Evaluation. Major Project.
My original idea for this fashion/model shoot was to basically hire a hotel room and have a pretend party in there, really messing up the room with feathers, bottles, balloons etc. trashing the room in effect in a chaotic yet fashionable way. I intended to use an array of lighting focusing on soft lighting and pastel colours. After researching into the feather idea I found out that besides white goose feathers being rather expensive, the mess the room would be in would be horrendous. After speaking with someone who has done a similar shoot but using their friend’s hotel, he claimed it took over 3 hours to clean even with the use of 2 vacuum cleaners. With the hotel booking being very touch-and-go and factors changing with the hotel I thought id better not do the idea with the feathers, as I could be liable to complaints and damage charges. I decided to opt with just going with balloons. I filled the room with light pink and white balloons and asked to model to wear similar colours to the scene. The great thing about the room was that the colour scheme of the actually room fit perfectly with my colour scheme I had in mind, which is why I chose to use the Premier Inn on Kirkstall road.
My preparation at first seemed to go really well, I had organised models, assistants and a location within the first few weeks and my schedule was going accordingly. However in the following weeks approaching the shoot thing started to fall apart somewhat. The hotel called and said I couldn’t do the shoot, as it would have to go through the marketing section of premier inn. We later cleared this up, as I wasn’t shooting any promotional footage of photos for premier inn. People weren’t available to help with the shoot on the intended day of shooting so I had to postpone and postpone until eventually one of the models had to drop out due to work engagements. My driver/assistant was trapped in south Wales with food poisoning and I needed to start looking for someone else who was available. Luckily he was back and fit to help out for the shoot on the Thursday. Even more upsettingly was that I was supposed to attend a funeral on the Thursday which was the only day available that we could shoot on that was suitable for everyone and the dog died.
The shoot itself went really well, there was a light atmosphere and everyone seemed to have a good time as well as cracking down with the actual shoot and footage. The colours and lighting worked really well and I got some great shots from it. Ideally I would have liked to use a wider lens, maybe a 35mm or 20mm f2.8 as I found the 50mm difficult in some scenarios where there wasn’t enough room to get my ideal shot. This meant I sometimes had to resort to my 18-55mm,which was a bit too slow in some cases.
Postproduction of the video was made difficult as the full shoot was taken in one shot. Meaning I had to filter through an hours worth or so of footage to find some good content to use in the video. Amazingly though I was allowed to use Deadmau5’s latest track “Some Chords”. After asking him if it was ok on his Stickam account as he was live streaming he said it was ok to use the track for my production.
Next time I do a shoot I will organise a date and set it so I don’t have to get stressed worrying about people dropping out etc. ill commit to my original ideas more thoroughly and work around getting the shoot done to its maximum potential. Overall though I found the shoot to be a success and the results and experienced gained from the shoot will be beneficial to me in future shoots to come.
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
MartyBell Weown Hotel shoot
this basially inspired my whole ideaology about my photoshoot. the style of the chaotic,youth,party scene looks really visually pleasing.
here some of the shots.
Marty Bell.
this guy is a crazy man, he really inspired my shoot in the hotel but he nailed his with perfection! he now owns the company WEOWN.
the promotion videos are abolsutely awesome and totally describe what the company is about.
the promotion videos are abolsutely awesome and totally describe what the company is about.
WE OWN / SUMMER from Thomas Welsh on Vimeo.
WEOWN from Thomas Welsh on Vimeo.
Monday, 24 May 2010
David LaChapelle
now this guy has done it all. argueably the best in the world at his career.
every celebtrity you can imagine.
amazing shoots with unique ideas and execution...amazing.
http://www.lachapellestudio.com/
many iconic shots of celebrities that people will remember always for them. superb.
although his shots are very sexually orientated the detail and technique that goes into them is incredible. its must take so much work!
my favourite shots are the ones of lady gaga and P!nk
feather idea... scrap it?
if the room end up like this...then its a no. balloons YES.
at least i was ready. maybe ill just use small amounts i dont know.
my shoot style.
my shoot in a hotel room is going to consist of a model shoot featuring balloons and feathers. ive had this idea ive wanted to do for ages but with the hot weather coming round and the dandilion "fairies" flying all over, im concerned as to how i will be able to manage with the feathers. im considering just leaving them out of it but using a lot of balloons.
crisis averted.*
wow that was a major panic. the hotel shoot im doing almost went to pot. hotel rang up and cancelled my shoot today, a day before shooting and a week untill the deadline. not fair. luckily ive managed to sweeten the staff and the shoot is back on :)
so lucky!
so lucky!
