Planning my photographic shoot

When we were told that we had to organise a whole shoot ourselves outside of college in our own time, I think my heart stopped for a bit. I was so nervous to go out and source a photographer, model and a studio space!

When I got home I tried to think of friends who were photographers but I couldn't think of anyone, and then I thought about the model, I have some extremely beautiful friends, but I really felt for this shoot that I wanted someone who is comfortable in front of the camera and knows how to work it, also someone who knows there best angles, and the most important thing I want in the shoot is confidence. Now despite my friends being good looking I'm not sure how much confident they would be, for a fashion shoot.

Our tutor Branka told us about 2 sites which are really good for sourcing models, photographers, stylists etc, also great to promote yourself and your own work. These were http://www.starnow.co.uk/ and http://www.modelmayhem.com/. I checked them out, star now isn't free to join but when I signed up they checked with my uni and tutor Branka that I was who I said I was before I was allowed to be a member, which I really liked as that's the main worry I've had is safety with organising this shoot. Models mayhem didn't do this and its free, so that could be better for some people but for people like me; who are extremely cautious I took the safer option even if it does mean paying a fee!

I posted an advertisement on star-now, looking for a model and photographer, I wrote down the brief in short and requested that I'd prefer the photographer to have a studio space. I also stated that it would be unpaid, a collaboration between the 3 of us, so all of us would have the photos for our portfolios, and we would all be credited wherever the photos are shared and displayed. 

I couldn't believe the responses! I had loads, so noew I had the problem of having too many options, rather than before when I was worrying about having no-body.

Charlotte Spencer and I; a girl from my class decided to do the shoot together, because of safety reasons. 

I ended up finding a photographer called Pedro Garcia who had a studio space on the Goldhawk road, and was happy to do 2 shoots in one day. I also found my perfect model for the look I wanted to do. We arranged the shoot date for 10am on Wednesday 18th February. This was the best date for myself and my classmate as it was during our study week so we would have plenty of time to prepare and get organised.

I'm really excited I cannot wait!!