Photo's

These are the images I shot for the front cover, I rented the college studio for the shoot and decided to use a black background as I felt it would be more effective and interesting tonally, I feel the black background worked to my advantage and if i have used the white background it would of been too bright and have no feeling or softness on the models faces.

I decided to use two different models to increase my chances of getting a really good shot that really suited my genre (Hip Hop) and would look good as a cover image.

The clothing the models are wearing is very simple Black clothing, I wanted the models to stand out more than the clothing. Most Hip Hop magazines have half naked woman on the covers, as I am a girl I didn't want my magazine to promote or show these kinds of images, I concentrated on the models beauty rather than their bodies. The models are wearing very subtle make up I think this helps to show their natural beauty rather than a fake beauty, They also look strong and confident and a bit subtly sexywith the poses they are doing or a slightly open mouth, these subtleties I find are much more appealing to men rather than a half naked woman looking intimidated and shy. In the end I decided to use the 4th image of the models as the image stands out the most, has the best lighting and composition and the model suits the genre of my magazine by looking more urban because of her ethnicity and the clothes she is wearing for example her hooped ear rings.I find technically this image is the best with composition, lighting and tones etc.

I took around 220 pictures for my front cover, these images above are my best shots.




These are images I took for my double page spread, these are only a selection of the best images I took. I took 37 images for my DJ HERO review page in total.

I took images of the game deck, the game box and images of the video while the game was playing. I feel the images I picked were the best ones out of the ones I took and that they work the best to show the game off to my target audience woman and mean aged 16-34.

These are a few of the images I shot for my contents page. I liked doing this shoot as it was fun and natural, the model wasn't wearing much make up and it didn't take very long to get some good images. I used two images of this model on my contents page and one of the game, to promote and advertise the article of the review on the DJ Hero game.

In all of the images I chose for my magazine I decided to be subtle when shooting, the costumes I used were plain colours: black and white, I find that this helps the viewers eye's to look at the model rather than getting distracted by their clothing.

I didn't use any props in my photographs as I like them to be simple and stand out more.

The lighting I used for the studio images was just from the studio lights, which I had to keep moving around to get the best image.

I didn't get my model's to pose very much I just let them pose naturally as I feel their faces and body language will look more relaxed and pleasing to the eye.

I made sure that my model's filled the frame as much as possible to make the viewers attention go straight to my models rather than get distracted by the background.

I think everything that I chose to do reflects onto my magazine well, although in some Hip-hop magazines props are used and big gold jewellery is used but other than that I think my images suit my genre well.

I feel my images will appeal to my target audience (woman and men aged 16-34) as the woman in my magazine is young and attractive looking. She suites my Hip-hop genre with her urban look.