Evaluation

I think the overall project went well but there were areas that could be improved. There was a lot of problems and barriers while completing this. The first of the barriers was I feel we didn't get enough warning of the brief to sort out models, therefore I had problems with models ditching me late notice after I had only asked them in a week in advance. The second one is that there was no flash triggers then when they came they didn't work. And the third was the makeup artists I couldn't do my cinderella shoot because my model could only do that day and the makeup artist walked out before even starting the makeup. I met my ideas by doing everything I intended to do I had all the props and locations and everything turned out how I planned. My ideas first started to change when at first I just decided to do modern day princesses, but as I got further into my research I decided to think about how people look at disney and want that life, but it never happens. So thinking about that I looked up on a lot of things that are effecting the world and people and decided to show it through disney, to show people that there life isn't going to be like a disney film. I also had to not do some of the princess because the models bailed on me last minute. I think the strong points of this whole project was working with the theatrical makeup and working to make the princesses look like princesses. Another strong point was my Pocahontas photo shoot because the model I picked was perfect for the job, also where I set it suited it really well, the shoot and exactly how I wanted it to apart from a few errors. For my final images I think they're strong and fit with what I have done, one of the images a traditional disney photo and the other showing how the world is actually like. I chose these images as my final image because I think they where all the best images for the message I was trying to get across. The frozen one its obvious elsa has frozen anna's face on purpose, which shows they hate each other and this puts across the idea of family arguments and problems that are always going on. The other photo is what they would normally be like if they was in a disney movie all lovely and happy. The alice in wonderland photograph where it is set in the pub I have got the message across about her being on drugs by making her look confused about why is there a cat stood in front of her. The other photo shows what its really like just a crazy land with crazy creatures. The Pocahontas shoot shows online relationships and how you don't find love at first sight these days, so I took the photo with her looking down at her photo to show you normally meet people online. The other photo just shows her for who she actually is in the books and movies a proud confident south american.

Shoot 3

I really enjoyed this shoot. The light outside was very good and not raining. I had the makeup done by a makeup artist and it is absolutely amazing, I'm so glad the person who did it, did it for me. The main shoot was outside and that went really well the only problem is that a couple of them the background is in focus and she isn't. There also was a lot of litter around that I had to remove apart from that it all went fine. Then I went into the studio again the flash trigger wasn't working so the pictures looked yellow but I worked with what I had and the outcome wasn't too bad in the end. The theme I was going for this was true love and how you never find love at first sight anymore. So I had her with a phone trying to show that most of it is digital. I think I got this across well because a native american in the time the movie/story was set there would not have been mobile phones and mobile phones are associated we texting, social network and dating sites.

These are the images I have edited. I have made the one that shows the story bright and warm and the one to do with the mobile phone looking more old as it shows what time it is originally meant to be it effect thing.

Shoot 2

 I think the actual idea its self was really good, the idea of alice in wonderland and drugs I thinks fits in with the theme quite well. I was unfortunately unable to take a studio light to the pub I was shooting the main photographs in so they are very grainy because I had to use a ISO of 1600, a shutter speed of 1/60 of a second and a aperture of 4f. If i had had the light i would of been really happy with the outcome of the pictures, the pictures themselves are good with the composition and the way I have made my model pose. I was just let down by the lighting and the settings I had to use. The models I picked where right for the shoot they did everything exactly how I had asked them. The theme I was going for was drug use. With these kind of pictures they could be used on a poster or in a magazine to campaign the effects on drugs and why not to use them. 

These are the photographs I have edited. I made the one with the cat in the tree just like the movie when the cat is talking to alice in the tree. On the other photo its in a club so it gives the effect of it being a real situation.

Shoot 1

I had a problem with this shoot it was all going to be based in the studio but the flash triggers where not working so the photos turned out quite yellow and not very sharp because I had to use a high ISO, so the picture look grainy. I had to also model for myself which i didn't want to do because that meant i had to have my camera on self timer and had to do the poses. They didn't look as good because if i had a model i could place them and look if the image would actually look right. I think the images themselves are strong its just the white balance and the composition in a lot of the photos. I got the makeup artists to do the makeup i like the way that the anna makeup was done but the elsa makeup was done so orange when i told them to do her very white. I think that ruins the pictures a little bit. The theme of this shoot was family problems and sisters hating each other. It is a contrast between the film as that is about them loving each other. I have got it across by the violence in the photographs.  

These are the images I have shot and edited. I am going to use these images in my final thing as part as a book one with a proper image the other one them hating and being frozen.