Photo Research

In my magazine there must be 4 or more original images. These will have to be a good representation of my magazine genre and so I have conducted research on the kind of artists who would be featured in my magazine. This research has given me ideas on the pose of the artist I will photograph, features in my photos, props, costume and shot style.

This is an Italian rock magazine which is where I got some of my ideas for my own magazine. The guitar featured in the magazine is iconic of the musician and of the genre of the magazine.

A convention seen in other magazines is that the musician is facing towards the camera in a medium close up so the torso and head can be seen. The clothes that the musician is wearing has a casual connotation and isn't typical and stereotypical of the clothing other excentric rock musicians wear. The layout of the image is simplistic and the space around the artist creates blank space for headings and subheadings. On this front page they are basic and small so the masthead and image attract the audiences eyes to them.

On this front page there are three different artists in seperate photos. The overall front page is bright and busy which attracts the audiences. The bright colours and amount of text to advertise and promote the "consumption" of these bands suggest that this magazine is aimed at teenagers. The camera shot on these images are medium close ups of each seperate musician which are then "cut out" and put infront of the background, arranged close together.

There are no musical instruments or musical connotations featured in the images but clear representation of the musicians, headings and subheadings, and masthead show the genre of the magazine.

The tone of the image is greyscale which adds shadows to the musicians face. The black and grey tones of the image also standout against the reds of the subheadings and headings. The image is a medium-close up of the musician which is a convention of magazine frontpages. The musician is looking at the camera and looks as if he is looking at the reader/audience.