Evaluation

For this project we were set the task of taking professional standard shots of a band from the second year music course. After hearing a pitch from all the bands we decided to choose ‘The Morphs’. We sat down together and put together a show reel of our work and possible pictures we could create to give them an idea of what our skills are as well as to give them more ideas of what they would have liked for their photo shoot. We proposed quite abstract ideas such as the work of Paul M Smith who uses photo shop to duplicate himself many times in to a photo which the band found really interesting; they suggested a strong idea that they had about shooting inside a red phone box. Due to missing attendance from both me and Lucy as well not having any time out of the set classes to work together we didn’t plan our studio shoot which meant we had to improvise shots as we went; this didn’t necessarily affect the quality of the shots but if we had fully planned I think we could have come up with really interesting pictures for the band. However we made up for this on our location shoot; unfortunately Lucy had a university interview but we spoken previously to make sure we got some good shots. I started at the red phone box on St. Helens street with a rough idea in my head of different shots to get and the band were very easy to work with doing what I said as well as putting forward their own ideas. The only problem with this was it was on a busy street and because the phone box took up half the space I had to stand in the road to take most of the shots as not to get in the way of passers by; luckily their wasn’t much traffic so it wasn’t too much of an inconvenience. For the second location we went to Argyle Street where the band practices with our original idea of having a Paul M Smith style shoot which involved the band playing with them also being the crowd. This was a problem though as I had to stand so far back to get the band as well as a crowd in shot the forefront of them playing isn’t very clear. Also when I got back to edit the pictures we realised that the lighting was poor and with no time left to re-shoot we had to just edit what we already had. However I feel that our spread came out very well, even with the missed time as a pair we still created a semi-professional looking piece and with Lucy’s editing the pictures we had fit in really well. If we had to re-do the project I think that we could produce something to a professional standard as we both had absence during the times we had to plan/edit or shoot.