AVESTA- 6D2

From Creative convos, I got talking to Bafic's Intern, Avesta. She studies fashion photography at Central Saint Martins. She is currently on her placement year, working with bafic. I showed her my website and some of the work I was working on. She asked if I would like to collaborate some time, so I added her on instagram. 

I few weeks later I got a message from her asking if I would like to collaborate on a Project she was doing in Florida in April. She was going to an Aviation school in Florida to take photographs. She wanted me to design her a book cover for the series of photographs. 




























After our initial conversation Avesta sent me a presentation stack about the aesthetic that she was after and what the whole project was about. 

The stack was not in that much detail as I think she was planning on doing most of the development once she was out there and knew what she was working with. 

I sent her some of my own ideas for the aesthetic of the book cover. I looked into the 1960s space race and NASA's missions to the moon. The retro aesthetic of posters from this time are really nice. Also early airline adverts with old pictures of jetliners. 

PAYMENT

This was to be my first ever paid job. We discussed payment over email when we discussing the project. As Avesta is a student I didn't want to charge her loads of money. I asked her what she was willing to pay rather than give her asn estimate as I didn't know what her budget was. She said she could pay me £100. I was happy with this amount, as I was not expecting her to be so generous. It is the estimate I would have given her. with about 10 hours of work at £10p/h. Although the price could be considered as low, I was intending to submit the brief as one of my briefs for OUGD603.

Avesta was due to go to America the last week of March. Unfortunately she messaged me on her journey home, saying that she didn't get a time slot to do the shoot, so the project was postponed. She said she was hoping to go back in a couple of months time in summer. Although this is annoying as I won't be able to submit this brief for my Extended Practice, it will be good to have a paid project to work on once I've graduated. And hopefully if all goes well, I will have a client to work on with future projects. 

From my conversations with Avesta I learnt a lot about dealing with clients, from arranging Payments, discussing timeframes, working to a clients needs and working to a set style.