Bethany Rossiter: Taking The Photographs For The Digipak And Magazine Advertisement

On this day, the whole group met, planning to re-film part of our music video, as the original material was inadequate. However, after meeting up, we decided that the weather was against us, as it was raining very heavily, and showing no signs of stopping.
In order to make the most use out of our day we decided to take the opportunity to take the pictures for our Digipak and Magazine Advertisement (the ancillary task) as we were all together and had no other engagements that day.
We re-located to Nathan's house and, although having previously run through the ideas that we had for the pictures, we had a brief discussion checking that we all had the same understanding of what we wanted the pictures to look like.

We made a trip to Hobby Craft to get some gold sequins, gold glitter, and black and white paint.

We then used these in all of the pictures that we took. In the first set of photographs, Nathan and Georgia stuck loads of gold sequins to Charlotte's hands and I then put gold glittery make-up around her eyes, to match, while Carli was shopping on the internet, or something like that. We chose to take the photographs against a plain cream background, in order to avoid the event of a clash of colours in the picture.

Georgia and Charlotte decided on an outfit for the photographs while myself and Nathan chose an appropriate location for the photographing; making sure that there was a cream wall in the background.

For the next set of photographs we removed the sequins and glitter and used normal make-up to take some pictures of Charlotte laying down- at a upside-down angle.

The pictures in which Charlotte is sitting holding a guitar, we included as; in the other pictures there is no reference to singing or music. And as the reason for taking the photographs in the first place is to promote her profession (which is singing), it would be unusual for there to be no reference to this in existing media.

After, Nathan painted her hands; one black, and the other white. We tried to use a variety of different poses to make the photographs look different and unusual. Charlotte was very good at coming up with the movement and poses herself. Referring back to the photographs that we took, I think that we managed this quite well.
I have considered that this is due to the fact that as the whole group was together, there were more ideas flying around, and the end result seems to be very creative.

Me applying the gold glitter to Charlotte's eyes