Photo shoot and positioning

I chose to copy Glamour magazine and how they centre women on the cover, with bright, bold lettering and phrases to draw attention. Therefore, I set up my own mini photo shoot, and took a few pictures of my friend modelling so I could use similar pictures and poses. I also did this for other pages of the magazine, and made up small stories about them. I had chosen the topic of ‘Bangs’ and the colour ‘black’, so I made stories up about how they had come back into fashion and what celebrities were creating or carrying on the tern. 

In my mini photo shoot, I mainly featured two girls, one for my makeup page and the other for fashion hairstyle trend. I took the pictures according to how they were dressed and how much makeup they had on. The one with more makeup, I chose close-up shots of her full face, where the other, I chose medium to full length pictures, and a few close-up shots to show off her hair style. 

On the fashion trend pages, I chose to have a black backgrounds to make them stand out, and for my pictures to also stand out. Most magazine pages are with white backgrounds, and the few that have coloured backgrounds stand out the most, which is why I chose to have these black. As the featured women, I chose to emphasize the male gaze to display how those pages would normally attract more attention compared with other pages of the magazine. The other two I chose to keep white. The ‘sex gods’ page, to emphasize how the female gaze isn’t as dominant as the male gaze, and therefore white backgrounds do not attract as much attention as coloured backgrounds do. 

On the page for the female gaze, I originally had the top 10 males to feature, but I found 5 was a lot easier to fit on one page. I found on other magazines, the ‘hottest’ men’s pictures were the largest on the page, so I chose the have them in size order. 

Lastly, looking at other magazines, I chose to have page numbers in cirles at the bottom corner of each page. Most magazines had page numbers displayed in this way. I chose to have the colour pink as the circle to appeal to the feminine audience, and white numbers onside, so the numbers stood out. 

Bibliography for Images

Beyonce Tom Ford LDB (2013) Posted by Shamika Sanders on December 21, 2013 [Image Online at: http://hellobeautiful.com/2013/12/21/beyonce-tom-ford-dress/]

Rihanna (2010) Posted by dance hail USA [Image Online at: http://www.dancehallusa.com/tag/rihanna/]


Glamour (2006) Posted by Bootleg on Jan 24, 2006 [Image Online at http://typophile.com/node/17515]


Rihanna Glamour cover (2010) Posted by Dewey Msc [Image Online at: http://deweymaclab.wikispaces.com/Adv+PS+C1+10]