MAKEUP ARTIST: Charlotte Millerchip

A friend of mine from BA Model Making has recently started the makeup course part time at AUCB, and after having a look at her portfolio, I decided she would be perfect to recreate the costume makeup I would like for the models on my shoot. Here are some photos of her work:

PHOTOGRAPHER: Joe Stephens

I have found a photographer for the photoshoot. His name is Joe, and he has a really high profile on the photography scene in Bournemouth. He normally takes photographs of what he calls 'real people' in and around Bournemouth, particularly on the alternative clubbing scene. His photos have a documentary element to them, he is all about capturing the action, which I believe would be interesting for my photos. Here are some images of his work:

MY MODELS!

I am going to use 2 models for the event, Jacqueline Boulton and Josi Slater. They are both with LMP modelling agency in Bournemouth, and are both very tall and glamorous, which is perfect for the look that I wish to have for the photoos (tall glamorous model like figures, who look like they have had a struggle).

(Josi)

(Jacqueline)

A little bit more photoshop experimentation

For this image, I used a photo from the outcome of the last unit, and scanned in a sheet of crumpled brown paper. I then altered the hue/saturation and opacity of the image, merged the two images together, and altered the opacity of the scan. The end result is really effective, and it might be really interesting to edit some photos from the photo shoot using this technique.

Experiementing with web page layouts - Gallery section

The idea of the above two pages, is that the opening screen of the gallery section is made up of black thumnails, with the rollover function, so that when the user rolls over each thumbnail, it appears in full colour.

This page follows on from the above two... when the user clicks on a thumbnail, the page of thumbnails shifts to one side, and a full size image follows it.

This is another idea, following on from the thumbnails screen. When you click on a thumbnail, this new screen appears, which is almost in an online magazine format, and allows you to scroll through the images using the arrow icons on the screen.

Website Research

These are the 3 most inspirational websites I found on the Flash Web awards website.

The one on the left is the opening screen from Lasse Pederson's

(an editorial stylist) website. I really like the simplicity of it,

being a simple full screen photograph, and rollover text.

The image on the left is from photographer Tony D'Orio's

website. It consists of a full screen of thumbnails, which have the

rollover function, and when you click on one, the larger version

slides in from one

of the sides.

The image below is from the We're All Fans: Grammy Awards website. The nominees each have a page, which consists of a collage of a photo of them, made up from

videos, photographs and tweets.

Sourcing: H&M Jacket

I was in H&M on friday, and saw this jacket, which I thought would be perfect for the styling of my shoot. It costs £19.99, and the stripes sum up the big top feel I wish to portray.

Papier Mache Chairs for Zoe

On friday evening, Zoe's boyfriend dropped off 6 chairs, which I had volunteered to papier mache for her. I started doing this over the weekend, and have so far finished 1 chair, with 2 layers of newspaper. It looks really effective, and I look forward to seeing the chairs in their setting at Selfridges.

Paper sample: Harlequin print

Typography

I went on dafont.com to see if there were any typography faces I could download, which would be good for the website, and this is what I came up with. There are some really good typefaces here, ranging from the more obvious, circus inspired ones to typewriter ones and distorted ones.

Vogue: March 2010

These photos are from Tim Walkers spread for the March 2010 issue of British Vogue. It is entitled 'China White', and features examples of the new seasons 'white' trend. I find the balloons and the pleated silks inspirational, as well as the candyfloss hair, and the ruffs and folds in the fabric.

Lula, Girl of my Dreams: Issue Ten

The first spread in Issue 10 of Lula, is entitled, 'Once Upon A Time' and features a woman's arms, with ruffs around the wrists, and harlequin-print painted arms. It is very crafty and paper based, and I find it very inspirational to me for my work in this project. It has made me realise that it would be really interesting to put ruffs on different parts of the body, other than just around the neck. It works really well in this spread, as an accessory on the wrist.

Photoshop Experimentation

In our Friday computer workshop session, I decided to work with photoshop, layering text on top of images. I really love the effect of this, particularly with the sheet music layered over the photograph of my great grandmother. I also decided to experiment with typography, taking the image I found on deviantart as my inspiration, I attempted to recreate it. I really like this as well, and it could be nice to use on the website.

The writing/music layered over the photographs is an effect I would like to possibly put into practice with the final prints for the book.

The Circus- Typography example

I stumbled across this image on deviantart.com, and found it really inspirational to me for this unit and very effective as an image/a piece of writing. The typography is beautiful, like handwritten calligraphy in different fonts and shapes, and I love the different tones and textures of the background, almost parchment-like. This type of image would look great on the website, or on flyers I may hand out to promote the website.