Cover Pictures

I completed my photo shoot with my models and now have appropriate original images for my front cover of my magazine. I will be editing some of my images to change the brightness, size, hair colour etc... to fit them with my magazine.

Institutions - Who will publish my magazine?

So far I have researched 4 media institutions.

• Bauer Media
• Condé Nast
• Dennis Publishing
• IPC

Bauer Media

'Kerrang!' is the my style model for my magazine and is published by Bauer Media. Because my magazine will be very similar to 'Kerrang!', I would not decide to have my magazine published by Bauer Media as they are already publishing a magazine of the same genre. This would also be aimed at the same audience which would make our magazines competitors. It would not be good to have my new magazine published by the same company as that of a major competitor. Also, Kerrang! is already very popular so my magazine would not have much chance of becoming well-known if there was another very similar in the same institution.

Condé Nast

Planning - Make up

My model will be wearing dark black eye makeup as this will fit with the genre of rock and will automatically give her a more "rocky" look.

She will also be wearing bright red lipstick as this will give her an "attitude". This will also fit in with my magazine house style as it will be containing the colour red.

                   

Planning - Clothing

This is the type of clothing I would like my model to wear. It does not have to be exactly these as I do not own these exact clothes. However, they will need to be of a similar style. This style of clothing will show the audience straight away that it is a music magazine and that the genre is rock.

      

Change of mind

I have decided that I will be trying out some props within my picture but nothing huge that will distract from the model in the picture.

An example of what I will use is a box for my model to sit on.

Conformation!

The date of the photo shoot has been confirmed and all 4 of my chosen models are available on that day. I have decided that I am probably only using one person in my main cover photo but having different people will give me a more varied set of photographs to choose from.

Famous Photoshoot Photos

I have found some images that I like that would fit with my magazine and would be achievable with my Models.
Most of these images are taken from photo shoots for rock magazines such as Kerrang!. The genre of the magazine is shown through a number of things such as;

• Extravagant hair colour
• Lots of dark eye makeup
• Black clothing
• Alternative clothing
• Facial expressions
• Colours (eg. black and red)

Looking at other style models will help me to decide what to put into my picture to make is as authentic as possible and will give me ideas.