Construction Post 2: Producing our Promo Shots

Taking professional and sleek promo shots of our artist was important for both our website and album cover and for promoting our artist. We need to have a large variety of promo shots in order to excite and appeal to our target audience.

LOCATION PHOTO SHOOT

We wanted to take some shots on location rather than in the studio. We had already planned to shoot our shots and God's Own Junkyard in Walthamstow:

We all went to Gods Own Junkyard on 18th November with a DSLR camera and shot a variety of promo shots of our artist using poses and framing inspired by our previous research into promo shots;























STUDIO PHOTOSHOOT

We knew for the studio shots we needed a variety of outfits and looks to give us enough variety. We therefore planned three outfits for both Mira and Jax:

We then set up in the seward studio at our school and used the plain white background to shoot our promo shots in front of. We also used props such as a sofa and a stool in some of our shots.

We then wanted to add even more variety in our shots and so used the lighting desk in the studio to create green coloured lighting:

EDITING OUR PROMO SHOTS

Before our promo shots went on our website we had to edit them on photoshop to make them look more professional.

• Quick selection tool and refine edge tool on shots with a white background to remove the background. 

• We used the skin smooth action on Mira and Jax faces in order to make their skin look flawless.