Mike Bailey at NME Awards [Picture]

Series Three Open Auditions!

So, we’ve already started looking for people to star in Skins Series 3 and we can now announce the first set of open auditions!

They are going to be on Sunday 16th March at Bristol Grammar School, University Road, Bristol, BS8 1SR. All that matters is that you live within 60 miles of Bristol and that you will be 16, 17, 18 or 19 on 30th June 2008. Make sure you remember to bring proof of your age and address. You can show up at any time between 10am and 4pm.

Please, please, please don’t show up unless you can prove that the above is true. We will have lots of other opportunities to audition across the country very soon and we really don’t want to have to turn anyone away!

Remember, we are still on the lookout for Identical Twin Girls and an Eastern European Guy (preferably Polish) for the show. If you are 16, 17 or 18 on 30th June 2008 and you fit the bill, email jane.ripley@skinslife.com with your date of birth, where you live and some snapshots of yourself.

There will be lots more auditions news coming soon, so watch this space and enjoy the rest of the site.

Please be aware that there are people out there who are pretending to be Skins casting scouts. This is simply a lie. DO NOT talk to them or give them your details, just ell us asap so we can put a stop to it. The only person who casts young people for Skins is Jane Ripley…

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Another Episode Four Promo

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Thanks to Owen at Skins Media

Nich and Larissa Present NME Award

I love Larissa’s dress.

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Fuck me that was exciting..

Thanks to Owen at Skins Media for the video

On Set With Skins 2:

Nick Hoult & Mitch Hewer in Top Of The Pops Magazine:

If you use the scan on any other site please credit back to Skins Online. Thanks.

Nick Hoult in Bliss Mag:

April Pearson in FHM Magazine:

Here’s some scans I took of April (Michelle) from FHM Magazine.

Photoshoot done by FHM Magazine
If you use these scans on any other site please credit back to Skins Online. Thanks.

Nick and Larissa at the NME Awards Show

Skins Series 3 Auditions

Series 3 Auditions

So, we’ve already started looking for people to star in Skins Series 3 and we can now announce the first set of open auditions!

They are going to be on Sunday 16th March at Bristol Grammar School, University Road, Bristol, BS8 1SR. All that matters is that you live within 60 miles of Bristol and that you will be 16, 17, 18 or 19 on 30th June 2008. Make sure you remember to bring proof of your age and address. You can show up at any time between 10am and 4pm.

Please, please, please don’t show up unless you can prove that the above is true. We will have lots of other opportunities to audition across the country very soon and we really don’t want to have to turn anyone away!

Remember, we are still on the lookout for Identical Twin Girls and an Eastern European Guy (preferably Polish) for the show. If you are 16, 17 or 18 on 30th June 2008 and you fit the bill, email jane.ripley@skinslife.com with your date of birth, where you live and some snapshots of yourself.

There will be lots more auditions news coming soon, so watch this space and enjoy the rest of the site.

Please be aware that there are people out there who are pretending to be Skins casting scouts. This is simply a lie. DO NOT talk to them or give them your details, just ell us asap so we can put a stop to it. The only person who casts young people for Skins is Jane Ripley…

SOURCE

Hoult refuses to watch ‘Skins’ sex scenes

Skins star Nicholas Hoult has revealed that he can’t face watching his sex scenes in the show.

The 18-year-old, who plays lothario Tony in the teen drama, said he has no plans to watch his more intimate moments on TV.

He told Top of the Pops magazine: “It’s so weird doing all that stuff with a camera there – I’m definitely not going to be watching it back. The worst bit is when they say cut and you’re left there entwined with someone until you get your dressing gown back.”

He insisted that he is nothing like his onscreen character, saying: “I’ve had a girlfriend since school, so I’m not a ladies’ man in real life. I do get recognised a fair bit but I’m not keen on that as it’s quite intrusive.
“It’s nice when people say they like the show, but you get people who don’t like it too. You just have to take it all with a pinch of salt.”

Co-star Mike Bailey recently revealed that Hoult is often hassled by viewers during nights out.

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Longer Promo

Thanks to Owen at Skins Media

Nick Hoult & Larissa Wilson Presenting at NME Awards 2008

Thanks to Owen at SkinsMedia

Nick Can’t Bear to Watch His Sex Scene

Skins star Nicholas Hoult has revealed that he can’t face watching his sex scenes in the show.

