Over the half term I am going to organise my time so that I can get the photographs for my magazine for the front cover, contents page and double spread. To do this I am going to have to arraneg the times of organising a location for the pictures, the people who are going to be involved in the pictures, the costumes that will be worn within the pictures and any props that will be needed for the photos.
On deciding the location of where the photographs were going to be taken I had to decide what my main double spread page was going to be about as to know where the photographs would need to be taken. The double spread in my magazine I decided that I was going to do an interview with an artist whilst they are at home, and what they get up to at home. So therefore I decided to use my house as the location for the double spread photos and possibly the front cover photo. I chose to do it at my house as then it would be easy for me to get the props collected for the photoshoot and it would not be unfair on anyone else that I have to use up their house where they would have to leave and they may not feel that there homes are ready for photos to be taken.
For the model to be the artist in my magazine I text my friend, Helen to ask if she would be willing to do this for my media coursework. In my text I briefly explained what would be involved within the photoshoot so that she knew what was meant to be involved. Helen agreed to help me and be the model for my magazine. We arranged a time in the half term when we were both free and decided upon the 18th February at 9am so that it could be an early start so we could get the costumes and make up sorted ready for the photoshoot.
I booked to use one of the cameras on the 18th February so that I could get most of my photographs taken ready for the magazine and so that it was ready for the photoshoot.
I already had the clothes for the photoshoot at my house. I was going for an electric/nu rave sort of theme for the artist so thought that it would be appropriate for her to be in bright/neon colours to fit with the general stereotype for this genre. I already had the bright blue/pink tutu and the bright neon pink tights it was then just trying to find a suitable top to wear with the tutu. I chose on a white top, this is because I thought that as the photoshoot was meant to be the artist at home it was important to try and make the outfit slightly less dressed up to be slightly more casual and more believable that she was at home and not about to go out, but still fit in with the electro stereotype. The jewellery, hairband and shoes were brought by Helen to the photoshoot as I text her closer to the date describing the outfit that was going to be worn in the photoshoot and if she had anything she thought may go with this outfit to bring it along.
The props for the photoshoot I had collected from around my house, props used were red heart sunglasses, mobile phone, red rose, cuddly toys, dressing gown, tea cup, washing machine, watering can, magazine, dog and Ipod. I used a lot of different props in the photos even though I realised that all the pictures were not going to be included in the double spread I thought that it was important to have a wide variety of choice available so that I could pick and choose the best photos for the magazine.
Over the half term I think I stuck to my time plan well and managed to achieve the photographs I needed for my magazine.
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Shot list for magazine
For my magazine I need to use lots of different shot types for the different photographs used in the magazine. Here I am going to describle clearly what shots and what types of shot I am going to use in my project for the front cover, contents page and double spread of my magazine.
The main image on my front cover will be a medium close up of the artist which I have chosen to use in the main double spread. This is a picture of the head and shoulders of the artist.
I could use just a very close up shot of my artist on the front cover but I decided against it because I wanted to get more of the detail of my artists outfit so that the audience can then have a better idea of what the artist is about if they were not aware of her music or had never heard of her.
On the contents page the pictures are going to be varied of Mid shot and medium close ups of different artists who will be featured in the contents page. There will also be a wide shot of the front cover of my magazine to be used in the subscriptions part of the contents page where customers can subsribe to the audience and get a free gift of some kind.
In the contents page there will also be a picture of a crowd which I took whilst at a gig which will illustrate the gig review section this will be taken in either a very wide shot or an extreme wide shot of the crowd. I used this because I could then get a wide shot of all the crowd at the gig and it shows the amount of people at this one specific gig, I took this at two seperate gigs, both extreme wide angle shots to show the contrast between the two gigs.
Within the double page spread of my artist I have used a wide range of different shot types of what she was doing around the house to create variety and make it more interesting for the reader.
Close ups will be used when I want to illustrate a certain feature or part of the subject so this will take up the main frame so that this is the main thing focussed on within this picture.
Mid shots will be used when I want to illustrate some part of the subject in more detail whilst still giving an impression of the whole subject around the artist.
Long shots will be used where the subject takes up the full frame, or at least as much as possible so that the reader can see what is around the subject as well as what she is doing in the picture.
The main image on my front cover will be a medium close up of the artist which I have chosen to use in the main double spread. This is a picture of the head and shoulders of the artist.
I could use just a very close up shot of my artist on the front cover but I decided against it because I wanted to get more of the detail of my artists outfit so that the audience can then have a better idea of what the artist is about if they were not aware of her music or had never heard of her.
On the contents page the pictures are going to be varied of Mid shot and medium close ups of different artists who will be featured in the contents page. There will also be a wide shot of the front cover of my magazine to be used in the subscriptions part of the contents page where customers can subsribe to the audience and get a free gift of some kind.
In the contents page there will also be a picture of a crowd which I took whilst at a gig which will illustrate the gig review section this will be taken in either a very wide shot or an extreme wide shot of the crowd. I used this because I could then get a wide shot of all the crowd at the gig and it shows the amount of people at this one specific gig, I took this at two seperate gigs, both extreme wide angle shots to show the contrast between the two gigs.
Within the double page spread of my artist I have used a wide range of different shot types of what she was doing around the house to create variety and make it more interesting for the reader.
Close ups will be used when I want to illustrate a certain feature or part of the subject so this will take up the main frame so that this is the main thing focussed on within this picture.
Mid shots will be used when I want to illustrate some part of the subject in more detail whilst still giving an impression of the whole subject around the artist.
Long shots will be used where the subject takes up the full frame, or at least as much as possible so that the reader can see what is around the subject as well as what she is doing in the picture.
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