Escape to Egypt...

I started January 2011 with a months break in egypt. Visiting Sharm El Sheikh, Cairo, Giza and Dahab

Whilst here i completed my PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certificate

Evil Fairy

A fun fancy dress outfit for halloween-Evil Fairy

Cleaning Up

Cleaning Up is a short film directed by Tom Guerrier, starring Mark Gatiss and Louise Jameson. A Dead Dog Film.

"Mr Jackson is the perfect hitman. Cold, calculating and professional.

You see him and you die, don't you?"

Cleaning Up credit - Hair and make up artist

Face2Face Medical

In October I trained for my HSE Emergency First Aid at Work Certificate, I am now officially a trained first aider! I think this is an awesome qualification to have and i hope it will be benificial in everyday life.

In November I achieved my Paediatric First Aid Certificate. Another useful qualification, as many of my friends have children.

My training was with Face2Face Medical Ltd based in Slough. I now work for Andrew Cottrell, the Magaging director part time at fates, fairs, carnivals, kickboxing comps, horse shows and many other public events. I feel this keeps my first air training and knowledge up to date.

"We will provide an outstanding first aid service that will deliver a professional and friendly level of service to all the work we do"

If you are interested in first aid cover, for an event please contact Andrew on: andrew@face2facemedical.net and to find out more information of services supplyed by the company. (Please mention myself and where you heard of the company)

The Film-Maker's Son

In 2008 I worked on 'The Film-Maker's Son' a Triptech production, under Isabell Schmitt-Egner key make  up artist, and was asked to help out with some pick up shots in 2010 when the film was nearing completion.

Written and directed by Bart Gavigan, and starring Frank Rautenbach, Frank Henson and C.C Smiff.

"After an unexpected tragedy, an inner-city teen in Reading, England struggles to put together disturbing pieces of his life. As he grapples with what he has lost, he finds life, love and unexpected strength in a terminal cancer patient."

I am still waiting for a release date for this film, but as soon as I know you will know!



It's a Filthy City!!

The Filthy Cities series for BBC 2, explored in depth what really went on in the streets of Medieval London, Revolutionary Paris and 19th Century Industrial New York. 



This series was acompanied by scratch and sniff cards that were available in the Radio Times and really helped to bring the images to life! Directed by Jeremy Turner, Louise Hooper and Andy Robbins, all having a very different style to bring these stories to life, but all including the juicy details of the stentch, and grotesquness!! Along with Dan Snow's animated story telling, you really could feel like you were there.

 Yes i am sculpting hourse poo, into nuggets

so it looks more like horse poo! Oh the glamour!!

Whilst working along side Alex Ward, as Art Director on these programmes, i really did learn a great deal of history, and have an emense amount of fun building and dressing sets, from filthy streets to kitchens, market stalls to infirmarys, cess pits and toilets, playing with, dressing and squirting blood, looking after the maggots, attending to the pigs head, throwing veg at Ben Jones (one of the actors) whilst in the stocks, helping the dead rat to act on cue, making a vast amout of different types of fake poo! and much much more!

The programmes can still be found on You Tube:

 http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=filthy+cities&oq=filthy+cities&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_l=youtube.1.0.0l10.617.3199.0.5775.13.8.0.5.5.0.113.764.7j1.8.0...0.0.q93hWjpdawM

Hit Girls

In 2010, after returning home, i was ready to get stuck into work, i had greatly missed the film and tv industry. My first job back was working as a runner on a featurette 'Hit Girls' Written by Gillian MacGregor and directed by Adrian Vitoria. Starring Gillian herself along side Rosey Fellner and Joey Ansah. A very funny film, and a joy to be a part of.

For a review go to:

 http://www.scottsmindfield.com/2012/04/short-film-review-hit-girls_25.html?m=1

Face2Face & Langkawi

When make up work was quiet, I took on some work for a friend who has set up his own company Face2Face Medical, I was working as an event steward. Not an area i wanted to get into, but always good experiance working with the public.

