Ancillary Task: Carrying out our Photoshoot

For our digipack, me and Sarah decided to do a photoshoot to get a variety of different possibilities for what we may use. I picked up our actor and model Ellie so I could pick out some different outfits for the shoot, whilst Sarah set up her bedroom, which was where we took the photos. I picked out outfits that fit with the genre we have which is indie rock and then narrowed it down to ones which would look best and would also look quite interesting. When we arrived at Sarahs house, she had used a large white sheet provided by the school and placed it over her large wardrobe, which created the backdrop for our photos, we then set up the appropriate lighting we needed. The camera we used was provided by Sarahs Dad, and is a large proffesional one, which we have used before as it creates a clear and bold looking photo. Throughout the shoot, we tested all the outfits, experimented with lighting and also positions.

Here I am placing a huge white sheet provided by the school over Sarahs wardrobe, so that we could have a plain white backdrop for our photographgs. We struggled to keep it up, but eventually we used large books to keep it there.

Next, we had to set up all the lighting in the correct place to ensure that the photographs were bright and clear. Above is me and Sarah setting them up.

For the actual photographs we used Sarahs Dads camera which is a canon EOS 7D camera with a large flash. This camera ensured we got the most proffesional and clear looking photos possible.

Whilst taking these photographs we experimented with the lighting to try and add some vareity to our images. However, these attempts were quite unsuccessful so we ended up just using the lighting normally and using the flash on Sarahs camera.

Lastly, we used a variety of different resources from Sarahs room to try and create some effect. Our main resource was our hairdryer which backed Ellies hair off of her face and added some excitment to the images. By using the hairdryer we created our favourite image, which we will most probaly used for the front cover of our digipack.