A Lesson in Model Direction

Aside from the styling aspect of my role, I also art direct. This is the best way explain to people like my dad who don't understand (or more accurately- can in no way fathom) what I do for a living. An art director of a photoshoot is a bit like the actual director on a movie set.

Part of this job involves directing the model, something I have honed into a fine art over the years.

This trip has included such direction as
"laugh with your mind"
"smile at the sky"
"you're at a party and it's the end of the night and you've just vomited in the bush"
"now laugh with your face"

Today though, the whole team were recruited to help our model, Sylvia, with some spontaneous dancing poses. Amusing results were to be expected...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THJndUHQFcY&feature=youtube_gdata_player



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The Day Of The Figgids

Shoot day 2 saw a bit of role reversal with Katie taking the styling helm and yours truly assisting her. This was a strange exercise that had me clamping my mouth shut to stop butting in and staying away from the monitor to stop butting in and letting Katie do her shoot thing, which all worked out wonderfully.

Claire-Hair was beside herself with the discovery of a fig tree in the Japanese garden (yes, we have one of those at our villa) and we all got slightly distracted from the job/shoot at hand, choosing instead to pluck the best ones from the most awkward branches. We discovered that figs can kind of lactate, (Claire discovered) their milk doesn't taste nice, and ants can sometimes live in trees. But worth it for the salad we made with our pickings.

A Musical Interlude

Whilst I wait for Mallorcan Internet to work sufficiently for the day 3 blog post upload, here is a link to the journey home from Palma, a beautiful rendition of the Queen Classic, 'We Are The Champions' as performed by the Balaeric branch of the TripCrewChoir, Est 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0CsLJFe4Qw

(this followed a beautiful trip to the city centre including Cathedral sighting, back street meanderings, a sit down dinner and ZARA and H&M!!)








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A Dedicated Blog Post for Team Chadwick

Photographer Chad(wick) is quickly becoming the 'special addition' to the trip team, having been terrorised by a chihuahua, having cooked a solid carbonara - who knew that was even possible? Getting some cactus embedded in his nipple,






and most recently, dressing in his favourite combo of fur gilet and kitten vest.






So, I hereby dedicate this blog post today to Special Crew Member of the day, Chad. (And his friend Sketch whom I have never met but Chad would like mentioned as his wedding gift. Generous AND special...)














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Mallorca Day 2: Baby It's Cold Outside

Team Beresiner

'Aaaah, how cute there's a humming bird in your room' says Claire with delight, 'oh how cute he chose our room over everyone else's!' I said with delight. Not so delightful the next morning having discovered he is in fact some unidentified GIANT BUG that sounds like a helicopter, LIVES in our room and disappears without trace so we're afraid to go to bed tonight...

To distract ourselves we drove to Campanet to do a shoot. This morning at 9am it was roasting at the villa, so we were unprepared and underdressed for the subsequent and significant drop in degrees. It was nice to get so many cuddling opportunities though.











A little insight into editorial hair for you now; it's the hairstyle equivalent of an OK! magazine coverline.











Shoot done, it's Claire-Hair and Chad's turn at Mallorcan Come Dine With Me tonight (Katie and I took the lead last night with amazing tapas prowess), but in the meantime everyone is doing everyone else's makeup. Results to follow shortly...




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NEWS FLASH!!! Gaga Update - the long awaited return

It's been a long time coming, but it's time to bring Lipstick Gaga out of retirement, and where better to deliver the long awaited return than Mallorca, Spain - home of Iberico pork, Serrano ham, Mortadella con Olives etc

Ladies and Gentlemen, Lipstick Productions presents:

'Lady GaGamon'


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Mallorca Day 1: Team Beresiner Recce Day

In terms of recce success, today wasn't the best I've ever had (after manoeuvring a giant Mercedes van through miniscule streets in search of some ancient steps for Kaite's shoot, we decided to shoot the story back on the steps back at the villa. Still, we did get to climb 365 steps to reach that decision. AND we got to climb back down


Along the way we graffitied some cacti, procured some second hand pink girls flip flops for Jose from a bin and got our ankles attacked by something like a miniature Doberman. Photographer Chad came off the worst in the girly terror embarrassment stakes. His ankles were fine.





Now we're cosy in our amazing villa preparing tapas for a spanish extravaganza evening and awaiting the arrival of our first model. With X Factor on the tv. When in Mallorca, er...do as the English do?


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