2. Need to do
BeforeTuesday
■ Preproposal (Friday) – timetable – done
■ Finish influences – 1 more – graphic designer - done
■ Put my photojournalism research in
■ Read book
■ Mood board – done
Finish Drawings
■ Production Diary
■ Finish drawings
4. There are millions of different types and interpretations of photography in the industry, different styles
for different occasions, as little as taking a photo from a slightly different angle can completely change
the focus of the photo conveying a different mood. For my magazine Photography will be an integral
part, and the different styles of photography that I intend in including are, firstly, portrait. Portrait
photography is a still and intense approach to photography, it focusses on the facial features and in my
opinion, it evokes the most emotion, as we look directly into people’s faces. Usually with portrait
photography the subject looks directly into the camera introducing a more intrusive connection with the
reader making it easier to connect and understand the photo. The subject of my magazine circles around
people and their lives and different issues around the world, therefore using portrait photography would
work effectively.
An example of a portrait photographer whose style and skill I appreciate and would like to incorporate
into my own work is Annie Leibovitz. Annie Leibovitz was born October 2nd, 1949 in Connecticut. She
is a very well-known American photographer best known for her portraits of celebrities, she often
achieves a sense of intimacy and lack of vulnerability in her photos which is often hard to capture with
celebrities. She has a lot of famous photographs known world-wide, for example, she photographed John
Lennon on the day he was murdered.
Leibovitz first started making moves towards her Career by studying painting at the San Francisco Art
Institute. The SFAI was founded in 1871 and is one of the oldest schools in the United States. When you
go to the SFAI website one of the first articles on the opening page is titled ‘Legacy Meets Legacy’ with an article about Annie Leibovitz talking about
her education from the University explaining at an event held by the University in honour of Leibovitz and her work over the years, highlighting how
much the University shaped her career. “I truly am here because of the San Francisco Art Institute”. As well as studying at San Francisco she took
night classes learning about photography. Then in 1970 her career professionally started by doing work for Rolling Stone magazine. Rolling Stone
magazine is an American magazine about pop culture, founded in 1967 by Jann Wenner – who is still the magazine’s publisher. After three years
working at the magazine Leibovitz worked up to chief photographer. Overall Leibovitz worked at the magazine for 10 years and shot 142 covers
altogether, she also worked alongside Vanity Fair and Vogue.
Some examples of different celebrities that Leibovitz took photographs of are; Whoopi Goldberg 1984, Angelina Jolie 2011, Scarlett Johansson and
Kiera Knightley 2006, Meryl Streep 1981.
Annie Leibovitz
5. A side from just working at the magazine Leibovitz has conducted a lot of other photoshoots and collaborations that have added to society and
furthered her career. As well as her magazine editorial work she published and featured in a range of different books, here are her own books; Annie
Leibovitz: Photographs (1983), Photographs: Annie Leibovitz 1970–1990 (1991), Olympic Portraits(1996), Women (1999), American
Music (2003), A Photographer’s Life: 1990–2005 (2006), Annie Leibovitz at Work (2008), Pilgrimage (2011). As well as her books Leibovitz has
been credited for her several award-winning advertising campaigns, including the iconic American Express series of photos which won several gold
awards including Ad Age’s ‘Campaign of the Decade”. The photograph series started in the 1980s with the first generation of American Express
customers and over time there are now three different generations with the campaign.
Not only did Leibovitz work with photography but she also collaborated with many art organisations, for example; American Ballet Theatre, the
Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Mark Morris Dance Group, and with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Also, another reason why Annie Leibovitz’s work
will heavily influence my project is because her career is influential and inspirational to me because as a women it is harder in the industry to be
noticed and in light of this she became the first woman to hold an exhibition at Washington’s National Portrait Gallery in 1991. And when you
search ‘Famous Photographers’into Google out of the first 15 photographers, 12 are men and only 3 are women, with Leibovitz placing fourth. And
she is now one of the most famous photographers in the world. It is important to credit the women photographers who have made it as far as Annie
Leibovitz because in this industry it is a lot harder for women to be appreciated then it is for men.
Annie Leibovitz
7. Bibliography
Anon. (2019). Annie Leibovitz. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz. Last accessed 21
Jan 2020.
Anon. (2019). AN EVENING WITH ANNIE LEIBOVITZ. Available:
https://sfai.edu/support-sfai/an-evening-with-annie-leibovitz. Last accessed 21 Jan 2020.
Vanity Fair. (2019). Leibovitz. Available: https://www.vanityfair.com/contributor/annie-leibovitz. Last
accessed 21 Jan 2020.
Anon. (2020). Rolling Stone. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone. Last accessed 21 Jan
2020.
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21 Jan 2020.
Susan Sontag (1999). Women. America: Random House. p101.
8. Mind – Duke McKenzie
My second piece of research context is on Mind – ‘for better mental health’ charity. Mind is a mental health charity in England and Wales, it
was founded in 1946 as the National Association for Mental Health. I thought for my project it would be useful to research about the charity
because my magazine is going to have articles and/or photoshoots about mental health. In order to respectfully include them I think it is
important to research a charity that talks about the struggles and difficulties that people living with mental health illnesses face. I want to
make sure that my magazine is accurate and respectful.
