costume prop and model research

2. Model/Style Icons
• For my Indie-Pop magazine I want just one model.
• My style icons and influences are Lana Del Rey in particular,
Florence & The Machine, Kate Nash, Ellie Goulding and Marina &
The Diamonds.
• I want someone with little to no freckles and blemishes, with quite a
plain, simplistic and porcelain complexion so the images need
hardly any editing or filters on them.
• I chose these particular style icons because they all fit in with my
genre. They all are alternative music artists and this is not only
portrayed through their melodious music but their vintage classy
style of dress as well.

3. Theme
• I would like my magazine to have a vintage 1970s/80s retro type
feel to it hence why I will be choosing to include what is stated
below.
• I want to follow the idea of Film Noir in my magazine, with potentially
only some certain things in the magazine which are in red so its
attention grabbing and so the things in red are symbolic as they are
the only colour object on the Front cover and contents page etc.
• I want to use this theme because it in-keeps with my chosen genre.
This is through the timeless and classy theme which will run
throughout the magazine, which will link in with the classy,
harmonious, chic elements of my chosen genre.

4. Front Cover
• I’m going to use one close up shot on the front cover for impact.
• I want everything on the front cover to be in black and white (charcoal type
colour) with only some of the text in a red colour.
• This is because the genre of my magazine is vintage/retro, the shabby
grained chic look should be complimented through these attributes.
• Colours will give and then contrast with one another will achieve my theme.
• Keeping the idea of Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe in mind in the
point above.
• My front cover will follow this genre by having all the elements listed above
included on it. The use of these things will also reinforce my genre because
firstly; the close up shot portrays a look of innocence and it makes the
magazine instantly personal and relatable because of the intensity of the
picture readers feel as if it is directly at them specifically. Going back to the
aforementioned look of innocence it relates to the harmonious nature my
magazine pertains.
• Furthermore, the monotone colours gives off the idea and impression that
quite classy, timeless and melodious music is to be found inside bevause of
its elegant shabby chic look.

6. Contents Page
• I want my contents page to follow the same colour theme.
• I want Polaroid pictures of my model to run ¾’s of the way across the page
vertically downwards, so there is more space of the right hand side of the
page for text.
• On the left hand side of the Polaroid's I want a charcoal coloured
background where the contents of the page will be numbered in
chronological order, this is because I want to keep it the same colour
scheme as the cover page.
• On the right hand side of the Polaroid’s I want the background to be a off
white colour, with the information about exclusives and special features of
the magazine there also, this is again because I want to keep it as the same
colour scheme as the front cover and the off white colour next to the grainy
charcoal colour contrast nicely and vividly.
• My contents page will link in with my genre because the Polaroid picture
frames I will be using to show off miniature taster images I have taken of my
model before the double page spread. The frames will be mirroring the
instant photos Polaroid's usually produce, ones that can't be manipulated.
The old fashioned way. These images will also represent my model in an
authentic, classic way, as these types of films and frames are occasionally
used In the fashion industry, by modelling agencies who use them to
realistically and naturally represent the models.
• These representations are all vintage in style and the old fashioned element
of the Polaroid cameras images reinforce the fact that my magazine is
striving to have that harmoniously, vintage melodic theme running through it,
complimenting the genre.

8. Double Page Spread
• I want to go for a different style on my double page spread as there is more
space to play with and take into account.
• I want to go for a flowery vintage theme.
• On the left hand page, I want my a medium close up shot of my model in
colour against a distressed white wall background to take up the entire
page, with her name and a quote that she has said in her interview.
• On the right hand page, I want a completely vintage floral background. For
the article and interview I want it to be presented in white boxes so they
stand out against the flowers.
• The elements on my double page spread compliment my chosen genre of
Indie-pop because again the flowery theme, specially due to the way I intend
to edit it will have a vintage look to it, like a grainy, ‘flickery’ old film would
have.
• The same applies with the distressed (white) brick wall because it adds an
element of shabbiness to the quite prim classic magazine that so far exists
before the DPS and this is what I intend to do, it gives me both the ‘Indie’-
(independent) and ‘pop’- (eclectic) elements I intended to achieve.