Pendulum - Watercolor.
just recently found out that amazingly one of the slashTHREE artists Murat Pak aka Undream actually did the motion effects for pendulums watercolor video. i cant actually believe it. theres big things for slashTHREE.
AMAZING!
Pendulum / Watercolour from Murat Pak on Vimeo.
AMAZING!
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Lara Jade...amazing fashion photographer/
http://www.larajade.co.uk/1024/01portfolio.html
i found lara jade via a few people ive met on deviantart/flickr who follow fashion photography. i also noticed a huge 30 page feature she had in DigitalSLRPhotography Magazine. she is 20 and working for huge companies such as vogue. absolutely amazing photograper.
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Jenny...cashboxx
the best friend of Anja, found Jennys work through her website. shes equally as talented in portrait photography.
Portfolio: http://photofolio.88steps.com/
she seems to nail her compositions every-time and the models she works with are of a top quality standard, all poses are looking great, make up is excellent and the post production is down to the tee.
Portfolio: http://photofolio.88steps.com/
she seems to nail her compositions every-time and the models she works with are of a top quality standard, all poses are looking great, make up is excellent and the post production is down to the tee.
xxchange aka Anja Röhrich
I found Anja via deviantart and her own website. she focuses mainly on female portraits often using self portraits. her photographs are really stunning, they are well composed, using great lighting and superb colours. besides the fact shes is absolutely beautiful. i love her use of pastille colours!
Anjas work:
the shot with the headphones is my favourite image. the colours are excellent, the pose is fantastic and the lighting is great!
Anjas work:
the shot with the headphones is my favourite image. the colours are excellent, the pose is fantastic and the lighting is great!
Research into fashion photography.
a contact from slashTHREE is now quite a big fashion photographer in London. Nick Creevy has been a real inspiration in my photography and has lured me into trying some fashion photography for myself.
Nick's website showcases some outstanding fashion shoots with unique and crazy idea. all of which are visually incredible.
heres some of nicks work!
my favourite from these images is the black and white image with the blonde woman. i just feel this has a really soft atmosphere and the midlevels are outstanding, great tonal difference and perfect exposure.
Nick's website showcases some outstanding fashion shoots with unique and crazy idea. all of which are visually incredible.
heres some of nicks work!
my favourite from these images is the black and white image with the blonde woman. i just feel this has a really soft atmosphere and the midlevels are outstanding, great tonal difference and perfect exposure.
Friday, 23 April 2010
Portfolio tasks
about time i finally got these up on here.
1.
Panopticism is a theory based on the prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in 1785. This consists of the prison cells surrounding the guard tower in the middle of the cells, overseeing the whole of the building from one tower. The design is said to increase the security of the inmates by the effectiveness of surveillance from the central guard tower. However his type of design can be used for any population that needs to be kept under observation, such as: prisoners, schoolchildren, medical patients or workers. In today’s modern society, the ever-growing reliance and technological advances allow google maps and google streets to be a modern version of digital panopticism. The users can view whole areas and streets from their own station at home, work or anywhere meaning the public are observed but do not see, “He is seen but he does not see, he is the object of information, never the subject in communication.” Furthermore in reference to the prison building by backlighting the guard tower, the guards can see the inmates but they can’t see them. As Thomas, J claimed in his book 'Panopticism', “By the effect of backlighting one can observe from the tower, standing out precisely against the light.” Similar is this to the google maps/streets idea. Furthering this idea another modern version of panopticism is the “big brother” society we live in. government CCTV cameras are in operation all over the country, we are observed but we do not see the observer. Through these means society is “categorized, interpreted, judged and manipulated” through government observations. Again a similar situation to the google maps and prison guard ideas, the observer oversees and controls. They have the power in an almost autocratic notion as the populations then are seen as docile bodies. “The panoptic function as a kind of laboratory of power”. This justifies the government control and almost autocratic regime we see in today’s society.
2.
