College Photo Shoot

Posting by Bev Bishop, Marketing Co-ordinator

Today the College held an official photo shoot, in which new imagery for next year’s College prospectus was taken. We had a professional photographer come in to College and we took over the Dance Studio for the morning.

29 students took part in today’s photo shoot. They were split into groups of 4 or 5 students and photographed together. It was all done expertly, with professional lighting and a white screen background so the resulting pictures can be cut out and put in front of any background we need in the final prospectus.

We were trying to capture images of students looking happy and comfortable with each other and given that the College is so large and not all the students knew each other they did a great job of bonding. All involved showed great maturity and enthusiasm for a process which feels quite alien.

We took hundreds of photos over the course of the morning and from that we will probably only end up using six pictures, but that is how professional photo shoots work – you take loads more than you need and then you have lots to choose from, so you can pick a shot in which everyone is looking at their best.

You’ll have to wait until the new prospectus is out in September to see the finished product, but it looks like we got what we were hoping for.

Huge thanks go to all the students who participated – it is a tough thing to organise, as I was looking to represent the entire College community in just a few photos, so we want a balance of gender, ethnicity and career ambitions. Trying to fit that into the timetable so no one missed a lesson was not easy, but the final product will be worth the effort.

I must also thank the photographer Tim Robberts and the marketing agency Box Clever Marketing, who designed the College prospectus and website, for their hard work.

Below is a sneak peak behind the scenes.