Saturday, June 21, 2008

PR - ostitution

About the 1st photo-shoot for our campaign

With some girls, I take part in a PR-class called "Out-of-home-media". I was looking for a group with the prettiest girl in the class, and got into it.
Our goal was to set up an image-campaign for the city of Leipzig. "Zum Studium? - Natürlich nach Leipzig!" so they told us in our briefing. We´re working like a real PR-company, except we don´t get any payment. Since 4 weeks we´re working our asses of. I didn´t sleep more then 6 hours the last days.
Two weeks ago, we had a photo shooting. We met at one of the girls. First we prepared a scene down in the garden, with "Feinripp"-Underwear, tennis-socks, all this tiny details. A student in front of a tent. This guy, a PR-student too and an amateur-actor as far as I know was incredible. Great! Gorgeous! He can act with his face like Rowan Atkinson. Roman was so incredible, we shot some sequences for our movie, with him as celebrity. There were two punks on their balcony, seemed they started drinking at 9.00. They yelled and laughed. Boozed bastards, they threw a massive log down to us from the 3rd floor. All this took us two hours.The girls prepared some buns, sandwiches and cake. We had some coffee, taking a little break while Mima was preparing her room for the next scene. The battle in front of the book-shelf. We thought, it would be the easiest shot. Just a bunch of students, and a book. God-damn, it took us over two hours. Imagine eight persons lying on a floor, lying on each other. And now imagine one of them, smiling, giggling. My first job as model, I get some make-up (due to the light), even on my arms. We had some more girls and a singer from a local metal-band for this shot. Franzis boyfriend, keen on photographing, have had quite a tough job: "Du hast gelächelt!", "Du grinst doch schon wieder!" "Schau doch mal böse" - poor guy. Lots of fun. Time for some coffee and a beer, I thought. Later we had to carry a couch from the 4th floor down to our “party-cellar”-scene. Roman and myself got some fancy dress. He was the nerd, I was kind of a greasy guy. They gave me an original 1975 Adidas tennis-sweater, some really cool goggles and a faked mustache and. I looked gorgeous! Think, I discovered my second nature. First shot with Mima. Damn, was she hot! Perfect blonde! In my opinion the best picture – even more fun than before.
Didn´t want to get undressed. I felt great as a greasy macho.
In the evening, right after the last shoot, we had a barbecue. Steaks, Bratwurst, Tofu-sausages, vegan salads. Some Beer, wine and only 1 (!!!) bottle of water. Maybe I had too much beer. Maybe all of us. Nice talking. It all ended up in paying homage to Aphex Twin.

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