Shoot Production & Communications

Shoot Production


On the day of the shoot four of our group including myself went to university to make sure everything was ready for the model for when she arrived. Our two other members were meeting the model at a hairdressers so the model could have her hair styled. Whilst we was waiting for the model we made sure everything was set up such as the lighting, the smoke machine and her clothing. We also set up the camera and had someone hold up a grey card so we could get the tone in our image to natural :

We had the male model and the make up artist arrive at 11am as that was the time the model should be ready from the hairdressers. Once the female model arrived she had her make up done, the male model arrived whilst this was happening so we gave him his clothing to get ready and told him where he would be and what he would be doing. When the female model was ready we told her our ideas for the day and showed her some images of how we wanted her to be posing. We had her pose in various ways  which will make her appear powerful we had her in a pose where she had her hand on her hips,  where she had her hand to her face, looking away from the camera, walking toward and away from the camera and with her back towards the camera. The images were she was walking didn't turn out as well as we thought because we had problems with keeping it in focus.

    

 After we had positions sorted we turned on the smoke machine, we preferred the images when there wasn't much smoke and when the smoke fell all around the model. To get this effect we had one of our group members stand with the smoke machine and hold it in places where we wanted it to be. We also had one of our group fanning the smoke to make sure the smoke kept in the right place. Next we experimented with different ways we could position the coat as we thought it made the shadow look to large, however once we pinned the coat up we didn't like the way it looked. This is a picture with the coat pinned up:

We then tried some images with the model wearing around her shoulders, with it of all together and with her holding it in her hands. As a group we felt they didn't work as well as the images where the model had the coat on.

Communications


In the beginning of the project everyone in our group was given a role so everyone knew what they should focus on so we could get the work done easily.

• Lighting lead: Rebecca Smith
• Building: Sam Shipton
• Budget controller: Sam Shipton
• Props master: Katie Joiner
• Casting lead: Katie Joiner
•  Health and safety representative: Rosie Squires
• Stylist: Marie Hanrahan
• Creative Director: Sophia Chippett

To make sure we all worked well as a team and so everyone had an idea on what work everyone had done work wise we decided to make a group blog on blogger. Our group blog, http://groupthreefashion.blogspot.co.uk/, allowed us to easily see the references we had decided upon and to see what stage we are up to with our work.

We made individual pages for each section of the project such as Casting and Lighting so the blog was easy to navigate through and so everyone knew where to post the work.

We also made a group on a social networking site so we could easily keep in contact with everyone and so we could keep up to date with everyone else. It also allowed us to easily post pictures of references and ideas we had to get everyone else's opinion in the group.

Katie made a Gmail account for our group so we could all log in to it to look at the calendar and to see when we would have to be in for meetings and for workshops.