Major Project: Production Stills & Photographer

Introduction

As part of hand-in, we've been stated that we need to hand in 5 production stills - 2 behind the scene shots, and three production action shots. This meant to get these we're going to need a photographer - not just to achieve these stills, but also so we can gain some professional and published-looking images which we can update onto our scoail media pages to help promote DownStage. As previously mentioned in my 'Behind the Scenes Marketing' blog post, I've already found a photographer, who is called Andrew Poile

Poile Photography

Recently setting up his own business named Poile Photography, Andy specialises in a range of types of photography however tends to focus more on nature. However, he hasn't done anything photographic wise for photographing a production shoot - he seemed very interested in what DownStage was about and was more than happy to be apart of our shoot.

Nonetheless, I advised him that we needed 5 production stills, however also mentioned that we would love images which we can publish onto our social networking sites - preferably focusing on behind the scenes plus some production stills to act as a tease until DownStage is released.

Andrew joined us for three days during our production, in which he then sent us the best edited images for us to upload to our social networking sites, which can be seen from the links below:

4th Shoot Day: 

https://www.facebook.com/DownStageKabsProductions/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1056786587695872

5th Shoot Day: 

https://www.facebook.com/DownStageKabsProductions/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1057398297634701

Final Shoot Day: https://www.facebook.com/DownStageKabsProductions/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1058983984142799

Conclusion

To conclude, I am more than happy with the amount and quality of images that Kate and I received. We have more than enough to choose from for our production stills and I feel they've generally helped to give an insight to our audience on who are cast are and what DownStage can be about. If I am in need of a photographer in the near future then I will definitely be contacting Andrew again - despite us being friends we both work well in a professional manor, and I feel that we both benefit from each other by working together.