I wanted to research the charity Mind instead of others because unlike other charities it is very public about its celebrity ambassadors. The
charity has a page on its website dedicated to the celebrity ambassadors telling their story of why they support Mind, plucking stories form
their own life experiences which have led them to where they are today. Often the celebrities are telling stories about their own struggles with
depression and anxiety. I think it is a very important page to feature because often people with depression feel like they are on their own and
to see that there are other people, especially celebrities experiencing the same feelings and emotions as them hopefully makes them feel less
alone. Also, showing celebrities with depression and being open hopefully gives people the confidence to be open up and seek help. With
celebrities opening up and promoting charities like Mind it can really make a massive difference. Here are some examples of celebrities
involved in the charity and why they got involved in the first place and then what they’ve done since joining:
-Ambassador, Duke McKenzie MBE. Duke McKenzie is a former boxer and three weight
world champions. Duke was born 5 May 1963 born in Croydon. He competed from 1982 –
1998.
In March 2017 Duke was announced as an ambassador. Duke began extremely passionate
about mental health after his brother Dudley McKenzie commit suicide. This led him to
actively support Mind for the past nine years. Duke helped launch Mind’s partnership with
Heads Together, giving a taster boxercise class to Prince Harry and The Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge at the Olympic Park. Duke coached boxercise at Mind in Croydon and has
recently helped shape Mind’s Mental Health Awareness for Sport and Physical Activity
training, which he also helped launch in 2019. As an ambassador for Mind, Duke will help to
champion the benefits that physical exercise can have in managing a mental health problem.
9. “It’s fantastic that Mind is shining a light on the need for mental health awareness
in sport. Whilst some sports like cricket and football are working with professional
associations to provide support for their players, there are definitely other areas
where improvements still need to be made.” – Duke McKenzie 2017.
-Ambassador, George Ezra. George Ezra is an English singer, songwriter and
guitarist. He became famous in 2013 and since then has had numerous number one
hit records and in February 2019 he won the Brit Award for British Male Solo
Artist.
In July 2019 he was announced as an ambassador in recognition of his long-
standing dedication and commitment to mind.
George first became aware of Mind after witnessing the effect of mental health
problems on close friends and family. He then began experiencing anxiety himself
after returning home from an intensive touring schedule and has spoken out
honestly about his need to take time away from the spotlight. The singer-songwriter
has been involved with Mind since 2017, initially bucket collecting at gigs, before
deciding to put on a selection of shows – George Ezra & Friends – specifically in
aid of Mind in 2017 and 2018, raising over £70,000.
“We’re doing these two special gigs for Mind which, for those who don’t know, is a
charity very close to my heart; so, it’s brilliant to be tying this all together as a very
proud Ambassador for them.” – George Ezra 2019.
Mind
- George Ezra
10. Bibliography
Anon. (2020). Mind (charity). Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_(charity). Last accessed 21 Jan 2020.
Anon. (2019). Duke McKenzie. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_McKenzie#Personal_life. Last
accessed 21 Jan 2020.
Mind. (2019). Our Ambassadors. Available: https://www.mind.org.uk/about-us/celebrity-support/our-
ambassadors/. Last accessed 21 Jan 2020.
Anon. (2019). George Ezra. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ezra. Last accessed 21 Jan 2020.
Mind. (2019). George Ezra announced as Mind Ambassador. Available: https://www.mind.org.uk/news-
campaigns/news/george-ezra-announced-as-mind-ambassador/. Last accessed 21 Jan 2020.
Mind. (2017). Duke McKenzie MBE announced as latest Mind ambassador to tackle lack of mental health
awareness in sport. Available: https://www.mind.org.uk/news-campaigns/news/duke-mckenzie-mbe-announced-
as-latest-mind-ambassador-to-tackle-lack-of-mental-health-awareness-in-sport/. Last accessed 21 Jan 2020.
11. She also modelled for both British and American Vogue, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Japanese Teen Vogue, written for The Times, Cosmopolitan, The
Huffington Post, and Company. I have decided to research Jameela as she will be very influential to my project as not only is she a popular household name
and known across the world for her different skills and talents across media, but she is a massive feminist and a body neutrality activist. Jameela has also
started an Instagram called Iweigh where women post images of themselves and say how much they “weigh” not in kilos but in qualities and attributes they
possess. Which I will talk in further detail later on in my research.
During my research I discovered an article from The Guardian all about Jameela Jamil, the journalist begins the article by describing Jameela and portrays
her in a down to earth and normal celebrity. She compares Jameela to other American celebrities setting her aside from the cliché celebrity. The journalist
immediately stated how comfortable and relatable Jameela was immediately.
“When British celebrities make it big in the US, they go through a by now familiar process of becoming Hollywoodified: they get thinner, more groomed, less
fun, all the while insisting that their occasional deployment of a quaint British swearword proves they haven’t changed a bit. This is not Jameela Jamil.”
Throughout the article Jameela talk a lot about her issues with her own weight. She talks about how being a woman in the spotlight and on social media she
was always under fire about whether she weighed too much or too little. Saying that when she was a size 6, she was hurled insults by the press saying that
she was ‘too thin’but then when she gained weight due to taking steroids for her asthma, she was criticised for being ‘too fat’. I think it is so important that
Jameela openly talks about these comments and how they’re out of order, instead of letting the press consume her and make her feel like herself worth isn’t
enough. Instead these types of comments and journalism just motivate her to make a change in the world. But what Jameela said in the interview that really
upset her was the fact that she, an intelligent, successful women who became the first woman to host the chart show on radio 1 was being disregarded.
