Working to a Brief : 2 ( Location) - The Shoot Day

The shoot day went accordingly to plan.  We all met up at the University and once everyone was there and the equipment that we had booked was ready then we packed it up in my Car and the went down to Joss Bay in Broadstairs.  It was such a freezing cold day and especially colder at the beach.  When we got to the beach the tide was coming in really quickly too so we needed to get done as soon as we could with enough shots to work with.
Myself as Stylist told Madalina to tell her found model if he can wear a suit and jacket and when he turned up he wore a blue short sleeved shirt with a brown blazer so it was very strange to see and not a very good colour to show an office worker but I did not have access to any mens clothing for the shoot so that part let it down - I would have preferred from a Stylist eye if the suit was Black and if there was a tie.

We made sure that the light stands were deep into the sand so that they were sturdy as it was quite windy as well.  We were all on hand to help and made sure we all agreed on the locations and positions.  We decided to capture the cliffs in the background to meet the brief that says to have some of the British Isles showing in the image.  One other critical thing would be that fact that our model is actually Romanian and i think the shoot would have suited a British model to show the british isles a little better. The shoot went well and the lighting met requirements of making the subject stand out from the background, the clown trousers worked well and so did the briefcase.  Every thing that the brief asked was completed apart from maybe trying some different angles to see what was best, we seemed to shoot most of them the same.  Here below are some images from the shoot.

Evaluation of the shoot - Brief 2

Here below are the final Images for the advertisement.  I think it would have looked so much better if out model was wearing a long sleeved white shirt with a black tie and had a black blazer jacket to match the briefcase, this would have also made the clown trousers stand out a lot more.  The blue shirt is a distraction and doesn't really give the traditional office worker feel to it.  I like the compositions and the background of the final images and think that compositionally the shot meet the requirements of the brief.   My input to this shoot was the organising of the styles that we wanted and the clown trousers, I also think that being the only one who could drive means that is a big part in the team otherwise we would have had a lot of trouble with transport on the shoot day.  I do think we worked well as a team, and managed to come away with an image that has enough dead space around it, is on a beach with british isles in the background.  The sad expression is shown on out models face and the office worker style from waist up was met and the clown trousers are there.  I agree that it could potentially look a lot better but given the weather conditions as it was bitter freezing, we managed to work quickly together.