Pretty Girl Shooter DVD?

I'm discussing producing a Pretty Girl Shooter video, make that a DVD, with a documentary-film production company. If we produce it, the program will be instructional and focused on a lot of things I've talked about here, on the blog. We're looking to produce something that, in addition to its "how to" aspects, will be fairly entertaining. A couple of hot models should certainly help out with that.

We also want to keep the production budget reasonable so the DVD can be offered at a great price. I'll probably be calling in favors for this production. That's one way to keep some of the costs in line. At the same time, we want the program to have good production values and not look like some cheap, shot-from-the-hip, amateurish production. That means we'll have to spend some dough in the right places.

For the past few days, I've been working on an outline for the show. There's a lot of material I'd like to cover but I don't want to overwhelm the viewers or ourselves, the producers.

For instance, we'll probably have to choose between an emphasis either on studio lighting or exterior, natural light. I'm thinking we'll probably focus on studio lighting, although that's not set in concrete. Keeping the production in a studio environment gives us better control over production logistics. But a lot of shooters venture outside, under the sun, and that's important for many. I suppose if we can figure out how to include both, and still not get into a runaway production situation, we'll try to include both.

Lighting and the tools of lighting, whether in the studio or outdoors, will be a major subject in the video as will posing and working with models in general. Makeup, hair, and wardrobe will also be covered. I'm not sure how much the subject of post-production will come into the picture. Certainly, I want to cover this subject to some degree but I don't want a big part of the DVD to become a Photoshop tutorial. (There's plenty of those out there in the marketplace... as if I'm qualified to give one, anyway.) I suppose the best thing will be to cover production techniques that help make the post processing experience more efficient, less difficult, and one that yields better results.

Besides the major subjects I've just mentioned, there's probably a whole lot of other stuff that could be included in the DVD. I'm open to anyone's ideas. If you would like to input or make suggestions or lend us your thoughts, you can do so in the comments section of the blog or by emailing me. Hey! Wouldn't you love to see your name in the "Special Thanks to" part of the credits? Just for providing some good, usable ideas we didn't think of? Well, if so, put your thinking caps on!

The pretty girl at the top is Roxy. MUA was Dehlia. I shot Roxy this past week in the same photo-unfriendly location I shot Victoria. (See previous update.) This time, after extracting Roxy and the hideous sculpture from the white wall, I took a different approach to making a composite image. Eventually, I might become somewhat competent at making these composite images. Or, maybe not. Oh well.