Props, Location and Costume

Props, Location and Costume

Location

The location for my photo shoot, was the studio room. I decided to use the studio room as it was easily accessible in college, and it was a plain back ground which I wanted to have on my magazine. I wanted to have a plain background because, on existing products that I was looking at, they had plain backgrounds and I liked how it looked so I wanted to copy this and have it on my magazine. All of my images were taken in the studio, my main cover image, my contents page main image and my double page spread image. I had my model positioned in a way that represented the target audience I was aiming my magazine at, as I wanted the model to be in a stance that the target audience can relate to. If I had my model positioned in a way that didn’t represent the target audience, then it would not be associated with them as much.

Costume

I had my model dress in the stereotypical ‘gangster’ ‘chav’ way, with the Nike grey hoodie. The grey Nike hoodie is a typical thing that you would associate with my target audience, as all brands such as Nike and Adidas are the sorts of brands that my target audience wear. I wanted him to dress in this way as I know that the target audience will want to read on as my main cover image has the same dress sense as what they do so it will make them have a connection of clothing brands. For my contents page I had my model dressed in jeans and a black top with a black jacket, I used these dark colours of clothing so that it would create a sense of darkness, also the lighting in the studio room for this photo shoot was changed as I adapted the lights so that they would have a darker effect on my model, creating a sense of power.

Props

The props that I used for my magazine, is everything that my model is wearing. The clothes that my model is wearing are the only props that I have used, I haven’t used anything in the background as I wanted to use the plain background from my photoshoot. I didn’t decide to use any props in the background for my magazine, as I wanted the background to be plain, because it was how other magazines of my genre have there’s and I wanted to follow that convention.