me jane 0 Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 What is it about the obsession with foreign models in this country? Do they really sell more products? Has anyone ever done any work like this? How did it go? I work for a glasses company and they have just asked me to find some "foreign models" for their latest promotion. Apparently the glasses just look better on high noses... (By the way, anyone interested in easy cash for a day's "modelling" at Yokohama PM me!) Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom Raspberry Blower 0 Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 I have a friend who has done some stuff - and he's not even good looking. I saw him on telly once on an ad acting the fool. Funny. Link to post Share on other sites
kkk 7 Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 How good looking do you have to be? I'd have thought most of the people who make it to ads and stuff are signed up with some agency or other.. Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 Quote: Originally posted by kkk: How good looking do you have to be? Look at MeJanes avatar pic and that should give you a good idea Link to post Share on other sites
sava 0 Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 I think glasses would look good on Toque and he should get the job. Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted July 12, 2005 Author Share Posted July 12, 2005 Look at some of the people in the ads on the train. You don't have to be particularly good looking - as long as you have a high nose! (PM for more info...) Link to post Share on other sites
Middleman C Charbroiled 2 0 Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 Why don't you do it? Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted July 12, 2005 Author Share Posted July 12, 2005 I did do a TV ad for Geos when I used to work for them. Was really cringe-worthy but a good laugh and my friends back home found it highly entertaining. These glasses ads are the type delivered with the daily newspapers so all my neighbours would recognise me. If I didn't live around here I would do it. Also, cos I already work here I wouldn't get any of the wads of cash they are offering . Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 If they pay for my shinkansen ticket Ill do it!! Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 I find that having a high nose doesn't stop my glasses from slithering down it, so that I spend most of my glasses life squinting blindly over the top of them. I also have my face screwed up with irritation so much of the time it might be rather easier just to clench a monocle in there. If you want someone who looks a bit pissed off wearing glasses, send your photographers down to Matsuyama with a suitable selection of bribes, and I will scowl for them. (My fee will include all the glasses used for the shoot. Except the pink ones.) How does that sound? Link to post Share on other sites
Weegeoff 0 Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 Me Jane Look on the Hakuba47 English web page and you will see me modelling a glass Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 Yes and you can see me on my avatar. Too sexy perhaps, makes it look 'unreal' and not the common man. I understand if that's not what you're looking for. Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 I'm in actual fact more handsome than my avatar. But I would need a seat (business class) on a flight over from the UK. OK? Back on subject has anyone here ever done any ad work like that and been in the papers or on telly? Do we have any famous gaijin hanging round here? Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 I was in the Chunichi Shimbun which is a Nagoya paper. I was naked in an onsen with my ex girlfriend Link to post Share on other sites
xxx 2 Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 Ace. What was it about? "Gaijin crime in Japan", "They're stealing our chicks"?? I made it in the local paper for making a speech at the local community center. Big news it was. Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted July 14, 2005 Author Share Posted July 14, 2005 Never been naked in advertising. Did have to dress up as as Mrs Claus to promote a charity Christmas party on Saga local TV once. Weegeoff, Where is the glass? Yamakashi, might be able to persuade them!! PM me. Link to post Share on other sites
fjef 0 Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 My son and I did a TV New Year special drama bit - I played a Sea Captain and my son played a bully, picking on siamese twins. It was supposed to be a scene in Thailand and it was cold enough that it was snowing a bit but they didn't seem to care. We had no idea what the story was when they were taping it. Stayed up really late with kid to watch (he was about 9 then) and found out the show was about weird human beings - the story before ours was about women with huge breasts. Our story was equally as weird...never do that again! Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 Sounds like fun fjef! I did a bit of film extra work at one point - there's no unions here, so they often get the gaijin to do speaking parts and still pay crap wages. I've been murdered (strangled) on a lousy C grade Japanese telemovie, was Charlie Chaplain's wife in some lousy C grade J documentary, was Charlie Chaplain's mother in another one, was ravaged by the ebola virus in something else (had to act like I'd gone mad, that wasn't hard...), was a psychic went into crazy cross-eyed trances on Unbelievable once, even did a KDD001 commerical once (thru a 'real paying' agent) - they really didn't want to use me, but I was the only gaijin female piano player in town that was capable of mimicking the marimba part. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 **jingle** Im lovin it!!! Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 me jane, check your PM box Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted July 14, 2005 Author Share Posted July 14, 2005 Yamakashi, Pm'd back. Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 Great, Yama - let's do the shoot on the same day (assume we get the gig), that'd be a hoot! Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 Quote: Originally posted by sunrise: Great, Yama - let's do the shoot on the same day (assume we get the gig), that'd be a hoot! Yeah baby! And P-A-R-T-Y in Tokyo too!! But, too bad they need a headshot of me in advance...theyll laugh their @sses off Link to post Share on other sites
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