Jameela Jamil
Jameela Alia Burton-Jamil is a British actress, radio presenter, model, and writer. She began her career on T4,
where she hosted a pop culture show from 2009 until 2012. Then she became the radio host of The Official
Chart, then becoming the first solo female presenter of the BBC Radio 1 chart show. Here is a short list of what
Jameela Jamil has done; stars in NBC TV series ‘The Good Place’ Jameela had never planned on acting, she
started her acting career after having had no prior acting experience in 2016 after a breast cancer scare and
moving from London to Los Angeles because she the cancer scare encouraged her to “no longer wait to do the
things she wanted to do”. She planned to work as a screenwriter but instead her agent proposed an upcoming
comedy series, The Good Place.
12. Jameela has used some of her own experiences and drawn from her own pain to turn it around and use it in a positive way to help others and make a
change. In May 2019, Jamil shared that she had an abortion earlier in her life. She stated, "It was the best decision I have ever made. Both for me, and
for the baby I didn't want, and wasn't ready for, emotionally, psychologically and financially." Also, on 10 October 2019, as part of World Mental
Health Day, Jamil revealed she survived a suicide attempt six years prior. She criticised the lack of services for those who struggled with mental health
issues. She also revealed that she partook in EMDR therapy to treat her post-traumatic stress disorder. As well as these, when she was younger, she
had massive issues with anorexia and bulimia.
Through my research I found a book called ‘Feminist Don’t Wear Pink and Other Lies’ the main Author putting the book together Scarlett Curtis. The
book is a feminism book with 365 pages filled with stories and antidotes from different feminists around the world. I discovered an article from
Jameela Jamil that I thought would be useful and insightful. The title of Jameela’s article was ‘Tell him’ and feel under the chapter ‘Anger’. Jameela’s
article is all about how boys are forced to grow up in an environment where subliminal message is subconsciously telling boys from a young age to
believe in patriarchy. From dangerous imagery, song lyrics, peer pressure and often quite damaging/violent/entirely intimacy free pornography sold to
boys as ‘the norm’. Therefore, allowing them to grow up drowning in toxic masculinity and without a platform to express their emotions due to
ridicule. Jameela explains in the article how simple the solution is, she explains how all we as women have to do is ‘tell them’ educate our new
generations boys about how women have strived to be where we are now, have enough trust in our young generations to understand the struggles
women went through and what we are still having to suffer through. She explains how men are allowed to cry and how it doesn’t make you any less of
a man to be able to sympathise and share your emotions. The rest of the articles explains numerous ways in which women are powerful and significant
complementing all their underappreciated skills. The article is so motivational and extremely moving. Jameela writes it with passion and while reading
it you can feel her words and carry the pain it took her to have to write it. It is very powerful and underlines how much she cares which is refreshing
and a massive inspiration for all women. Here is a short extract from the article.
“Mother, sisters, and aunties, I implore you to take this little sponge and render him sodden with humanity and an understanding of women. It will
send him into this delusional world with an armour of empathy and self-assurance, with an understanding that a strong women is something to be
celebrated and not feared / crushed / undermined / spoken over / humiliated / shamed / blamed / discouraged / controlled / told that to be worth
anything in this world she must have big tits a small waist and thin arms, oh, and a big pert arse but absolutely no thighs and a young face (forever).”
Jameela Jamil
13. Iweigh movement – The Iweigh movement was created by Jameela after she was sick of seeing women’s self-worth being dependent on their
body weight. The movement is very powerful and has made a massive impact on people around the world. The movement is simply women
posting pictures of themselves with all the qualities they like about themselves instead of their weight. She started the movement by posting a
picture of herself with the caption ‘I weigh lovely relationship, great friends ….’And after the photo blew up, she started encouraging women
around the world to do the same, then started the account @iweigh where women send their photos and she posts as many as she can on the
account, glorifying the more important things in life. The account now has more then 120,000 followers with thousands of posts. It gives women a
safe place to be confident and themselves.
Jameela Jamil
14. Bibliography
Anon. (2020). Jameela Jamil. Available:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jameela_Jamil#Filmography. Last accessed 23 Jan 2020.
Hadley Freeman. (2018). Jameela Jamil: 'I won't become a double agent for the patriarchy. Available:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/28/jameela-jamil-wont-become-double-agent-patriarchy.
Last accessed 23 Jan 2020.
Jameela Jamil (2018). Feminists Don't Wear Pink and Other Lies. London: Penguin. p123-134.
Katie Bingham-Smith. (2018). Why Jameela Jamil’s ‘I Weigh’Movement Is Inspirational AF. Available:
https://www.scarymommy.com/jameela-jamil-i-weigh-movement/. Last accessed 23 Jan 2020.
15. Gloria Steinem
Gloria Marie Steinem was born March 25, 1934, she is an American feminist, journalist, and social
political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American
feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a columnist for New York
magazine, and a co-founder of Ms. Magazine. In 1969, Steinem published an article, "After Black
Power, Women's Liberation", which brought her to national fame as a feminist leader. In 2005,
Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Robin Morgan co-founded the Women’s Media Centre, an organization
that "works to make women visible and powerful in the media”.
Steinem was born in Toledo, Ohio, she grew up travelling in a trailer, her mother was Presbyterian,
mostly German and her father was Jewish, the son of immigrants. Her paternal grandmother, Pauline
Perimutter Steinem, was chairwoman of the educational committee of the National Women Suffrage
Association, a delegate to the 1908 International Council of Women, and the first woman to be
elected to the Toledo Board of Education, as well as a leader in the movement for vocational
education. So, she was raised she was heavily influenced by her grandmother. She studied at Waite
High School in Toledo and Western High School in Washington D.C. Then carried on her studies at
Smith College.
