Model Profiles

Photo plan

Front cover

Model/s: Faye

Camera angle and shot: Mid shot- eye level

Location: Photography studio- White background

Styling: Flowers wrapped around her- Grey top- Black skater skirt-Floral headband-Messy hair-Dark eye makeup.

Advert

Model/s: Josh

Camera angle and shot: Long shot-Wide shot-eye level

Location: A wall in Aston Hall.

Styling: Big messy hair- Black skinny jeans- White top with simple indie design- converse

Editing:Black and white

Contents

Image one- Top right hand corner

Model/s: Myself and Daisy

Camera angle and shot: Canted- High angle-Close up

Location: In the Car

Styling: Sunglasses- messy hair- Smart/ casual clothes. I wore a black skirt and white T-shirt. Daisy wore a Aztec printed dress.

Image two- Middle of the page to the right

Model/s: Faye

Camera angle and shot: Low angle-Long shot

Location:Photography studio-White background

Styling: Black and white ombre top- ripped jeans- Bracelets-Scuffed boots- messy hair

Image three-Bottom right corner

Model/s: Charlotte

Camera angle and shot: Eye level-Extreme close up

Location:Photography studio-white background

Styling: Messy hair- Dark Knitted jumper

Editing:Black and white (soft)

Double page spread 1

Main image

Model/s: Faye

Camera angle and shot: Long shot-eye level

Location:Photography studio-white background

Styling: Grey t-shirt-black skater skirt- scuffed boots-black tights-bracelets-messy hair- dark eyes

Three images down the right hand side

Model/s: Faye

Camera angle and shot: Mid shot-eye level

Location:Photography studio-white background

Styling: Checked shirt buttoned up to the top- messy hair-bracelets- dark eyes

Editing: Black and white (harsh)

Double page spread 2

Image 1 left hand side

Model/s:Faye

Camera angle and shot: wide shot-long shot-eye level

Location:My house-sofa

Styling: Dark jumper- coloured jeans-guitar- straighter hair-socks

Image 2 right hand side

Model/s:Faye

Camera angle and shot: Long shot- low angle

Location:My house-stairs

Styling: Dark jumper- coloured jeans- straighter hair-socks

Album cover

Model/s: Faye

Camera angle and shot: Mid shot-eye level

Location:Photography studio-white background

Styling: Grey t-shirt-black- bracelets-messy hair- dark eyes

Editing: With texture over the top

Images I have used

Images that didn't make the cut

http://animoto.com/play/GL0OwbQ1j5xRClU3J13Eqw
Click on the link to see the Animoto of my pictures.

Second double page spread

I have decided to do a second double page spread as after looking at more music magazines I have realised that the interviews go over two double page spread. This is mosr prominant if the artist who is being interviewed is also feature on the front page as it means they are important. I have arranged another shoot for Saturday 8th March to take more photos of my model Faye at my house. Using my house gives more diversity to my pictures. The style of the clothing she will use will be the same as the previous shoot. I will aslo include a accoustic guitar as a prop to totally relate the pictures to the music genre.

My magazine photoshoot

I have completed my magazine photoshoot for my music magazine. Faye did really well and was lovely plus she was very easy to work with as managed to do all the poses I wanted easily, although her arms did get tired after a while as I needed to sort my lighting and the flowers out for the cover shot! I had a problem with getting the right facial expression on the shot of Faye screaming so I tried a number of different techniques. First of all I got her to scream and took some shots with her eyes open and some with them closed. After looking on the back of the camera I decided I like her expression best when her eyes were shut, so, this time I got her to shout her brother's name hoping it would make her look more angry. By shouting 'Edward' she was creating two different lip patterns. The 'ed' part made her look like she was screaming more and provoked the expression I wanted so I chose that one. I also had a problem with my second model. As I was running later than expected after doing all of Faye's hair and makeup Sophie who was my second model had to go home and I needed to get the photos taken early so I had time to edit them, and I didn't know when I was able to book my location for again. So, I changed my second model to Charlotte who was available and willing to be my model. Charlotte did well although I had a little trouble getting her to look angry/grumpy (not that Sophie did angry and grumpy well!) I had to shout some abuse at her, threaten to steal her shoes and get her imagine certain situations to provoke  a response out of her. She does cute very well in front of the camera which wasn't helped by the pose I wanted her to do, but in the end I got her looking how I wanted.
I found this article in 'Event' magazine that helped me with getting this response out of both of my models.

