Time Plan

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.