Planning for Music Magazine - Organisation

Actors

Medium Shot

Close up

From the front covers of the music magazines that I have analysed I have noticed that all the actors are presented through medium shots. You can see in the example to the right that Eminem is presented through a medium shot on the front cover. This seems to be the most ideal shot because Eminem takes up the page enough to be dominant on the page with also room for sell lines. I have found another music magazine where the subject is presented through a close up and that is the one to the left. Even though there is still room for the headline and the sell lines I think that this is                                            not the most ideal shot to be used on the front cover, 

                                           so I will be using a medium shot when I take my 

                                           pictures for the front cover.

Locations

Black background

White background

There doesn't seem to be any need for a specific location for the photo shoot because the backgrounds for the magazines are not a brick wall or any other specifically needed backgrounds. As you can see in the two examples I have included the backgrounds are simple black and white backgrounds and they both add to the colour scheme of the magazines. So when it comes to organising the background I will choose a colour that adds to the dynamic of my colour scheme.

Costumes

Front cover

Double page spread

The costumes are one of the most important factors especially in the genre that I am going to be doing (rap) because it is one of the ways that make the magazine identifiable with the genre. The first picture to the left is what the person on my front cover will be wearing, it is a simple black t-shirt because in most rap magazine front covers they are either wearing a tank top, t-shirt or a hooded top so I decided to go with a black t-shirt. The picture to the right is the hooded top that the person in my double page spread will wear, this is another piece of clothing that relates                                              to the genre and the colour grey will also relate 

Contents page 2

Contents page 1

    to my colour scheme. 

  The second pictures on both the right and the left are  the pictures that will be on my contents page. Due to  the fact that the person on the double page spread will  have his hooded top zipped up, I thought on the  contents page the person would not so I needed a  plain grey t-shirt underneath it. Once again the grey  relates to my colour scheme and relates to the genre.

Props

On the rap music magazine front covers, contents pages and double page spreads that I have analysed there doesn't seem to be many props used. The only most noticeable prop is the use of chains that the subjects wear and wear it to be seen. But I will not be able to get my hands on a chain to use in my magazine so I decided to not use any props.