Photo-shoot plan:
To begin
with I had to research examples of what sort of photos and costuming I would
want to do in order to appeal to my audience and suit my genre. It was quite
grimy usually and had a sort of darker element to the bands and a very simplistic
feature to many of the magazines of the indie genre.
I tried to
use both qualities ensuring that I would have the best of both worlds,
initially however I would've gone for a more grungy look but decided that this wouldn't suit the simplicity theme and chose not to head too much in that
direction. Furthermore it was duly noted by the make-up artist that the make-up needed to make a statement despite the clothes and scenery being as simple and
untouched as simplicity alone would’ve likely bored the reader.
I instructed
all the models to wear clothes that wouldn't be deemed as ‘hipster’ a term used
to describe very mainstream people who dress very demurely with pastels and spring-like
clothing as so often seen on pop magazines as it would give the entire magazine
the wrong kind of feel and just change the genre.
I chose the
idea of making a series of photos for the double page spread which in turn
would allow the idea of the band members being a couple to be enforced onto the
reader who in turn would be convinced of the contents of the article. In a
sense it was an accidental idea as I took the close ups as a back-up and asked
them to make faces which would give it the overall effect of being the photo
booth strip and actually being natural instead of being as stiff as certain
models often seem. Because the indie genre is so far away from mainstream and is
known to be out of the norm to have such natural picture which aren’t edited to
the point of a different person suits the genre and that is why I asked all the
models to act as they would in normal photos and as goofy as they like.
Furthermore
the angle of my front cover chosen was to give a good angle, which remained somewhat
mysterious at the same time and not give too much away and the simplicity – no goofy
faces or such, which maintained the level of simplicity that I had chosen due
to the gained inspiration from my research magazine ‘the fly’. The angle was a
high-angle shot looking down diagonally to give a nicer affect due to the lighting.
For the
contents page the effect wanted was the same and so I told the models to do the
same thing, however the models on the contents page were dressed more lighter than the rest of the magazine simply because it’s not professional as the ‘editors’
to be dressed so darkly and in indie-style. Nonetheless the affect gained by
these photos with their mid-shot to close up shots was well met and gave the magazine
a good overall ambiance.
