Research and Planning: Organisation of actor, locations, costume and the props

For this task I had to organise alot of things before my photo shoot so that I had everything that I wanted to use available to me when I wanted it.


The first thing that I had to organise was my actor. In my photo shoot I wanted to have a young female artist, this is why I used Lily. When I asked Lily she said she would love to but she works on Mondays, tuesdays and wednesdays so when I were to start planning my photo shoot I would need to plan it on a thurday, friday, saturday or a sunday.


The second thing that I had to organise before I started my photo shoot was the location of my photo shoot. For this I wanted to have a plain background so it would be easier for my to edit out when it came to editing the photos. With this in mind I planned to have the photo shoot at my grans house. This is becasue she has a large plain white wall in her house. So when I start to plan when we are going to shoot the photos I will need to check that it is okay with my gran that we can use the white wall and that we will not be in the way or get interupted.


The next thing that I had to organise was the costume that my actor (musical artisit lily) would wear for the photo shoot. I wanted her to look natural and relaxed becasue this is what I would expect her to wear if she were a real musical artisit. I decided on jeans and a black t-shirt.

Next I needed to organise the props that I wanted to be in my photo shoot. First I found an old acustic guitar in my room then I asked my friend if I could borrow his electric guitar. I wanted to have a picture of her looking relaxed, to do this is would have a photo of her with an acustic gutiar. I also wanted a my cuting edge/ eye catching and interesting photo, in this photo I decided that it would be the opposite to the first calm photo. I this photo she would be standing and have an electric gutiar. Then I found a stool that she could sit on to give a difference in the hight and look of the photos.

So when I decide on the day that I was going to do my photo shoot, I gave a possible day to my gran and lily and they both aggreed to the day so I got all the props ready and we did the photo shoot on the 17th of December.

In the two images above, I have used the two different guitars to show the two very different sides of lily. The calm singer and the edgy rocker.