Gloria started her professional career by moving to New York to become a journalist. Gloria’s first
serious article was in 1962 for ‘Esquire’on the state of contraception. At the time the idea of the pill
was a phenomenon. Then her second big piece was the Playboy Bunny story a year later in 63 ‘A
Bunny’s Tale’. This story is a famous article written for a magazine called ‘Show’. The article was all
about the exploitation that the ‘bunnies’have to put up with and the sexual harassment that they
endured. Steinem has said that she is proud of the work she did publicizing the behavior and what
was happening behind the walls of the Playboy Club, which skirted the edge of the law. However, for
a period after the article was published, Steinem was unable to land other assignments. She said it
was because she had been a bunny even if it was for the right reasons.
16. Gloria Steinem
In 1971 Steinem joined prominent feminists, e.g. Bella Abzug and Betty Friedan in forming the National Women’s Political Caucus, which was a
feminist group that worked on behalf of women’s issues. She also took the lead in launching the feminist magazine ‘Ms’. (She remained one of its
editors for fifteen years and she continues to serve as a consulting editor for Ms now.) The magazine was first born in a insert in New York magazine in
December 1971, it’s first independent issues was a month later. The magazine included articles about important topics, including domestic violence.
A quote from Gloria Steinem from an article on October 31st 2011 in an issue of New York magazine talking about why she founded Ms:
” In the years leading up to the birth of Ms., women had trouble getting a credit card without a man’s signature, had few legal rights when it came to
divorce or reproduction, and were expected to aspire solely to marriage and motherhood. Job listings were segregated (“Help wanted, male”). There
was no Title IX (banning sex discrimination in federally funded athletic programs); no battered-women’s shelters, rape-crisis centers, and no terms such
as sexual harassment and domestic violence.”
Steinem wrote/published a range of books and most were very successful, however she did receive negative comments about her book ‘ Revolution
From Within: A Book of Self-Esteem’ because a lot of activists complained it was a retreat from social activism. She replied to this back lash with ‘ We
need to be long-distance runners to make a real social revolution. And you can’t be a long-distance runner unless you have some inner strength”. In an
interview with People magazine.
Some famous activism and feminist Quotes from Steinem;
‘The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.’
‘A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.’
‘Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.’
‘Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.’
‘We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.’
‘The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.’
‘Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.’
‘If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?’
‘Law and justice are not always the same.When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.’
‘Power can be taken, but not given.The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.’
17. Bibliography
Anon. (2020). Gloria Steinem. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem. Last accessed 24 Jan 2020.
KAREN KARBO. (2019). How Gloria Steinem became the 'world’s most famous feminist'. Available:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/03/how-gloria-steinem-became-worlds-most-famous-feminist/. Last
accessed 24 Jan 2020.
Abigail Pogrebin. (2019). How Do You Spell Ms.? An oral history of Ms. Magazine and the feminists who changed history.
Available: https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/gloria-steinem-ms-magazine-history.html. Last accessed 31 Jan 2020.
Anon. (2019). GLORIA STEINEM. Available: https://forwomen.org/staff/gloria-steinem/. Last accessed 31 Jan 2020.
18. BobWoodward
Bob Woodward is an American Investigative journalist. He has worked for
The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter and is currently an associate
editor. He was born in March 26 19433 (age 76), Geneva, Illinois, U.S. After
receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1965, he enlisted
into the U.S. Navy and served a five-year tour of duty. Following his
discharge from the Navy, Woodward landed a reporting position at the
Montgomery County Sentinel in Maryland. He left the newspaper the
following year for a position at The Washington Post.
He became a famous journalist while a young reporter for The Washington
Post in 1972, Woodward teamed up with Carl Bernstein; the two did much of
the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to
numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of
President Richard Nixon. The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called
"maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by long time
journalism figure Gene Roberts.
*The Watergate scandal was a major federal political scandal in the United
States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to
1974 that resulted in the end of Nixon's presidency. The scandal stemmed
from the June 17, 1972, break-in of the Democratic National Committee
(DNC) headquarters at the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C.,
by five men and the Nixon administration's subsequent attempts to cover up
its involvement in the crime. Soon after the perpetrators were arrested, the
press and the Justice Department discovered a connection between cash
found on them at the time and a slush fund used by the Nixon re-election
campaign committee.*
19. • All the President's Men (1974) about the Watergate scandal;
• 25th Anniversary issue in (1999); written with Carl Bernstein
• The Final Days (1976) about Nixon's resignation; written with Carl Bernstein
• The Brethren (1979) about the Supreme Court in the Warren E. Burger years; written with Scott Armstrong
• Wired (1984) on the death of John Belushi and the Hollywood drug culture
• Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA (1987) about the CIA's "secret wars" during the reign of William J. Casey
• The Commanders (1991) on The Pentagon, the first Bush administration and the Gulf War
• The Agenda (1994) about Bill Clinton's first term
• The Choice (1996) about Bill Clinton's re-election bid
• Shadow (1999) on the legacy of Watergate and the scandals that faced later Presidential administrations
• Maestro (2000) about Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan
• Bush at War (2002) about the path to war with Afghanistan following September 11
• Plan of Attack (2004) about how and why President George W. Bush decided to go to war with Iraq
• The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat (2005) about Mark Felt's disclosure, after more than 30 years, that he was
Deep Throat. The book was written before Felt admitted his title, as he was sickly and Woodward expected that some way or
another, it would come out.
• State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III (2006) about the Bush administration and the War in Iraq
• The War Within: A Secret White House History (2006–2008) (2008)
• Obama's Wars (2010) about the Obama administration's handling of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan The Price of Politics
(2012) about President Obama and congressional Republican and Democratic leaders' attempt to restore the American economy
and improve the federal government's fiscal condition over 3.5 years.
