OUGD602: Harrison France (Marshlands Collaboration)

After the success of the first shoot, Harrison asked me to do more styling on his upcoming shoot, which will hopefully end up as an editorial piece. We were in communication a lot as Harrison had a very clear idea in his head for how the shoot should look. We decided together that each look should be either purely black or purely white, reflecting the location we both chose together. We shot on Saddleworth Moore, allowing vast open spaces and a variation of different locations (all within a short-ish distance, easy parking and no permission required to shoot). The concept behind the styling was to represent good/evil, truth/lies, honesty/deception, highlighting the history of the moors murders.

Learning from the last shoot, I took more items which could be interchanged (yet this was actually a bigger hinderance than benefit- too much choice = too confusing). I have now learnt not to do this in the future. I also decided to do an inventory of stock taken for this shoot. As I work part time in a jewellers I asked to borrow some pieces (totalling over £1000) so felt this was a necessary precaution. I felt doing this made me more organised as I could see physical lists of what was there/on the model, and what was remaining. I will continue to do this for future shoots.

This time I also felt like a small cogg in a much larger team, all brought together by Harrison. The model Gabi has been signed to J'adore models in Manchester for a few years, and was alot friendlier than I expected, which was a pleasant surprise. I also had the benefit of working with Leeds based Kat Von D makeup artist Abi Hylton- we all switched details and said we should definitely collaborate again in the future. I realised from this that I am really good at working in small teams, as this allows you to bounce ideas off eachother and i'm not so 'in my own head' as much. This is definitely something I want to continue professionally.