Jamie's organisation of actors, props and photo shoot plan

Photo Shoot No.1

To organise my actors i had to first decide when and where i would be shooting and who i would be. naturally, i had to choose alex, given my article was on him, and he suggested his house. he told me there were multiplte sites that would make for a good shot, and he was right. we got a pretty good shot at night of him sat on a stone pedestal almost looking of into the middle distance. this i would use for my front cover.

we made plans to go to his house on the 16th november. he'd be wearing casual clothes, to make it seem like it as an everyday in his life with him practicing his guitar. In this first shoot we decied to get him to wear a hoodie and to have it up, almost to give him a more "thug-ish nature" and i thought i could use this for my DPS as his first albums' cover art, which i names, merciless affection. and i thought it could be an album that focused on the troubles he's had in life so far, along with the happier times too.

To organize our props, i asked Alex what instruments he had at his house, which was numerous types of guitars. so, i asked him on the night if we could take a few of them. we ended up using the guitar Alex calls "Suzie". 

To feed our hungry actors and helpers (Celine Pohl and Frances Major) we both put money towards pizza's for the four of us.

Photo Shoot No.2

We had to cut our last photoshoot short due to it being too dark to take any sort of pictures. plus everyone was shivering and it was lowering our picture quality. we did however get a very nice shot for Alex's first album.

My second photo shoot took place in our recording studio at school. i wanted to grab a few shots of people working the mixing desk, given that our magazine also focuses on the technological side of rock and roll. So, i asked m smart looking friend Anders Lang if he wouldn't mind modeling for me. He didn't. So i managed to get some pretty good ones of him using the mixing desk and pointing at the screen, basically, as if i was a fly on the wall.

The props we needed were already in the recording studio, so i didn't need to bring anything, i just needed to get the right positions for each prop and of course, to get my model into the right poses and positions.