The client is my friend and we were communicating through a social networking site and through text so the conversation is in colloquial language. A summary of the brief is; my friend Anne is a special effects make up artist and i knew that she was looking for someone to do a photo shoot for her so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to use Anne as my client as we will both benefit from it. Anne agreed to be my client and we begun to talk about ideas for the shoot. She was sure to tell me that her target audience is international SPX and production companies. The type of SFX make up that Anne specialises in is blood and gore so it was very easy to decide on the zombie theme. Choosing our actors/models was simple as we had mutual friends that we knew would do a fantastic job as some had drama experience. I threw in a few ideas to Anne but we mainly stuck to her initial ideas which was to have an innocent looking girl visit a grave and 2 zombies are hidden in the cemetery who notice the girl and chase her only to catch her and feast on her body. Anne also stated a possible twist we could have used which was the girl turned round and killed them.. again but we chose not to carry out this twist. We then spoke about a second location that we could use being a tattoo studio but we did not use this idea either. We also discussed what type of editing Anne wanted on the photos, mentioning white goul eyes and a blue/purple atmosphere.
Jemma: Hay Anne (: Ummm do you still need photos taken for your bloody, manky, maggot infested make up? If you do I can do a shoot for you because for my diploma I need to do a photography project where I need a client and I was thinking you could be my client and the photos I take you can use to promote and show your work. Tell what you think (: x
Anne: Ooh sounds cool but I don't photo great so we could use Tony haha when do you need this to happen deary, and any idea of location etc? xx
Haha or a zombie with a bunch of flowers visiting a grave.. A little spin off. Also Jem, just to let your know I will obviously be using the photos for my SFX portfolio so they will be seen by international sfx artist companies and theatre/tv production companies. Not to put pressure on you but just so you know who my target audience is.
I'm liking the innocent girl and flowers, that would look really good because i could make them quite bright and obvious and the zombies obvious but subtle in the background. yea we could do a Sunday afternoon, that’s cool, depending how long we're at the location we could try is at the sun is going down too because I think if the sky is a bit mild bluey/purple it will have a good impact, but we can see when we're there.
I think we should just do a range of some in the day and night because I'm planning on taking a couple hundred photos.
Yea I was going to buy some hearts as well and either use fake blood or red food dye to make it redder - really works in previous experience. Oooo I like the twist of her turning on them!! If we use the graveyard next to Orrie I'm sure he would let you do the make up up there, also I don't know if there is a pretty area of that cemetery
Yea I have a new version of photo shop (: For the eye's i am signed up to Picnik and they have an eye colour changing tool and the eyes can be literately any colour you want and it also has a Halloween section where they have like vampire/goul eyes (:
Can you think of anywhere that would look clinical? I'm really stuck on the idea of the zombies feasting on someone in a whitety room! I can't think of anywhere though. I think we should use a minimum of two locations (:
Jemma: Woo great thank you! We could use tony and Joe and maybe my friend so we have a girl too. Everything is totally up to you, you're the client so say what you want it to look like and basically I have to make it happen lol. It needs to be a really good location, not just a plain background.. Possibly graveyard? Just somewhere dark and where you wouldn't like to go at night lol. And maybe to be taken on a weekend in the next 3 weeks? x
Anne: Great stuff, OK so let me ponder it, chat with Tony and get this wknd in Devon out of the way and I'll contact you next week with a couple of options, all the makeup can be done at my sisters house just downstairs from Joe’s and then we can bundle in the car and venture to our locations! Should have a few cool props too seeing as tis Halloween season x
Jemma: Yeaa sounds good >< x
Jemma: Haay, did you and Tony have a little think about location ideas and shizzle? We need to create a brief, like you need to write what you want, i.e. our agreement and terms (not too sure what that means but its on my list to have) you need to specify the target audience, conventions used equipment, resources etc. Also we'll need to think and state legal and ethical issues and limitations and we'll need to plan a schedule of when we are doing the pics. Let me know what ideas you got then we can start making concrete plans (:
Aaaaand you need to say how you want some of the pics to look, like what positions or what you want going on, e.g. someone biting someone’s face off or feasting on another person (:
Sorry you may get a few messages throughout the day as I think of stuff >< I'm liking the idea of somehow using mirror(s) in the shoot. Like the dead people being fascinated by their reflection kinda thing. Are they going to be zombies or just injured people?
