Promoting Blackburn: Final Ideas

After running through all the possible ideas for promoting Blackburn to students I decided to go with, what I thought, to be the 3 major pulling points. The three I went with are,

1. UCBC - I chose this as this is the basic thing a student coming to Blackburn would want, a successful University.
2. The Mall - A big interest of most students is shopping. Blackburn getting a new, multi million pound shopping mall extension would be a brilliant advertisement.
3. Blackburn Rovers FC - Football is the biggest sport in the world and Blackburn is home to a team and a venue from the biggest league in the world; The Barclays Premier League.

Below are the three contact sheets from each of the shoots for the three 'pulling points'.

UCBC

These are my photographs from my shoot of the University Centre. The weather on the day of this shoot was brilliant. The sky had virtually no clouds and was a really nice colour of blue, perfect for including on a promotional photograph. I found the University Centre a particularly challenging building to photograph due to the curvature of the building and the lighting on the different sides of the building. After looking at all the photographs I felt that the first few would be the best option. They showed the front of the building and its surrounding and in general made the building look more appealing. I chose one of the images with the greenery in the foreground for my final image.

Blackburn Rovers FC

My shoot at Blackburn Rovers happened at two locations. I initially took some photographs outside Blackburn Rovers' training ground at Brockhall Village, and then went on to Ewood Park, Blackburn Rovers' home ground. I went to Brockhall Village first as it is in a more rural setting. I thought this might look better on photographs. I only intended taking pictures from the outside due to the privacy put on training by manager Sam Allardyce. The signage was the main focus for me. Once again the weather was fantastic and helped to set the bench mark for the Ewood Park photographs. After I had finished at Brockhall Village I went on to Ewood Park. Once again, because of the short notice, I only took photographs from the outside as I didn't really have time to get permission to photograph inside. The best I could do was in the entrance to the Jack Walker stand where the trophy cabinets are located. I found the best location to be Ewood Park as it seemed to be 'more Blackburn Rovers'. In my view it produced the better photographs.

The Mall

The weather on the day of The Mall shoot was not very good at all. It was very cloudy, with not much cloud detail so the sky wasn't very 'photogenic'. I was then limited to what I could photograph due to the dullness of the sky. I thought then that signs around the work area advertising the new mall would be the best subject.