BTS Dressing Room Shoot
Gavin had an idea of creating a dressing room look, a behind the scenes glimpse at a theatre style. A real challenge in his small home studio, but he reckoned he was up to the challenge!
The main thing we felt we needed was the classic and slightly cliche mirror with lights. Surely we’d be able to get our hands on one of those without breaking the budget…..not an easy task as it turns out. Not one to be put off, Gavin decided “I can make one” (a familiar sentence uttered in our house, with varying degrees of success!).
We recycled the mirror from a previous shoot and Gavin made a surround using some of my old tongue and groove planks. I gave it a paint and gilded effect. Although a bit labour intensive, it came out really well and worked like a charm when we did a test shoot. Ten bulbs would generate a lot of heat and as we were filming on an already hot day, Gavins choice of LED bulbs proved to be a good one.
To compete the look we purchased some props and recycled others from previous shoots to give our ‘dressing room’ a vintage and slightly eclectic look.
Sporting the outfit and accessories on the video shoot day was the fabulous Gracie Here’s some of the final photos and a behind the scenes shot of the behind the scenes shoot!
I continue to be amazed at how you are able to get such great shots out of your small but very efficient home studio.There are others on the web that have mega studios with a multitude of lighting and tech features that can not compare. At the same time you continue to use very simple and inexpensive do it yourself props to create great moods, looks and features with out spending a fortune.
Thank you.
JRS
Well done, Sam. We really enjoy your how-to videos. And building the shoot is as important (or more so) than the actual picture taking.
Excellent work gavin i have been following your work for long time ,your ideas are cost effective and with better results using expensive gadgets