Today was such an exciting day as it was the day of the photo shoot. We've been asked to do a 6 page editorial for a magazine of our choice. Obviously not for the actual magazine. We chose American Vogue which fits in nicely with our theme.
Yesterday I had missed out on the plan of what we were going to do but that didn't matter much because I completely loved the idea. The theme of the shoot was 60's Housewives but slightly distressed and grungy. If anyone and I know everyone has seen Desperate House Wives then you will know that behind the perfect house wife there are always secrets. We wanted to use this theme by slightly distorted our models with the location of the shoot and the makeup and how we styled each look.
10 am and we got straight into it. Our tutors gave the whole class massive bags of clothes where we had to rummage around in our groups to find outfits that fit the theme. Once we found the clothes we needed we put six different outfits together. As this was going on, me and one of the girls in my group went exploring outside to find different locations to use. We also walked down to the basement and discovered amazing rooms to shoot in. ((so scary too))
Once we'd found the locations, put the first two outfits on the models and gotten the hair and makeup perfected it was time to start. Me and two other girls were taking the photos while some others were helping the models. Basically, we all just worked as a team directing each other until we'd decided we'd gotten enough photos.
This process of styling and changing outfits, doing hair and makeup and moving to different locations with props was just a small taster of what life would be like working for a magazine: thrilling, exhausting, busy but most of all just fun and exciting.
Obviously these are not the only pictures since there were two other photographers and these are also not the final photos because tomorrow we are going to start editing them and putting it all together as one final editorial piece. I will do another post when everything is finished and perfected but here are a few previews of what went on today.
A busy day ends with a few episodes of something on Netflix, a nice meal of fish and chips, a cup of tea and a sneaky ciggy upstairs before an early night.
M x
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