Magazine Photoshoot

These are some of the photos that I took on my magazine photoshoot in

preparation for creating my own magazine font cover.

Unlike on my poster photoshoot, I didn’t have set idea on what I wanted to do for my magazine cover photo. Because of this, I took a range of different photos in different poses and with different effects. This gave me a variety of different style photos to choose from.

During my photoshoot, I had to take the lighting into consideration. The lighting would effect the audience’s view on the characters featured- the brighter the light, the more likely the audience are to see the character in a positive light. As I didn’t have any special lighting equipment, I had to made do with what I had at home and do the rest in photoshop/fireworks.

I used various different types of camera angles and shots to give myself a wide choice when picking which photo would be on my magazine cover. They would also contribute to building the character profiles.

Photographs I didn’t use/like

I didn’t like this photo because it was really dark and there was too much in the background (ie the light and the plug socket) that would take too much time to edit out.

This photo would have been too dark to use for my magazine front cover. Although I want the photo to be slightly dark because it fits the genre of my film, the audience have to be able to see the actor’s faces.

This photograph was too light- it didn’t fit the genre of psychological thriller. I wanted the image to scare/frighten the audience slightly, which this photo does not do.

This was the first photo I took and it was too bright. At this point, I wasn’t using any ‘special lighting’ so there wasn’t any kind of effect given off. This photo doesn’t highlight either of the actor’s faces and therefore doesn’t indicate to the audience who is the antagonist and the protagonist.

Although I liked the angle on this photograph (the high angle shows the character as the victim), I didn’t think about the mise-en-scene. The actor is only wearing socks (which I didn’t want) and the wall and carpet would have been hard to edit out.

I do like the lighting in this photo, as it highlights the protagonist’s face showing her as small and intimidated, and creates a shadow behind the antagonist which adds to the ‘scary’ image she gives off. Despite this, I didn’t want to use this image because I wanted an image with just one of my actors one as this is what you usually see on film magazine front covers.

4 Favourite Photos

Photo I have used on my magazine coverAfter looking at all the photographs I had taken, I picked my favourite four (as shown on the previous slide) and then asked people in my media class for feedback. I took this consideration and chose this image as the one that would feature on my magazine front cover. I decided to have a picture only showing one of my characters because this is what you would see on existing professional film magazine. I also felt that it made the photo (and in turn the magazine) more effective because it gives the audience one thing to focus on.

I liked the lighting in this photo because it reflected the character personality. The shadow that the lighting created on the wall behind Maisie also gives the audience the idea that she is the antagonist in the film. As well as this, because I thought about lighting and the colour effect during my photoshoot, it meant that I wouldn’t have to do as much editing in photoshop/fireworks which saves a lot of time. Another feature of this photograph that persuaded me to choose it as my final image was the eye contact that Maisie is making with the audience. Eye contact in a photo like this is important because it makes the audience feel as though the actor/character is looking right at them. It makes them feel more connected to the magazine.