• The Last of the President's Men (2015) about Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping
system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. Fear: Trump in the White House (2018)
Woodward continued to work for The Washington Post after his reporting on Watergate. He has since written 19 books on American politics,
13 of which topped best-seller lists. Here are all his books;
BobWoodward
20. Bibliography
Anon. (2020). Bob Woodward. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Woodward#Books. Last
accessed 3rd Feb 2020.
Anon. (2019). Bob Woodward. Available: http://bobwoodward.com/. Last accessed 3rd Feb 2020.
Biography.com Editors. (2019). Bob Woodward Biography. Available: https://www.biography.com/media-
figure/bob-woodward. Last accessed 3rd Feb 2020.
21. Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser (born June 26, 1929) is an American graphic designer. His designs include the I ❤ NY
logo, the psychedelic Bob Dylan poster, and the logos for DC Comics and Brooklyn Brewery In 1954,
he also co-founded Push Pin Studios, co-founded New York magazine with Clay Felker, and established
Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974. His artwork has been featured in exhibits and placed in permanent
collections in many museums worldwide. Throughout his long career, he has designed many posters,
publications and architectural designs. He has received many awards for his work, including the
National Medal of the Arts award from President Barack Obama in 2009, and was the first graphic
designer to receive this award. He was also selected for the lifetime achievement award of the Cooper
Hewitt National Design Museum (2004) and the Fulbright Association (2011), and in 2009 he was the
first graphic designer to receive the National Medal of the Arts award. As a Fulbright scholar.
Glaser went to the High School of Music and Art and the Cooper Union art school in New York and, via
a Fulbright Scholarship, the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy.
In an interview when asked ‘what made you decide to become an artist?’he said
“I cannot recall the singular event, but perhaps there’s never a single event. The decision was not a conscious one but came about largely
because I enjoyed making things. In fact, there was nothing more pleasurable to me than drawing and discovering I could do things I didn’t
know I was capable of.”
I like Glaser’s work because all his designs are fresh ideas, filled with initiative and individuality. All his designs are different, and I also like the
colour scheme he uses. His design usually just use plain, block colours but the colours he uses an explosive and creative. His designs usually
have the bright colours against a plan background making the colours pop and stand out. His work is extremely well known and popular
because it is so unique.
22.
23. Bibliography
Anon. (2020). Milton Glaser. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Glaser. Last accessed 3rd
Feb 2020.
Anon. (2018). In Breif Milton Glaser. Available: https://www.miltonglaser.com/milton/#1. Last accessed
3rd feb 2020.
Katy Cowan. (2018). Milton Glaser on his most iconic works and the importance of ethics in design.
Available: https://www.creativeboom.com/features/milton-glaser/ . Last accessed 3rd feb 2020.
24. Although I wasn’t focussing on having a journalist as my magazine will be primarily based on
photography and animation with short articles. However I thought it was important to explore at
least one journalist in order to understand more about magazines. And in case I did decide to write a
long article I would know more about how to structure/write it. I don’t have a wide knowledge of
different journalists, so I used Google and looked through a few different journalists and read
information about them before deciding which was the most interesting and useful to analyse.
Production Diary
28. MentalWellbeing Zine – Arts Student Union
- Fanzine
The mental well-being zine is a digital fanzine created by The Arts Students’ Union, published
by Susan Bubble Jan 2018. The fanzine is created by London Arts University students. The
zine was made to acknowledge students well being to make sure that everyone is surviving in
University life. The zine include useful contacts within the University as well as external
sources for support. The zine is all about mental health issues and about how to cope with
mental illness and different tips and tricks to help you come to terms with your mental illness.
The zine includes articles about talking to your friends, breaking down common
misconceptions and myths surrounding mental health. It addresses how even though at the
moment your mental state may appear stable however over time it can deteriorate and it is
something that we as people need to be constantly take care of. The number of students who
suffer with anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions had dramatically risen in
recent years with a 132% increase, however mental illness is still interpreted in different
uneducated ways. This zine appreciates that University can sometimes be lonely and make you
feel isolated and therefore they thought an effective way to keep on top of the students and
their mental health was to create a fanzine including relatable and eye opening articles.
29. Headline – The headline for the fanzine is subtle and approachable, it is straightforward
and clear. The title choice ‘Mental Wellbeing Zine’ is effective because it is precise and
doesn’t sugar coat the fanzine with a quirky name it is self explanatory. The fanzine is all
about mental health awareness and how to keep your head a float at University and I think
the decision to introduce the word ‘wellbeing’ instead of ‘Mental Health’ or another
version of the name is important because it immediately has more positive connotations as
the definition for wellbeing is ‘the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.’ Showing
that the zine is a positive and good thing even if the topic often has negative connotations.
The positioning of the heading at the top in the middle follows the traditional placement of
a title, allowing space for a picture on the front to advertise the fanzine and also in the
prime position to read at first glance. It follows the natural structure of a fanzine by not
including any barcodes, prices, any sub headings explaining articles inside the fanzine.
Colour scheme – The colour scheme on the front cover doesn’t follow a specific theme
and doesn’t appear to have any links or intentional colour scheme it looks like the editor
has just chosen a range of colours and decided to have them feature on the cover. The
background colour is purple which is the dominate colour that is repeated through the
fanzine for details like the headings of pages. I think the colour purple was used to feature
as the background colour and main colour through the fanzine because it is a neutral
colour not associated with men or women, and it symbolizes creativity and peace.
