Halloween preview: Becoming Vampira for one night

Yesterday I already shared with you the making-of, the process until just before the shooting. Just after sharing the photos with you, it started the action. It was a night shooting in which I had a spectacular time, I am thrilled with how this set turned out.

I have worked before on big productions with many people involved, but normally as you know for my own projects I usually work alone or with just one photographer. But for yesterday's project I wanted to get everything right and ready for Halloween, so there were 4 people on set (including me). The photographer (Monsters Inside) and two awesome assistants who helped us all the time with the smoke machines, the spotlights, making sure my hair looked good in every shot, doing making-of clips... It wasn't a big production team (there wasn't even a make-up artist or stylist, I was still in charge of those pre-shoot aspects), but wow what a difference it made to work with such great helpers as opposed to working alone or just two people. I could fully focus only on the acting/modelling and forget everything else that was happening on set and it was so satisfying...
I slept very little, but I'm still more rested than after a regular shooting where I carry many more aspects of the project (going in and out of character all the time to check lights, shots, to move props, etc...).

For this Vampira project, after talking with the photographer, we decided to do the first half of the photos directly in black and white, and the 2nd part we shoot in color, looking with the in set light work for the tones of the colored movies of the 50s.

I already have many of the photos (we took a ton of pictures) and I love them as they are, so it's going to be a set with very little editing of tone and colors (maybe a couple of old retro poster edits, but that's all).

What do you think of the first results?