The 18-year-old, who plays lothario Tony in the teen drama, said he has no plans to watch his more intimate moments on TV.

He told Top of the Pops magazine: “It’s so weird doing all that stuff with a camera there – I’m definitely not going to be watching it back. The worst bit is when they say cut and you’re left there entwined with someone until you get your dressing gown back.”

He insisted that he is nothing like his onscreen character, saying: “I’ve had a girlfriend since school, so I’m not a ladies’ man in real life. I do get recognised a fair bit but I’m not keen on that as it’s quite intrusive.
“It’s nice when people say they like the show, but you get people who don’t like it too. You just have to take it all with a pinch of salt.”

Co-star Mike Bailey recently revealed that Hoult is often hassled by viewers during nights out.

SOURCE: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a90443/hoult-refuses-to-watch-skins-sex-scenes.html

Mobile Advertising

Alex: I 100% completely agree with this

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I read this article last week entitled “Why 2008 won’t be the breakthrough year for Mobile Advertising”. It was originally published in the middle of Mobile World Congress.

It makes for very good reading and clearly outlines the one caveat that is currently preventing the mobile advertising boom that has been promised for the past seven years: Advertisers simply don’t have the money to buy mobile ads. Nate Elliott also goes onto theorise that interesting things may happen in 2009 and the real (European) breakthrough will come in 2010.

After spending a few days digesting, I have to say that it is one theory that I buy into… It’s nearly here and the recently announced Mobile Ad deals laid out in that piece show this. Combine that with the consistent month on month growth rate of companies like Blyk – who have bet the farm on this particular return of investment – and you can see that we’re almost at tipping point. But, again, as the article points out, we’ve been almost at tipping point for just shy of a decade.
By way of comparison, in the UK there’s a TV programme called Skins, (it’s young, a bit good, knows its audiences and once you’ve watched a few you’re hooked) and recently E4, the younger, digital sister channel of Channel 4, started airing Season 2.

This in itself is really no big deal. However the amount of cash spent on the blanket marketing is.

You can’t get away from it!

And not in a bad way either. The TV spots are stylised; hinting at character development and yet still keeping the dark, surreal undertone that flows throughout the show. The ’skincasts’, Podcasts containing interviews with the cast members are there for you to download to your MP3 player of choice, the community is there.

One of the interesting side effects of the first season, and something the UK media like to jump when there’s a slow news day, is the amount of young teenagers throwing themed ’skins parties’ and, if you’ve ever seen the show, they don’t leave much to the imagination.

The new campaigns around season 2 are aimed at these people. Tapping into this (youth) market, this mindset is a genius move that has (probably) done wonders for their ratings. And it’s not just TV ratings these days either. Other KPIs include web hits, unique visitors, content downloads, podcast listeners, community members etc… There’s a lot to be measured.

So what about Mobile? Is all the money in mobile ads? Probably not.

Is there money to be made from mobile ads? A little, although not the billions that everyone thinks. Not yet anyway. Not without some joined-up thinking around context vs content etc…

2yrs ago I was told ‘Content is King’, I said then what I still say now. Context is King. You can send me as much content as you like but if it doesn’t speak to me, I ain’t buying.

I digress.

Taking a look at the E4 mobile proposition.

Simple, optimised content which is easy to consume – Basic Mobile Web 101 (but I’ve talked about this before)

Taking a closer look – There are three tabs: Telly, Goss and… SKINS!

Brilliant – Not only that but you can watch a clip from Skins Episode 3 right now – one click away.

That’s great. Not just for the end-user experience but it speaks shedloads about the level of internal buy-in from all parties within the offices of E4.

Skins is clearly their ‘hero’ show for this season and is one of the channel’s better IPs.

This is a fantastic example of a blanket marketing campaign.

Mobile advertising needs to adopt similar thinking. You can’t just throw something into the mobile web and just expect it to work. You need strategy and process. Without this mobile advertising will never be the goose that will lay the golden egg. But it could well be a part of a few select bronze egg laying battery chickens.

The point I’m trying to make with the Skins example is that agencies and big media brands are finally coming to realise the amount of potential that lies in digital media. Mobile is part (albeit a new part) of this space.

And it won’t be long until they catch on. It just needs someone, or something, to make that first leap into the unknown.

SOURCE: http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/02/whatley_wednesday_-_mobile_advertising.html