Photoshoot 2

Photoshoot 2
List of images required 2 or 3 different photos
Location: My house
Date: Wednesday, 25th March, 2009
Timing: 4.00 pm - 6.00pmSubjects: Kelsey Wright
Equipment: camera, tripod, lightingMise-en-scene (props/costume): makeup and attire from home, and red guitar
Lighting: mainly natural lighting with elements of warm coloured artificial lighting
Problems/solutions:/
Evaluation: The lighting was all natural and therefore all the photos turned out fairly good.

Front Cover Photo Shoot

COVER
Photoshoot 1
List of images required
2 or 3 different photos
Location: Performing Arts Block
Date: Wednesday, 25th March, 2009
Timing: 1.00 pm -3.30pm

Subjects: Kelsey Wright, Jonathan Sanders, Lauren Burchell, Aidan Cavander
Equipment: camera, lighting, tripod, red backdrop, instrumentsMise-en-scene (props/costume): makeup and attire from home

Lighting: mainly natural lightingProblems/solutions: red backdrop didn't look as vivid as I had hoped it would, but this could be fixed with a image manipulation program such as Adobe Photoshop. A pr

oblem also occured when I tried to take a photograph of Jonathan and Kelsey as if they were performing, however when I tried to capture them in the same shot, the image turned out blurry. What I did to solve this is I took two photographs of the two of them seperately and an image of the background seperately, and then afterwards I will Photoshop them all together to look as if it was one image.

Evaluation: This photoshoot went well with not many problems. The shot taken was not a difficult 

one and the natural lighting radiated off the subject's skin which the c

amera picked up and as a result the image looks nice and profession

al looking.

Masthead

The printscreen shows how I edited the masthead to look how it did. I found a font I liked from www.dafont.com, and then printscreened it and then pasted it into Macromedia Fireworks, and then I cropped the page so that just the font was in the shot. I used the select tool to select the white parts of the background and deleted them. Then I left-clicked and clicked on "Shadow and Glow" and then clicked on "Glow." After that a dialogue box appeared and I altered the colour levels so that the "glow" was yellow.

Soul Man Mag

The idea behind the name Soul Man is that it's a famous blues song by the Blues Brothers, which blues and soul fans would be able to relate to and would act as a sort of "inside joke." The name Soul Man was also the most popular; 40% of my questionaire results favoured Soul Man; whilst only 10% favoured Discoteque, 33% favoured MINOR, 17% favoured Neo-Soul.
The name Soul Man does have patriarchal undertones which may portray the ideology that only male blues and soul artists are good and worth mentioning in a magazine. However I will purposely have a woman on my front cover, opposing this idea.
I mainly chose the name Soul Man because my favoured audience prefered it, and I prefered it, because it sounded nice when said out loud, and I believe that it will be memorable and will then very quickly be known as an established magazine.