Aims
When it came to planning the best time to film all the shots I needed for my music video you are able to see on a post called 'Production Plan' that I had communicated with Laura to see when we would be able to film for the video and this was the exact same thing I did when wanting to do this photography shoot. In the images below you are able to see the texts me and Laura sent to each other to see when we would be able to do this photography day and because of the fact that we have a lot of the same frees together, I knew what days would probably suit us both the best. The messages I have presented below were sent on Tuesday 23rd January and this means that two days later was the actual day we decided to do this photography shoot. Below are the screenshots from my conversation with my actor, which you can look at in more detail:
Equipment
As I had already been out to this location quite a few times before to get all of the shots I needed for my music video, I essentially already knew what equipment I would need to take with me as I had been through this process plenty of times before. In the image below you are able to see that the only equipment I needed for this photography shoot included; a Canon EOS 1300D camera and an 8 Gigabyte sand disk (SD) card. This is all I needed when taking photos in this location because like I said, all I would be doing is taking images so I wouldn't need a tripod to keep the camera steady as I would be holding it to take them, so all I needed was a camera and an SD card to save it all onto. I was originally going to take the drawn drafts I had created for the digi-pack and the album cover - however, there were only 7 different images on the draft, so I could easily remember what I wanted to take, but if I did forget then luckily I had taken an image of the drafts on my phone, so I would have always been able to look at the images if I needed to. Nonetheless, I wasn't planning on taking only 7 photos and wanted to take more so when it comes to creating my products I would be able to choose from a wide range of different images and decide which ones would be the best to use in my products. When taking these images I did turn off the camera between every shot again due to the fact that the first time I tried to film for my music video, I kept the camera turned on for the whole time and it ran out of charge quite quickly - so I needed to ensure that I would save charge and would be able to get all of the shots I needed. Overall, I had all of the equipment I needed to ensure I got the outcome I wanted.
On The Day
As I would be taking these images outside, I again needed to ensure that I knew what the weather was going to be like to make sure that I actually would be able to take the images I need. When taking the images on this day, both me and Laura actually left college at the beginning of lunch (12:40pm) which meant that we actually starting taking photographs at around 1:15pm and managed to finished by 2:20pm which gave us just about an hour to get all of the photographs we needed. In the image I have presented below on the left hand side, you are able to see that I screenshotted this on the morning of this day and I did this as I wanted to see what the weather was going to be like throughout the day and how it would be when we eventually went out to take the photographs. In this image you are able to see that it was quite cloudy at the time, but then a bit later on the sun was partially going to come out. However, I think the cloudy sky would be beneficial for my photo shoot as my music video itself is supposed to be quite dark, so having a dark digi-pack and album poster will create continuity and make the products look more appealing. Once we had actually got to the Country Park and we were 15 minutes into taking photographs I decided to take another screen shot of the weather and in the image I have presented below on the right hand side, you are able to see that the weather had actually stayed the say as when I had taken the screen shot in the morning and again I think this was a beneficial thing as this gloomy and cloudy weather will make my product look quite dark which is basically what I want in a way. The only problem with the weather was how cold it was and this meant that we were going to have to stay as warm as we could when taking the photographs, but especially Laura as she would only be wearing a small and thin amount of clothing for the photo shoot.
Once we had finished with this photo shoot, we then went back to college to go to our last lesson and after this I then went home and once I got there I went straight onto my computer and saved all of the photographs I took on this day onto it to ensure that they would be in a safe place and that I wouldn't lose them when I need them to begin creating my digi-pack and album poster. In the image below you are able to see that I put all of the photographs I had taken in a folder called 'Photoshoot' which contained 198 items and this was to ensure that when I actually would need to use these images from this day I would know exactly where they are and won't have to spend a long time going through my computer to find them.
Underneath you will be able to see that I have created a presentation to demonstrate all of the different images that I took while shooting in this location. When taking these images I did take a lot of random ones and this was due to the fact that I wanted to try out different things and I may end up using some of the images in my final product that were originally just random. Nonetheless, here are all of the images I took while taking photographs on this day:
In this presentation you are able to see a wide variety of different images have been taken and more importantly they have all been taken in the forest which again is the main location that the music video is set in, so continuity has been created already. In some of these images you are able to see that Laura is wearing her white coat and this was due to the fact that I wanted to take some practice images before I actually took the real ones and I said to Laura that she would be able to keep her coat on and stay warm while I just do some practice shots. On top of that, you are able to see that Laura is wearing different clothes to what was worn in the music video and this is due to the fact that I do not want to digi-pack cover to relate just to the music video as this song just appears on the album and it is not as if this digi-pack is a single because if it was then it would be more understandable as to why Laura would be wearing the same clothes as in the music video. Nonetheless, the clothes that she is wearing is still conventional of the Pop Punk genre, but also helps present her style and identity to the audience. Overall, I am happy with all of the photographs I managed to get on this day and I am now ready to start creating my digi-pack and album poster.
Here are some of my favourite photographs that I took on this day:
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