Photography

  Today I took my pictures of my girl group that will be the main feature on my magazine. I took a number of shot with the girls in a number of positions. Before I took the pictures I already had ideas for a few of the poses that I wanted the girls to pose. I told the girls before we began so they knew what I was expecting of them. I found the photography fun and interesting to do because I enjoyed directing the girls and telling them how to pose/look.

 I was very pleased with the pictures that I took as I felt that when selecting the image for both my front cover and two page spread that I will have a wide range to choose from.
 I looked through all of the pictures that I had taken, once I had uploaded them to the computer, and looked at each one individually to see which one would be suitable for my front cover.

Photography

My next step was no remove the green screen from the background of my image. I found this difficult to do on publisher and powerpoint so I found an internet site that did it perfectly.

Photography

  Today I took some photos for my front cover. I used one of my friends and took the pictures in one of the media rooms in front of  a green screen. I took a number of pictures from different angles so that I would have a wide range to choose from when composing my front cover. I analysed all of the pictures that I took and selected the one that I thought best on my magazine.

(the picture I have used for my front cover)

I also too experimental shots such as the one above which is a low angle or worms-eye view shot.

Girl Group

I have decided to go with a girl group for my front cover. I will dress them all in light pastel colours so that they all look girly and feminine. I will also do their make-up so that it is soft and use light pink lipsticks so that its not too bold and to make them look delicate.

I will be selecting 4 girls to make up my girl group. To take the pictures I will go down to media and use the green screens. I also need to get the girls to wear matching jewellery but ensure that it fits in with the theme. I will be going for the look demonstrated by Little Mix in the image below. Also demonstrated by this image is the plain white background that I want for my front cover.

Main Story


Originally I wanted a boy band as my main feature therefore the main image on my front cover.
I intended to get together a group of four boys and dress them in surfer outfits, so summery t-shirts and Hawaiian shorts. I was also going to insert a tidal wave in front of the boys for a surfing effect.



 

 

 

 

However I decided to change my idea from a boy band to a girl band instead as I did not want the boy band to confuse my target audience which is girls. In addition the boys would not have fitted in with the girly theme that I am going for with my magazine.

Fresh Music

Today I decided that the title I wanted for the side column was "fresh music". For this I felt that I needed to come up with an appropriate yet still professional looking text. I found the text that I wanted then I thought it might be fun to add a glow to it. To my surprise this worked and looked very professional and appropriate for the magazine and representative of the information I want to include in the column.

 

The next step was selecting the colour of the text. This was pretty easy as I alredy knew that I wanted it to be pink as this was my theme colour. Then I thought that it might be a good idea to remove the E from fresh and replace it with a love heart instead I tried it and put it in place on my magazine. I think that it works well so have left it ibn place, I also gave the heart a glow to fit in tith the text.

 

 

Research

Today I decided that I wanted a column along the left hand side of my magazine front cover. In the column I will show smaller music stories and information about celebrities that will be in the magazine. I want it to be similar to the column shown on the magazine below, however mine will run from the top to the bottom of the page.

 

 

I have decided that the column will be a bold blue as I want it to contrast the background behind the image I will be using which will be white. I wan the background to be white as I don't want it too be too much for the reader, also I feel that it will look more professional with a plain background.