Conventions of a Music Double Page Spread.

Conventions of a Music Contents page.

Pose ideas for photoshoot.

These are some pose ideas I put together. All these are very different and gave me a lot of ideas of how I should positon my model within the scene. The poses I think would work well for music are the mid shot poses, this is because this is conventional of a music magazine. I think the up right/standing pose compliments the layout of a music magazine as it works well with portraiture, this is unlike the laid down poses which would look better on a double page spread which is more landscape.

Makeup Ideas.

I have chosen these makeup ideas because they are quite made up, however the colours are quite natrual and compliment the model without over powering them. I think this would work within a music magazine because I could adapt the colour to suit the magazine colour and themes. I think this type of model looks better agains't the conventional white plain back drop so the attention is focused mostly on them. If I was going to use these ideas, I would use them in this way.

Music Magazine Layout.

College Handwritten Plan

Magazine ideas

Ed Sheeran

I am a great fan of Ed Sheeran and he is widely popular within the UK. I think he is a great example of an artist that I could use within a magazine for the UK. I recently went to one of his concerts and I took images of the concert to use within my blog, and possibly my music magazine too. I love the types of clothes Ed Sheeran wears and what he represents in the UK music market. I will use this qwerky look in some of the aspects of my magazine.  

Costume & Props ideas.

I decided that the red carpet look was a good idea for a costume for music magazine, especially the woman's costume. I decided this because people within the music industry wear a lot of expensive outragous catwalk red carpet dresses and costumes. In regards to costume I think an expensive looking bag would work well with this outfit, this is because of the conventional advertising point the current magazines in the market have. I think the look of Ed Sheeran and other acoustic singers have is a relateable current look in fashion, and if the magazine was to be aimed at this market it would work. The current fashion on snap back caps would work well within a rap magazine, or something relating to that genre. All these ideas I will take in to consideration when creating my own images.

Own photo's of Ed Sheeran concert.

 

 

These are my own photo's that I recently took at an Ed Sheeran concert. I decided to use these within my blog, because this is the genre of music I was considering to use within my magazine. I thought some of these pictures would look good within the content or double page spread of my magazine. These pictures also have a variation of lighting, these lighting ideas may influence the way I take my own images.

Location ideas.

These are a few of the locations I looked at when deciding how to create my images. I think the ideas that work best is the concert enviroment as this is conventional to the genre of the magazine. However I think this would work better within a double page spread because of the landscape layout of the pictures. The other location I thought worked well was the white back drop, this is conventional of magazines and front covers tend to use this background. All the ideas I came up with for location relate to the genre which is music.

Contents page plan, music magazine

Double page spread plan, music magazine

Front cover plan, music magazine

Initial ideas.

Planning for focus group

Uses and Gratification

Demographics