Lalita Bailey A2 Media Studies: Ancillary task photoshoot (practice shots).

Below are examples of poses that show experimentation with different shots and compositions theses pictures were taken while filming the prostitution scene.Everyone in the group initially taken there own set of practise shots so that we could generate ideas and then take the best of each and combine them.Individually I wanted to capture the same tone of the characters life being difficult and hard as it is portrayed in the music video.We as a group decided that we wanted that we wanted the heart necklace to feature in both the ancillary task photos and the music video as it would represent the icognographic element that symbolises heart break and pain.These photos were taken as a brain storming starting point but careful focused ideas have derived from this as we were able to generate research that linked with our theme.

We decided(what we have learnt):

We wanted to take the photograph in black and white so that it would capture the melancholy tone that is featured in our music video.

We want our actress' makeup to be simple in the photographs because research sows that even if the actress is playing a troubled rough looking character in order to promote the song commercially we have to present the actress in a more stylised presentable way on our digi pack and magazine promotional poster.For example she has to appear pretty with simple makeup opposed to the rough shabby looking smeared makeup and scruffy clothes that she is wearing in the video.

We also decided to take future photographs in a studio type setting against a plain white background using studio lights so that we could appropriately control and manipulate the light while taking the photographs in black and white.

We also decided to use a tripod to take the photographs like we did when filming so that we could control the focus of the camera so that our photographs look clearer and more focused.