When work remained quiet, and the resession had hit I decided to take the oportunity to have some time off and visited a little island I had discovered whilst travelling Langkawi! For a 4 week holliday. And when times remained quiet at home I decided to stay!! Helping out in a local bar, making juice and icecreams and looking after the little shop on the beach. I also helped out on a friends yacht. Damai-Indah is a beautiful Indonesian woodern yacht, captained by a german lady called Eva. (I would highly recomend a day trip, it really would be an unforgetable experiance!) I had an amayzing time living in Langkawi, it taught me to live minimally and apreciate life. Something I believe everyone should experiance. I finally decided to return home after 6 months away (Because my passport needed renewing!)

Babylon bar-Looking after my friends shop

Helping out on Damai-Indah as hostess, keeping the guests hydrated!

A refreshing afternoon snack on the yacht

I had the oportunity to attend a traditional melay wedding

Gladiators: Back From The Dead

Gladiators Back From The Dead was an awesome experience to work with director Jeremy Truner, as SFX Make Up Designer/Artist. For October films, and Channel 4. It was a fun few days, oiling up and dirtying down gladiators! Oh what a tough job i have!!

Bloody Foreigners: Ch 4

I worked as assistant Make Up Artist, Under Alice Hopkins MU designer on Bloody Foreigners: Battle of Trafalgar and Bloody Foreigners: Great Fire of London, directed by Richard Bond and Justin Hardy. For Hardy Pictures, aired on Channel 4 in June 2009

True Story: Silence of The Lambs

True Story: Silence of The Lambs, was a docu-drama for the TV broadcast on Channel 5. Directed by Stan Griffin. Working for Blink Films, I was the hair and make up artist, and also worked with the costumes on the shooting days. This was an eery project to work on, working with an actor who actually looked like Ted Bundy, filming in real prison cells, and recreating sensored versions of the crime scenes.

Monsters!

In 2009 I worked on a feature film called 'The Torment' Directed by Andy Cull and Stephen Isles, Epic Pictures Group and Authentic Films. Working as a SFX Technician, under Paul McGuinness and his company Macdyne Ltd. Making prosthetic monsters, and SFX

Indie!!

For a friends 30th fancy dress party I was asked to make him look like Indiana Jones, was a fun project.

9 months exploring the world…

I spent most of 2008 travelling, visiting new places, having new experiences, meeting new people, making memories to last me a life time and expanding my mind! Whilst travelling i completed my PADI Open Water Diver qualification.

HB Sourcey!! Not as in the brown stuff you put on your chips!

I took on a job for the weekend at 'HB Source', a model making company and finally left to go travelling 6 months later! During this time I worked at part of a team, on a multitude of projects and was given the oportunity to work with many different materials in the work shop and on site, including woods, metals, plastics and fabrics, and expanded my skills greatly. I was involved with the following projects: T-Mobile 3G Launch; 'Blog Box' O2 Arena; 'Bats & Rats' Interactive ZSL London Zoo; Selex Defence Electronics; 'Cité de Sciences' Paris.

'Blog Box' O2 Arena

'Bats & Rats' Interactive ZSL London Zoo

'Meeting booths & display stands' Selex Defence

Penguines!! 320 of them!!

The next project I was involved with was worked for a company called Jelly Head 3d, it was not in the area I wanted to get into but it was an interesting job. I worked as a supervisor, working as part of a team making 322 , 322!! 6ft plush penguins. Enough said!

After leaving university...

After leaving university in 2006, and whilst working in an awesome local restaurant in Eton (Gilbeys, awesome food, highly recommended!) I was introduced to The Gilbeys son Julian Gilbey a Director. Who at the time was filming ‘Rise Of the Footsoldier’, a british gangster film starring Ricky Hartnet, Terry Stone, and Craig Fairbrass and featuring a line up of other fantastic actors. He has recently co written and directed ‘A Lonely Place to Die’, a very different but ultimately fantastic thriller film. Julian gave me the opportunity to shadow a fantastic sfx artist ‘Richard Allport’ after just one day observing and being used as an extra Richard asked me to assist him on some of the filming. This was my first job in the industry and cemented the idea in my head for wanting to be a sfx artist. Although only being credited as a runner, I had the opportunity to assist on the sfx make up and prosthetics for this film, a fantastic experience.