The end of the academic year is here once again, and with it comes the annual Degree Show. Every year the students of Media Production have a strong presence at the Degree Show, with films being shown and posters on display. This year, in addition to the normal exhibition, we had elements from the sets of three films recreated in our Shoot Studio for visitors to take a look around, and get an extra experience from the degree show. Pride of place was the set of James Parsons' western drama, 'Violet', and I had the opportunity to shoot a photo of James on the set, along with Director of Photography Ciaron Craig (Ciaron's on the left, James is on the right):
The Degree Show posters were on display in the Film Theatre foyer, as is traditional, and also in the newly opened Review Room next to the Shoot Studio. Last year I took some portraits of the film-makers with their posters, so this year I decided to carry on the tradition, and capture some of the Class of 2012 with their work:
Luke Fawsitt with the poster for The Bone China Formula
Ewan Dyer with the poster for Circulate
Rob Burns with the poster for Dead Rabbits
Jon White with the poster for Pancakes
The set of Degree Show pictures can be seen on Flickr here: Degree Show 2012
Running alongside the Degree Show this year was a new event, the Staffordshire University Fringe Festival. The Friday night, June 22nd, was a working night for me, having been recruited by Unique Media Productions to help out with their closing night event, "It's A Wrap!", a celebration of the films of the Class of 2012 coupled with an audio-visual performance by local VJ and DJ outfit bITjAM, otherwise known as Carl Plant and Ben McManus:
The event was organised by Unique Media Production's Rachel Brewster, who not only organised the whole thing but also got the first round in!
After being heavily involved in the physical setting up of the event, the evening gave me a chance to wander around with my camera and document the visitors to give an overall view of the proceedings:
The full set of photos from the event can be seen on Flickr: "It's A Wrap!" event, Staffordshire University Fringe Festival
Today I spent the day in the studio, working with my former Phoenix Photo Buddy and great friend Lauren Freeman. For a little while now I've been batting around a few ideas for themed shoots, and in recent weeks Lauren and I have been planning a day in the studio, and today was that day!
The first thing I have to say about today's shoot is that Lauren was an absolute star. She turned up early, having travelled down to Stoke, she did her own hair, make-up and outfits, took direction accurately every single time and built on ideas to make them her own. Considering that this was Lauren's first time in front of the camera on a shoot of this scale, I have to say that I couldn't have wished for a better model in front of my lens!
We covered several themes that I've been developing, and shot around 2200 shots over seven hours. I've got an awful lot of editing to do, but I'm looking forward to it immensely! For now though, here's a sneak peek from behind the scenes, of Lauren on the studio set, retouching her make-up:
Watch this space!
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