Construction Post 3: Promo shoots

Our timetable for our promo shoots:

Tuesday 7am-12pm
Wednesday 9am-11am
Thursday 4pm-8pm (back-up session)




Our set is to the right. We had extra lighting and the flash feature in order to take the best photos possible.

I think the first promo shoot session went really badly as we had technical difficulties such as the flash on the lights not working which meant most of our pictures turned out really dark. Also the camera was not in focus for a lot of the shots. We didn't check up on our pictures as we were taking them so we didn't realise that at least one of us were unprepared in each picture - we never got ready at the same time to have our picture taken.

Gift doing Monica's hair below.

 Me doing my hair at the vanity table.












Example of one of our bad pictures from the first shoot

The next promo shoot went a lot better. The flash was working and we made sure the camera was in focus. This time we checked our pictures every few shots and also counted down subtly to get ready together, in sync for the pictures. Since me and Monica had the same frees we took each other's individual shots which turned out really nice. We played with props such as a chair which I thought Monica looked quite cool sitting backwards on. However her legs looked slightly awkward in the pictures being spread out so much so we didn't use those but kept them if we wanted to zoom in and tighten the frame as her facial expressions were on point. Monica also shot my picture from low angles to give a more dominant vibe and directed me well telling me which facial expressions looked best.

The classy promo shoot was quite difficult as the poses we tried looked very awkward a lot of the time. We wanted to give off a classy prestige vibe but ended up taking pictures which looked like prom photos or family photos. In the end we went with a simple concept and stood side by side as most girl band album covers feature the same poses. Below are some of the nicer selection of photos from our shoots.