A photo shoot! Doesn’t that sound glamorous? The College had a photo shoot on Wednesday 1 May, as a professional photographer came to College to take photos for the new College prospectus. So, did we all feel like Hollywood movie stars as a result? Well, as someone behind the scenes, probably not!
The reality of a photo shoot like this is that it’s quite
hard work. We hope the resulting photos will look fantastic and make all that
hard work worthwhile, but the organisation needed to get it done is very high.
The type of photo we were after for the prospectus were very “real”, authentic action photos, so we were not asking students to strike a pose, but instead act naturally and try to pretend the photographer was not there (easier said than done!). The photographer who undertook this work was called Tim and the College has worked with him before. He’s a very talented photographer and a master at making people feel at ease, which I think helped the students get on with something that actually feels quite unnatural.
We had more than 40 students volunteer to be in these photos. A big thanks goes to them for their wonderful, supportive attitude towards the College. We managed to involve them in such a way that they were each detained for just a short period of time (a maximum of 30 minutes each) and we did not impinge on their lesson time. That in itself is quite a difficult thing to organise, because every student has a different timetable and we needed to get photos in so many different locations around College in just one day. Our efforts were not helped by a fire alarm mid-morning, which put us slightly behind schedule for the rest of the day, but students were very understanding of this minor delay.
We visited the Refectory, Costa, Internet Café, Library and Learning Resource Centre, Art and Graphics studios, Biology and Chemistry labs, Modern Foreign Language multimedia labs, Dance Studio, Music recording studio, Fitness Suite and IT classrooms – all in one day! No wonder, we were exhausted at the end of the day.
We have not yet had the chance to go through the photos yet. Our Marketing Agency Box Clever Marketing – who we must thank for directing the photo shoot – will go through them all and pick out the best for use in the prospectus. All I have seen so far are a handful on the camera itself and what I’ve seen looks really good, so I’m looking forward to seeing them in print in September.
For now, I just have to again pass on my thanks to everyone who was involved (students and staff) and ask you to watch this space…
For now, here are some behind the scenes shots to keep you a flavour of the shoot.
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