AS Media Studies

Task 8 Cover Page

This is my process towards the final cover page for my magazine.

I've decided to change the blue writing to white as it was very hard to read the coverlines from a reasonable distance as a person would be doing in a shop, also ive made the price smaller and moved the barcode onto the left hand side. I've also included more coverlines and adapted my skyline so it attracts the reader. I've made the mast head larger so that it fills the whole length of the page and I included the website of the magazine in the bottom right hand corner.

Task 8 Planning and shooting

These are thumbnails from both of my photoshoots.

This shoot was for the contents page, I shot him with a saxophone because this is an instrument commonly known throught out the jazz music scene. I also got him to wear a black shirt and trousers as jazz musicians tend to do. I used the top left picture because the model is showing true connection with his instrument which makes him look like a professional saxophonist.

This shoot was for the cover page and dps. I attempted to make her look like a jazz artist with the big hoop earings and the vintage looking jumper. My inspiration for this was the singer sade. I also shot her in simliar poses as what sade had done in pictures. I used the bottom left pitcure of Noreen and the top left this is because these pictures her eye contact with camera is strong and her positioning works well which creates a bigger impact when the audience look at the picture.

Call Sheet - Second shoot Conrad

Jazz Kamara-Marsh

Photographer

Photoshoot assignment/Call sheet

Date: Tuesday November 20^th 2012

Time: 13.50 – 3.00

Assignment: Music magazine

Location:

Photography studio

Concept: A jazz musician, who plays the saxophone.

I had the model dress as many jazz musicians

I’ve seen wear black. I had planned to have

pictures of him standing and seated to see which

ones worked best. The saxophone played an important

part as it’s a well know jazz instrument so it fit perfectly

with the genre I was portraying.

Client: N/A

Media: RAW capture

Primary shoot of contact:

Jazz Kamara-Marsh

Photographer:

Jazz Kamara-Marsh

MUA: N/A

Hair stylist: N/A

Wardrobe stylist: Zenab Bukkar

Model: Conrad Nicholaou

Call Sheet - First shoot Noreen

Jazz Kamara-Marsh

Photographer

Photoshoot assignment/Call sheet

Date: Monday November 19^th 2012

Time: 11.25 – 12.50

Assignment: Music magazine

Location:

Photography studio

Concept: I had planned to do portrait shots at various angles and poses inspired by Sade and a few other

female jazz singers. In order to portray the jazz/blues

genre I had my model wear a vintage jumper I had a

change of outfits in case the first look didn’t work.

I took a few pictures in the second outfit but it

didn’t work as well.

Client: N/A

Media: RAW capture

Primary shoot of contact:

Jazz Kamara-Marsh

Photographer:

Jazz Kamara-Marsh

MUA: Charisse Dawn Mitchell

Hair stylist: Tamika Aboah

Wardrobe stylist: Tamika Aboah

Model: Noreen Adjei

Photography Studio Set-Up

We were introduced to the photography studio before our planned photoshoots took place. We were shown the basic set-up you needed when taking photos.
As a class we were shown what we needed when setting up the studio for our personal shoots for our music magazines.

You have the choice of a black or white back drop
There are two flashlights - soft boxes (grids) which diffuses light, the grids channel correct lighting onto model and distributes light equally
There are two polyboards, these are foam boards which reflect light
The model should stand 5-6 feet away from the back of the backdrop
Lighting settings on soft boxes should start at 3 then you can decide if you need to go higher or lower (controlling the brightness of soft boxes)
The camera used is a Nikon d7000, it has 16 mmp, a 3.5 LCD screen, aperture priority and shutter priority
There was a godox remote control transmitter, which syncs the camera and soft boxes, so when you take a picture the soft boxes flash
Lastly there were reflector boards, these are in gold, silver and white - as obvious from the name they reflect light

Task 8 Contents Page

This is the process of my contents page for my music magazine, from the beginning I had my mind set on the colour scheme of gold, dark shade of purple and white as I feel that they represent jazz music genre well. So I had used purple and white/black on my DPS and Contents page and gold and white on my Cover page

As you can see from the process below that I started of with placing the main stuff on the page and then gradually building it up, the word "contents" started off much smaller than the masthead but I made it bigger. I wanted contrast on the contents page so I made the writing dark purple and black. I added a website at the bottom of the left hand page, once all of the text was on the page I then started placing the images around it. After receiving feedback I then went on to make a second page for my contents page as that was favoured. On this page I put a picture of the featured music artist on my front cover and an editors note with a brief explanation on what was in the magazine.