Contact Sheet

 

Planning

Subject: Sophia

Costume: White tops, maybe floral, jeans

Props: Flowers, tote bag, maybe sunglasses

Makeup: Natural, maybe add highlighter


Production list:

- tote bag

- flowers

Inspiration for merch poses:

This pose is inspiration for showing my merch item of a tote bag, I really like the composition of the photo and how it can showcase the design on the tote bag whilst still clearly showing my model and the flower element that I plan to incorporate throughout my entire NEA in the magazine covers and contents pages as well as on the website

    

   This is my inspiration for my earrings merch. I like this            pose for similar reasons as to the image above, I love            how the pose draws attention to the product (earrings)            whilst upholding the recurring image of the flowers and            featuring models instead of only showing the product            because this enhances my theme of nurturing new artists,        by keeping models/artists involved in the imagery

Industrial Context: Billboard Magazine

Industrial Context: Contemporary Context

 

Industrial Context: History of Magazines

Test shots

During half term I was unable to meet up with my models to take some practise shots, and the weather was not suitable to take the background images that I wanted to so I wasn’t able to get my test shots. Due to being unable to meet with my models because plans didn’t line up, I now understand the importance of planning ahead of time.

Ideas for poses for cover 1 (see pitch for inspiration photos):

- full body shot 

- sitting down

- slight side view?

- DIRECT ADDRESS

Ideas for poses for cover 2 (see pitch for inspiration photos):

- medium close up shot

- DIRECT ADDRESS

Ideas for inside pages/backgrounds:

- blue sky with clouds

- fields with flowers

- close up of flowers

- wide shot of field

- imagery with contrast

- consistent colour palette with front pages

Pitch feedback

My feedback about what to add/improve from my pitch:

1. A name needs to be decided on for definite (Current options are Beat or Rhythm)

2. I need to think about what intertextual references to include and how to include them

3. I need to come up with ideas for digital convergence

My ideas from the feedback:

1. I am leaning towards the name ‘beat’ and possibly incorporating a play symbol in the masthead, or the name ‘fuse’ and involving imagery of a fuse into the name

2. For one of my magazines (one which I may lean into the pop genre for) I may make an intertextual reference to Sabrina Carpenter’s song ‘espresso’ because it fits in with the pop genre and the target audience demographic. For my other magazine (which may be inspired by R&B) I am planning on referencing another artist in this genre. I will convey this intertextuality through either cover lines, imagery, clothing, or background - possibly a combination of more than one of these

3. I am planning on developing a house style that I will adopt in both magazines and my website with a key colour or font referenced in all products, but with other colours creating some variety within the covers so they stand out from one another