Photography Planning

Models, Costumes, Props

The models I will use on my front cover and double page spread will be two males, wearing similar clothes and styles, both will be acting silly doing a pose with objects such as posts or cloth rails hanging upside down depending on whether I can get hold of such props. The clothes being worn will be beige chinos, white t-shirt and a winter coat as shown below. For the models that won’t feature on the front page one model will wear darker clothes with a slightly more urban look yet still with the fashionable side of things. Whilst any other models will be wearing relaxed clothes.

Front Cover

For my front cover I want a Studio shot of a band with a similar background, to the NME magazine to the left, with a red bold text for the headings and sub headings alternating between black, red or white like the picture to the right. The title Buzzed, will be in a large red font. There will not be any sub images as the I want the main focus of the cover to be the main image and article of the magazine, however I will be using sub headings on the outskirts of the cover to advertise extra content within the magazine, the front cover should have a glossy effect as this a monthly magazine, so should have better quality. Originally I wanted my models to be stood side by side looking serious, however my idea has now developed so that the models are playing around and posing doing something silly. The models for my front cover are going to be all males, and dressed fashionably.

Contents Page

My contents page needs to have multiple photos of different things such as artists or bands images as well as images of album covers or concerts, it needs to be fairly packed with contents of the magazine, in a fairly neat set out. The Kerrang magazine to the left, shows the sort of layout I want my contents page to compare to, the contents page layout will have the word contents in the top left box labelled one in the same font as my masthead, in box 2 there will be the main image, that will also appear on my double page spread, in box 3 and 4 there will be a small image on other artists, a made up album cover image will appear in box 5 along with its description in box 6, in box 7 there will be the editors letter and in box 8 there will be the less important contents labelled down, in the final box, box 9 there will be a competition for tickets to a concert. My models for the contents pages will be the same as the models on the front page this image will be in box 2, whilst images 3 and 4 will have models dressed for a different music genres.

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Double Page Spread

The double page spread will be laid out, with the main image as the background and filling the whole page however the model will only be on the left hand side of the page with bold text in a large font at the bottom of the left hand side with a quote from the text, whilst the main text will be on the right hand side of the page, similar to the double page spread taken from Q magazine featuring Florence. It will feature the model band playing about and acting in an immature fashion. The image will also feature a white plain background, as this keeps focus on the models rather than the background. Where box 1 is there will be the main images of the models, box 2 will overlap box 1 and will have a quote form box 3 the main article. Box 3 will be the main text article.

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