I'm also liking the idea of possibly having a clinical looking setting for some of the pics. So having a whitey room or just a light colour so the guys make up will really stand out
Ooo you know where I think we could use, you know bow cemetery that's right next to Orrie’s! I don't think that ever has a keeper and it scares the shit out of me so I think it would look really good!
I'm going to get some bones and meat and try to get a goat’s head!
Jemma: Hay Anne, I don't want to be a pain but I kinda need to know you're ideas before Monday. If you just list it all I am happy to write the brief. I just need to start getting the pre production side going. Tarr (:
Anne: Yo sorry for taking so long. Been a busy busy bee.
Ok so I'll chuck some ideas at you n I'll let you put some ideas etc in too ?!
I like the idea of the graveyard setting with an innocent visitor sitting at a grave with a bunch of flowers in (preferably her) hands, and 1 or 2 zombies walking towards her in the background, but she's completely unaware of them. I'd quite like this to be in a prettier, forestry part of the graveyard where there'll hopefully be a bit of colour. Not sure if we could pull this shot off in the dark, and Tony doesn't finish work until the evenings on Saturday's so it might be one for an early Sunday afternoon? I think there's something more unsettling about zombies in the daylight myself?!
Ok then we could maybe have some shots of them chomping down on her. I have some fake hearts and eyeballs so we could make this pretty cool, although doing her makeup in the cemetery could prove tricky.. Failing that, maybe an unexpected twist could be some shots of her going all psycho and killing them..? Ooh and maybe after the killing shots we could have a single snap of her looking down at a big bite mark on her arm... And we all know what that means... Uh oh!
Are you able to Photoshop these images at all? The zombies would look much more effective if you could pale out there eyes, kinda like a corpse that's been dead for a couple months. Contacts are soo expensive!
Ok so I'll chuck some ideas at you n I'll let you put some ideas etc in too ?!
I like the idea of the graveyard setting with an innocent visitor sitting at a grave with a bunch of flowers in (preferably her) hands, and 1 or 2 zombies walking towards her in the background, but she's completely unaware of them. I'd quite like this to be in a prettier, forestry part of the graveyard where there'll hopefully be a bit of colour. Not sure if we could pull this shot off in the dark, and Tony doesn't finish work until the evenings on Saturday's so it might be one for an early Sunday afternoon? I think there's something more unsettling about zombies in the daylight myself?!
Ok then we could maybe have some shots of them chomping down on her. I have some fake hearts and eyeballs so we could make this pretty cool, although doing her makeup in the cemetery could prove tricky.. Failing that, maybe an unexpected twist could be some shots of her going all psycho and killing them..? Ooh and maybe after the killing shots we could have a single snap of her looking down at a big bite mark on her arm... And we all know what that means... Uh oh!
Are you able to Photoshop these images at all? The zombies would look much more effective if you could pale out there eyes, kinda like a corpse that's been dead for a couple months. Contacts are soo expensive!
Jemma: Oo no worries (: That's really good that you will be showing the photos to them, I will make sure they look as prioffesional as I can make them.
I'm liking the innocent girl and flowers, that would look really good because i could make them quite bright and obvious and the zombies obvious but subtle in the background. yea we could do a Sunday afternoon, that’s cool, depending how long we're at the location we could try is at the sun is going down too because I think if the sky is a bit mild bluey/purple it will have a good impact, but we can see when we're there.
I think we should just do a range of some in the day and night because I'm planning on taking a couple hundred photos.
