Beauty Bay - Feed Me Light

It was my first time working with Director Anthony Bristol and the rest of the team at Feed Me Light. As first impressions go, they ranked pretty damn high, making me feel part of the team instantly with their warm and friendly personalities. Anthony spent time going through the storyboard so I was fully prepared before shooting. The team created a great atmosphere as the shoot progressed. It was fun collaborating with Director Anthony, who has the perfect mix of vision and execution. These guys and girls were a pleasure to work with and I'm sure you'll agree the Beauty Bay video looks as creative and playful as they are! Nails by the lovely Anna Thompson.

Credits:

Client: Beauty Bay

Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Saatchi Digital

Producer: Thomas Done

Creatives: Benjamin Wight & Jennifer Craven

Production Company: Feed Me Light

Producer: Kiri Haggart

Creative Direction: Feed Me Light

Director: Anthony Bristol

Storyboard: Marc Bouyer

Animatic: Olivier Pirard, Anthony Bristol

Art Director: George Tsioutsias

Editing: Anthony Bristol

3D VFX: Denis Bodart, Benoit Berthe, Olivier Pirard, Anthony Bristol

Rotoscoping: Anthony Bristol, Denis Bodart, Benoit Berthe

Compositing: Denis Bouyer, Denis Bodart

SFX: Matt Jones

Live Shoot:

Live Producer: Ghandi El-Chamaa

Hand Model: Brooke Colman

Director of Photography: Ben Coughlan

Focus Puller/Camera Assistant: Bruno Travers

Gaffer: Dan Goodall

Make Up: Anna Thompson

Production Assistant: Rufus Pinkerton

Stop-Motion: Denis Bodart

Origami Props: Sam Tsang

INTERVIEW for VICE Magazine by JS Rafaeli

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Dyson Supersonic hair dryer - Ray Massey

 

Her face and my hands for the new Dyson Supersonic hair dryer. 

With four temperature settings and three airflow settings, meaning you can tailor the heat to your hair type. Inside the dryer is a thermometer that records the temperature around 20 times per second, guaranteeing it'll never get too hot and burn your mane. 

Photographer : Ray Massey

Hand model : Brooke Colman

Model : Florence Eugenie

Manicurist : Karen

1st Assisitant : Michael Walker

2nd Assistant : Iain Tollotson

Calibre - Social Calender

 

Photographer : Sun Lee

Hand Model : Brooke Colman

Stylist : Clare Lazaro

 

Good Housekeeping Interview - My Top Tips!

• What you’d never do to your hands?

I would never cut my cuticles. After applying Leighton Denny remove and rectify on my cuticles for 2-3 mins I push them back using a metal cuticle pusher.  Using my cuticle nippers I only trim the dead skin that has come away from the nail. Cutting cuticles protecting the nail is a big no no! Not only does the skin grow back thicker, it also leaves your skin sore, exposed to bacteria and open to infection. 

• How often do you moisturise them?

I believe that what you put into your body is more important than what you put onto your body. I drink plenty of water and have a green smoothie containing Spinach, coconut oil, almond milk, banana, blueberries, Manuka honey and Chia seeds at least 3 times a week. Unless I’m on a shoot I’ll moisturise my hands when I feel like they need it. Before bed, after a bath or shower and always after swimming. In the Winter months I carry in my hand bag the perfectly sized 50g Crabtree and Evelyn La Source hand therapy.

• How do you look after your nails and cuticles?

My nails suffer with ‘hangnails’, a hard piece of skin/cuticle that grows next to the finger nail. I trim them back as close to the nail as humanly possible. I then use ‘Slick tips’ by Leighton Denny or CND Solar Oil  You could also use almond oil if you’re happy to apply without a brush. The results? It’s as though the ‘hangnail’ never existed. 

 

• What do you avoid doing? I.e. Washing up without gloves, picking something with your nails etc.

Luckily I have a dishwasher so washing up isn’t much of an issue but I would never wash up pans without gloves. Cooking used to be a hazard until I bought The Gloven  which are thinner than oven gloves and have fingers but can still withstand heat up to 250’c. I tend to steer clear of touching fruit like pomegranates and raspberries as they can stain my nails. I’m also that annoying person who will ask you to open their can of drink.

• Any other tips to look after your hands?

We all need vitamin D so I do sit out in the sun to get my dose but I make sure I’m wearing at least factor 30 and it’s usually in the morning or late afternoon sun. Mid-day is when the sun is at its most dangerous.

Before any shoot I swear by my Crabtree and Evelyn’s hand recovery scrub. It makes my hands super soft and really brings out the whiteness of my nail tips.

Accidents happen and even if you’re careful you can catch and scratch your hands. Although we have photoshop for photographic shoots, it’s a lot harder to cover up cuts for TV commercials or online videos. So when my boyfriend’s mother introduced me to Sudocrem (yes the cream mums put on their baby’s bums) I was over the moon. It heals cuts and spots at a ridiculously fast rate and guess what? No scaring!

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ROY WIFFEN - Property Master, Stunt Man and Grandfather.

My Grandfather who was a Property Master and Stunt Man on films and commercials, was the first person to introduce me to the world of hand modelling.  I absolutely love getting to work with Property Masters who have worked with him as they share some great stories.

*The photograph on the motorbike is of Roy Wiffen acting as Marianne Faithful's stunt double in the 1968 film 'The Girl on the Motorcycle'.

Roy Wiffen IMDb

INTERVIEW for HUCK MAGAZINE by Cian Traynor

They know 200 different ways to pick up a LEGO brick. They can method act with a Ferrero Rocher for hours. Their fingers are insured for seven-figure sums. Meet the unseen stars of the world’s biggest advertising campaigns.

Brooke Colman

Brooke’s grandfather Roy Wiffen worked as a props man for films and commercials, collaborating with the likes of director Ridley Scott. While everyone in her family said she had the perfect hands for playing the piano, he insisted she had the perfect hands for hand modelling.

“I’d been accepted into The Lee Strasberg institute in New York to train as an actor and needed to pay for my flight,” she says. “I found an agency online called Hired Hands and sent off some photos. I had a meeting with them on the Thursday, a casting on the Friday and was booked for my first job for the Monday. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t been doing this sooner.”

Brooke rarely mentions what she does but when people find out, their reactions are a mix of intrigue and amusement.

Once, six-metre-high replicas of her hands – moulded by the same people who made the Daleks in Doctor Who – were sent to seven countries around the world to promote the Nikon 1 camera. At its launch in London’s Covent Garden, a cherry picker elevated her so she could clean the lens of a camera held between giant replicas of her own hands.

But it’s not all absurd tasks for absurd amounts of money. People are constantly surprised at just how competitive this industry is, Brooke says, and building a reputation can play a huge role in securing a casting. 

Although you hardly need a degree to do hand modelling, she adds, any photographer or director can tell the difference between a great hand model and a bad one.

“People assume it’s really glamorous being on shoots, but the reality is waiting around for days and spending long periods of time in positions that are incredibly painful… which often leads to many sessions with my osteopath.”

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