The other colours used in the cover are red, yellow, blue and orange which are all very
vibrant colours, I think the choice of colours is effective because usually mental wellbeing
would be associated with stand alone block colours instead of an array of bright colours.
Image – The image for the front cover is a purple background with different badges
sewed on to the front. The use of badges introduces a playful and child like feeling to the
fanzine. Each badge has a youthful drawing on like a little rainbow or a love heart that
would often associated with doodles in a children's diary. This could be reminding the
reader of a stress-free time. The way the badges have been sewn on support the fanzine
style and give the cover a DIY aesthetic, making the fanzine feel less intimidating and
serious but more welcoming. Each badge has a motivational message on it like ‘You Are
Strong’ and ‘Keep Trying’ these little messages are very motivational and obviously link
with the subject of the fanzine. The motivational messages hopefully intrigue the reader
making them want to read on and see more motivational messages.
30. Main focus/image - The main focus of the page is the animations/drawings on the left page, I think they are the main focus of the page because they have an entire page
devoted to them, the square drawings could of easily been made smaller and fit another article on the same page. However, the editor has decided to devote the entire page
to it. I think this is because the tips that it is advertising re very important, the animations aren’t just little doodles used to fill space, they are there to bring, easy ways you
can stay in control of your mental health. The page is effective because it is not overpowering with a million complicated ways to find inner peacefulness, it is simple and
straightforward, it isn’t telling you ways to drastically change your lifestyle, and it doesn’t make it seem like rules you have to follow. The drawings and tips are
welcoming and calming, they suggest ways to take care of yourself, not fix yourself. They are easy steps, and they don’t cost any money. A massive worry for students is
money and expenses so to have tips that are cost efficient and easily accessible is very important.
Colour scheme - I also like the way that bright, bold colours are used
for the pictures because, using bright colours promotes positivity and
happiness which is important because it symbolizes hope. Also, the
colours are aesthetically pleasing for the audience because they match the
drawing, the ‘stay hydrated’ image has a consistent theme of the colour
blue, the colour blue is obviously associated with aquatics making the
link between the colour and photo effect, this is the same with the colour
green being associated with the wilderness and ‘going for a walk’. Both
of these connotations used also symbolize openness and freedom which
can be directly linked with your mental state, indicating it is important to
be open and free. Also, the other colours featured, ink and orange might
not be directly linked with the photo the colours are still positive and
vibrant encouraging happy thoughts. For example, the colour orange
symbolizes the mixture of the energy of red and the happiness of yellow.
It is associated with joy, and the colour pink is the essence of love and
tenderness. Again both very important aspects of your mental stability,
pink symbolizing that we need to love comes from within and orange
reminding us to be joyful.
I think it is an interesting decision making the background pages of the
magazine all white, because for a fanzine usually their word be different,
more artistic backgrounds to make the fanzine more intriguing however
the Arts Student Union has decided to use the blank canvas aesthetic for
the zine, introducing a fresh and subtle style. However at the same time it
makes the zine appear more formal and serious.
31. Layout/Structure - The structure of the double spread is effective and clearly thought through because on the left page it has a page full of drawings and colour
and then the right page only has a simply designed article. The article on the adjoining page is simple and easy to read with no detail. I think the pages compliment
each other really well because they contradict each other, one bursting with colour and few words, the other with a lot of words and no colour, the pages successfully
cancel each other out, making the double page spread not too intense and easy to read and understand. Also, the structure of this fanzine hasn’t adopted the same
style as a stereotypical fanzine. For example, as I mentioned briefly during my ’Colour scheme’ paragraph fanzines would usually have varied backgrounds with
exotic and eye catching features that don’t make sense together, with a cut-out sketch book - unorganized aesthetic. An aspect that fanzines usually follow is having
an inconsistent theme, different pages would have different themes and they wouldn’t follow any page margins. However, this fanzine has a strict consistent style
that runs through the fanzine; the white background with no border, the same font/colour font, and same size font (excluding titles), it basic and simple layout.
Usually, fanzines are the opposite of this; the origin of fanzines being created on a low budget using items that you already owned, published without a professional
publisher. However, in the past years with the development of new software allowing us to create fanzines online, using digital applicants like, Photoshop and
InDesign, were are able to create fanzines however we like. As well as technology developing fanzines developed, stirring away from traditional expectations of
fanzines, so now in modern day we see more and more fanzines that follow a more bland and consistent style. So, although this fanzine may not follow what is
stereotypically a fanzine it still follows the requirements of a fanzine. A fanzine can be whatever the created interprets it as and what they created it to be. Also,
another note-worthy aspect about the layout/structure of the fanzine/double page spread
is that the articles included are short. I think this is important because if the articles were
heavy and long then they would be more likely to overwhelm the reader, I think long
articles about how to improve your mental health would trick the reader into thinking
that there are a lot of detailed things you need to do in order to stay stable, and this
would lead students into a false sense of danger when in reality there are only few main
steps to take into considerations. Therefore I think keeping the articles short is an
efficient way of making students more likely to read them. Also, university students
have the constant pressure that they haven’t got enough time, so if they are faced with a
long article they are less likely to read it.
Headings - The headings used in the article follow the same consistent style of the
article, the heading on the right has adopted a handwritten, elementary approach which
works well with the aesthetic of the rest of the page because it follows the doodle, care-
free vibe that the page oozes. Then on the second page the heading is simple and
straightforward, making the heading clear.
