AS Media Coursework Main Task - Alex O'Niell

Blog 6 - Photos

For my front cover main image, I took many shots of the musician and was left with a decision between three photos. As you can see the first image is the one I did choose and overall it was quite an easy decision. All three images as you can see have similar lighting, in all images you can see the musician clearly and see everything around him, the costume in the images are also the same, wearing a leather jacket and a buttened up polo shirt this look is able to give him a look of a young rock and roll/indie guitarist. The biggest strength of the image which I chose was the fact that he is facing the camera therefore you are able to see his facial expressions and the audience can see who it is straight away. The other two photos he is looking away from the camera, if these where used then the audience may not realise who it was on the front cover therefore not actually end up buying the magazine. The black leather jacket allows it to fit with the colour of the front cover of the magazine which is also black, with the polo shirt standing out. Due to the split of the musicians band it is important that he wasn't looking really happy therefore the images show him deep in thought and looking quite depressed. The musician is holding a guitar, this was done so that any audience who are unaware of who he and who the magazine is can see straight away that he is a guitarist and that the magazine is a music one.

For my contents page I also had three images to choose from, all three are quite similar with one taken from a different angle. All images show the frontman playing the guitar on his own therefore the audience know what the page is about if you turn to it in this case (page 9 and 10). Once again the images have similar lighting, with the main attention being shown to the guitarist. The guitarist is shown with the same costume for each of the three photos, this was done as I felt which the clothes he was wearing were suitable for the contents page and allows you to see that he is performing at a gig. The facial expression of the musician shows he is really concentrating whilst playing the guitar making sure he doesn't make a mistake. I chose the first image because I felt that angle worked best and the audience can see everything from the way he is playing the guitar, the facial expressions and the clothes he is wearing.

For the double page spread I took many pictures but found that this one was ideal. The lighting for the photo is bright, this is so that you can see everything going on in the image. The musician is wearing simple casual clothes, a sweatshirt and black skinny jeans, this is good as this fits in to something the target audience may wear. The appearance of the front man is of him with his guitar on his bed looking quite depressed and in deep thaught, there is also bottles of beers on the bed to show he has been drowning his sorrows sort of thing and also a notepad and pencil to show which he is writing new music.