{"id":874,"date":"2011-04-10T17:22:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T17:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/?p=874"},"modified":"2011-04-10T17:26:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T17:26:56","slug":"ballet-meets-s-club-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"Ballet meets S Club 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

mrsjason:<\/strong> \u201cThat\u2019ll be good\u201d
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\njason:<\/strong> \u201cNot sure, havn\u2019t seen the trailer\u201d
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\nmrsjason:<\/strong> \u201cI suppose you\u2019ll want to see that western\u201d
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\njason:<\/strong> \u201cYeah Jeff Bridges is meant to be great, besides ballet\u2026?\u201d
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\n2 hours go by\u2026.
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\nNo, as it turned out Black Swan<\/a> is not a chick flick, in fact it\u2019s rather beautifully shot and had us both wincing in our seats as Natalie Portman removed the skin from around her finger nails\u2026 shudders!! Little did I know that the films subsequent success would see me shooting ballet related portraits over the next couple of weeks.
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\nFirst up, I got a call from M&C Saatchi<\/a>, to shoot something to publicise Oranges sponsorship of the BAFTA \u2018s<\/a>. After an initial meeting and a list of possible celebrity champions, I found myself in a London Hotel with the lovely Rachel Stevens<\/a>. The mission\u2026 to turn her into The Black Swan.
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\nOnce the team of hair, makeup and styling people had done their business, it was my turn. Unusually for me, I\u2019d gone for a very elaborate studio setup (4 light\u2019s and a 10ft colourama, which barley fitted in the car), which, retrospect probably added to Rachel\u2019s trepidation. She had given birth a few weeks before, and I\u2019m sure she would have preferred her first shoot; post pregnancy not to be dressed as a ballerina. \u201cI haven\u2019t worn one of these since I was 8!\u201d she said as she walked in.
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\n\"Rachel<\/a>
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\nShe needn\u2019t have worried, she looked great and once I\u2019d shown her a few pictures and built up some trust we had fun shooting a few different poses.
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\nA week later and I was asked to rush to the Royal Opera House<\/a> by The Independent on Sunday<\/a>, this time for an interview with Lauren Cuthbertson<\/a>, I had just enough time to familiarise myself with her work (which is stunning) before being dumped into a bland rehearsal room, as the Press Officer said \u201cLauren hasn\u2019t got long\u201d.. Uh Oh!!
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\n\"Lauren<\/a>
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\nIt couldn\u2019t have been more different from my job the week before, I barley had time to set up before Lauren walked in, not in her tights but in an elegant black dress (not what I was hoping for). I worked as quickly as I could, and tried to pose her in a way that showed her natural poise without it being a stereotypical ballet portrait. Read the article by Susie Mesure here<\/a>.
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\nLooking back, both portraits served their purpose but it did remind me that the execution of a photograph goes far beyond obvious cues\u2026 How would I pose a ballerina to look like a former member of a pop group?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

mrsjason: \u201cThat\u2019ll be good\u201d   jason: \u201cNot sure, havn\u2019t seen the trailer\u201d   mrsjason: \u201cI suppose you\u2019ll want to see that western\u201d   jason: \u201cYeah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}