Today I took part in a choreography workshop with model and film maker Yagamoto. Yagamoto has been in the Industry for 4 years and has worked on many different projects, Yagamoto came from an acting background so when he went into the modelling world he used method acting to portray feelings and emotions into his work. During his workshop he got the class to think about the way we pose models, how we can use the outfit in which the model is wearing to portray different emotions. This workshop was useful because it got me to think about how I can manipulate how a model looks by asking different physiological questions.

For example, I if I wanted my model to look sad I would ask them a trigging question such as when was the last time you cried? by asking the subject questions like this triggers genuine emotions within the model. Yagamoto made me consider how the outfit on the model would make them feel and certain poses that would emphasise  the how the model is feeling, for example if a model was wearing a jumper the subject would perhaps demonstrate a pose where they are closed in. Overall I enjoyed the workshop, ti was unlike any other workshop I have had so far. It was very useful to hear from a models perspective, I feel more confident in being able to engaged with a model and get the look I wanted to achieve.