Pregnant in the 70s

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I found out about the location of the TV shoot the day before i had to go, so on friday morning i set off just after 5am, and followed my SatNav. I was happily traveling along the pretty, winding roads, apparently i had no idea how far north i was getting as i suddenly saw a sign saying "Welcome to Scotland!" Didn't expect it at all!

I was going to a place called Duns, and i still didn't really know what was happening, but i made it in one piece at 8am being fueled by Rockstar energy, and i found out i would be someone called Pandora for a program called This September. I would be in a photograph that the main character finds from the 70s, and i had to wear a pregnant suit!
While pregnant, i got such strange looks from the crew and cast as i wandered around, (i look quite young!) and questions like "is that real?"

My hair was fabulous. It sat in heated rollers for a long time, and was backcombed into Cheryl Cole heights, although it dropped after that, but still looked awesome thanks to the spray glue.

Once in my floral dress, we headed back to England to take photographs of me and two others. The location was so pretty, a place called Etal, with lovely little thatched cottages. They took lots of 70s style portraits, and some family shots, and got a few strange looks from the tourists, but it was fun!
I've never been to this part of the country, an area that has towns called things like Upsettington, and Rapunzal towers in the middle of fields.

After a lovely lunch, i set off home, but got caught up in all the traffic from people trying to see Kings of Leon at the stadium of light, and apparently the only way there was through the tyne tunnel! But i made it home eventually.

A mysterious tv shoot!

A very early start tomorrow, i'm off to a castle near Berwick for a stills shoot for a tv program. All i know is i've been asked to go tomorow because i look similar to the main character and the pictures are meant to be her when she was young! Will hopefully find out tomorrow.

On sunday i was playing camera-woman for two poetry films, and i don't think i did too badly! One is up on Vimeo...

Enjoy! (i'm pretty sure we got the biggest applause for it!)

And Two Minutes Early!!! from John Noble on Vimeo.

Just seen myself on Waterloo Road!

So Cool! I'm on the far left talking to Jess when Karen Fisher walks over and interupts.
I got a few texts saying, "have i just seen you on telly?"

Crime scene victim!

On Thursday night i'm off to Newcastle where i will be covered in blood and filmed as part of a crime scene, i'm hoping i get some flash back scenes to where i'm alive?!
There seems to be a continuation of the theme where i die in most films i'm in, is it the blonde hair?
I think i'm going to die in Marc Price's Kung Fu movie as well, but at least i'll go down fighting dammit!

I finally have some videos to show casting people!

I seem to be getting an awful lot of silence on the audition front, and it's probably due to me only having a picture on my Spotlight page, a picture that doesn't look enough like me apparently, So after much delay, i stole some videos off Youtube and attempted to edit them myself on Movie Maker, and here is the result. 

http://vimeo.com/jennelson

 A shiny new Vimeo page. I have previously tried editing a couple of films together as a showreel, but the sound varied for each one, and might have been a bit annoying to watch, so this is my idea of an alternative, fingers crossed it works!

I have added desperation now as i have officially cancelled my place at York College to do makeup, i couldn't deal with the idea of debt, so now i have to prove it was the right decision! 

Two days in the 1940s

On Monday and Tuesday, i was an extra for a film called The Other Child, set in wartime Britain.
The set was amazing, they had taken over a couple of streets in Stockton and made it look like it had been bombed, so there were piles of rubble and broken furniture everywhere, and even a burnt out car.

They were very long days though, on Monday we worked from 10:30 til after midnight, but hey! It's all experience isn't it!?

It had its fun moments, on Monday night we had to film us all running to the air-raid shelter, they had real explosions and a guy with a flame thrower hidden round a corner, so no-one really had to act scared! They even blew out a couple of windows by accident.
The air raid shelter very cool, they had used a tunnel under the railway, boarded it up, and filled it with sandbags and mattresses, making it look like the tunnel to the London Underground. 
They had flame throwers at the entrance of that too, and special things in the ceiling beams to make dust fall from them.

We should go to Cannes?!

And it was amazing! I got a special pass too, it let me in everywhere. But we were too busy enjoying the free drinks in the Short Film Corner to remember that there was a Pirates of the Carribean premiere on. We were in the building behind all these famous people, we could see all the crazy fans pressed up against the glass, (and saw the tiniest glimpse of Johnny Depp walking through inside.)

We met up with Marc Price first, he tried to help us get accredited as part of his production company, but in the end we got passes in our own right.

The amount of money that is in Cannes at the moment is scary, walking past all the yachts that are the size of three houses, and seeing all the private jets at the airport.

Dawn was out there too, trying to get some of that money, she's pitching the promo trailer we made, and is out there for another couple of weeks. So good luck to her!

On the evening, everyone heads to Le Petit Majestic, which is on a closed off street where all the cafes and bars put out chairs and tables. After chatting to Dawn and her friend, Marc Price texted that we should come along to the Optimum Party at The Grand (one of the biggest hotels in Cannes), and we got in! Free beer and inflatable sofas everywhere, along with actors from Marc's films.

When me, Dawn, Mat and John Noble were leaving Le Petit Majestic, we heard our names being shouted, and turned around to find Bill Fellows and Nick Rountree (writer of The Tournament) waving at us. They were only in Cannes for a couple of days too, so it shows we picked the right weekend to go!

We met back up with them after leaving the party to say goodbye, and met more of Bill and Nick's friends, one who was a huge fan of "The Jump", the 4hour challenge film, and another who was also a writer of the Tournament.

If we had stayed longer, we might have ran into my agent, Sam Claypole, as she had flown out to Nice that day.

On the beach infront of the Pavillions, every country had it's own. Tilda Swinton was doing a talk in the UK one.