MY IMAGES

ELLIE’S PHOTOS #1Ellie is being presented with a glamorous celebrity pose. This will interest the target audience who will be able to recognise that pose and therefore be intrigued by their role model. Furthermore, she has a party-like dress on which shows her fashion sense is strong and therefore may interest the target audience even more. The fact the dress resembles a party dress, also may interest the target audience who are recently discovering the concept of partying and therefore show some interest to the model and therefore the magazine. On top of this, she is wearing some stylish glasses, which reinforces the theme that the target audience may be able to relate with the model. Furthermore, she is smiling excessively which indicates how happy she is. This is also a theme portrayed by pop music, which may cause the target audience further interest as they will love pop music. Finally, I ensured that the lighting on her face reflected a bright and happy vibe rather than a dark and gloomy feel. The lighting could be associated with that of pop music, due to the happy theme, which might once again interest the target audience.

HOW I EDITED ELLIE’S PHOTOI firstly selected the ‘magic wand’ tool on the left hand side. From there I highlighted the area of the photo I wanted to eliminate. In this case, every where apart from the photo. Thistherefore included the green screen.

I then selected the ‘colour range’ tool to start the process of changing my models dress colour.

I then selected the colour of the shirt to highlight that area. Then I selected ‘OK’ once the appropriate area was highlighted.

Then I selected a new hue/saturation layer, while my desired area was highlighted.

I then modified the colours on the colour bar to select the appropriate colour.

WHY I MODIFIED MY MODELS DRESS COLOURI modified my photo to have different colours for the lip stick and dress, using the colour range tool, as I believed using appropriate colours is essential for targeting my audience. A brighter purple and pink colour rather than black will portray pop music much more, which will appeal to my target audience who love pop.

TYLER’S PHOTOTyler is doing three different poses, with each pose looking slightly seductive which aims to appeal to the target audience, who is of the opposite gender. Furthermore, he is smiling in each photo which represents the feeling portrayed by the pop genre, which also aims to appeal to the target audience. He is also wearing a trendy, male-popular shirt. This suggests the magazine keeps up to date with regular trends which aims to also interest the target audience who will like keeping up to date and following their role models changes in fashion. Just like my previous images, I ensured the lighting was evident on his face which would portray the theme represented in pop music, happy and upbeat, rather than dark and miserable.

GROUP PHOTO #1For each member, the model is portraying a happy vibe which is also represented in pop music. This aims to interest the target audience who love pop music and therefore will enjoy seeing their role models portrayed similarly. Furthermore, they are all in a close proximity of each other which suggests they are a boy band, appealing to the target audience. They are also all wearing casual clothes which are fairly bright, promoting the theme of pop music, hoping to interest to the target audience. They also do not look too serious, due to their normal clothing and casual poses, which once again portrays pop music. Furthermore, their casual attitude stereotypically represents the attitude of young teenage girls, potentially causing them to be interested.

For Ellie’s second images, she is wearing a dress which would be commonly associated with fashion, since it looks appealing and desirable. This may interest the target audience of young teenage girls who are likely to be interested in different fashion. Furthermore, she is smiling which indicates she is happy, a feeling portrayed also by pop music. Therefore, the target audience may associate the model with pop music, causing further interest. She has hair which is pretty, attracting attention from females who might want to know how to do it, and also modern. It is likely that young teenage girls will also have, or have had, a similar hairstyle to this and therefore may be able to relate causing interest. She also has a pose which resembles a model’s photo shoot. Therefore, the target audience may be intrigued as she is portraying a celebrity theme, meaning young teenage girls and more likely to recognise and therefore be interested by her. Finally, the lighting is very strong in this photo, as I really wanted to portray an intensely happy vibe, similar to that of pop music, aiming to interest the target audience who will love pop music.

ELLIE’S PHOTO #2

ELI’S PHOTOSOn the left hand side, you can see the first images of Eli I have taken, for my front cover. I ensured she was wearing clothes which represented the pop genre. Therefore, she is wearing bright clothing, indicating a happy and positive attitude, similar to that portrayed by the pop genre. This aims to attract the target audience. Her smile also portrays a happy feeling, just like the clothing, which helps to attract the target audience. Her hair is very basic and similar to what a young teenage girl might have. I did this because I want the target audience to be able to relate with their role models, causing interest.On the right hand side is the second image of Eli. It is similar to the first one of her, however, I changed the clothing to a brighter colour to further symbolise and represent pop music. This once again aims to attract the target audience, who will love pop. On top of this, she is wearing some basic make-up to remove spots and blemishes. This makes her look more like a model and will appeal to a target audience who are likely to want to know how to look like their role models.

NATHAN’S PHOTOSFor these photos, I once again realised that I needed the model to portray a happy vibe. Both images do this, with one look more extreme than the other. One of them is calmer, yet also portrays more of a seductive look which will appeal to the opposite gender, attracting my target audience. For the clothing, the model is wearing a plain shirt, but I would like to change the colour of this like I have done before, potentially to a bright colour, once again representing pop music. The jacket is also very trendy and represents a typical young male model, which aims to attract a target audience who like to see current trends in society. They will also look at the jacket and possibly associate it with more popular pop artists hey have seen wearing it in the past, causing some interest.

TYLERS’S PHOTOS Tyler’s second photo is very different from the others, as it breaks a stereotype. Men are usually portrayed in pop magazines as fairly masculine, yet still upbeat and happy. Tyler, however, is portraying a happy feeling, helping to promote pop music, but he is also wearing a pink vest with a heart on it. The colours and heart combined help to also portray pop music to interest the target audience. However, with Tyler wearing this costume, it will help the target audience to almost relate with him a bit more than they usually could, since he is representing a female look. This will help the target audience to be interested more in the magazine. On top of this, the lighting is intense which helps makes him look even more happy.

ELLIE’S PHOTO #3 These photos of Ellie are fairly similar to previous ones, other than the fact she is wearing different clothing. Once again, however, the clothing is bright rather than dark and gloomy to ensure the magazine attracts to pop fans, who will like a brighter colour scheme. Furthermore, on this image, she is wearing glowing pink lip-stick which portrays glamour and once again, the colour is bright which portrays pop music once again. Also, her hair is casual rather than modified to look amazing, as I feel this will cause the target audience to be able to relate with their role model which gives them more of an interest in the magazine.

ELLIE’S PHOTO #4 Once again, I have conventions for this image, similar to ones used before. For example, I followed pop music magazine conventions by ensuring she was wearing a bright outfit to demonstrate the happy feeling portrayed by pop music. However, I decided to dress her up in a more casual outfit, as I believe this will appeal to a target audience who may be able to relate with the dress as they may have one similar. Furthermore, she is wearing pink lip gloss and make-up to demonstrate her pop star vibe. This will attract a target audience of young teenage girls who are likely to love reading and looking at glamour and make-up.

ELLIE’S PHOTO #5 For this final image, I once again followed the conventions by presenting her in a bright pink shirt to portray pop music and appeal to a target audience who is likely to enjoy the colour pink. She is also wearing make-up to portray that glamorous, pop star vibe to ensure my target audience can recognise her as a role model and therefore be interested. On top of this, the hairstyle is very similar to something a young teenage girl might like to have and therefore, the target audience can relate with this hairstyle which aims to interest them. Furthermore, her pose is very relevant to something that a young teenage girl might like to have which will also cause a reason for them to relate with the magazine.