32. Target audience – Judging by the article context/relevance and the layout/style of the pages the target audience is clearly for a student, age range at university
level, specifically London Arts Students as the fanzine contains different contacts and numbers available for students to contact if they need any help. However, the
fanzine wasn’t just published online at the London Arts University it was also published to Issuu, a digital platform to share different pieces of journalism, specific
to magazines and fanzines, so the target audience must be wider then just their university of they wouldn't of gone out of their way to publish it on other platforms.
So, I think the target audience widens to potentially all students across the UK as most articles can be applied to any student. Also, even though it specifically
addresses university students the articles can be interchanged with different age groups as the same studies and theories with mental illness/well-being can be
transferred through age groups. Also, another key aspect of the fanzine that determines the target audience is the colour scheme used throughout the fanzine.
Through the fanzines two continuous colours used are orange and purple, both colours are neutral and not associated with any specific genders, I think this is done
purposefully because a lot of the time mental health issues are only associated with women and this means that men’s mental health issues are usually cast aside and
ignored because men a stereotype they have to live up to which means men aren’t allowed to cry and other stigmas that have been created not allowing men to be in
touch with their emotions. For example a statistic I found from ‘Men’s Health Forum’ “Just over three out of four suicides (76%) are by men and suicide is the
biggest cause of death for men under 35” and “Men are less likely to access psychological therapies than women. Only 36% of referrals to IAPT (Increasing Access
to Psychological Therapies) are men.” Therefore I think it is very important that the
magazine hasn’t used colours that traditionally carry the connotations for femininity, e.g.
pink. Making the magazine more targeted at women.
Typography – The typography through the fanzine stays the same font and style, the
font is plain and easy to read, the font is circular and friendly, the font is quite inviting
and easy to read. The font being easy to read adds to the calm aesthetic of the pages. The
consistency of the font through the pages gives the reader a sense of security because
consistency symbolizes reliability and the reader will subconsciously associate the
trustworthy repetition of the font and be more likely to trust the articles. Also, the writing
is spaced out with enough space between the letters, because sometimes articles have a
small font with little space between each letter which makes it difficult to read and
studies have shown that it is more likely to induce stress on the reader if the words are
closer together in a confined space.
33. Colour scheme – The colour scheme follows the same theme as the rest of the magazine with the colours orange and purple being protonate in the zine, used for
headings and subheadings. Both the colours would be classed as the staple colours for the zine however purple is defiantly the dominant colour, being used for main titles
and most sub headings, also any orange sub headings are underlined with a purple line. This shows that purple is the leading colour. The colour scheme on the drawing
obviously has the constant theme of green obviously representing the grass, but we can also interpret this as the colour green symbolizing growth, harmony, freshness,
safety which are all very important things and representatives of what you need for good mental wellbeing. The colour chosen for the person is an odd choice as it isn’t
the colour of any human. This could have been done so it doesn’t specify any race or ethnicity, or it could just be done as an element of magical realism. Magical realism
is ” a style of fiction that paints a
realistic view of the modern
world while also adding magical
elements.” -definition from
Wikipedia. So, the electric pink
could be used to make the page
more interesting and/or less
serious. Magical realis is a good
idea for this type of article
because among all the
seriousness of topic it gives the
reader an opportunity to enjoy
the article. This follows the style
of the front cover, bringing in
youthful, child-like aspects in
order to entertain the audience.
Image/Main Focus – The
image/ main focus of the double
page spread is the animation on
the left page stealing focus from
the page with it’s colour and
lively drawings.
Structure/Layout - The structure
of the double page spread mirrors
the last double page that I analyzed
following the same layout, with an
article on the right page and a
matching animations on the left
with a white background.
An aspect I like about the drawing is that the person featured has hair on their legs. This would indicate that this person is a man however the person has no other
noticeable features that would define it’s gender, e.g. no nipples. I think this is appropriate because it opens the article to both men and women instead of just targeted at
men or women. As well as this, I think the energetic green and pink colours compliment each other very well because they are so contradicting that it works.
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35. Imdad Barbhuyan
-Photography
The next piece of media that I am analyzing to further my
knowledge on magazine/fanzine structure and to learn about
different artists and publishers, and also to influence and inspire
my project is this photography fanzine/portfolio created by Imdad
Barnhuyan. I found the portfolio through researching
’Photography fanzines’ on the website ‘Issuu.com’. Issuu is
feature in a lot of my research regarding magazines because it is
so convenient and easy to use. I was looking through a range of
different photography magazines on the website before I found
this one. I decided to take this magazine/ portfolio and analyze it
in detail because I looked through the photographs taken and I
immediately felt a connection with the style of photos and the
way she had taken them stood out for me against other
photographers.
As well as this, another reason this magazine stood out to me was
because when I went to research the publisher, the account only
had 1 follower, and was based in New Delhi, Indi. And I found
this so interesting because her photographs are so skillful and
impressive and no one has been able to experience her
photographs. I also, found it very interesting that she was from
India because the different aesthetic that the culture represents is
so different to the UK and any photographs taken here, so I
immediately thought it would be interesting to analyze and
compare the photographs taken.
The media subject is a portfolio/magazine but my interpretation of
the subject is a mix of both magazine and portfolio, I think it is
more heavily a portfolio as there is only a few words at the
beginning of the piece of media and non through out, however
I’m going to analyze it as both.
Heading – The heading of the magazine is situated at the bottom of the font cover, not in direct
eye line, this is an unusual choice for an editor because it means the audience wont immediately
associate the picture with the title. Instead of choosing a name for magazine that relates to the
meaning of the series of the photographs the artist has decided to just write her name as the title
of the magazine. I think this is a bold statement because it leaves the audience questioning what it
the book entails. The placement and the name of the title indicates that the publisher is not
publishing the magazine for fame or attention but for herself.
