Jay and James

Last Sunday we were supposed to finish filming my video but it got delayed. I was revved up to shoot and instead ended up (sort've accidentally) making plans to do two different shoots, so I did them back to back.

The first was with Jay, in the sea.

And secondly James. We went to one of my favourite places, 

not only to shoot at but just for a time out. It's where I did the plane shoot last August

( this picture: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6039/5902104221_88fb5a03a2_z.jpg )

Sorry I haven't written much about the pictures lately. I've been so busy trying to catch up on the time I lost when my internet was down when I carried on shooting. I have pictures from one more shoot to upload and then I will be doing a post about my video, explaining what it is about and why I chose to film it the way I did.

Other than that I am working on being better. Getting back to being creative.

 My pictures are really starting to bore me and I'm tired of taking stuff that is just 'nice.' I know I can do better, it's just hard trying to get your head round a block like this.

But it'll happen.

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First summer model

This is my first new model of the summer, Connie.

These pictures are from a couple of weeks ago, but I've fallen behind on uploading due to internet problems at the time. We did two separate shoots, one on the Thursday and one on the Sunday.

part one:

part two:

                  

Blog catch up: Lauren

Due to my terrible internet restricting me from uploading images to most sites recently, I've a huge back catalogue of pictures to show you. It's now working so expect a fair few posts over the next few days.

These pictures are of my friend Lauren - or Laa - taken in May.

                    And below is a screencap from some video I did from this shoot. It's for my
                    behind-the-scenes video which I'm going to put together after my current video project
                    is over and done with!

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SOUL: a short brief

So this summer I wanted to make a short film. Basically, I wanted to try my hand at video and put together a small project as a means of practice - before later working on a 'proper' video.

I am going to do a big blog post on my upcoming video - entitled 'Soul,' - once it is released, explaining a bit about it and why I did what I did etc. So in that sense I don't want to give too much away here; I've resisted showing any part of it to ANYONE besides my friend who is featured in it.

It was originally supposed to be filmed over the course of a day or two, but we got so into it that we didn't manage to finish it in the 2 days we originally put aside. I began to want to do it properly rather than rush it, so more effort went into it than first intended.

My reasoning of this video is that you think of it as a series of 'moving images,' almost, as opposed to a film. It has a concept (that I will keep to myself until the video is made public) and four different chapters, with the scenes being inspired by the concept.

So in other words, don't take it too seriously. I hope you like it, because a lot of effort went into it, but when judging it please remember it is my first ever video project and also merely a warm-up to a second video project I hope to do later this year, which will largely have a narrative behind it.

The video should be out over the next few days, I hope. Probably by the end of the week. For now, here's all the promotional pictures, including some I haven't posted anywhere else yet. Enjoy.