Saturday, 9 February 2013

Reflective Journal: 31.1.13

I started to organise individual beauty shoots that I want to include in my book. With pop up in mind I wanted to experiment with what could work as a pop up in my book. Here is what i come up with;
                                                            
Idea 1 > a editorial piece made from card board clothes, this idea making it easy to have pop up incorporated. 

 Idea 2 > big lips popping up out the middle of the page -double spread
 Idea 3 > I love the power of the women in this image, the idea having some of the women pop up and some not out of the middle of the page


 Idea 4 > i love the makeup side of this inspiration, the idea of having the two models sitting in thrones and popping up at the top of the page but do my own interpretation on the 'eyes' on the hands.

Reflective Journal: 29.1.13

Where I got inspired for my idea:
I first cam across the image from vogue back in the summer and knew that I wanted to interpret this myself, as using different mediums really interests me as a makeup artist. So I researched more into fashion illustration where I fell in love! I love the whole 'quick' 'effortless' but effective look of fashion illustration. It seemed perfect to mix the two together.  



Thinking about the website?

I wanted to take a moment to think about what my website will need to socially network my book in the correct way;

Plain design > black/white background
simple design
home screen with the logo/name of the book with one eye catching image
pages > about?
          > images of the shoots week-by-week
          > end product - video?
          > contact page

ideas for the home page...?
3d nail art?
glamorous OTT nails
hands holding diamonds
still life shoot
main focus on the hands
hands 'holding the title'


Reflective Journal: 28.1.13

I went back to my mood boards and made them more specific to certain shoots I want to create. As a makeup artist i defiantly want to show off my artistry skills and have a lot of 'beauty' up close styled shoots.
My main focus to get the theme/atmosphere just right
>glamorous
>expensive
>what all women dream of?

Reflective Journal: 27.1.13 part 3

TITLE IDEAS!!!!!
pop up goes your dreams
from me to you
i am all you need
pop up fantasy
fantasise 
dreams and desires
to you from me

Reflective Journal: 27.1.13 part 2

With the theme of glamour through-out my book the styling doesn't come cheap.  I don't have wardrobes worth of free glamorous clothes to borrow in large quantities. So i've Borrowed money off of a family member to help me through my FMP.
So I now have a budget of £1000 to cover;

Styling
Beauty Styling
Travel/lunch expenses 
Printing

Studios, Photographers, Stylists and models I have collaborated for free with the agreement of crediting and TFP.

Reflective Journal: 27.1.13

A schedule set in stone:
A photo shoot a week from 28th of January to the 1st of April.
this leaves me with loads of time to edit images/get images back from photographers every week as well as doing extra beauty shoots that can be created and shot in the makeup studio. From the first of April un till hand in, it leave me a month to put together and print the book.

Once i have a nice flow of images and I.T lessons to strengthen my skills I will start to create a website to start social networking my book and gathering potential readers before the book is even printed. The website will then be updated and edited every week along with the new images that are created on a week-by-week basis.