Magazine Photoshoot

These are some of the photos that I took on my magazine photoshoot in

preparation for creating my own magazine font cover.

Unlike on my poster photoshoot, I didn’t have set idea on what I wanted to do for my magazine cover photo. Because of this, I took a range of different photos in different poses and with different effects. This gave me a variety of different style photos to choose from.

During my photoshoot, I had to take the lighting into consideration. The lighting would effect the audience’s view on the characters featured- the brighter the light, the more likely the audience are to see the character in a positive light. As I didn’t have any special lighting equipment, I had to made do with what I had at home and do the rest in photoshop/fireworks.

I used various different types of camera angles and shots to give myself a wide choice when picking which photo would be on my magazine cover. They would also contribute to building the character profiles.

Photographs I didn’t use/like

4 Favourite Photos

Photo I have used on my magazine coverAfter looking at all the photographs I had taken, I picked my favourite four (as shown on the previous slide) and then asked people in my media class for feedback. I took this consideration and chose this image as the one that would feature on my magazine front cover. I decided to have a picture only showing one of my characters because this is what you would see on existing professional film magazine. I also felt that it made the photo (and in turn the magazine) more effective because it gives the audience one thing to focus on.

I liked the lighting in this photo because it reflected the character personality. The shadow that the lighting created on the wall behind Maisie also gives the audience the idea that she is the antagonist in the film. As well as this, because I thought about lighting and the colour effect during my photoshoot, it meant that I wouldn’t have to do as much editing in photoshop/fireworks which saves a lot of time. Another feature of this photograph that persuaded me to choose it as my final image was the eye contact that Maisie is making with the audience. Eye contact in a photo like this is important because it makes the audience feel as though the actor/character is looking right at them. It makes them feel more connected to the magazine.