Centural Image Photo Shoot.

This was my first photo shoot. From looking at other Rock magazine covers (Kerrang!) It has shown that a large percentage of them consist of a band as there cover artists rather than a soloist.

As a result of my research I felt it quite appropriate to feature a band on the cover as my Central image. This is a positive move for me because as you can see from the examples I have looked at from Google Images having more than one subject to feature the page fills the space more appropriately. The less blank space and the busyer, more interesting the magazine is to looks the more likely it is to attract attention. Once again resorting back to my target audience and how the age range is stereotypically seen as a buzzing, busy generation have busy cover will appeal greatly.

BAND PHOTOSHOOT (We Are the Nations Kidz!)

The band I photographed go by the name of "We Are the Nations Kidz!". I specifically asked each subject to wear natural colours -This is because flowing the "Indie" theme of an individual style, I wanted to differ away from the aggressive colours which are stereotypically seen in Rock magazines and focus slightly more on the "Indie" side of music. So grays and blacks were acceptable. However because my overall genre is "Indie-Rock" I thought it important to include a small aggressive aspect rock implies. I asked the members to express aggression through there facial expressions. Also to support this aggression I dressed Eloise in a red checked shirt, this encourages aggression; notices her as the main character and fits with my colour scheme. You might notice that each member's eye line looks straight into the lens, this is because I made sure they were so they're looking straight out into the audience. This works well and effectively and also every magazine I've researched so far includes the subjects eyes looking straight out, I felt this had a stronger impact on myself as an audience member.

You may notice my band doesn't contain any black subjects of anybody from another ethnicity than White British. This is because of the low black population on the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is made up 97% of a White British population.

I took 24 images altogether and worked carefully on my positioning and camera angle for each. In some of the images you will see the band are placed in different levels and positions. I did this so I had ore of a variety to choose between when analysing what would work best as my central image. You may also notice on some of the images i used a flash and on others I did not. I made this distinct choice to take some with and without to see how well the shadows on the clothing and facial expressions effected the entire image now being able to see which ones work appropriately for the emotion I'm trying to create through the image.

All my camera angling is from below. I had made a subconscious decision before the photo shoot that this was what I was going to do. Simply because as you can see from my several draft cover pages I have an excessive amount of space above the subject. I also did this because from the deconstructions of other pages I created I found most of the models looking down onto the camera from a higher level. I felt this worked well from the other magazines. A you can see the majority of my shots are wither "LS" or "MCU" I did this because throughout my research I have found most of the images are "CU" images. I wanted to deliberately differ away from this to give my magazine an individual quality and to stand out from the rest. Also to the neutral colour on the clothing is important to the genre of my magazine so i felt it important to include it within the image.

Last but not least my images are set on a school field with the building behind, there was no artificial lighting and all wind movements within the hair is natural however I felt the wind worked to my advantage creating interesting images. I chose this location to represent the name of the band "We Are the Nations Kidz!" the word "Kidz" fits appropriately with the theme of school and education this is appropriate for my target audience as it is aimed towards those still within or just leaving a higher education background.

From these images I selected the two I thought came across impressive showing off all the aspects I had previously spoken about. Looking at these two images I feel they have the potential for my covers central image.