Utapri : a beautiful star

君と過ごした時間はどれもが
美しい星のようだった
Every moment I was able to spend with you
Was like a beautiful star


series >> Uta no prince sama

Tokiya Ichinose >> *xrysx
photo & edit >> Brian Lim[link]
help >> Chocolime, Kaika, Baracus Px



I'm so sorry I feel so deprived of photoshoots after one month (since the last one which was Cleanero). So 1 fine day I decided I would set a shoot the following weekend, smsed Brian for a date to make use of iLight@MarinaBay to do a Utapri shoot.

Spent a night fangirling Utapri with Himi and listen to all the albums, depend on a song to portray. Thanks to Brian for taking time out to walk through iLight with me for 2 hrs where we also did some test shots. With the test walk, we were able to pinpoint the art installations we want, planned our shoot route and visualise shots later.

Though I really wish to do Masato (Thanks Himi for lending me Masato's wig!) in a black costume instead, after discussed with Brian over the colors & taking the event lighting into consideration, I eventally settled on Tokiya's debut costume. For a few nights after work I rush down to buy fabrics & materials, sew over fri night/sat night/sun afternoon. Thanks to Natsume & Kero responding to my last-min request to pass me Tokiya's wig on Sunday afternoon (we shot on Sunday night XD). Many thanks to Chocolime and Kaika helping me on the wigstyling and all other kinds of support! Lotsa appreciation too to Baracus for the lighting support and throwing in ideas, it's fun to put ideas into practice and i think we have some interesting result~

I was pretty half-dead sewing this jacket. It was much more work than i expected. I miscalculated the amount of cords and trimmings that I have to keep going back to buy and top it up. The front fastenings was a challenge too, i only figured out a way when I actually get to do the part (yes, the zip and cord-fastening/buttons are all functional!). In the haste I sewed the zip till the end of the coat and I had to unpick to resew last moment. The pattern on the sleeves I handsewed and gosh, really painful hands!

We started the shoot at this art installation first so i took a while to warm up. Thanks to everyone who has been patient with me! The tough part was trying to get the motion-sensors to respond to us and light up around us. Nevertheless, it had been fun~


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