Yea I was going to buy some hearts as well and either use fake blood or red food dye to make it redder - really works in previous experience. Oooo I like the twist of her turning on them!! If we use the graveyard next to Orrie I'm sure he would let you do the make up up there, also I don't know if there is a pretty area of that cemetery
Yea I have a new version of photo shop (: For the eye's i am signed up to Picnik and they have an eye colour changing tool and the eyes can be literately any colour you want and it also has a Halloween section where they have like vampire/goul eyes (:
Can you think of anywhere that would look clinical? I'm really stuck on the idea of the zombies feasting on someone in a whitety room! I can't think of anywhere though. I think we should use a minimum of two locations (:
MORE OF THE CLIENTS BRIEF.
ReplyDeleteJemma: Helloo Anne, as the shoot is on Sunday, what do you want the models to wear? (:
Anne: The zombies will need old clothing that we can rip and bloody up but the girl should wear something really pretty, maybe a pretty 2nd hand dress that we can still bloody if needs be?
Jemma: Okay cool, do you want like dark clothing or can be anything?
Anne: Anything really. Lighter clothing would be better with the blood on it! Need to see if we can stock up on red food colouring too
Jemma: I bought one the other day but can get more, how many do you think we need? And when do you want to do the farm shoot
Anne: A couple would be good if we want excess blood. I have fake blood but it's so expensive I tend to just use it for the prosthetic side and not the bloodying up of clothes. It doesn't look to effective on clothes either. I will talk to jess tomorrow re the farm shoot. The builders are pulling everything down now so space will be limited but we should be able to find a good spot!
Jemma: Okayy cool just let me know when we can do it (: what time we guna do it on Sunday?
Anne: I was just about to txt you sorry I'm not being ignorant when I go quite, just being a busy bee and falling off my bike haha I get really annoyed with txters like me.. I was going to ask if we had any idea who our farm zombies are going to be? I could possibly get a girl! And there's an elegant church yard cemetery just across the road. It'll be dark though as it'll have to be done once the farms closed! As for Sunday we can just meet at my sisters down from Joe?
Anne: Say around 1ish? But let me know what works for you too
Jemma: Lol you fell off your bike..? And I have girls for both they're not a prob, 1 is good, just wanna bare in mind how long it'll take to do all the make up because I reckon we can get the photos within an hour and to get good lighting we wanna finish before 4 and Joe is up for both shoots, so just need another guy zombie for farm. That church yard you mentioned, is that for the cute girl shoot or farm?
Anne: Oh so we need another guy... Hmmmm! Let me ask around and YES, I fucking fell off twice haha my knees are all grazed and scabby hah well I just kinda figured that the church yard is there just incase you wanted to use it for any night time shots.. Might inspire you! And we can defo do earlier than 1.. It'll take on average about 45mins-ish to do each persons makeup, I'm sure I'll have plenty of help ruining the clothes you can get some decent snaps of Joe wearing the plugs I'm making too haha
Jemma: Lol you melon, not once but twice. And yea could always take a few in the yard while we're there, gotta pic a day for farm one and okay maybe we should start at 12 on Sunday? And oo yea they'll look good (:
Anne: How short notice can you do the farm shoot?
Jemma: Uhh I can do like Thursday but will have to check with my girl and Joe, will ask em now if you want?
Anne: Yeah if you could? I can't do Friday onwards on the farm
Jemma: Oh okay, uh none of next week?
Anne: Oh I can do next week..
Jemma: What day is good for you next week?
Anne: Preferably Monday?
Jemma: Yep that's fine
The above conversation just states the planning of times, dates and locations of the shoots.
ReplyDeleteWe also spoke about what our second shoot would actually be as I had purchased a real goats head from a african/caribbean food market. We thought about how we could incorporate the animal head when Anne told me that she volunteers at Stepney City Farm and we may be able to use that facility. Fortunately we was granted permission and so the planning for both shoots were now concrete.