Contact Sheet from Photo Shoot

Here is the contact sheet from my photo shoot. The majority of the shots are very similar as I knew what I wanted to produce on the cover of my magazine. I also experimented with lighting. I found that two lights on either side worked better as they produced less of a black shadow but reflected off my models glasses which could easily be removed using PhotoShop. I also got some of my model doing whatever she felt natural so then I would get some photos of the personality of the 'artist' so I could use these images on the contents page and the double page spread to portray that the interview will be 100% the artist and nothing reproduced this will make the reader feel closer to the artist and therefore remove the barrier of the magazine, this informal tone will make the reader feel closer to the artist which is an individual and unique selling point therefore making my magazine more likely to sell and more appealing to the audience. I also got my model to hold an amp lead this was to do with the title of the article 'unplugged' therefore implying that the article would be stripped down and away from all the publicity and be her views not her publicists, therefore attracting the audience to the magazine as what they will read will be 'true'. I made sure my model wore the same colour as the amp lead so then my magazine cover lines could also use this colour. The red would become my colour theme. At first my model wore the t-shirt over the shorts but this looked too inappropriate for my audience so I decided to have the tee-shirt tucked in. I also made my model wear an already established band t-shirt as this is quite fashionable among my target audience with them wearing t-shirts as Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac. By making the model wear similar clothes to the target audience it adds to the audience feeling that they are just like the artist therefore removing any barrier between the audience and increasing the personal tone.

Above is the contact sheet for the front cover I have crossed off all the images that I don't want to be used as they don't meet up to my expectations of what I want for my cover. Either the pose was too natural and more suitable for the contents page of the double page spread or I didn't feel that the pose worked. I will stick to the conventions of having my model looking directly into the camera but I will also look into Photoshop and experiment with different ways that could make my image catch the eye of a viewer and subvert the conventions of a typical cover image.