Photography plan for my indie music magazine

1. Photography
planning

2. Cover page • My front cover page will a medium close up
shot of male singer. He will be wearing a
clash of styles; Adidas top and a leather
jacket either worn or slung over the
shoulder clashing with wild, stylised hair
and painted native American style stripes
(hopefully in the continuing colour theme
of the magazine). Hopefully this styling
will reflect the ‘indie’ genre, therefore
it will be instantly recognisable to the
audience. He will be facing the camera and
using direct address, as I have found this
invites the audience in, and can be an
effective attention grabber. The cover
will not be shot in a studio, instead
outside; in a forest or heavily wooded
area, as I still want there to be an
element of wildness and mystery. This
cover style will link with the rest of the
magazine in being heavily themed, as I
have found many indie musicians have
strong themes themselves. I believe this
makes them memorable in the audience’s
mind- it creates a strong association with
certain colours with an artist’s image,
which is what I intend to create for the
magazine. I plan to have two further sub
images of the shoot, along with a main
cover line, which will be essentially
showing the reader the main story of the
magazine, which will be an interview with
a rising indie musician and his photoshoot
for the magazine.
Although I’m going
to keep the cover
fairly
minimalistic, I’m
going to have a eye
catching slogan or
quote from the
artist interview,
written in font
that looks written
by the artist
himself, so that
the audience feels
this interview is
personal with just
the artist and
them.

3. Contents page
• For my main image I’m going to have a
landscape picture with a festival
setting, which brings a fun, youngish
vibe to the magazine. The image will be
edited so that the main colours stand
out, and the colours link with my theme.
I will have an article linking to
information about this festival (which I
have been to, and the image will be
mine), which is small and advertises
itself as a festival of ‘arts, music,
and culture’, which is what I want the
magazine to imbue- as indie is not just
a music genre, it comes with a whole
style and sort of ‘alternative’ feeling.
The mention of the festival will give
the magazine a realistic feel, as most
music magazines make mention of
concerts, gigs, festivals etc.… I’m
going to have around two other sub
images, including an image of some album
artwork of the CDs and vinyl’s the
magazine reviews, furthermore I’m going
to have an image of a new indie band, to
highlight the magazines ‘Red Indian
introducing..’ page.

4. Double page spread
• For my double page spread I am going to
only use one image, and this will be my
main image. This will consist of the
artist, with a medium close up shot of
him on one page, and the rest of the
image (of the woodland) spreading out
onto the other side. He will be dressed
in the same clothes as he is on the
cover, to give this feeling of
continuity, however the character is
not using direct gaze as the camera is
shot to the side, but instead he gazes
straight ahead, in a powerful stance. I
find often, celebrities are shot uses
poses that places them in a position of
power (it can show a steely
determination or passion for the
music), and are rarely shown to be
vulnerable- once again, I hope this
shot proves to be realistic. I plan to
fade parts of the background where the
text and celebrity is, making the
audience truly focus on the page, and I
feel it makes the image and text feel
much more cohesive.