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

London!!

London is always fun, i met up with my lovely friend Ped on Sunday and we headed to the pub in Tooting where most of Monkey's Claw was filmed, and we found Marc and a lot of the actors and crew from the film.

As well as the trailer and film clips being shown, they were showing lots other short films to enjoy our popcorn too, including an amazing documentary of a laundrette. It sounds bad, but it was so "thought provoking", and apparently the BFI had called it one of the best documentaries they'd seen, (or something like that). I loved the questions they were asking, like, "What's the most beautiful thing you've ever see?" or "What have you been thinking about today?". Very simple, but the different responses were amazing.
The other films were all such high quality, and it was amazing to think that most of them were a result of people meeting in this particular pub.

I've also been asked to audition for one of the film makers there that night, so not all fun times, managed to fit in some networking too!

Way Of The Monkey's Claw Trailer


Also in London, i got to visit a cupcake shop in Covent Garden i've been dying to see ever since i became obsessed with their cookbook, called the Primrose bakery. There wasn't enough room to sit down, but i still got to buy their pretty cakes that me and Ped happily enjoyed x

Rose flavour and triple chocolate flavour.

Ped!

Yummy food in Camden

To London!

After an attack of madness, (mostly prompted by Marc Price), last night i booked a coach to go down to London on Sunday morning.
Marc is having a screening of Way of The Monkey's Claw, and he managed to convince me to go, (not that it took much persuading!)
So there you go, a mad dash down to the capital to see all my film buddies. I will report back on Wednesday.