The Gallery

This is the final display of our images:

When they are grouped together I think they work well as an editorial. I think Jen and Cat's images are the most successful as the colours work well with the colouring of their styling. I think the images for Adriana and Kasia could have been better, but simply becuase I do not like the original shots.

The Final Images

After Stephanie's long hours on Photoshop, we finally have our final images:

Final Post Production Idea

Stephanie has found this image in a Photoshop tutorial magazine:

From our theme of making it more modern, Steph and Nikita thought this would be the better direction to take our photos in as they wanted more graphical and and futuristic looks.

Steph will now begin to create background for our images, she will be using a block colour in the background then adding some graphical shapes in contrasting colours.

Post Production Ideas

I Like the ideas of using more modern colours in the background to make it more futuristic.

This could be done by using broken lights or light trails:

I like this at is mixtures of gold colours which would go with our theme, it is more futuristic as it is more graphical.

An image like this could use lots of different colours so they could blend easily with the colours we have used in our styling.

Another idea I had was to use vintage wallpapers and fabrics but change the colours in them so that they were more modern and contrasting to the models:

I think patterns like this would look good as they are vintage and were used in the fabrics and wallpapers in the re-make of Marie Antionette that I looked at in my research.

By using designs like this in the background but with more modern colours, I think it would link well to our theme as it is obviously taken from historical styling but would have a mdoern twist.

We could of toned down the birght colours in the backgrounds by adding some darker areas that gives he appearance of aging. It would also tone down some of the brighter colours to fit in with our styling.

Post Production

After looking at the final images, we weren't entirely happy with the final looks and wanted a more futuristic look.
We thought we'd be able to achieve this by adding a more modern background.

For this we are all going to start looking at post production ideas.

Stephanie has offered to do the post production as she said this is usually done by photographers but as stylists we were given the opportunity to put forward ideas and she would decide which she liked best.

Stylists Ideas

Looking at the final 5 images that were chosen, the ideas myself and Fay had put forward weren't considered for editing, such as the dark lips and certain jewellery ideas.
From the final pictures that were chosen, I dont think they were some of the better options we had and I think some of the more close up shots would have been better.

The Final 5...

From lokoing at all our images we have decided upon these four images as our final shots:

I like all images but the image of Kasia is not my favourite shot. I think there were better options to chose from.



Contact Sheets

From the shoot we ended up with hundreds of photos to chose from so I have shown a selection from what we shot before editing.

This is only a small amount of the images we had but as you can see we have tried to use a range of poses and altered some of the make up looks throughout.

Overall Im happy with our final images, I feel some of the models were not as confident with the posing, but I think we helped with our direction and styling.

The Day Of The Shoot

The day of the shoot ran smoothly, there were no major incidents! We did think we were struggling for time at the end, but once we all started helping with the hair and make up and packing things away, we finished with time to spare.

Here are some images from behind the scenes...

This was our set up, we had a blank screen and the same chair used throughout so that all the images would be the same.

This was the work station we set up for Jade so she would have everything she needed to hand.

Sourcing...

For the shoot we began to source some jewellery and materials that we could use.

We sourced some lace fabrics and ribbons that we can use in the hair and make up designs:

This will have the eyeshadow dabbed through it to leave the print on the skin.

We also started purchasing fowers that we could use in the hair styles.

We looked at different flowers we thought would work for the styles of hair and make up and the colours that would link with the historical theme.

We chose to use lilies in sarah's hair and spray them with a light gold to go with the gold ribbon in her hair and her gold lips.

We chose to use a green hydrangea in cats hair as we thought it would compliment her colouring and they are big and bold flowers which we think would suit her quirky look.

For the jewellery we wanted to source some modern styled jewellery so we looked at metal collars and futuristic earrings.



This is a close up shot of one of the collars we will be using, it has gold beading in it which will relate to the historical theme.

These are some of the more modern styling of jewellery and add a bit of quirkiness to the designs.

Beauty Editorials

To find the style of shoot that we liked we all researched into beauty editorials, stuying the composition, lighting, poses etc.

Firstly I looked at a shoot taken from Vogue Uk 2010, photographed by Robin Derick, the make up artist for this shoot was Lisa Eldridge.

I like the vibrance of the shoot, and how this is more artistic than actual everyday make up. I think this artistic style could help influence our work to make in more outrageous.


This is another shoot from Vogue Uk 2009 photographed by Catherine Servel, again the make up artist for this was Lisa eldridge.

I like this styling of this shot as the main focus is on the eyes. They are very dramatic and the rest of the look is very simple such as the craped back hair and the plain white blouse. This means you are directly looking at the models face.

I love the composition of this image. There is hardly any background and theres no dramatic garments or accessories taking up the shot. I like how the focus is solely on the eyes of the model as the rest of the make up is very neutral in comparison. I think this makes a great beauty editorial.

This shoot is from Vogue Nippon. Shot by Daniel Jackson, models  Naty Chabanenko, Valeria Dmitrienko and Ragnhild Jevne are stlyed by make up artist Linda Cantello.

I like these pictures the most as they are shot from the shoulders up, this means they have been able to style with jewellery and make up to make the shots look more interesting. I think this style will work well as we have dramatic hair and make up styles.

