What’s the plan ?

I cannot stress enough the importance of planning your shoot – it is a cardinal rule. You do not want to waste anyone’s time so it is so totally important that you plan in advance. Planning has its advantages and, if done well, the shoot will be organised, efficient, and you will get a better end result!

The artistic direction for the shoot

We start with a blank piece of paper to get all your ideas down. Writing down anything and everything that the client wants  included in the shoot. This doesn’t mean making it dull, but try not to get too complicated by having models suspended from great heights over the city.

We always consider the following in our planning:

  1. What is the theme for the shoot?
    Is it going to be simple or themed? Rock chick, wartime, abstract, modern, fairytale, film noir, etc?
  2. How does the client want the images to be interpreted by the viewer?
    Want the viewer to feel excited, happy, sad, etc? Think about how you might portray the emotion that you want to capture by using colours, styling, location, poses, make-up, hair styles, or lighting.
  3. Where would you like the shoot to be?
    A park, office, urban 70,   supermarket,  aisle, beach, parking lot?
  4. The clothes have tie into the theme and the surroundings?
    Never lose sight of your theme! What the client wants are they going for a moody, carnival-styled created the scene and hold the shoot during the day or night.
  5. What kind of make-up, hair styles and poses would suit the overall theme?
    Check out the internet or magazines, and look for any relevant hair and makeup styles and model poses. Ripping pages out of magazines with the looks the client visuals is a good idea. These are called ‘tear sheets’ and are great visual aids for assisting your team in understanding what the finish look is needed.

Finding the right talent
There are a few different skill professional people needed for a sets required in a photo shoot. For example: photographer, hair stylist, make-up artist, models and a wardrobe stylist.

Photographer

Photographer is going to be very important. Choosing one with style and who works to the look and theme of the client, and theme that you the client wants  for your shoot.

Hair and Make-up artists

Hair and Make-up artists are invaluable finding, literally the ‘miracle worker’ in your team and can transform ever day models into superstars.

Model

Finding an appropriate model can be one of the easiest or hardest parts of getting together a crew for you shoot. We have a model for all shoots.

The shoot
On location our team: hair stylist, make-up artist and wardrobe stylist, will be there to set up the models to have their hair and make-up done. This could take anywhere from half an hour to 2 hours. Then it is over to the photographer we try not to get in the way or interrupt the photographer when he is doing his job –   they hate that, trust me. We are always prepared  and make sure that we have all the clothes and ‘looks’ ready for the model before and between shots. We don’t want to waste time deciding what to put the model in next shoot being proactive and get it sorted.

Once the shoot is over, our photographer will let you know when the images will be ready for you to get your hands on them! Usually this turnaround time shouldn’t be any longer than one week.

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