Image planning/Editing for the magazine cover

Image planning/editing

Editing the image for the magazine: when I am editing images for my front cover and other pictures I want to also make the images that I took look sort of similar to the ones in the magazines that I analysed. In the ones on the ‘’united reggae’’ magazines. They have made the images the images look gritty and it gives a impression to the audience that someone who is familiar to the subject will immediately  recognize. Which is what I would like to replicated in my work. They have made there images darker depending on their background. I would also like to replicate this factor as it will also define to the audience what genre it is.

Image planning: I want to make the image for the magazine and the other pages in the same way to other reggae magazine. In the magazines that I have annotated, the ones from the other magazines that I annotated for the cover was most of the time portrait. It would be of the model at the left/right side of the page. Giving information or titles to on the side, So I would like to replicate this idea onto my own work as most popular magazines would use this structure.

Model	Joel alcock
Camera height/ angles/ distance	Medium close up of the model showing the top half of the body, the angle of the shot was of a head on angle where it shows ththe face and the guitar in the shot.
Location	The location of the image is in a bright living room with a white background so that it will make it easier to Photoshop out the background when it comes to it.
Lighting	The only lighting in the room is the light at the top of the room and lamp that was close to the model.
Mise-en-scene	The model is wearing a reggae themed hat that was bought for the picture. He is also wearing a bright coloured shirt and a black, leather coat. Also the model is wearing shades to give a more
Attempted connotation	I wanted to show the audience another side to the reggae genre showing the different elements to the genre and how it is done. The image is intended to convince the audience that he is a professional reggae artist.
Planned denotation	Model looking down at the guitar that he is playing .
Contingency	If the model was not there at the time that I wanted to do the shoot I would have waited for another day that I would be able to do it.
Alternate angles	Low angle shot that was also looking down at the guitar