Plan for Photographs:

Front Cover:

The main image should be like that of the Front cover of the school magazine. A medium to close up shot of a person. However, to adapt to the genre of the Music Magazine the image would need to be more provocative.

In this example from an October 2008 issue of Rocksound magazine, the image comes right out of the page rather than remaining static. The boxing gloves and pose fits with the sub-heading in the bottom right "'Fall Out Boy' Come Back Fighting."

The way I am to achieve the provocative and active front page image is by making use of paraphernalia of the Rock genre. Such items like instruments (chiefly guitar), smoking or substance abuse (the later being perhaps too provocative a connotation for a school project). A photo shoot for this would require an experimental approach to see what was most effective as a front page image.

Also unlike the School Magazine Front page, the image for the music magazine would have to look more posed and beautified (or after effects added) as opposed to the more natural (in most cases) appearance of the School magazine.

Contents Page:

Rather than repeat a central image that dominates the page like in the front cover, I decided to go for more of a collage of shorter, snappier images that showed active bands. This could perhaps link to text on the Contents page, advertising such bands later in the magazine.

The images used could be as simple as casual photographs of a band, like 'My Chemical Romance' above. When images of a similar nature are put into use on the contents page the finished piece looks similar to that of Rocksound Contents page below.

Here, six images are used all on one page. With the main text occupying it's own set area in the bottom corner. Five out of six of the images have accompanying text on them, directing readers to the relevant pages.








In contrast, a very different Rocksound contents page, where only the main image is used. Once again the text is confined to one area of the page, leaving the image to dominate.






As I am going for the first option, of smaller, more collage like images of bands I will need to take a variety of photos of different groups posing in different ways. For example I could have one group of five standing talking, another group of four sitting down, a single artist or two or a small group playing musical instruments. The key to these images is including a lot of people, giving the connotation of lot's of active and very different bands or artists covered in the music magazine.

Double Page Spread:

For this final project, I am going to try using a more artistic and expressive photograph. I felt that the only limitations were to make a solid connection between the image and either the album that it is for, or the band that the double page spread is about.

In this double page spread from Metal Hammer, there is a rather voyeuristic shot of an artist through the trees. The band name being 'Porcupine Tree' the connection justifying an otherwise potentially puzzling image. Rather than separate the two sections of image and text, I would prefer to use an image with dark borders that allowed white text to be written onto the image.

I aim to find an interesting yet practical photograph from a selection that I will be taking as part of an AS photography unit on portraits. This will require intuitive thinking as to set location, and themes that the image will convey. This last photograph should be the most striking and memorable of my Music Magazine.