Horror Rhymes!!!

I agreed to act in a short film for some Teesside uni students you i work with a lot of the time, and had no idea what to expect, half of the script was in German.

Turns out it was a strange German-expressionist style film, based on Jack and Jill, with what looked like an incest-y twist. It will all be in black and white and should look quite good, if not comical (I got the giggles far to many times to be professional) but luckily Sophie was very understanding :D

Half of it was filmed on a minimalist background, and some shot in the woods, here's lots of the stills photos. Jx

I found something!

Quiet Please, library shoot

Sorry blog, i do neglect you quite a lot!

Back in February i was acting in a short silent film called Quiet Please, which we were filming in a library in York University. I don't think the librarians had any idea what we were doing, they expected us just to turn up with a camcorder, and got a little bit flustered when it was a full film crew.

The students had no idea either, many times someone would wander over and sit next to me half way through a scene with out seeing the camera.

It was fun though, and i got to catch up with my friend Sam who lives in York, (and i was able to steal his sofa for the night)  x

The director hiding from the camera

3,000!

Just passed 3,000 page views! Thank you to whoever keeps reading my blog! Busy week next week, photos and videos to come.
jx

Re-post - Bright Beauty Shoot

On Thursday i went up to Hartlepool to the Uni to model for a beauty shoot. Jess Shaw, who i've worked with on films, was doing the make up, and Danni the photographer wanted very colourful pictures.
Unfortunately everyone had forgotten that the art college closed two hours early on a Thursday so we didn't get as many pictures as we'd hoped, but the makeup still looked good and i made my first making-of video! It was only on my Blackberry so the quality isn't too good, but hey, at least i tried!
I even got to keep the huge, multi-coloured eyelashes they used, but when i got home wearing them my mum asked if i was meant to be a parrot, so i might just save them for Halloween, or the odd rave?

Here are some of my photos:

(I've now moved to tumblr, why not have a look? http://attempt-at-acting.tumblr.com )

For inspiration, we had lots of pictures of very colourful make up and eyelashes:

                              

Love this one!

I would love to do an Alex Box style photo shoot one day, the kind of pictures she did with Rankin, we were all obsessed with their work when i was at art college, you should check out more of it. Here's some:

To get the really bright colours, Jess used kryolan water-based paint, then layered bright eyeshaddows on top. I'll have the  final photos from my shoot soon, but for now just enjoy my little making-of video, hope it's ok! jx

Untitled from Jen Nelson on Vimeo.

Showreels

I seem to have found myself in an annoying Catch 22 which i think is stopping me from getting more work, and i'm sure it is a problem many actors have.
The problem i'm having is that in order to get the chance to audition for good parts in tv and film, the casting directors want to see that you have a really good showreel, but to get footage for a really good showreel, you need to get good parts in tv and film!
I had a go at making my own showreel, but it didn't turn out too well, as far as i know it's making me look like a worse actress than i really am.

  

I am currently waiting to get footage from two films i worked on, but unfortunately i play the "twist" character in both of them. This means that both productions are reluctant to hand over the footage as it might ruin their chances of distribution because someone might see my character and know what to expect!
I can't win!

Ground Floor by Rayne Music Video

Just remembered i never posted the final video! Enjoy x

'The Ground Floor' - Rayne Official Music Video from Melting Point Media on Vimeo.

Sorry i haven't posted for ages!

I looked like this most for most of Christmas/New Year, which isn't exactly the right mind frame for blogging =D

Everything is halted on Gunnrunner Nun unfortunately because the writer is in talks with an American company, and might be selling the script. So don't know what's happening with that.


When i was in London last, i met Nida Manzoor, a friend of Marc Price and another film maker, and she's asked me to look a script she wrote, which looks amazing! So i really hope she still wants me for it.
She had set backs too, apparently you're not allowed to film in a games arcade, who knew?! Something to do with copyright, which is a problem as the whole film is set in a games arcade.

But not to worry, Nida managed to find an old game from somewhere, so hopefully everything's back on track for filming in Swansea, Wales, in March.

Can't wait! x