Glam Rock PhotoShoot

We have all finished making our dresses now for the fashion show which is on the 4^th March in Stoke. We were asked to customise wedding dresses into the glam rock theme. Everyone chose a colour scheme to work with so that they are all different. We were given a wedding dress and £10 for any materials needed. We got at college early ready to start the shoot. Sarah, Vanessa, Vicki and Lacey were the models as all of the dresses are really small fitting, and they are the smallest in the group. First thing was hair and make-up. With the theme being rock we messed up the models hair, using hairspray and back-combing it to stay in place. For the make-up we used black eye shadow and mascara to darken the eyes. If the make-up was too subtle it wouldn’t show up much on the photographs. I was in charge of styling the shoot, and I also decided to take some behind the scenes images. So I was on standby throughout with my safety pins and camera. We had 12 dresses to get through on the shoot so we had to work quite fast. Kev, a lecturer who teaches photography helped to set up the room. A photographer came from another course, and an assistant photographer was also there, so two cameras were being used throughout to get the most images in the time we had. We were also given two boys in suits! The models got into the first of the dresses to start the shoot. After a few test images we were on the way. They looked great. We had some accessories to use to make the dresses look more styled. Stockings and hold ups worked really well, and we had different jewellery, hats and hair accessories to work with as well. I had to pin some dresses into place with them being all different sizes. We had to pin bras into place so that they were hidden, and pin things shut so that they stayed up. I quickly got the needle and thread out to make the straps on the dress that I had made more secure as the bottom half of the dress was very heavy and weighed it down. Towards the end of the shoot, some people started to get a bit selfish and wanted to wear their own dresses more than the others that people had made. I think that it could have worked better if each dress had a time slot. Because when the photographs come out I think that some dresses will have a lot more photographs then others because they were warn more. As I was playing the role of the stylist I tried to suggest which dresses to use, but I felt as though I wasn’t being listened too. My dress was only warn for about 5 minutes where as some where warn for about an hour. Vanessa didn’t mind trying other dresses on but we were struggling to fit in them with t he sizes being so small. Some said size 12, but they were more like an 8s. So I had to get Briony to come down to the studio and model here own, as no one else would wear it. Because she wasn’t really expecting to have to model she didn’t have many photographs done either, so there won’t be many of her dress. I think that the shoot did work well and there will be some good images, but I think it could have worked better if there weren’t so many people fighting for the limelight. I think we should have done the photo shoot using the models that are being used for the actually fashion show. Then there would have been one model per dress. Other then this I think each dress should have been given the same amount of time. Maybe a bit more planning was needed. But the whole project has been a bit rushed and has had to be completed within less than a week so I think that everyone has done really well.