Ligeia 2.0

Today i did my reshoot for Ligeia. I felt it went well and i got a great variety of different stills and clips for my film. Danika is really confident infront of a camera and photographs beautifully so she made it easy for me to direct the shoot.

As i stated at the beginning of this blog, my film student had been incredibly slow with responding to me and is obviously not going to be reliable. I have struggled to find a replacement so i asked Sam if he was confident to just film a few clips for me. He didn't use a tripod which concerned me a little but i was limited on time so we just got on with the shoot. I knew that this could act as a test shoot if it didn't all go to plan.

I left feeling pleased with how it all went and i got the images and video clips from Sam a few hours after. I really love the shots, Sam did a great job. I feel the lighting is a little dark in a lot of the images however, the angles are great and the skin looks beautiful and glowing in the close ups. Unfortunatley i dont feel that the character of Ligeia shows through in the images and that's a fault of my own.

The images are too sexy when what i wanted was editorial. The stylings all wrong too, i had an image in my head but it didnt work. Perhaps with a different model that has more of a boyish figure would have worked better as Danika is a curvy woman with more of a sexy look as opposed to editorial.

Though i thought i liked the makeup during the last test shoot, i can now see it's not right for this particular character. It looks more like clubbing makeup to me, especially alongside the outfit. I have to admit, i was lazy with the hairstyling. Hair isn't something im particular confident in but i know i need to come up with something a little more interesting to finish off the look.

The movements worked out great, we did "live modelling" so i had Danika pose while making small movements in her body or face. We also did some walking shots and hair flips which would look really interesting in reverse. I would definitley like to use a tripod next time to get a steady shot and will also help to get the frame straight. It's dissapointing to me that i will have to reshoot this character again but hopefully i can come up with something more fitting for Ligeia and the images from this shoot definitley won't go to waste.