Location/ Props/ Costumes

Location

For my first photoshoot I began by taking images in front of a plain wall. I did this as I wanted these images for my front cover. I used high-key lighting in order to get an un-shadowed background. I had decided I wanted my main front cover image as a close-up shot. I think this style of image would work well within my magazine as it is a pop based genre, and targeted at females ages 18-25. Using a close-up shot, would create an aspiration feel towards my magazine and the target audience. For the pictures for my double page spread, I wanted to achieve a more interesting background, so I went to the beach to take images with different backgrounds, including woodland locations, sandy areas and using the sky as a background and focal point.

Props

I used props within the home shots, including makeup and mirrors. I have done this to relate to my target audience. My target audience is females ages 18-25, which is stereotypically linked to make-up, fashion and appearance. As my magazine aims to create an aspirational feel towards my audience I thought the make-up props would be successful in achieving this. The genre of my magazine is based around pop music, which means appearance and make-up is significant within the genre and in creating a distinct identity and individuality of a pop star. Another prop which was significantly used within shooting was the ear phones. This highly relates to my theme of pop and music in general. And this also relates to my target audience as females aged 18-25 use modern technology for example phones to listen to their music, to keep in relevance with their busy lives. This form of listening to music is easy, fun and interchangeable, just like the pop genre itself.

Costumes

Within my shoot, I made my model wear a variety of clothing. The first costume was a casual outfit including blue jeans, and a white and red music themed t-shirt to compliment my music magazine. This gave my model a casual look, one in which resonates with an everyday outfit for a pop star. For the images for my main cover image, I wanted to achieve a very bold and pop inspired shot.  So my model was wearing a brightly coloured blue top to refer to my pop genre and target audience, as regarded by my research my music genre enjoys listening to and reading about pop genre and style of clothing. Loud colours are very relevant within the pop genre and it was important to portray this within my images. I also complimented the outfit using a loud and blue coloured eye makeup. Other outfits included a blue and white stripy dress with a burgundy cardigan and brown boots. This look was used to create an autumnal theme towards the shoot, which was enticed by the vibrancy within the sky of the shot.