Thakshana's Media Blog: Construction Post 3: Photo Shoot for Promotional Shots

This week it was time to take the pictures for our promo shots (pictures to put on the digipak, website and social media pages). We had to book specific slots when the space was free to use and when we're all available.

The days and times we booked are:

Tuesday: 7am - 12pm
Wednesday: 9am - 11am
Thursday: 4pm - 8pm

Initially, we underestimated just how much time it takes to set up lighting, make sure they all work and also how long it'll take all four of us to actually do our make up and get ready. However, the first shoot day was okay as there were no major problems faced during the shoot.

Here is a picture of Gift helping to do Monica's hair. We all helped each other as we took a bit too long to get ready and were running behind schedule.

On the left is a picture of Gift and I practising our poses before the shoot and to the right is a picture of one of the lights we used. This light would flash as the person operating the camera took the picture.

We thought the first day of shooting went well but after reviewing our photos, we weren't that happy with them. Some of them were blurry and not lit properly and in most of them at least one of us wasn't ready for the picture so we knew we had to use our backup shoot on Thursday.

Here are some examples of the bad shots:

On Wednesday we had a chance to take some of our individual shots.

We were quite happy with the outcome of our individual shots. When we sat down and reviewed them we all found a couple that we really liked that we could use for our promotional purposes. I have shown some of these images in this blog.

This picture showcases one of the make up looks that I did for this shoot. Bold, statement eyeliner and red lips is quite a trendy make up look and I thought it would match the description of our band.

Thursday was supposed to be our back up shoot if we needed it and since we decided we wanted to redo our group shots, we all agreed to use this shoot to get better pictures. However, things didn't really go according to plan at all. The lights that were supposed to provide our flashes for the images didn't work for almost two hours of our planned four hour shoot. However, Emma was really helpful through this stressful situation as she figured out a way to fix it so that it was working again. This now meant that we had less than two hours to shoot all of our group shots, since we also had to leave time at the end to pack everything away. However, with that being said, I think we managed pretty well and in the end came out with some really nice pictures that we were all happy with.