Behind The Scenes:
The Photoshoot
There are loads of different aspects of styling projects from coming up with a theme or concept to carrying out a photoshoot. We spent an hour or so brainstorming type of things we could do with the photoshoot and figuring out what concept we wanted to do. One of our first initial steps was finding models; Amber knew her boyfriend’s friend is a model and I thought my friends Alika and Jordan would be good models because not only are they stunning but I knew they would fit the Boohoo style as well. We both looked on the Boohoo website to see what type of clothing they were currently selling which helped us formulate a list of the type of clothing, footwear, outerwear and accessories we were thinking of. The concept of our photoshoot was streetstyle; so I put myself in charge of location as I knew quite a few spots in London that could work including Leake Street and the South Bank.
During this project both Amber and I have both inputted ideas into things we should do for the shoot. Amber was in charge of taking the photos and styling the male model. I was in charge of finding location, taking the behind the scene photos and styling the girls. We both were in charge of bringing extra pieces that we could use in the shoot. We also shared out the photo editing and chose a selection of pictures to include together.
However this caused problems with one of the models as she didn’t want to get changed outside. So I settled for using an arts and entertainment space down in Deptford which is quite a raw cultural place which could provide creative backgrounds. Unfortunately this caused another issue for one of the models so I had to make the decision not to use her which left me scrambling for last minute models a couple days before the shoot. Amber and I decided we would take behind the scenes photos on a camera as we had to take the photoshoot pictures on an iPhone.
We decided that Amber would bring extra accessories and I would bring jackets and footwear just in case the models didn’t have what we were looking for. We kept in regular communication via social media and decided we would organise our own models as it was easier to do so. On the day of the shoot it was hard as not only were the models running late neither girls had any money so I had to pay out for them as they were doing us a favour. We managed to get around nine looks done in the day using a variety of different combinations for the shots.The shoot itself went well and we finished earlier than we thought we would.