HEELS CATCH FIRE, Band shoot for Brighton Source cover
July 7, 2009
With Darkdaze set to create the new promo image for Heels Catch Fire, we decided to tie in the Source cover shot to accompany the interview the band had just given to The Source.
The set built for the band had been painted grey completely, carpets, walls, lights, flowers and with the bands promo image finished it was time to turn onto the Source image. The Source needed some strong colour a new direction and different feel.
With the work of Emma Sandham King and M.Halls, taking the already reduced grey set they built on top of this using yellow insulation tape and some creative yellow painting. The idea was to take the uniform grey flatness of the set and ‘draw’ on top of it creating a graphic aesthetic with hints of architecture.
Lighting put in place by Kev and Tash, struck hard edged shadows to fit with the graphic quality, picking out, highlighting and adding to the tonal shading of the set. They also added the soft glow from the “as close as you can get soft box” gelled up with blue that lights the band and hopefully gives them some focus.
Final shot taken by M.Halls, lighting Kev and Tash with additional set work as well as styling by Emma Sandham King and Stevi Jelbart of Ophelia Fancy, throughout the day make up and hair was kept in check by Janeen Cove at Square Roots and Gary at Square Roots (assistants Myrtle Lambert and Bryony Long)
Catch The James Kendall’s interview with the band in the latest edition of The Source in most outlets in Brighton, or read more of it here www.brightonsource.co.uk, as they prepare to play this years Loop festival.
I watched Heels Catch Fire on Saturday at Loop after seeing them on the cover.
They were pretty good, shame there were so few people for their set.
Was it hard to get the right colours when you took the photos? Doesn’t grey make colours go funny on digital cameras?