Camera shots I have used for my pictures

The images below are the photos that i took in my photo shoot yesterday. I picked the shots carefully and thought about how they would look like on my magazine. Even though the images may not appear on my final draft of my magazine, I still had to take the photo's like they would look. For example, the picture of the three girls posing in front of the black/blue wall (below) is a mid shot. I used this shot because it shows the majority of the girls, which makes them recognisable and also gives them a setting so that it looks more like a posed shot. 

Another example of a photo that I used an appropriate shot for is the one of the girl (wearing the leopard print top) behind a table doing a 'book signing'. This is also a mid-shot and lets the viewer see what is going on in the picture rather than just a close up of her face, which especially in a magazine, doesn't show the reader much. Another reason why I used this shot, is because if i was to go any wider, it would show unnecessary space that doesn't need to be included in the picture. 

Overall, I think that I chose the camera shots carefully when taking my photos. I imagined how it would look on my magazine, and that helped me to decide the best shots to use.

Music magazine- 2nd photoshoot pictures

For this week, i have done another photo shoot using different models. The effect of this will be varied people to make the magazine more realistic.

















The pictures of the girl band dont always need instruments or microphones to show they're musicians, this is because to the audience they are well known recognisable celebrities. This is an obvious posed shot but the article that will be in my magazine will mention that the girls have been to a photo shot and book signing for their 'new book' so the pictures will go well with the story. 
Although this picture would of been good for my magazine, i havent put it in because i have found another one that suits the genre better. 

This will be a picture in the magazine that shows a member of the girl band with a fan. I will photoshop the shadows out of the picture to make it look more professional. I did not use this picture either, this is because it didn't say much about the magazine, it was just two people standing next to each other. 














This picture of the celebrity musician at a book signing is effective because its different and is a natural shot which hasn't been posed. I have chosen this angle because it shows what the girl is doing. It will go well with the article because the girl band has 'released a book about their music' and the celebrities have signed them.

The photo of 2 of the other girls in the girl band, this picture will show them doing a photo shoot. This photo will need to be cropped and the lighting edited to take the shadows out. By taking the shadow out it makes the picture look better quality and flawless to put in a magazine.

 




I used adobe photoshop and took the spots and bruises that was on the girls arms and faces to make them look more airbrushed and professional. This photo was used on my front page and was captioned with 'See what happened when Girls Are Loud turned up to their book signing in London!'. 

These are the picture that i considered putting in my magazine but didnt. I did have a go at editing a few of them, such as the second one, and the fourth one, but i found that other pictures that are later on in my blog suited the magazine better.

Music magazine- 1st photoshoot pictures

This week, I have done a photo shoot which some of the images i have taken will go onto my music magazine. I done the photo shoot with four other people and we all helped each other by taking pictures of ourselves or together. The pictures i have put on my blog will almost definitely go into my music magazine. I am still going to do one more photo shoot with other people to vary the range of 'music artists' that will be in my magazine. I will do this so there is not just the same faces appearing on the pages and so their is a range.

Out of all of the photo's we took in the photo shoot, i have only selected the ones that will look appropriate for the music genre of the magazine. 

     

      

Plan for the pictures I will take for my music magazine

For my music magazine, I will think carefully about the pictures im going to use. They will obviously all be related to music so that it fits the theme and genre. The models I will use to take photos of will be age ranged from 13-16 and will be people that I know very well. This is good because it means that I trust the models and that they know me well enough to not be shy around me and to do what I say. They will be posed with musical instruments such as guitar and tambourines. I will be photographing a group of girls, which will represent a ‘big famous girl band’ in my magazine.  I will mostly take my pictures with a professional DSLR camera in front of a white backdrop and use studio lights to make the quality better. The people that I will be photographing will be standing in my choice of positions so that it is completely how I want it to be. 

Double page spread essay

In class we looked at two double page spreads from two different magazines. They were from ‘we love pop’ and ‘Q’ magazine. 

‘We love pop’ has a target audience of teenage girls who love the latest gossip from all the biggest pop artists. The ‘we love pop’ double page spread is mainly focusing on ‘Tulisa’, a former member from the band ‘N-Dubz’ and a current X factor judge. The main text story is a conversation interview, having a casual chat about what Tulisa thinks about the ‘banter’ they have in the X factor and what she thinks about other celebrities she is friends with. The tone of the interview is informal because it is a chatty gossip interview, so phrases like 'You only have to sit down for a biscuit with Tulisa.' is persuasive and informal.

