because he was making me so angry.
I got my bank to reverse the 2 charges and then last week, I saw another charge for $217!!! I closed my card and went there, but he wouldn't talk to me. After looking around, I see that a lot of people are getting smart about this scam artist and apparently he's illegal too. BEWARE of MIKE POINTER and BEWARE of HEY I SAW YOUR COMMERCIAL!
I signed up for Coach Mike's 'Hey! I Saw Your Commercial' online webinar recently, as an experienced working actor curious over what he had to share. Much of the information he spoke of is plain common sense for the experienced actor. How to conduct yourself in the audition or waiting room. How to slate. Learned camera techniques, etc. However, a few of his pointers I had issues with, bc they weren't necessarily science nor truth. First, his claim that Commercials are really the only way to sustain a successful career in between film/TV projects. This is utterly untrue, as plenty of actors and big names have never done a single TV commercial, let alone a radio ad or what, and are quite successful in their careers. Second, Mike comments about cut footage. Insinuating that an actor sucks bc their scene ends up on the cutting floor. Sorry, but that's mostly about time, budget, and storytelling. Mike knows this but felt it congeal to state it as truth. It's purely about having facts straight, as time changes with the industry. What applied years ago, no longer applies today with technology.
Hey I Saw Your Commercial Reviews
I responded to an ad on Backstage for Rose Talent seeking Commercial Actors.
I was called in for an audtion at Space Station Casting. Soon after I was emailed by Kelley Wallce stating that she was considering me for her agency and she wanted me to take a commercial class to brush up on my audition technique before coming back in for a callback.
She recommended 5 classes. The first was in bold and was Hey I saw Your Commercial by Mike Pointer.
I decided to sign up because I had never taken a commercial class and have been taking a lot of new classes recently.
During Mike Pointers classes he doesn't teach much. He spends most of the class trying to sell you DVDs, books, ad copy, or get you to sign up for his next level. He is a self help coach on the side and prints all his own material. It's all very smoke and mirrors feeling.
After I had taken 2 classes I reached out to the agent. She said there was a problem with the studio and she wanted me to self tape my callback. I sent it in.
SHe suddenly emails me back and says that she is being told her Rose Talent name is too close to Rose Talent Management and she has to close her agency and refer me to her "sister agency" Thrive Artists, run by someone named Julie Warner. I emailed Julie Warner and got no response and Kelley disappeared.
Thrive Artists website is suspicously similar to Rose Talent in their design and content.
I searched for Rose Talent Management and could not find them ANYWHERE.
I contacted the first actress on Rose Talent's web roster and she claiimed that she had NO IDEA who Rose Talent or Kelley Wallace was and that she was NOT affiliated with them. She said the headshot they were using was FOUR YEARS OLD and she hadn't used it ever since.
I mentioned Mike Pointer and she said OH MY GOD, I TOOK MIKE POINTERS CLASS FOUR YEARS AGO WITH THAT HEADSHOT, ONLY TIME I USED IT.
This to me is proof enough that Mike Pointer creates fake talent agencies and lures actors into his classes and then dumps the fake agency pulling the rug out from under the actor.
This has been reported to SAG-AFTRA and the LA Consumers Complaints Department.
You be the judge.
Mike Pointer invited me to his free class. I was looking for a commercial class, so I signed up. The minute I did, he told me I would have to pay a $25 fee to reserve my spot, but it would be returned the week after or applied to my classes if I chose to take more. His "class" was him basically telling us all the amazing people he's coached and worked with and how they hire him long term and fly him places. There were wasn't a lot of diversity in the pictures, which is kind of weird cause he's a black dude. He kept talking about the "rat race" of the industry and how minorities who aren't cute or popular have a hard time. Someone asked him to explain and he said "Asians and Mexicans are in right now." Um... Okay. I'm a black guy, so I was kind of put off by that.
Then he kept talking about his faith and spirituality and God and that was annoying too. 2 hours had gone by and we hadn't learned anything. Then he showed us a list of places we shouldn't go and people we shouldn't talk to, and went on another rant about how only 5 or us will work once a year and all these agencies are rip-offs and badmouthing people he didn't agree with and how God was going to come back. LOL. Okay. by now I just wanted to get out, but he was trying to sell himself because he was running out of time. He asked the people who had paid the $25 deposit to sign their email addresses on a special piece of paper with our names and I thought it was to get a cool gift. Later I found out he charged all of us for the full amount of $217 twice in a month! When I asked him about it, he said that I signed up and that's why I gave my email address and that it wasn't his fault that I missed my class. I never went to one class, I just ran out of there, because he was making me so angry.
I got my bank to reverse the 2 charges and then last week, I saw another charge for $217!!! I closed my card and went there, but he wouldn't talk to me. After looking around, I see that a lot of people are getting smart about this scam artist and apparently he's illegal too. BEWARE of MIKE POINTER and BEWARE of HEY I SAW YOUR COMMERCIAL!
I Saw Your Commercial
I signed up for Coach Mike's 'Hey! I Saw Your Commercial' online webinar recently, as an experienced working actor curious over what he had to share. Much of the information he spoke of is plain common sense for the experienced actor. How to conduct yourself in the audition or waiting room. How to slate. Learned camera techniques, etc. However, a few of his pointers I had issues with, bc they weren't necessarily science nor truth. First, his claim that Commercials are really the only way to sustain a successful career in between film/TV projects. This is utterly untrue, as plenty of actors and big names have never done a single TV commercial, let alone a radio ad or what, and are quite successful in their careers. Second, Mike comments about cut footage. Insinuating that an actor sucks bc their scene ends up on the cutting floor. Sorry, but that's mostly about time, budget, and storytelling. Mike knows this but felt it congeal to state it as truth. It's purely about having facts straight, as time changes with the industry. What applied years ago, no longer applies today with technology.