My own pictures that I am using.

I want this image as my main image on my magazine, it screams out I WANT YOU to buy my magazine and learn what I am about. I've used a low angle to make her look more dominant, powerful and almost commanding. The lighting highlights her main features like her head, but the shadow makes you focus on her face features like the shape and cheekbones. Direct adress is being used to again make an impression of control, like she has hypnotized you to buy the magazine. The background will be different  i will edit it in photoshop and probably out her on a white background, but edit the background to seem like a stage or something similar to that.
Will be edited to get rid of the background.

I might use this image for my double page because I am going to use the next picture of the boys with the guitars looking up, I will have them smaller so it looks like they are looking up at her, and with her smiling and waving, it seems like she's saying "My boys". It's the same girl on the front page, so we know that this article will be all about them. The angle again makes it look like she is powerful and in full control. I dressed her in a glamorous dress to show her to a different audience, more the pop genre. I'm doing this because my magazine is for everyone so they can find and might learn to love different types of music instead of being bound to one genre.
Will be edited in photoshop.

Fun. Walking The Dog

This is the image that I am going to use to have them all looking up at the girl who is waving. This picture and the other one is influenced by the band fun. in the song Walking the Dog (picture at the left) I also had Queen to influence me on this picture, it reminds me of bohemian rhapsody. Again I have a low angle shot, but this one isn't highly obvious, again it has a dominance, but the image at will top will over power this effect. The lighting shines mainly on the boy who is holding the acoustic guitar, but I'll play around with the effects on photoshop.

This image at first was just a play around to see what kind of angles that would work,  but in the end I liked it. I like how two of them are planning to attack him and then the one in the middle is just like "Um no, you can't touch this greatness". The way the one in the middle is standing just shows how he doesn't have a care in the world because he thinks he is flawless. If I do use this picture than it might be at the contents page or have this picture replace the one at the top, so it looks like she is yelling at them for nearly attacking the boy.
There clothes are smart, but they are also screaming out: "I am here for business".

This picture shows that the models have a wild side and that they are rather riotous in the music that they chose to present. It represents some disorder and chaos  but it's not completely in your face. It also shows a reunion between two bands, because they are both the lead singers of two individual bands. I will edit this picture using photoshop and might use it as my contents page, but the background will be white at first and then i'll edit it to look like its broken glass or something similar. This connoting a breaking free motion, on breaking rules and the barriers in the music industry.

I like this picture, it's simple and pretty basic, but I can edit it to make it work. I'm not sure if I am going to use this picture, but if I do, it might just be a small picture for a sideline or use it in my double page article, perhaps edit it to make it a waterprint. (not sure on that idea). Whilst taking this, I made it seem like the hands that are linked, 3D. So the main focus is on the hands, it's somewhat in a cute position, but I won't make it my main image, because between this one and the first one, I would choose the first one.
The lighting again makes a shadow effect on the other side, highlighting her natural features, the lighting does show that this girl isn't perfect, which I like about this image. It isn't fake and prim, unlike many other images, therefore the audience finds it easy to relate.

Collage of images that I have taken

Images related to Photography Sheet

Planning Photography Sheet

Images related to genre

Basically my music magazine will cover nearly all of the categories of music, it will feature and Indie band, some pictures of pop stars with a small interview and a techno DJ trying to make it big in the world. Along with some alternative bands as well.

Uses and Gratifications

Abi U&G by cbamediastudies on GoAnimate

Animation Software

Colours and connotations used in magazine

Due to my results from my questionnaire, I had a response of having a mixture of bright and dark colours so I have decided to have light, but dark neon dust colours to cause a contrast. I was going to use photoshop to see if I can merge a couple of colours together. So I can use it as a background behind my singers.

Connotations of the colours:
Green- hope, envy, jealousy, peace, health, healing
Black- danger, death, sophistication, elegants, dominant, mystery
Yellow- Sunshine, happiness, warmth, spiritual, joy, intellectual
Purple- hope, royal, spiritual, magical, luxury, nobility, ambition
Orange- enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, encouragement
Pink- feminine, bouncy, pretty, bubbly, fruity, flirtatious, kindness, empathy
Red- Danger, passion, lust, love, anger, pain, war, energy, strength, desire
Blue- cleanliness, cold/ warmth, pain, purity, tranquility, calm

If this goes well, my magazine won't be stereotyping anyone with the colours that follow it. So I won't have just one colour because that would be bias and it's what my audience want.