Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Test Shoot with Felix Kidd

Back in the summer I did the set and props for a test shoot with photographer Felix Kidd. This is how the images turned out...












Images: Felix Kidd

Monday, 10 January 2011

The Jacques Townhouse Pop-up Hotel Final Images

In the summer I assisted Cordelia Weston with props for The Jaques Townhouse Pop-up Hotel. The Creative Director was David Carter and Sophie Ellis-Bextor curated evening soirees during the 2 weeks the hotel was open. Here are some images from Cordelia's Blog that show how the props were used and what the final space looked like.





The Jacques Townhouse Pop-up Hotel

Back in the Summer I assisted Cordelia Weston with creating props for the pop up hotel The Jacques Townhouse. The Creative Director of the project was David Carter, while Cordelia Weston was Creative Stylist. We created beautiful Marie-Antoinette style cakes and made beautiful pompoms. Here are some images that I took during the process.

We varnished lots and lots of sweets...

Varnishing Macaroons is harder than you'd expect...

We painted pears and cherries white...

Our tasty looking cakes...

Jack Wills A/W Final Images

Here are some of the final shots from the Jack Wills A/W campaign that I assisted Sarah May on. The images and video are by photographer Elaine Constantine.









Friday, 7 January 2011

The Soft Parade Final Images

These are the final images from The Soft Parade shoot by Photographer Gemma Booth.
I assisted Sarah May in making the props and on the shoot.





And this is the final video...

Monday, 3 January 2011

Jack Wills

In the Summer I assisted Sarah May on a shoot for Jack Wills AW/10. The photographer was Elaine Constantine. I had SO much fun doing this shoot as we were at an amazing house in a quaint village and Elaine worked in a very natural way, filming the models to really capture the mood of the collection.

We had a lovely drive in the sunshine up to our location...


And this is what greeted us upon our arrival...


The interior was a grand as the exterior...


In the heat of the summer we needed it to be Autumn...





The finale was an amazing party scene, which so really fun to set up. There was music in the form of a band and a dj, apple juice in beer bottles and quite a few extras, making it a really great atmosphere.


Sunday, 2 January 2011

The Soft Parade

In the summer I had the pleasure of assisting the Set Stylist Sarah May on a shoot with photographer Gemma Booth. We had so much fun engaging our inner hippies making animal masks and colourful staffs!

I made a metal ram head...




We made a range of masks...




And staffs...







The range of props...


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