The lonely journey...

As my models' Easter holidays were approaching, I was trying to get a team together to assist me. I was incredibly unsuccessful as during Easter people are busy with their own work and go home! This is my fault for not being organised and leaving it too last minute. Luckily a close friend of mine allowed me to use her camera over the duration of 3 weeks for shooting and she gave me huge amount of advise in the best way to take picture which was really helpful! I also would have liked a little help and advice on styling as I have no real experience of direction in what suits individuals and projects. Instead I went on ASOS and went through all dresses from £0 - £50 in a size 8 choosing styles mid-length to long in a range of colours and floral patterns, I eventually ordered 13 dresses, a few too many than needed in case some did not fit or were not appropriate, I requested next day delivery and my order came to £480.
The next day I received an email informing me my order would arrive in 5 days time, this sent me into panic mode as I asked for next day delivery, Furious and worried I emailed and called until they ensured I would receive the dresses within the next 2 days. They arrived, one day late but I had them,

The discovery of Imagewise...

I had continued searching for printers in both the Southampton and Reading area and was really struggling so asked some of my peers who they had found and got in touch with, The company Imagewise kept cropping up so I emailed them and they called me straight away. I spoke with a man Patrick and he was amazingly helpful. He assured me they could print everything how I needed it and at a lower cost than expected in a short amount of time. I was getting very worried I wouldn't find anyone and when I finally did it would be tight with timings and be a huge amount of money.

Tutorial, planning shoots, writing stories...

After talking to my tutor about my overall final storyline, Jennifer told me not to worry so much about having narrative first. She recommended I go straight into shooting images I have imagined and love then the storyline will flow from that. This regained a huge amount of confidence for myself as I was starting to worry about accuracy and timings etc.

I went home and started to think of ideas, poses, places to take pictures I would love to create which worked a lot better, quicker and easier for me, and just as Jennifer said, the storyline wrote itself.

The final storyline came together incredibly quickly and I am so proud of myself for the words I wrote myself. I really fell in love with the tale and when I read it back I hope other feel as connected and touched as I do. Finger crossed my words are a success!