Styling mood board

After deciding on what genre I want for my magazine I then continued to make some mood boards to decide the type of styling I wanted for my model. I created a 90's grunge board as well as a hipster rock boards.

I liked  the 90's grunge look more so I created a hair and make up board as well . I will choose a variety of different clothes, hair and makeup styles to use in the photoshoot so I have a variety of photos to choose from when I begin adding in the photos for my music magazine.

Poses mood boards

I created some mood boards to see what poses I wanted to do. I created a mood board for womens poses and a mood board for mens poses.

I then decided that I would be able to show much more variety of camera angles and shots if I had a woman as my main model for my front cover and double page spread as I would b able to do lots of different backgrounds as well. So I then went on to create some more mood boards for some different poses for women to help me plan  what sort of pose and image I wanted where on my magazine, but also to ensure I get a wide range of shots so I have a choice what images I use when it comes down to putting the magazine together. I got these poses out of other fashion magazines so I could see what type of poses are commonly used.

Photoshop Tutorial

So... this is the basics on how to use some of the Photoshop tools. The Photoshop I am using is slightly different to the Photoshop on the schools computers, but the basics are still the same.
First to open a new page you go to file> new. The magazine needs to be A4 size so you need to make the width 209.9mm, the height 297.04mm and the resolution should be around 72 pixels. So now you have a blank sheet which I will refer to as 'Magazine page'. To now put another image on 'Magazine page' you need to go to file> open and find the image you want to use. This should then open in a new tab. To put this image on the 'Magazine page' you have just made you need to make sure you are on the black mouse tool
which is on the left hand side toolbar, click and drag the image up to the 'Magazine page' tab still clicking on the image the tabs should change to show the 'Magazine page' and you can drag the image to where you want it on the page.

If the image is too big or too small for the 'Magazine page' you need to resize it before you drag it in. To do this you need to go to Image> Images size, and change the size accordingly.

 If there is anything on the image you want to get off you need to use the clone tool.It looks like
 a stamp and is down the left hand side toolbar.

The clone tool basically copies an area of the image to another area. To select the area you want to copy press and hold the Alt key and a little target circle should appear then select the area you want to copy by putting the target over it and clicking. Then click and drag the circle which has appeared over the area you want to copy to. And voila it has copied. If you want to change the size of the brush you need to go the the top left hand corner. Next to the clone stamp icon there should be a little circle with a number underneath it, click on the little arrow next to it and use the slider for the size to change the size of the brush.

The heal tool is nearly the same as the clone tool. It is the tool which looks like a plaster on the
left hand side toolbar. It take the colour from the area you have selected, the area you are 'healing', and the area around the area you are healing to give a blended more natural effect. Like the clone tool, to select the area a similar colour to where you want to heal, press and hold the Alt key and a little target circle should appear then select the area by putting the target over it and clicking. Then click and drag the circle which has appeared over the area you want to heal.Changing the brush size is the same as the clone tool. If you want to change the size of the brush you need to go the the top left hand corner. Next to the heal stamp icon there should be a little circle with a number underneath it, click on the little arrow next to it and use the slider for the size to change the size of the brush.
These are the before and after screenshots. Here I have removed the tattoo off Jessie J's arm using the healing and clone tool.

 The crop tool is on the left hand toolbar.

The blur tool is also on the left hand toolbar. As you can guess it blurs details on the image. It looks like a little droplet.

There is also a sharpen tool which is a triangle on the left hand toolbar. It will appear if you press and hold the blur tool icon then select the triangle.

The magic wand tool is good for getting rid of unwanted background if the background is all the same colour. The magic wand is the icon on the left hand toolbar, it is the wand icon. Just click on the
 area or background and a dotted line will appear around the area. Press Delete and the selected area will be deleted.

So that's the basics of photoshop...