"The Halfway Mark" by Alexandra Gunnoe Reviews

Right now I'm gearing up for a 50’s Youth Culture themed photo shoot with a model, Brooke, I met on a random bus in the middle of the country.  I wrote about that meeting in a previous post, "Girl on a Bus".

Can you believe it was her first shoot?  She did such an amazing job and I’m excited to get her in front of my camera again. I'm also looking forward to working with a new Hair and Makeup Artist, Connie, as well as Kate from Fashion Farmer and Dan Shears, from the West of England Transportation Collection.  Here's a mood board I quickly put together this morning.  It's not pretty or balanced but hopefully you'll get an idea of what we're doing.  Aren't the clothes Kate chose fabulous?

It's crazy to realise this will be our 5th vintage bus shoot.  That means we will be halfway done.  And the remaining vehicles are really exciting so the momentum is still building.  I can't quite figure out what I want to do with this beautiful firetruck.  That one has to be a very special shoot.  What do you think?

For more information on this project, please check out my previous posts, as well as my website.

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Preparing for a Fashion Shoot (and the Importance of Mood Boards) by Alexandra Gunnoe Reviews

Right now I’m in the middle of preparing for 11 separate fashion shoots featuring theses gorgeous vintage buses from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s.  For more information on this project please read my previous blog “The Vintage Bus Project”.  It’s a lot of juggling, and in an effort to stay organised I’m trying to focus on a few shoots at a time so it doesn’t all catch up with me later.  

As of today, I have held castings for models, hair stylists and makeup artists for the first four shoots, and I am lucky to have found an amazing stylist, Kate Sly, of Fashion Farmer who is pulling looks for the entire project.   Most of my recent days have been spent emailing my creative team (soooo many emails), deciding on locations and trying to make sense of everything by creating excel sheets and mood boards.  I haven’t been the most organised person in my past and I’m trying out this system, which seems to be working for me so far.  I feel very, very busy but I’m not overwhelmed, which is a good place to be.

The first shoot will be a 60’s theme and we’ve built the concept around this beautiful 1959 yellow double-decker.  Hopefully you can see from my mood board what I want to get from the shoot.   My mood boards aren’t too fancy or elaborate in execution but they get the point across.  Our model, Morgan, fits the theme perfectly and the wardrobe Kate has pulled is more than amazing.  I now feel confident everyone involved is on the same page.

Here are two more mood boards for the 2^nd and 3^rd shoot, which are a 40’s and 50’s theme, respectively.    

 

And Kate’s efforts deserve their own photos, as I couldn’t be happier with what she has chosen for our first shoot.

Not long now, we start shooting in a week!

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