Our overall images consisted of autumnal leaves shrouding lingerie being raked to one side, a warm november bonfire and white wooden planks buried within cold crisp snow displaying our lingerie on top. I helped to form these ideas as we all had a light switch moment when discussing what to do and decided we wanted to stay away from a very predictable theme/trend. We wanted to link all of our images together in a way that was clever and quirky. Due to our WGSN theme being earthy we automatically linked this to the seasons and the way in which the earth changes weather. We then thought of the way seasons are divided up within the fashion industry; therefore our choices were either A/W or S/S. We felt that the earthy colours in WGSN really linked well to A/W and therefore felt that this would be an appropriate area to look at. 

I provided numerous props for the final images ranging from the wooden planks which I painted white myself and some lingerie. I also provided all of the sticks/leaves which I collected off the floor and I bought the rake. 

I feel that overall our final images worked very well. Initially we were worried about the rake image being too simplistic and that image found itself being our least favourite of the three. However, as we played around with editing it really came to life and found itself looking incredible. Therefore it was no longer a worry. Jess did the editing for the Autumnal image whereas I did the editing of the other two with some tweaks from Jess. I feel that my photoshop skills and illustrator skills have come leaps and bounds as I learned all sorts of new techniques such as creating fire within images, selective editing rather than editing the whole images colours and also how to adequately use the clone tool etc. I also learned how to remove backgrounds from images and how to make text be textured like part of the image. I really love how both the images came out and I'm proud of us as a group for this project.

All in all I feel that we have been very prepared this project, knowing exactly what we wanted from our shots. Despite having a few disagreements when it came down to editing I feel that we are all happy with the end result and our initial idea of having the images flow from warm to cool with the seasons has been a great success. Next time, if I was to change something it would be, perhaps, where we printed as I feel that the librarys printer often does not print the image as it actually seems which has been a problem for us meaning that we've had to re-print it numerous times. Next time I would try granthams first and see if the image actually prints like it is displayed on screen. Overall this was an incredibly enjoyable project with a great group of people.

-Rebecca Porritt

--FINAL POST--

 Jessica Flavell 

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We went to the library and completed the final images. The final images we chose were a combination of all of our ideas built upon. Jessica edited and created the first rake image and magazine layout to open our three images. Then Beckie edited the fire and snow images and put them together with the help of Jessica. Sandy also helped to recommend ideas to add in to our final ideas.

We chose these final images because we felt that they not only walked you through the seasons from October to December but that they also all linked very well together. 

Our first image is portraying Autumn Is the opener page and the image displaying the rake dragging along the leaves and the underwear with it. To create this image and idea we thought to ourselves what most represents October (excluding Halloween) So we came to the conclusion of the Crisp leaves and them all being piled up on the streets. The idea of the rake came later when we thought it would be a good idea for the under wear to be raked up along with the leaves. When we edited this image we found that when the image was reflected it looked a hundred times better. We added a contrast and darkened the edges, keeping a highlighted centre and saturation to the leaves. We added the writing to left page in the blank spaces and the product details in the top right corner. 

Our second image is portraying November, specifically bonfire night. We chose to recreate a bonfire in order to carry off the month of November and to ensure that our images flowed well with each other. When we first set up the set on the day of the shoot it was incredibly hard to keep it all stable while the underwear was put on to it. But in the end we think we got the positioning right. When it came to editing, We decided that the image needed to be darkened around the top especially to give it that 'night time' feel. Then we lit up the bonfire area itself and added a light fire effect (done by beckie.) 

Our third image is portraying December/Winter. We wanted this image to be cool and crisp and in stark contrast to the warmer autumnal images. But the images still flow together with the use of the leaves under the snow. Almost like a leafs life cycle. This image turned out really beautiful, the snow looked a lot less fake when the photos were uploaded and edited. We cooled the image adding a slight blue tint, a contrast and some darker shadows to try and get the white underwear to stand out. This one we decided to create a double page spread as it worked best with the way we left the space at the side. 

- Rebecca Porritt & Jessica Flavell