Vogue - 'Private Dancer' and W - 'The Girl with the Pink Hair' ....

This fun fantasy editorial photo story was shot by Craig McDean for W magazine
The model featured throughout the shoot is Russian born Natalia Vodianova, and the images capture the usually brunette model posing with spherical shapes in a bubblegum pink wig.
The main factors I have taken from this shoot is again the great use of colour and the sense of playfulness that is communicated. The location looks like a disused water slide park and already this conveys a sense of fun and this is only further emphasised by the styling.

The Vogue 'Private Dancer' shoot is very inspiring and the make up looks are very iconic. The dazzling and bright images are inspired by Alberto Vargas' pin-up girls and features model Guinevere Van Seenus posing seductively, in sexy corsets and extravagant party dresses.

The multi-coloured make up and excessive use of glitter is some what similar, but on a much larger scale, to the photoshoot carried out by Liverpool based Lola Loves Boutique. The extremely long lashes are very sultry yet playful and I would love to use this look on our shoot day.

Blackpool Model Village..

Upon initial contacts with the Blackpool Model Village they were really positive about us using this as a location for our shoot and advised that this had been done before on a few occasions for a small charge and accreditation in any work. However, on further discussion the fee to have private us of the centre was in excess of £500 and this was just not feasible for our groups budget. They did say that it was still fine to shoot on an open day with the public also having access and that the only charge would be the entry fee per person. So we decided that this was really the only option we had and we would try to push our luck a bit and stray from the path to take images in the actual village scenes...Hopefully on the shoot day this will work out to plan!!

I think the village is really quaint and has a much better effect that we could have achieved by creating our own sets. This is very similar to the America's Next Top Model Shoots but has a much more British feel.

Lola Love's

These images are from a local boutique in Liverpool, showing there Spring/Summer 2010 collection and their shop window. These depict a modern take on Alice in wonderland and I particularly like the hair and make up styling in the photoshoot of their latest collection. I also like the flowers in the manekins hair from the window display, and this is the idea i was referring to with the tea cups and dolls furniture.

Scouting for Girls...

These were the three models that we narrowed it down to for the shoot day, they are all professional models and this helps things run a lot more smoothly on the day and usually produce much stronger images. Our first choice of model was the first one, Kirsty, as we thought that with her having olive skin and brown hair she would help break away from the Cliche Alice style that is circulating at the moment. However, due to schedules we were unable to secure a date with her and made a decision to use Hollie Swain the model at the top. We have used Hollie before and she is very professional to work with and she always produces a high standard of image. Overall it was difficult to settle on a model with five members of the group but we all thought Hollie worked well and she already had images reminiscent of our chosen theme.

Pretty Little Dolls House...

This is located in Warrington Town centre and could be an interesting location shoot although it is in a very public area and that may cause problems.

The dolls house idea did lead us into the area of tea parties and the china tea sets. We thought it would be effective if we could use this some way in the shoot, but perhaps as a fashion accessory, maybe by placing these in the models hair or turning these into jewellry, similarly to the tomm binns jewellry commission for the Disney Couture range which is at the top of this post.

Initially we had the idea of making our own little sets using dolls house furniture and cardboard boxes but on initial attempts this looked quite 'handmade'. Despite this we still want to incorporate the dolls house furniture in the suits as these will be useful signposts of the size of the model to the props and this will help emphasise the overly large model.

Gwen Stefani- What You Waiting For..Tick Tock Video

I love the hair and make up in the image below and think it would be useful to emulate something like this for our shoot, as this is very effective and innocent looking like alice.

Above are some still images from the video which i really like and think are reminiscent of our chosen theme. The video is really good nspiration for us and will help us also to source props etc for the shoot. I used to think that the video was quite strange but now that im looking at it in terms of our concept it makes more sense.

Tutu Skirts...

I really want to include skirts like these in our shoot, I think they could look m ore interesting if we build a few layers up and have them really puffed out. These also link back to our chosen theme without being to over the top. There are more subtle styles as above but i think that these are not as effective.

America's Next Top Model...

These shoots were from the 'natural' shoot off the reality series America's Next Top model, and I like this idea of the model being oversized, and set in a mini scenario. This also links well to the Alice in Wonderland theme as this could tie in with the part where she shrinks and then later grows too big! I really like this idea and when we discussed this with the photographers they suggested the idea of working with a tilt shit lens if we could possibly get hold of one as this would achieve the same effect...I will have a further look into this before our next meeting.