Jessica Flavell | Conclusion.

I wanted to write a brief conclusion to this project and how I thought it has gone. Starting with the research I think we looked well into how we could use our WGSN chosen theme and create our ‘Earthy’ type images. Originally we were just going to use the colour scheme from the WGSN trend but as time progressed we thought it would be a creative idea to incorporate that into our props too, linking everything together well. And we all felt that it was something different and refreshing.

We didn't think too hard about choosing a magazine that would represent our images. We knew they were going to be fun and quirky and the brand that best related to that was ASOS magazine. We knew they sold delicate and interesting underwear and that it would work well with them in mind.

Once we had those things sorted it came to buying the products and props. I sourced the majority of the underwear used in the images, I also bought the Bamboo to build the bonfire, the fake snow and some fake leaves. I spent quite a lot of money purchasing the new underwear for the shoot.

On the day of the photoshoot I would say that we were pretty well prepared. We had all of our props and garments ready and we knew how we wanted them set out, along with lighting and backdrop colour. The only thing that set us back slightly with time was building the Tepee formation for the bonfire image as it fell down on our first attempt, and then took us a long time to get everything into the right place. Even when we started taking images we still had to keep moving things around as they just didn’t look right on the camera. The other two images were straight forwards and hassle free to shoot. (Besides the clean-up)

We all wanted different things when it came to editing. Not major differences but little ones that we couldn't all agree on. As I preferred the image of the bonfire without the artificial fire added to the image. However with the added writing and magazine format it compliments it much more than the image alone. Plus we darkened the overall image which made it more appealing in my eyes. I mainly took care of the Rake image and layout, as it was he image I least favoured and I wanted the challenge to make it look professional and alluring. Then Beckie edited the images of the Bonfire and the Snow, added the main writing, and I then proceeded to make the layout as identical to the other image, to keep them all in sync.

If I could change anything about this project it’s perhaps looking into a different magazine to use, Although I love ASOS’s style I think we could of broadened our horizons a lot more in that specific research department.  But overall I am happy with our final three magazine spread images/layouts, We actually managed our time really well which I thought could have been an issue at the beginning but everything has gone smoothly and I think we worked well together as a group. I'll be sad to finish this project.