The covershot

We have been working towards the cover for a while now, getting the instillation ready has been a big group effort, inparticular Beverly, Amy, Brad and Andrew have worked so hard to get the instillation the way we have originally planned it, So this week is when the hard work pays off. We had always envisioned the instillation being set up in the studio so that the students would feel a sense of owernership over the book - our studio and the instillation everyone had helped to make. The Graphic boys now envision it differently to us, they want to shoot it in the lecture theatre- not only is this not what we had planned but the logistical problems with moving it could possibly ruin the actual piece itself as it is only held together with glue. But as we see this as a collaborative concept we met in the lecture theatre and both argued out the pro's and con's as we see then. After about an hours long disscussion we all agreed that we would go for the studio option and if we couldn't get a shot that everyone was happy with then we would use the lecture theatre which we booked out for friday as our back up plan - so we had four days to get the shot. fist task was clearing space in the studio which we did as a group, second take to get the instillation to actually stand up which only took a surprisingly small amount of fishing wire. so far so good until....
Day one
Brad and Andrew spent an entire day trying to get the shot we had disscussed and they managed to get one we were all very pleased with- i left them to carry on taking extra shots at 7:30   after emailing the graphics boys the shot we liked only to find out that they hadn't been shooting it in raw and the image resolution was not good enough to be enlarged to fit across the two cover pages.
Day Two
After waiting until it was dark outside (because a portion of the studio windows are in shot and we liked the lighting once daylight had faded) a second photoshoot took place we got the shot emailed it to the boys. job done..... or so we thought until i got home and had an email from adam saying ......'Why can't your boys shoot in raw' - erm stomach dropping time - Andrew arrived at my house at 10pm after finding out that the image wasn't usable. After getting the original images from andrew, and finding out they they were infact shot in raw and where entirely usable, we decided to just get on with it ourselves and put the image over the cover layout, send it to Adam telling them this was the one we wanted. Poor Andrew and Brad had spent ages trying to get the perfect shot and i was getting more than a little fed up with the attitude we where getting from Adam.
Day Three
Met in our studio at 10, instillation still set up from previous night, Andy (tutor from photography) Andrew, Brad, Myself, Adam, Luke and Dan- together we made a few tweeks to the set up and finally got the shot we wanted.
here are some of the hundereds of photographs that where taken,