Category: Reflection

Reflection on Film shoot day

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Today we got some really good clips and stills of model: Orlando at Hove beach for our fashion film. Though it was super cold, we managed to get Orlando in the water and out again without catching frostbite!

I am really pleased with the outcome of today, as we got a lot of content. Naturally, our concept had changed a bit whilst filming as the initial idea of having him strip off seemed to not go with the message we were trying to send. We also found that the clips we filmed of him putting on and off his clothes looked too sexual and Baywatch like rather than an abstracted clip we had hoped for. Therefore we changed how we filmed the material and clothes and used the water which created a really nice visual.

As VP I was contributing to filming shots for the film as well as behind the scenes, which I will further edit and upload to Instagram.

Keeping Productive During a Second Lockdown Reflection

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I’m finding it really hard to keep motivated since the majority of our work is online this year, especially creating content for our current editorial as were restricted on how we can carry out things that would be easy like photoshoots/interviews. It’s conflicting because you want to create something high spec like the previous year’s editorials, but with a concept like ours that is hugely people-orientated, it’s tough.

I’m the visual promoter in our team, and currently trying to think of innovative ways to get concept-related imagery to put on our Instagram. So far we haven’t got anything up and running as I’m trying to create a ‘coming soon’ short video to post first before the ident.

That’s my current state of mind – a little positive a little apprehensive a little confused on it all.

Refined Concept

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Introducing PORTAL and inter-generational community through fashion.

Updating you from my last concern, we’ve decided to use fashion as our vehicle for conversation whilst we interview people for the content of this magazine- this gives us that strong core for every issue that we were lacking before.

The idea is that the magazine is for the people therefore the content we have will be made from the people by letting them lead conversations from our starting point. Everyone has got something interesting to say/ that they do or know and our magazine is going to represent that.

Using fashion as our starting point we will explore similarities between the generations of trends and repetitions, based on what they say or story they tell or item of clothing they describe we will curate it into either an interview script, article, illustration or photo collage. We also want to include a community artists page which showcases all the upcoming young/older artist’s work in the area of Brighton.

Evolving Concept

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I love the direction our project is going in for the editorial. So far we have swayed from the over-listened COVID conversations and moved more towards looking at a magazine inclusive to all the ages. (As this is something we have identified to be lacking within the market but also linking loosely to COVID which we feel has maybe divided the generations as to ‘whose to blame’ our magazine could be used to bring a sense of community back) We’re just currently trying to narrow down how we can make that work and how we can refine it to have a strong core which is consistent throughout all the ‘issues’ as if we were to continue making more.

Initial Editorial Brief Response

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I’m joining fairly late with this initial editorial brief response as I feel since moving back to Brighton and getting back into the swing of Uni there’s been a lot to catch up on and I haven’t had the chance to fully sit down and process my thoughts.

The first briefing on Teams was slightly overwhelming, It’s been a while since I’ve been in any form of routine let alone a 10-4 day. Initially, the brief excited me the whole concept of creating your own magazine and designing the layout was right up my street but the first stages of developing an idea and theme within your designated group I found hard- not because I didn’t love everyone in my group but because I didn’t love or feel excited about our earliest concept theme ideas.

Since then we’ve diverted from our first thoughts of a COVID magazine (thank god) and its diverted to more of a platform to air current conflicts and affairs in the world whilst also promoting local art culture.

*Disclaimer- this year I want to try and be really active on my blog, though I started a bit delayed I intend to keep this up*