Flash Bang Wallop..
…What a picture.
Allot of my recent blog posts have been focused on China, there is such a huge selection of things I want to post about, there may not be enough time!
I thought the design/creative side was getting neglected so here's a post about my work over here in Shanghai.
I'm a Designer and Product Manager for Made.com, as it's a relatively new start up I've had the opportunity to add some extra strings to my bow alongside design and working with factories.
One of the other elements of my role has become orchestrating the Made new product photo and video shoots, in the last year it's expanded from 20 products a shoot to a mammoth 166 items on the most recent shoot.
An 8 day marathon shoot was quite daunting at the beginning, but we made it through and got some great images of our new products due to be launched on the website soon.
So hears a sneaky peak of the behind the scenes of how the magic happens!
Snazzy photo filters courtesy of Instagram.
Day 1 – Bedroom, lighting and cushions.
Dressing and styling the shots.
Shooting our yet to be seen Designer cushions, Lucinda Ireland and Rachel Rosie West here.
And the shoots wouldn’t be possible without the skilled Bertrand Stark the photographer and Tomasz Sztajer the videographer
Day 2 – Lighitng
Just prepping the new Alfred Light.
Some fun stop animation for the Jenkins lights.
Day 3 – 5 Upholstery
The eternal questions…how many men does it take to assemble a sofa?
A: 2; the Rest are just supervising!
Concentrating.
Getting some nice details.
Day 6 – it gets exciting with the model arriving.
Some rather lovely cushions by Tanya Ventress in the foreground.
Chloe Macintosh the Creative Director, takes over the reigns with the model shots.
New stylish lifestyle photos.
Some more traditional and super comfy upholstery coming soon.
Day 8 – And I’m starting to flag.
New Wilton dining chairs in Cool Pebble blue, due for release soon, what this space.
Then the photshoot marathon was over…now all we had to to was pack it all away again!
Our snazzy slippers where hung up until the next shoot.
