Photo Planning

For my front cover image my final decision is to have a medium mid shot of my artist at a slightly high angle to really emphasize the fact that she is holding a lipstick and pretending to paint her name on the front cover page. The lipstick will be red complementing the colour scheme on the rest of the page and the red font that will be written in a handwritten type font like  Georgia for example. This makes the image look more interactive and draws the audience in. The artist will be dressed in plain clothes to not take the attention off the face and bold blond hair. She will be wearing red disco pants that will match the red font on the text. I may decide to play with the focus of the photo to slightly make the lipstick, which will be in the foreground, sharper and more focused. I have made these decisions in relation to the fact that most music magazines feature there artists with one unique feature (red lipstick) and on a mid shot showing the top half of the body. With this the audience are able to see what the subject is wearing and the key facial expressions. The photo will also be shot in a studio with lighting highlighting the hair, the face and the lipstick. The lipstick reference will be because the artists debut single will be named 'One kiss'. 

For my main contents page image the image will be very similar to the front cover however I will shoot a low angle long shot of the artist highlighting all of the body and what she is wearing which my be of interest to my target audience. I have considered that they may enjoy reading about the description of what the artist is dressed in that day as my research shows that my target audience are fashion conscious wanting lots of pictures to influence them to buy the magazine. The photo on this page will be strong portraying that the subject is an independent new artist fighting for girl power with feminine aspects e.g hair and make up, enhanced by the bright flash of the photo. The image I will have created will be larger than the rest of the images which will be taken in other environments, of different artists. This is because I want most of the focus to be on the artist that the double page spread is about. 

 My double page spread main image will be a close up on the side of the artist showing the length of her blond hair. She will be positioned in a slightly angled pose with an arm sticking out over the middle of the double page spread. This arm will impose itself over the article text, forcing the text to fall around the image making the page more interesting. The inspiration for this idea came from the music magazine 'Mojo' with Florence Welsh on the contents page. Even though it is a contents page image I intend to interpret it on my double page spread. She is placed where the words have to fall curved on the page which I think is one of the conventions of a magazine to have the focus on the image rather than the text.