HostJane - My New Adventures

So recently I’ve been contacted by  a couple of companies to do a bit of modelling. It’s great for me because it’s something I’ve always wanted to do but never really knew how to get into it. As always with me, the means is a bit unconventional but I’m still able to do something I’m interested in. One of the companies specialises in historical costume. They do short films as well as book cover photography for history books and novels. That will hopefully be starting up in December. As for the other company, this week I’ve started doing selfies for them. They are called HostJane (https://www.hostjane.com). I’ll tell you more about them in future blog posts when the website is up and running, but today I wanted to tell you about how it went trying to do my first selfie photo shoot.

The First Park

​I need to take short videos of me playing and selfies with my violin wearing a Host Jane t-shirt in the photos and with different backgrounds. So I went out on a nice day to give it a go and see how many selfies I could do. Well, on my way into town I found an empty park so I thought I’d take a couple selfies with the park in the background. Well as soon as I pull my phone out, some guy in the distance was shouting “Oi! What you taking videos of?” And he kept asking. But I just ignored him and just tried to get a decent shot. Then someone else was asking what I was taking photos of. Eventually the first guy came around to look at my screen... then he could see I was just doing selfies and walked away. And when I’d finished, the other guy was nearby so I pointed to my shirt and said “just this”. He then shouted to his friends “she’s just advertising what’s on her t-shirt.” So that was a crazy moment.

The Second Park

As I walked around town I did get a few other funny looks and one guy commented I look beautiful. As if I’m taking photos just because I’m obsessed with myself lol. Another lady said the same thing when I was in the park.
 
I ended up in the Abroretum in Lincoln. At one stage when I was nearly done, I was walking to another part of the park, violin in hand, when suddenly a dog ran right up to me. It had no lead on and I am allergic to dogs so I really do not want its fur on my clothes. So I started to run backwards going “Ah Ah Ah, come get your dog! I’m allergic! Go away, go away!” Meanwhile the owner was a bit slow in running towards me to come get the dog (and laughing at me at the same time) . It did jump up on me which I was really not happy about. Eventually when she got it she said it wants to play with you! I was like, well I’m allergic! Anyway, I was glad when it went somewhere else.
 
So we shall see what happens next time. We are due a lot of rain next week so I’m watching out for a few hours of sun here and there. What do you think of my adventures? Tell me in the comment section below!