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JALWAH GUIDE

1. ARTISTS AND TECHNICIANS

1.1 Posting profile

To create your profile on Jalwah, create a new login and enter your details with five still photos. Your information together with your login request will be vetted by EDM back office and upon receipt of your cleared payment, your profile will be put up live and your account activated. 

Artist can post 5 still photos of their choice, with one them being a prime photo that will be displayed when searching. All photos uploaded shall be checked by EDM back office for quality and decency before they are put up on the profile page.

Jalwah allows all artists to portray best of their performance/s by way of show reel (video) in order to impress the artist seekers. This feature of Jalwah allows all artist seekers to view audition show-reels of all artists on-line before calling them for meeting in person. This saves both time and money for both the artists and the artist seekers. Only the short listed artists are called for meetings with this process – hence with increased chance of selection, rather than current unorganized audition processes where everyone is randomly called upon for audition rounds.

Upload your show-reel using the option provided on your profile page. Your show-reel video shall be vetted by the EDM back office before it is put up live on your profile page.

Artist can upload one video of their performance of 20 seconds duration. Longer videos can be uploaded at an extra cost. Call customer service for details. All videos shall be checked by EDM office for quality and decency before they are put up on the profile page.

Every artist or technician is assigned a coordinator

1.2 Changing profile

All replacement photos shall be checked for quality and decency by EDM back office before they are put on the profile page.

All replacement videos shall be checked for quality and decency by EDM back office before they are put on the profile page.

1.3 Meeting information

Once selected, artist will receive;

Meeting date and time will be selected from the self maintained diary of an artist within the system.

The artist will then have a choice to either confirm or reschedule the meeting date via Jalwah system or via EDM back office.

Once selected, artist will receive;

  1. an email with full details with offer
  2. a SMS on the cell
  3. an entry on his/her profile dash board

The artist will then have a choice to either confirm or reject the offer via Jalwah system or via EDM back office.

1.5 Artist protection methods

Jalwah will not allow any selection or meeting requests by anyone prior to individual or company being approved by EDM Ltd with defined and confirmed project/s for which artists are required.

1.6       Statistical information

  Artist is given a feature to view all searches performed by production houses and other artists and technician seekers by city and category.

Selection dates 12-04-09 to 23-04-09
City Category     Number No of Prod Hse
MUM   Comedy  200  10
MUM Dance   480  35
DEL  Action  450  20

Clicking on No of prod Hse digit, i.e.”10” will list the names of the 10 production houses who performed the searches in Mumbai between the specified dates, i.e. from 12th April 2009 to 23rd April 2009.

From this information, artist will find out where the job hunt is being performed and for which category.

Clicking on Number digit “200” will list the artists who qualified within the seekers search criteria.  One can then use this information to update ones profile in order to increase chance of self qualification for the next searches.

Artist is given a feature to view all selections performed by production houses and other artists and technician seekers by city and category.

Selection dates 12-04-09 to 23-04-09
City Category     Number No of Prod Hse
MUM Comedy  20 10
MUM Dance   40  35
DEL  Action  40  20

Clicking on No of prod Hse digit, i.e.”10” will list the names of the 10 production houses who has selected artists in Mumbai between the specified dates, i.e. from 12th April 2009 to 23rd April 2009.

From this information, artist will find out where the job placements are being performed and for which category.

Clicking on Number digit “20” will list the artists who qualified within the seekers search criteria. One can use this information and go through each profile of each relevant category in order to self groom and update images and video to increase their won chance of selection in future.

2. PRODUCTION HOUSES AND OTHER ARTIST SEEKERS

For Production house and other artist seekers logging in as production houses, each of the search, shortlist and selection processes conducted by their casting director/s are recorded and saved project wise with full detailed data. This saves the production houses a lot of time and money due to staff turn around and stolen data. The replacement staff will have all the information on the Jalwah system the previous staff had worked on for him/her to carry on from. This includes all searches performed, all shortlists, all details of meetings to which artists have been called for with artist details, date, time and comments and selection with confirmed rates.

2.1 Artist short listing and selection

Casting directors and Management from Production house can search and shortlist artists of their choice. Jalwah gives a very user friendly and efficient system for casting directors to perform all functions for each of the project he/she is working on from searching, shortlisting, calling for meeting to assignment on one page.

Project definition

It is compulsory for production house to define a project for which they wish to search and select artists. They are also required to specify the type of artists they require for the project before handing over the search and selection work to their casting director.

Cast director search for artists

Casting director associated to production house is then assigned the project/s for which he/she is asked to search and selects artists for. Casting director is then given permission to search for artists by the system. Casting director can;

Jalwah provides a feature whereby all the search and short-listed artists are saved in each project baskets for future reference.

EDM Limited and its Back Office

EDM Back office is provided with full information of all transactions and usages of its customers registered on Jalwah.

All the messages to and fro artists and artist seekers pass through the back office which they archive and use to follow up in order ensure smooth and organized operation of the whole system.

EDM back office and its team of experts will provide proper and accurate guidance to all its artist members in order for them to obtain maximum success from their looks and talent.

EDM back office and its professional marketing team will liase daily in order to place maximum of its artists and technicians.

EDM back office will produce weekly reports of all placed and unplaced artists for marketing/casting managing team to study and interrogate in order to guide and/or groom artists to accelerate their success.

General

With this type of profiles on Jalwah, everyone (including people who have never thought of entering into the glamour world) can post their profiles on the system and wait for response while they carry studying or working with their different career path.