Curating Digital Visual Content with Product Styling & Photography
About this course
Course objectives
This short course provides learners with an understanding of basic product photography techniques and process of coming up with an actual photoshoot. Learners will acquire different techniques and put into practice during hands-on practical activities during the course. Additionally, learners would be able to pick up on basic product styling for a photoshoot to bring the best out of the product for their e-commerce or print.
Course description
Pre-requisite: To have own camera or camera phone available for practical activities Bring along at least 2 mid-sized items/products for shooting.
Trainer Profiles:Sylvia Lai, Lecturer
Sylvia started her career in the retail home furnishing industry with IKEA and Crate & Barrel focusing on operations and visual merchandising, before switching to education to groom the next generation. Her passion in aesthetics and visual merchandising has great influence in ensuring that all visuals presented in-store and online are not only pleasant to the eyes but also inspiring and attention grabbing.
Elizabeth Kwan, Adjunct Lecturer
Elizabeth was the Head/ Visual Merchandising of Robinsons & Co Pte Ltd (Al-Futtaim Group) and had vast relevant experience in managing retail visual merchandising, executing digital marketing promotions and implementing special store events for all Singapore and Malaysia stores. She had experience in conducting staff briefings and short trainings on relevant visual merchandising and product display training. In the past, she conceptualised, designed and built the window showcase for Robinsons Co. Her creative ideas and appealing display themes were repeatedly being featured by renowned trend forecasting World's global Style Network (WGSN) and Visual Merchandising & Store Design Magazine (VMSD). She is skilled in using relevant software applications and is able to demonstrate how to enhance product images for better presentation of digital visual content curated for social media and marketing. She holds a Master of Business Administration and a Certificate in the Advanced Study of Education (Art Education).
Target audiences
Entrepreneurs, Start-up Founders, Retail SMEs adopting e-commerce seeking to deepen or broaden their skills and knowledge in this area.