Location, props and costume

For location I decided to use the photography studio in the college because I felt that the white background would brighten up the front cover. I wanted to keep the front cover simple because there is already a lot of colour in the text and this may cause the text to become lost or less visible. I did want to use a different background for the feature article though. I wanted to have my model leaning on a brick background to show how down to earth the singer was, so that the reader could relate to him. But I couldn’t find the right model and the person that I did use, Liam, was being very difficult to work with so I doubt I would be able to have him pose outside of college. Also but keeping the background plain it made it easier to edit them out of the images and place them on different backgrounds.

I decide not to use any props because I didn’t want to have too much on the front cover and I didn’t want to take the focus away from the model. Since the picture I took of my model was mainly of his face I didn’t use props because you wouldn’t be able to see them anyway. For the feature article I wanted to only use images of the band members because I wanted all of the focus to be on them and not the material goods that would surround them. But for the contents page I did use some images of some props like the guitar, I thought this would make the page look more interesting rather than having just images of people on it. Also I felt that if I put images of props on this page then it may encourage the reader to see what else is inside the magazine.

I tried to have my model wear clothes that would match the genre of the magazine, rock. Luckily he wears clothes similar to this so I didn’t need to ask him to wear anything specific. These clothes represent the clothes that my target audience would wear so hopefully they will feel the connection between then and the magazine and this will encourage them to buy it.