Fashion&Textiles - Styling and Photography.

Our first day of Styling and Photography, I was keen to get started on this as I  have always been very ambitious when it comes to mixing and matching clothes. Im always considering what i think looks good and what people suit ect, i can't seem to help it. Doing this was a treat, we were asked to bring in some old clothes of ares that we didn't mind styling students in for a photoshoot.  We were also asked to bring in a collection of Photo Booth photos of ourselves emitting our personalities in different ways. This was a fun challenge as i tried to capture the humorous side of me and the charismatic side of me. I also did a eccentric posed side as everyday life seems to be about what looks good, and how people present themselves to looking good, i.e over Facebook, Instagram, twitter this was asked to be done as part of our projects outside of Ravensbourne is to produce our own photo shoot evoking ourselves for example clothes that represent us and the location and colour we choose has characterise us in some way. 

Firstly we were sent out to discover locations we thought fit for our photo shoot, being surrounded by the o2 arena and building sites we had a very good opportunity in finding some good places to use as a location photo shoot. This was a great task engaging with other students and taking in other peoples opinions on what they thought would be good, or what they didn't think would be good i.e just shooting it on some grass with an old lamp post on the side, would be boring. Most of us found some interesting places and took some snaps, below our some of my pictures i had taken and edited as if i was going to use them for a location fit for my shoot, depending on the concept.

After doing this, we were told to get into pairs and style one another having only five minutes each using the clothes we had brought in. This was quite a challenge as we had such little time to come up with an outfit. However saying this, it worked really successfully once we all started everybody got into the flow of things and went extreme with the way we used the clothes to fit each of us. This was a very exciting task and i let loose, not caring about what look hot, or pretty, but what look the most extravagant and adventurous I thoroughly enjoyed this task. After this we put ourselves into groups of four and went round the building finding spaces to shoot each other in, we mixed and matched clothes and styled our colleagues, yet again i really enjoyed this task, especially the editing of the photos and styling.

This was a new experience and exciting project overall. 

Our next task was to produce five mood boards for our own photo shoot styling project on our identities. This had to include Location, Hair, Makeup, Stlye & poses to show mood/ attitude swell as props.