Sunday 2 December 2012

magazine photo shoot


1. What did you do? Include what you did last lesson and today in your group. What did you have to organise?

Last lesson we looked at the work of Andrea Bricco and Henrik Bonnevier and in our groups we decided how we would recreate there work and organised what objects we would bring in. My group decided we were going to use black shoes to recreate the work of Henrik Bonnevier and orange and yellow artificial flowers for the work of Andrea Bricco. 

2. How did you do it? How did you all work together? 

We all set up the object and decided how we would place them on the set, we first of all did the Andrea Bricco work. We placed the artificial flowers on the sheet of black paper and got white chalk to add in the sketch of the flowers in the background. With the shoes sketch we placed the shoes on their side and sketched a shoe on the background with white chalk so its bold and stands out. To get a birdseye view of the photoshoot I had to stand on top of the table which we set up the shoot on to get the height so I could fit the whole page in the photo. For the Henrik Bonnevier work we set up the shoot against the wall, we used a folder to give some of the shoes some height and placed them at different angles and directions. I then laid on the floor and took the picture so we were on the right level.

3. What went well? Did you learn anything new? Did your group work effectively? Were your photos successful?

As we went through the photo's we realised the best place to stand, the place to put the light and whether to put the flash on the camera. The different pieces of work made us experiment more with the positioning and when we did the flower piece we first of all only had the white chalk and then decided we should add in the colour to make it stand out but also to blend it in with the artificial flowers that were already there.

4. What could you improve? Could anything have been done better? Did you have any problems?

In the Henrik Bonnevier piece we used a folder to add height to the objects so they would all be on the same level, but we could only find a red folder and in some of the picture you could see it in the background. If I was to do this again I would get a box and cover it with something black like paper or a sheet so it would blend in more with the colour scheme. 

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