START OFF RESEARCH OF HIP POP AND GRIME MAGAZINE COVERS

These magazines above are those that I have looked at and, these have given me a better understanding on how the themes and convections of a hip pop magazine are laid out. I have noticed that all of these magazines have large mastheads that stand out and the colour themes that have been used are that which can stand out from a far and they all have main cover images that stand out. As well as that they all contain strap lines and headlines,

THE TWO COVERS WHICH I BASED MY MAGAZINE ON

These two magazines , Hip Pop Connection and RWD are the magazines in which i decided to base the front cover of my case study on.I felt that these two front covers conventionally appeal to my target audience to the maximum of its reach through layout and design.

MASTHEAD PLANNING

PHOTO SHOOT WITH MY MAIN COVER ARTIST SLOOZIE

On the4th of November I was able to have a photo shoot session with Sharna Longville also known as Sloozie, the location was at Harrow leisure in the media suite.This was able to take place as on Wednesdays and Thursdays  I start college at 1pm so the photo shoot started at 9 and ended at 11.30, I took five different pictures , I found it difficult to come to a conclusion as too which one I should use as my main cover as most of the pictures were landscape.

Before the photo shoot took place my friend who  is university who studied photography at college , who now has their own photography business , taught me on the ways of which a camera should be used , lighting and shadows.as well as his help I also did a photography course at BSU (Brent Summer University) in June so I  also had some knowledge of how cameras are used.

Proof of my Photoshoot

this is a print screen of my facebook page where i have uploaded the pictures of Sloozie.I uploaded the pictures on the 17th of December , as this is when everything was coming together , and I also wanted my work to be in order and organised. 

Sloozie liked the pictures I took of her on the 4th of November and decided that she wanted to upload the pictures to her own social networking sites.

My chosen front cover picture

This is the picture that i decided to use for my front cover , this picture was inspired by the RWD magazine which can be found earlier on in my blog as an older post entry.I ensured that Sloozie was holding the microphone which is a representational issue which comes through the layout of the magazine.

To get this effect of the microphone being a focal point before her , I asked Sloozie to hold her arm out directly in front of her , and then asked her to bend her arm at a 45 degree angle towards herself.Having done that I focused the camera on the microphone in her hand and used a umbrella in the studio to add a flash effect.

Whilst finally choosing this as my front cover image I realised that it was a reasonably good idea to have this picture as a portrait picture.

Front cover research (1)

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