Reflection: Day of shoot.

The appropriation of the Beatles style went well for us, we thought through the styling process by taking inspiration from the Beatles album covers and iconic images and mixing it with new trends. We applied this to the androgynous fashion that we studied and our styling on the day of the photo shoot went well as we had applied the formal wear style with the female form and it was really striking.
The photo shoot started off quite a slow process, the make up and hair and first outfits took a while to produce as we wanted the best quality of styling that the resources we had offered. It was really really windy in Liverpool by the docks, the models we used were really good and toughed it out with us in the cold and we managed to get some amazing shots, however most were affected by the wind so we couldn't use them. When the wind got un-manageable we decided to look for somewhere more sheltered, and we couldn't think of a better place to stick with out Beatles theme than Matthew Street. So we headed of down there. The models got a quick change at Weatherspoon's and off we went!
We created a couple more outfits, still using the formal wear styling such as bow ties and black ties, but we kept the figure hugging clothes in to as to create this androgynous effect. Make up got a re-boost and hair got sleeked back. We started shooting at the Cavern pub, we really got into character as a group, in a male perspective and we tried to imitate the body language of men that we saw out to give us inspiration so that we could direct are models clearly and effectively. This did included being rather masculine and really appropriating the male behaviour aspects.
We stayed in Matthew Street, adding a few styling tweaks as we went further on down the street, we really liked the dirty bits of the street, we thought it looked good as a background to our clean cut styling.
Finally we rounded the day up by visiting the official Cavern Club were the Beatles were once famed, and we cheekily asked wether we could do a few shots in there and to our luck the manager said yes!
It really closed our shoot and we got some really successful images that depicted the Beatles fashion appropriation and the androgynous style which was what we wanted to achieve!
And we got some cheeky drinks in, when in Rome :P

T x