Image Plans

I have taken some of my images at indie band gigs, such as Circa Waves, The Wombats and Kodaline. I feel that by including some gig images, the atmosphere is conveyed across to the audience, which makes the magazine more appealing to read. I believe that the younger target audience appreciates more visual information and by including gig pictures, the magazine and the bands within feel more real. There is more excitement within live bands and seeing them in action on stage, which will encourage the audience to read further.

I have planned to take more images of individual people to act as band members. I believe this will allow the audience to develop more of a sense of the ‘artists’ character and this will help encourage the audience to find out more about them. I have chosen to incorporate glitter into the photographs, as a prop that the models can use. This will implicitly link with the main cover line which will be about The Wombats new album called Glitterbug. I have chosen to take the pictures with the models standing against a plain wall and with a decent amount of lighting to give the effect of images taken at a studio. This allows the people to contrast against the plain wall and make them stand out, also allowing the cover lines and other text to be more visible. However, I will aim to get a range of angles, facial expressions and selection of people, to give myself a wider variety of possible images to choose from and find which work best with my magazine. The models themselves will be made to wear indie-styled clothing and hairstyles, so the target audience will appeal more to the magazine.