Photos

I wanted to take around thirty photos for my magazine so that I had a huge choice to choose from. My first idea for photos was my model with his hands in front of his face, blocking his eye contact with the reader. I thought of this idea because it is different to the normal magazine photo and I felt it worked with my magazine as it is a slightly different genre and the abstract picture worked. I painted the face of my model yellow and put a blue glitter eye mask on him to add to the abstractness of it. I took a few photos of him dressed like this in different framing. I took a few head shots with him doing different things with his hands and some with him making eye contact with the camera. I then had some medium close ups with my model holding a candle. I chose a candle to see if the light made an effect on the picture, taking photos with the main light on and off. Once I had done this, I then took some face on photos of my model from the waist up with him making eye contact with the camera. I asked him to wear his own clothes because my model enjoys the genre of music my magazine is about and therefore his clothing would match that of other readers, giving readers something to relate to. I liked these half body shots the most out of this mini shoot because I loved the attitude that came across in the photos, and it helped me change my mind about not making eye contact with the reader, because I then understood how much more powerful it could make my front cover if my model did make eye contact.

I then took some pictures of myself posing as a artist. I backcombed my hair and gave myself quite over exaggerated black make up. I was trying to portray a darker image for an artist. I tried pictures with me making eye contact and pictures were I wasn't. I preferred the pictures with eye contact because they drew you in whereas the other ones were more arty and i didn't think they were as appropriate for a music magazine.

Another idea I had for pictures was a band. I collected some instruments, typical of the

genre of my music magazine. I then used me and two friends as models. I took the pictures with the self timer on my camera. My first pictures i took in the street outside my house during the night time. I took the pictures at night time because the darkness meant that less attention was on the surroundings then on the "band" i was trying to show. I used a Greek photography method where you put the subject of the photo in the bottom right quarter of the photo as this is supposedly where people's eyes are drawn too first. I dressed my models in normal clothes typical of my genre. I then took photos of my "band" with their instruments in front of their faces. This made the photo more abstract and unusual for a magazine.

For another idea, I thought about remaking the look of some bands in my genre. The first band I tried to recreate was Fannypack, a American comedic band. They are known for their bright clothing and risque lyrics. I dressed my friends up in my brightest clothing and gave them some comedy props like a Elmo bag, over sized glasses and big hair bows. I made them pose with quite fun poses like making a peace sign, big arms and funny facial expressions. I liked these photos but I think I should have used a better backdrop as the shed didn't match the band in the image therefore ruining my picture.
The second band I tried to recreate was Crystal Castles, who I used for my double page spread. These pictures don't look that special when they are unedited but my plan is to edit them so that the bricks go over their faces and the second is that they are looking downwards. These poses are similar to CC's front covers of two of their singles. I was very happy with how these worked out. The only criticism I have is that I would

have liked a man and a women instead of two boys in the picture because CC has a female in the band.

I went to a festival during the Autumn and took some pictures of the bands I wanted to include

in my magazine. The pictures of Marina and the Diamonds was the best because I managed to get to the front of the crowd, meaning their wasn't waving hands in my photo and you could actually see the music artist. I am going to include these pictures for my live performances section on the contents page as they portray live performances. Also these photos are very appropriate because they are of the band my magazine advertises.