Make Up Looks

From our group meetings we all liked the idea of using lace prints in the make up, we have spoken to Jade about how achieveable she feels this would be, and from her experiementation work she feels it could be achieved easily.

For this we will be sourcing some lace pieces where then Jade will use this as a stencil on the face. 

Here are some examples of this look:

For Cats look, we have gone for a kind of doll like look with some period features e.g. the heart shaped lips. Here is an example of the look we are trying to achieve:

For Adriana's make up idea, we want to have heavy make up that leads up to the hairline. This example is not the greatest as we want to create something a lot more dramatic than this, but this is some initial research into the look:

Make Up and Hair Artist

Luckily enough, Nikita knows a hair and make up artist who will be able to make the shoot. Her name is Jade and she is currently studying on an Art Foundation course.

From looking at some of her work, it is very creative and we think she will be able to create the modern twist to the historical looks we have been looking at.

After planning out the looks we want and on each of the models, Nikita has been able to dicuss with Jade what we want to achieve and what hair and make up accessories we will be using on each look.

We will have each look planned out and again, may make alterations on the shoot day to improve each look.

Here is her Facebook page containing some of her work:

http://www.facebook.com/jjadey.mchugh07

The Ruff

Stephanie has managed to source us two ruff's for our shoot.

Her mother has made us a cream lace ruff that we have tried on and also styled with a large black cross.

She was also able to source a large rounded ruff made by Josh Cryne, a second year fashion Design student. This is a lot larger than the previous and a lot more modern. The colour is more crisp and the size of it makes more of a statement. The ruff has some graphic shapes in it, making it more modern.

Model Casting

Here are the selection of models we are using for our photo shoot and the hair and make up looks they will have:

Cat:
As she has short hair, we thought it would be easier to style her in 15th century hair and make up. She will be having a centre parting with twists in her hair. Her make up will be fairly porcelain with rose cheeks and a red heart lip. As we liked the feather idea on the lash line, we will be adding feathers to the eyes, this will give it the futuristic twist.

Adriana:

She will be wearing the 17th century style ruff, with this she will have the bee-hive hair. Her make up will be very dramatic as it is a fairly plain look otherwise. The forehead and hair line will be covered in purple eyeshadow, this will be blended with black over the eyes, but this shall be applied through lace so that the pattern will cover the skin. This will help to add the lace features we have found in our research.  

Kasia:

As Kasia has fiery red hair, we thought she would be best suited to the 18th century styling. With this she will have very curled, back-combed hair to make it large and voluminous which was typical of the era. To contrast with her hair, we will be doing rather dark make up, the eye make up will be dark black and will be faded into silver. We will be accesorising with a hat as we have seen a lot of feathered and netted hats in our initial research. The look will be finished with the feather eyelashes Nikita has sourced.

Jen:

Jen's hair is not quite as bright as this anymore and she has very pale skin, so we felt she would look best with the 14th century styling as the colouring for this era would compliment her. She has lovely brown eyes and so we didnt want to take too much away from that. We decided to use bronzes and dark greens in her make up, again using the lace print to link to the ther images. We will be adding a green satin head dress with a gold rim.  





Unfortunately our street search did not go well and the girls we gave our number to did not contact us, but luckily enough Fay was able to source Sarah, the last model through a friend.

I do not have a picture of Sarah to add to my blog but she will be styled for the 16th century. She has long blonde hair and we will be plaiting her hair on the top of her head and adding gold ribbon through the plait, we will then cover the join with flowers. Her make up will be very golden to compliment her blonde colouring. We want the main focus to be her hair so we will be using golds, coppers and creams in her eyeshadow and finished with a gold lip.

In regards to sourcing jewellery, we will be bringing a range of jewellery, ribbons, materials, brooches etc, that we feel will work with the styles and styling on shoot so that we can see which pieces will look good with each look.

Model Scouting

We are looking to have 5 seperate models for the shoot so that each girl can have a completely different look and we will have 5 thoroughly different looks.
We have been able to source 4 models so far, unfortunately one of the models dropped out and so Fay and I went scouting to find another model.
We are looking for another blonde or brunette preferably as our models have a range of different colouring and we feel lighter coloured hair would work well with the heavy make up.

Lash Purchase

Nikita managed to source some eyelashes identical to the ones in my research. They are the Kimberly Walsh Festival eyelashes and we are thinking of using them in our 18th century styled photo shoot.

Luscious Lashes

As we are looking to modernise our styling for the shoot, we have thought about using fake eyelashes.
We liked the idea of combining feathers into the lashes as we have seen in our research that feathers were prominent in some of the styling in the centuries we have looked at. This would help combine the historial can futuristic element to our theme.
I have started to compile some different looks we could use in our shoot:

I really like eyelashes on the left, they are unusual and give a very modern feel to the look.

Although these eyelashes arent feathers, the length and fine-ness of them give a delicate appearance like feahers, this would also work to give a sort of doll like/porcelain look.

Although this is not a great image, I love the use of actual feathers on the bottom lash line. This look is even more modern and futuristic as it is more unusual than the generic use of lashes we see everyday.