Adorno's (1941) article 'On Popular Music' summarizes music by claiming that music is standardized for the popular music. The catchy rhythms, the 32 bar chorus, the similar opening and closing vocal notes for the chorus etc. Standardization is the process of establishing a technical standard, which could be a standard specification. Adrono discusses how this can be defined by the simple and sophisticated, and naïve and complex. He believes that music produced for popular scenes are standardized in the way that musicians are conforming to the demands of the popular culture, a catchy rythem and lyrics which people listen to and make popular. In my opinion in some cases Adorno is perfectly correct. The amount of songs, which discuss falling in love or breakups, is untrue. I think around a good 75% of popular songs today are about romance in some way or the other and so is very much standardized. These are often stories based around the artists themselves or pretend one, which they seem plausible to create a fake solution to their love difficulties. Either way it seems this is a standard procedure for modern artists especially in the RnB genre. These types of songs especially reach out the younger listeners especially adolescent teenagers who are feeling all these emotions in the written songs. In some cases the songs are popular by youths who want to be similar to the others who like this music. There is a lacks of diversifying in today’s modern cultures. Id like to this that a popular but non conforming artist/dj/producer “Deadmau5” diffrers from this as his songs arnt about love and emotions, but we get songs named for example ‘Sometimes things get, whatever’ and ‘FML(fuck my life)’. The popular song im using as an example is ‘Ghosts n Stuff’, a non-conforming title about a random subject, moving away from this standardized culture. With his development of a new style of dance music coming from Canada, heavy on the melodic synths and sidechain compression, I see this artist as the most unique thing to enter the moderate “popular scene”.
1.
Panopticism is a theory based on the prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in 1785. This consists of the prison cells surrounding the guard tower in the middle of the cells, overseeing the whole of the building from one tower. The design is said to increase the security of the inmates by the effectiveness of surveillance from the central guard tower. However his type of design can be used for any population that needs to be kept under observation, such as: prisoners, schoolchildren, medical patients or workers. In today’s modern society, the ever-growing reliance and technological advances allow google maps and google streets to be a modern version of digital panopticism. The users can view whole areas and streets from their own station at home, work or anywhere meaning the public are observed but do not see, “He is seen but he does not see, he is the object of information, never the subject in communication.” Furthermore in reference to the prison building by backlighting the guard tower, the guards can see the inmates but they can’t see them. As Thomas, J claimed in his book 'Panopticism', “By the effect of backlighting one can observe from the tower, standing out precisely against the light.” Similar is this to the google maps/streets idea. Furthering this idea another modern version of panopticism is the “big brother” society we live in. government CCTV cameras are in operation all over the country, we are observed but we do not see the observer. Through these means society is “categorized, interpreted, judged and manipulated” through government observations. Again a similar situation to the google maps and prison guard ideas, the observer oversees and controls. They have the power in an almost autocratic notion as the populations then are seen as docile bodies. “The panoptic function as a kind of laboratory of power”. This justifies the government control and almost autocratic regime we see in today’s society.
2.
Adorno's (1941) article 'On Popular Music' summarizes music by claiming that music is standardized for the popular music. The catchy rhythms, the 32 bar chorus, the similar opening and closing vocal notes for the chorus etc. Standardization is the process of establishing a technical standard, which could be a standard specification. Adrono discusses how this can be defined by the simple and sophisticated, and naïve and complex. He believes that music produced for popular scenes are standardized in the way that musicians are conforming to the demands of the popular culture, a catchy rythem and lyrics which people listen to and make popular. In my opinion in some cases Adorno is perfectly correct. The amount of songs, which discuss falling in love or breakups, is untrue. I think around a good 75% of popular songs today are about romance in some way or the other and so is very much standardized. These are often stories based around the artists themselves or pretend one, which they seem plausible to create a fake solution to their love difficulties. Either way it seems this is a standard procedure for modern artists especially in the RnB genre. These types of songs especially reach out the younger listeners especially adolescent teenagers who are feeling all these emotions in the written songs. In some cases the songs are popular by youths who want to be similar to the others who like this music. There is a lacks of diversifying in today’s modern cultures. Id like to this that a popular but non conforming artist/dj/producer “Deadmau5” diffrers from this as his songs arnt about love and emotions, but we get songs named for example ‘Sometimes things get, whatever’ and ‘FML(fuck my life)’. The popular song im using as an example is ‘Ghosts n Stuff’, a non-conforming title about a random subject, moving away from this standardized culture. With his development of a new style of dance music coming from Canada, heavy on the melodic synths and sidechain compression, I see this artist as the most unique thing to enter the moderate “popular scene”.
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
MOAR MYAKA
Blue Coldesack from myaka on Vimeo.
this is a very very similar idea as to what we would like to acheive with our peice. although visually great , id like to think our project goes beyond sheer experimentation as we delve into emotion based, statistical studies.
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