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This is the collection of my studio photoshoot images of my model. A chosen few will be presented in my front cover, magazine contents page and dps.

Magazine proposal video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2fcHtLMP5w

As the video file size was too large, I was unable to upload the video. However the above link should direct you to the video on youtube. The video contains my audience feedback.

Flatplan

Photography Call sheet

Adobe Illustrator

Audience Feedback and Evaluation

To create my front cover I used Adobe Photoshop which I found slightly challenging as there were so may tools and different settings. However, after a while I started to get more and more used to it and started to pick up a few things which allowed me to manipulate images and text. This was because the audience's immediate point of focus is going to be my model, which had to be a student and I had the responsibility of taking the pictures myself. A negative to this was that I struggled to find anywhere with a plain wall and good lighting, as a consequence of not finding good lighting the background of my magazine at first looked as if it had a red tone due to the brick wall in the background. Nevertheless, I adjusted saturation, brightness and colour replacement tools so that the background of my front cover conforms to my 3-colour scheme of Blue, black and red.

 In addition, I had to decide on a font for my masthead,cover lines, teasers e.t.c. I found this quite easy as I had a vision already of a simple but bold font which was easy to read, the reasons for this is so that it’s easy and clear for the reader to identify the magazine and it makes cover lines more attractive and eye-catching due to it's simplicity which gives the cover a sophisticate look as they don’t look too long or complicated. As well as choosing a font I had to pick a font colour which would make up a colour scheme for my magazine.

One of the main criticisms of my magazine cover was that it didn't look very neat and organised, I chose not to make it look too neat as I wanted my cover to have an aspect of informality so that it appeals to  the teenage readers.

Photography / studio notes

  Instructions

• White backdrop
• Don't stand right at the back of the backdrop - Stand 5 to 6 feet away from background or the model will bleach in and the image may look unprofessional.
• Lights off when shooting - use headlights to gain the full effect of the cameras and lighting effects
• On/off  Button at back of headlights 
• Test button on lighting tools and on the remote transmitter.
• Highest flash setting is 6. 

Lighting

• Godox - Remote control/ Transmitter
• Flash on, Turn off when finished 
• Same with receiver 
• key light - Main light 
• 3 point lighting 
• Fill light - reduces shadow
• Hair light - Separates model from backdrop, creates spacing behind the model.
• 3 to 1 Lighting ratio - 4, 3, 1.5
• Soft Box - Diffuses light

Camera features

• DSLR model
• 2 Card memory slot
• A- Aperture - Determines how much is on focus 
• S- Shutter - capturing movement e.g  Blowing hair
• Lens - 18-105
• Colour of image depends on whether the camera is on the monochrome (black and white) setting or the standard setting (colour).

 Reflectors/ Effects

• Gold reflector - Gives warm tone and makes the models face glow
• White - Knock light back - Takeaway shadow 
• Silver - Stronger than white one.