My final Beauty Brand Image - Nars

My final Editorial/Inspirational word Images - Gambol

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Mood board and Story board for my Editorial Images

Here is my mood board for my editorial shoot which shows my ideas and how I was unsure of whether to show movement through using the gobo's or to use powder paint or emotions in the face to show how people move/react when showing how they feel. However it is also clear that my main/strongest idea is using the gobo for my editorial shoot as its different to beauty shots and has a lot of contrast within it.

Here is my storyboard for my Editorial image which shows that I want quite strong and dramatic eye makeup with glossy lips but in the shoot I ended up changing my mind and making the models lips more of a purple/pink colour which went with her skin tone as well. Also as I was using  the gobo lighting set up for the shoot I want to slick back the hair into a high pony tail as it gives the gobo more space to move around on the face. Also I like the angles of the images on here that are in black and white but still struggled making the gobo come out strong enough to create enough contrast in my images.

Mood board and Story board for my Beauty Brand Image

Here is my mood board for my Beauty Brand image with my brand clearly being Nars. I want my shots to be bright and I want the skin to look radiant but haven't quite decided what hairstyle I want to use as my image will fit with my inspirational word through the hair as I am going to incorporate rolls in the hair but want to avoid creating victory rolls as it will change the feel of the shoot and wouldn't fit with the normal Nars beauty advertisements.

Here is my story board for my Beauty brand image which shows clearly what kind of makeup I want to include and that I want my Beauty brand image to be advertising lip gloss as its subtle and will look very neutral like a lot of the Nars ads but still have strong/dramatic eyes with very radiant skin. Also in one of my practise sessions we prepared the gobo lighting set up but struggled greatly getting the gobo's to actually show up strong and ended up just taking out the gobo and using the spotlight lighting which looked very glamorous compared to when the gobos were in. This is why I included an image of the lighting set up and one of the images we took in that shoot.

Practising lighting set up using a Gobo

In this image we used a gobo lighting set up but struggled to get the gobo to show up very brightly but in this image I feel i looks really nice and subtle if that was the type of shot/look I was going for. I wanted to practise this set up as I didn't want to take long setting up when I use this kind of set up for my photoshoots as it means I would leave my models waiting. This session showed that I was able to set up on my own as I was once of few that knew exactly what was needed and how to set it up properly. I left this session quite confused as the set up using the gobo's didn't work as well as I had hoped but found the lighting set up for my Beauty image as when we took out the Gobo's the lighting and composition of the images we were taking came out really nice and effective which would fit with my brand 'Nars'.

These two images show the same lighting set up using the Gobo but without any gobos in it so it was a strong spotlight which came out very bright on the right as we was also using the reflector and the image on the left shows what that images look like with the same lighting set up but without the reflector which shows what a different it makes as it changes the feel of the shoot completely.

Here is another image using the gobo lighting set up which is the lighting I want to use for both my makeup brand images and my editorial images however for my editorial images I want to actually use the gobos and it will fit with my word 'Gambol' which means a forward roll but I will be using it in the sense of movement and how the gobo hits/moves around the different hollows of the face and with my beauty brand images I will be creating a roll in the hair which will fit with my word as it is a roll and 'Gambol' means a forward roll.

IT : Using InDesign, Bringing boards, images and text together

When putting all of the pages together it is important to ensure everything is the same size and that they are the same width apart as although the images have been edited and look good the pages need to look neat and aesthetically pleasing if they are being shown to other people. Also if someone is marking your work they need to be able to understand what is what and to ensure that, you need to keep everything organised.

When inserting my mood board I struggled as the page I wanted to put it on wasn't the right size and was too small so I had to click on the moodboard to see what width and size they were to create a new master page that had a width of 1364px and height of 767.25px. However this was easily rectified and changed for the other pages that needed this size and to be landscape.