Magazine photoshoot

On the 21st of February I took the photos for my magazine, I used Jamie Hives an 18 year old student for this as I thought his overall look fitted the look for the magazine. I chose his outfits, and tried to make use of statement colours and patterns so that I can add handmade effects like when I draw on buttons, (hence the fact that I chose clothing with bold pictures such as the rocket, and eyeball). I wanted to keep his look bright but also relatively smart and stylish to fit in with the fashion theme. I thought the weather, along with the strong natural light (helped along by the reflections from the snow) was perfect for my photography. From a film of almost 100 photographs, i've condensed them down to my favourite 39. Most of my photographs I kept relatively simple so that I can cut out the background and make it white, but I also used some derelict barns to add a different look, and I personally love them photos. I've also decided to make this a winter special magazine, that looks forward to the upcoming summer, (hence the snowy weather). On a few of the close up photo's I used a burst setting to try and capture many random expressions, and then single out the best ones. Overall I am very happy with my film of photos, and look forward to editting them further to see the outcome.

Double page spread draft

Draft Contents Page

Possible shots for Finished Magazine

These are shots that I think would work well with my magazine I really like the last two photos as I think they're different and quite striking, i'm very drawn towards the final picture as I think it would look good, but also fit the genre of magazine i'm hoping to create. I think it looks happy, interesting and textural. I think the lighting is used well and I love the expression, a definite influence on my magazine cover.

Draft Music Magazine

This is my front cover draft, i'm happy with the fact that it fits my original draft e.g. use of handwritten font, pastel colours, textural. This is very basic to what I would like to finally create, but it includes mostly all of the things that I will use in the final product e.g. masthead, strap line, cover lines, barcode, etc. I tried to tie in all the elements of the magazine, I made pastel coloured buttons for josh's top to fit in with the pastel colour palette, I used the same colours with text repetitively, I used the same font, I used the button effect on the issue date to match the button effect at the top of the page. Overall I generally am happy with this, but in my final product I will be using a different model, I will be adding more textural effects (as I find the page a little bare) and I will be playing around with other fonts and magazine elements. Overall I give this draft front cover a 7/10

Adam

Adam Godby is probably the best person ever, i just wanted to write a post about him because hes so coool :)

Analysing double page spreads

This is a simple double page spread from a design magazine, I like the fact that there is a statement photograph page, and then the other page is solely concentrated on the written element of the double page. In my opinion this is a great representitive of a double page spread but it is not quirky enough to fit my magazines image, I would like it to have more texture rather than a flat layer.

I decided to pick out another style of double page spread, this time it is a newspaper article, I think this is a good contrasting idea, as magazine is just a lighthearted type of newspaper, but the two are never really entwined. I think the headline and the column idea is quite a good idea and gives a different perspective of a magazine. The only thing I do not like is the quality of the photographs, and the advertisement.

I really like this double page spread as its quirky, quite colourful and arty. The main problem with it is it doesn't have a main focal point, but I like the use of tilted pictures, and the effect that there is more than one layer.

This is possibly my favourite double page spread as it includes most of the other's good points and throws them together, e.g newspaper style, main photograph, messy lettering. I also like the use of colour with it being mainly monochromatic allowing the red to really stand out.