Image – The image on the front cover shows a
bare hand covered in blue paint. The bare hand
could represent an unprotected and uncovered
hand. The positioning on the main hand is gentle
and simple. The hand has obviously been
positioned and doesn’t normally sit like that so
the style of the artists photographs isn’t
Impromptu, spontaneous photos. The other
hands are blurred out just leaving one in a clear
focus. This could mean that the subject of the
magazine focuses on the perspective of one
person. Also, the colour blue is bold but then in
the center of the hand the bold blue is lightened
by a lighter blue, this makes the hand more
relaxed and has a less intense feeling. The colour
blue could have been used because it is often
associated with depth and stability.
Layout – The placement of the photo on the
white page resembles the structure of a polaroid
picture. A polaroid picture is a picture that is
taken using an instant camera, where the photo
only takes a minute to develop. Looking through
the theme of her magazine this could be a
coincidence but still note worthy.
36. Image/Main Focus – The main focus of the pages are obviously the images as they are the only aspect of the pages. These photographs are taken in India New
Delhi, I think the photos are very interesting and eye opening to a different side of India. This is because in the media Indian Photography is usually heavily
influenced by the traditional cultural aspects of the country. Commonly what an audience would expect with a stereotypical Indian photograph is monuments in India
e.g. Taj Mahal, or Qutub Minar, or street art and men and women dressed in traditional Indian clothing like a lehenga or sari. India is usually associated as a dry,
humid country and in the media is perceived as always being busy with streets filled with people, due to it’s high population of 1,374,382,078 people according to a
population meter, 2020. Especially in New Delhi the photography in the media shows crowded and busy streets. So, to experience this other side of India that isn’t
usually shown in the media is fascinating and refreshing. These photographs differ from the traditional type of photograph capture in India because they feature a
wide open spaces full of greenery which is not advertised as a
characteristic from India, New Delhi, it features different types
of flowers and the overall aesthetic is sedative and nurturing,
unlike the busy streets of India.
The subject of the photo is a women who is entangled with the
flowers/nature, in both photographs her face is hidden. There
are multiple different interpretations to explain why her face
could be hidden. Firstly, to hide her identity and leave the
audiences focus on the flowers and the scenery around the
women featured in the photos. Secondly, she could be using the
nature and flowers to protect her, using them in front of her face
and body as a shield against the world (the camera) allowing
them to submerge her identify. Or thirdly, she could be hiding
her face to continue the theme from the front cover. On the
front cover we cant see her face we just see her hand to create a
mysterious and always wanting more aesthetic. It also creates
consistency making the magazine/portfolio seem more
professional.
Colour Scheme - Both photos are obviously heavily
influenced by the colour red. The colour red isn’t overly feature
on the page but it is clearly the main subject of the photo
because it stands out against all the other aspects of the photos.
In the first photo there only two aspects of red but the deep,
bold shade of red with stands any of the other colours on the
page. The red coat is a statement as it immediately determines
the subject of the photo.
37. The colour red is a strong colour to choose and has multiple different connotations, it can symbolize a lot of different things. Flowers are an integral part of the
photographs, the photographer could’ve decided to have this particular photoshoot featuring around flowers because she wanted them to symbolize life and growth.
The flowers in the photos are lively and fresh, not weltering and dying, representing nurture and hope. Another quality of the flower that could be taken into
consideration is the size of the flowers and what that could indicate, the flowers are small and fragile/delicate this could be interpreted as them being innocent and
youthful. There is a theory called Floriography which is the ‘language of flowers’ it is an art, and it follows the concept that each flower carries its own special
meaning or symbolism, according to its variety and colour.
Some flowers even take on a new meaning dependent on the
number of them, for example, a single red rose denotes 'love at
first sight', whereas a dozen red roses say 'be mine'. After
researching what different red flowers symbolize I discovered
theme that most red flowers follow the connotations that the
colour red has acquired. E.g. a red rose means ‘to endure
passion’ , a red tulip means ‘true love’ and a red camellia
symbolizes ‘love, passion and deep desire’. Following the
connotations of red oozing similar characteristics, e.g. desire
and love, however red also represents determination, strength,
power and danger. The stern, serious facial expression in the
second photo and the strong stance she holds in the first photo
could be associated with the connotations of red being strong
and powerful making the photo link together.
There is a hazy, light effect from the sunlight over the photo,
this effect looks effective because the hazy – orange glow
symbolises authenticity and originality. One of ‘Hazy’s
connotations is the adjective hazy, ‘vague or ill-defined. “hazy
memories". Which, in my opinion, a hazy memory is a fond
memory that has been gradually forgotten over time but still
with stands in the memory. So, by using the hazy glow Imdad
Barbhuyan could be trying to adopt a old-style glow. However,
in my opinion the photograph on the right suggests a
juxtaposition with the hazy feel-good glow on the photo in
contrast with a serious and dull facial expression.
40. subject
■ Not all feminists wear pink
■ Feminist events
■ 1 example fanzines
■ 1 example magazines
■ 1 example portfolio
■ 1 example of magazine/fanzine
41. photography
■ Photography – different types
■ Photography – black and white, colours
■ Photography – different angles, shot type
■ Photography – how to take a god photo - five fundamental theories
https://www.slrlounge.com/five-fundamental-compositional-theories-master-today/
Look at
photojou
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research
45. Production Research
■ Graphics tablet
■ Photoshoots – how to use a camera
■ Photoshoots – how to take a good photo
■ Photoshop editing 1
■ Photoshop editing 2
■ How to effectively write an article
