Photoshoot

My group and I organised a photoshoot so that we could gain still images for our digipak and poster rather than taking a frame out of our final music video piece. This means that the images have a greater likelihood of appearing more professional like the existing album covers that I analysed.

However, we did not have the opportunity to use a professional photography studio due to cost and so we created one at one of my group member's houses. This consisted of us using some black material from our college which we used to cover a large amount of background so that our artist had a black screen behind her. 

Our Studio

We used two sets of photography lights however we had to place them carefully, as we did for our music video so to get the right lighting on the face as one of the lights we used in the frame, behind the artist. With the lights we experimented with use of lights gels which coloured the light shining round our actress; we thought this looked effective and unique. We also used a tripod to safely secure the camera for numerous pictures. This additionally made shots steady so that we could get the most out of our pictures. 
We wanted to use a camera with the best quality so that our pictures would look professional and imitate a real music video for a real artist in the music industry. Therefore we used this SLR camera which was advantageous to our project as it performed so well. 

The following is a small selection of the photos that we took:

After our photoshoot we will now look for the ones that we think will be the most appropriate for our artist in making them fit the presentation of our artist.