Senior High Cycle 4: Model Bootcamp - WINNER ANNOUNCED
http://i.imgur.com/XTtwOYc.png Welcome to a new cycle of Senior High! This is a fun, laid back story-based competition. That means you will need to develop an interesting character for this comp...
I curled into the foetal position and rocked. The traumatic memories of exploding bombs and sirens flooded back into my head.
I began the day super excited about my first day at modelling school. The agenda read 'Lighting and Angles'. This sounds exciting, can't wait to learn about them. Mum made a tasty cooked breakfast and then kissed me goodbye wishing me luck for my first day.
I arrived at school in one of my fashionable African outfits and the other models crowded around me feeling the fur and wanting to know if the clothes were made from real animal skin or not.
"No, I would never wear real animal skin!" I replied. "Animals, especially our big cats are so highly threatened. Mum and I are not like some others who won't stop poaching because they are poor. I know some of us believe the parts are sacred and have medicinal properties but there are plenty of synthetic versions out there, I just wish more of our people would use them. It's why so many poachers still risk their lives to hunt them. One tiger skin brings $100,000, you know. It would feed their family for a year."
Murmurs and gasps of wonder arose, until one model, Delilah spoke up and asked if I wouldn't mind being the model for today's session on lighting and Angles. I agreed, finally feeling like the others had accepted me and I belonged.
I hopped up on the raised podium and started to pose. When the flashes started going off amongst the coloured lights the rest of the models and the teachers below the stage, faded into a blur. A feeling of dread racked my body and I began to hyperventilate. I dropped to the ground covering my head. Both instructors, rushed to my side and told all the other models to stop and back off.
Miss Beech sat with me while Maggie brought me a glass of water.
"I'm so sorry, the flashes...they--"
"That's fine, Sabi everything will work out," Miss Beech looked around at the other models' shocked faces. "We should have thought of that."
For the rest of the day, the models couldn't stop apologising, particularly Kit, who said she could understand my fear but for different reasons. It brought us all that little bit closer.
I hope this is what you meant @BeechNutBaby when you said it wasn't a fashion modelling shot, that it was a shot that tells a story, because my model's face is covered and I wouldn't have covered it if this was a fashion shot, but the pose fit the story. What I said about the tiger, is actually true.
