Casting & Styling

[As we all worked together on research, this blog post originally came from Lily's blog - as this was the blog we used to output all things relevant. This is a repost of what we ALL did]

After our second tutorial with sam we decided that we needed to finalise who we would use to model. We did have a model lined up but it was a shady area on whether she would be reliable and so we began looking again. We found several people around halls and uni who all had characteristics that fitted our idea:

We then stumbled across a girl who we thought would be perfect and who we were already in contact with. So we asked her and she agreed. Her friend is also a stylist who's work we have seen before and we think would be a good idea to get involved so that our shoot fulfils the fashion image brief well. We have asked both girls to come down soon so that we can do a charactarisation and styling shoot and brief the two on our project.

There are a few others that live closer by who we can also use to fall back on incase of any issues that occur.


We have decided to that we would like to collaborate with other subjects at uni as there are so many resources available. We have found a designer who has created a dress in the style of Rick Owens (a designer we were looking into for inspiration). We will propse this idea to our stylist too and see how she feels we can combine this with other fashion elements to get the look we are aiming for.
We are also planning on finding student who work in jewellry design as this is a very important part of our styling also. We were thinking of a type of head dress/crown that suggests power and status but that also looks home made as if our character is the only one who feels these things about herself. We have met a few people that would be interested but again we will also run these ideas by our stylist so we achieve the best look possible.