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This one was a bit of an epic... Lily and I have shot together on any number of occasions and this was easily our most ambitious shoot yet. We have a habit of egging each other on - and when one of us suggests an idea the other never says 'no', they just add another element. We were in the studio 13 hours all told - but we did shoot some other stuff too.
Lily creates performance installations for high end events and needed to show off her incredible costume and set making skills. The brief was to create a dramatic scene to show off what her clients would get without it being too moody & glum - in Lily's words 'dark light and light shadows'.
It was deeply technical - and fwiw I think that's reflected in the fact that it's slightly stiff and mannered. She's delighted with it though, and I think it meets the brief.
Lily La Mer & Company by Simon Carter, on Flickr
I did some BTS stuff for a lighting group on FB.. reproduced here.
8 lights, 3 assistants - unfortunately not Beth @sunnyside_up, she was going to come and lend a hand but couldn't make it. Plus one specialist low-level fog machine, lots of fairy lights and yards and yards of muslin. There were also a couple of rolls of fake snow, 4 bags of ice, a number of confetti cannons (they were overkill) and a number of painted trees.
Blank slate.. this is what we started with. The first job was to dismantle a partition wall:
Sorting out the props:
Costumes:
Top view:
Lily creates performance installations for high end events and needed to show off her incredible costume and set making skills. The brief was to create a dramatic scene to show off what her clients would get without it being too moody & glum - in Lily's words 'dark light and light shadows'.
It was deeply technical - and fwiw I think that's reflected in the fact that it's slightly stiff and mannered. She's delighted with it though, and I think it meets the brief.
Lily La Mer & Company by Simon Carter, on Flickr
I did some BTS stuff for a lighting group on FB.. reproduced here.
8 lights, 3 assistants - unfortunately not Beth @sunnyside_up, she was going to come and lend a hand but couldn't make it. Plus one specialist low-level fog machine, lots of fairy lights and yards and yards of muslin. There were also a couple of rolls of fake snow, 4 bags of ice, a number of confetti cannons (they were overkill) and a number of painted trees.
Blank slate.. this is what we started with. The first job was to dismantle a partition wall:
Sorting out the props:
Costumes:
Top view:
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