I’ll let you in a little secret. Usualy I don’t have a clue what we are shootig before Maiju is done with the first model and hands her over for me to shoot. I have some ideas and take a tour around the location to scout the backgrounds and angles but nothing solid.
Of course we discuss in advadce what we are after but I’m having hard time to visualize the outfits and the makeup in detail. I can always trust to Maiju to deliver plenty to work with so I’m never nervous. For example this time we talked about old Porvoo and vintage but thats that. It could have been anything from the 1920′s to the end of the 1970′s.
After shooting numerous times in location Im do not worrie about it. Im pretty confident that I can make most out of any location. The ever so vague storyline got more into it when we hit the location. Old railroad cars and tracks. I got a feedback from the images that they look like from mid 1940′s. Good because that was my aim.
Here is the tiny stroyline that went through my head. Its the mid of the 1940′s and shes waiting someone to return from the front. A walk to the train, almost the first glanse and the last from the steps of the house. He is different, she is suspicious.
I know- a clishe but who cares.