Q’ magazine’s double spread's target audience is mainly men who like rock music and who are maybe interested in the celebrities Biffy Clyro, Simon Neil, and Ben and James Johnston.  Also, just like the ‘we love pop’ magazine, the main text  on the double page spread is a conversation interview. This is personal towards the audience, because although it is a conversation between two people not reading the article, quotes from celebrities make the reader more involved. Words like "What are you having?" is a personal question which relate to the audience. This double page spread text is also informal, and use words that could only be understood if you knew about the subject; such as 'just don't challenge them to a game of Hotel'. If you didn't know the subject of the conversation before, it may be hard to understand.

The pictures spread across the 'We love pop!' page spreads are quite similar. Because the story across the pages mainly focus on Tulisa, all of the pictures are either her on her own, or with another well known celebrity friend. These have been put on the page between parts of texts to again remind the reader what the main story is about. A mixture of posed individual shots and group pictures have been put on the pages for varied effect, but the biggest pictures seem to be the ones of just Tulisa, which are long body shots The little pictures have been used to support parts of the conversation. For example, Tulisa is asked whether she knows a member of One Direction; Harry Styles, and in the middle of the paragraph about that, a picture of them both has been placed for entertainment purposes and to back up the story. 

However, the Q double page spread pictures are different. The only picture on the spread is the big one on the back which takes up the whole of a page. The picture is of three men, who are seen as having a party, with lots of alcohol, no tops on not really caring about the mess. On the bottom right hand corner of the picture, the words 'having a quiet night in in front of the X factor', is using sarcasm which goes against what the picture shoes. 

The last feature to analyse on these two double page spreads, are the layouts. The 'we love pop!' page spreads the layout is set out a lot like a newspaper article. With the headline along the top and a smaller font quote telling us more information on the story. Below the headline, a picture is in the middle of the circle of text and the layout of this page makes the picture stand out, and suggest the text links to what the picture shows. Underneath the picture was a quote from the text, again hinting parts of the story to make the reader eager to read it. The second page is a big whole page spread picture of Tulisa, and the third page of the spread, the text is down the right hand side with a total of 7 pictures, that overlap over each other a bit, all the pictures are different sizes, the biggest one being the one of Aston Merrygold and Tulisa. The last page layout is quite similar to the third one which is again a big picture (Of Tulisa), a smaller picture of Harry and Tulisa, with text on the right hand side going down. 

In the Q double page spread, the layout is quite simple. There are no images on the first page and the text is set out again like a newspaper article. The text is written in 2 columns and takes about about three quarters of the page. Like the 'we love pop!' first page, the main headline 'Biffy Clyro' is central along the top, with smaller font below it explaining more about the article. The text layout has been set out with interview names, with the speech next to the celebrities initials and the question they are being asked above it. 

From looking and analysing both magazine double page spreads, i have learnt that more information has to be included than i thought and that the pictures have to be completely relevant, otherwise the reader will not be interested or think that the pictures used are boring and unnecessary. I have also learnt from these double page spreads, however the article is laid out, my text i produce for my music magazine should be stories that will entertain the reader and make them want to carry on reading it. 

Publication Plan

Name of magazine: 'Tuned In'

Font of name: chalkboard

Positioning statement: "Tuning in to the latest music!"

Frequency of publication: fortnightly

Price: £1.50

Distribution: Corner shops, food shops, bookshops
Target audience: teenage girls from age 13-18

Rationale: (what is the thinking behind the magazine - have you identified a gap in the market?) – The thinking behind the magazine is that the audience will want to continuously buy it because of the information and gossip inside

Style: for both genders, female and male pictures

Regular content: Latest gossip on current music, boy& girl bands, pictures, tour dates, interviews, poster pages and an activity page

Feature content in your issue: Big page poster of the band

House style: what font will you use? Will it be the same for articles/headings/captions?- I will use Chalkboard font for headings, captions will be in ‘Arial narrow’,  and articles will be written in arial Unicode MS’. 

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