On Location Promotional Shoot - Planning

Firstly, to allow us to prepare for the real shoot, we got into our costumes and went to some areas of forestry near school to get a few test shots and see if our ideas for the website and album cover were feasible.

Practice shots taken

The next thing we did to plan the actual shoot was not intentional. We were on our way to 'Grovelands Park' in Southgate intending to do the actual  promo shoot, however it started to get dark and we knew this would affect the quality of our images. As a result, we decided to use a local park we came across on our journey to Grovelands which was a lot closer to our school.

However, by the time we had set up in the local park, it was dark. Anticipating darkness, we were equip with the external flash which we used and we also tried to change the shutter speed but after uploading the pictures we realised the flash made no difference and changing the shutter speed was futile as the camera could not be held still enough to get a sharp image.

We tried to edit some of the photos on Adobe Photoshop but majority were too dark to brighten without distorting the grain of the image. None of the shots met the standard we were trying to achieve for our album cover and website so we decided to scrap this shoot and use it as a learning experience.

For the actual shoot we will ensure:

• We go as early as possible to erase any possibility of it getting dark during or before the shoot
• We check the weather (as it started to rain) and try avoid any obstructions as much as possible
• We stick with the all white costumes as the black and white isn't as striking