Mise-En-Scene
The factors that I'll be considering when taking my photos will be:
- Wardrobe (clothes, hair, makeup, props)
- Location
- Lighting
- Position in the frame
Wardrobe
Because my magazine is focused on mainstream pop for teenage girls, the look I am going for is a young, fresh look, with colourful makeup and big hair. Beth will be representing a recent finalist or winner on a singing show such as X factor, where I'll be interviewing the newly found singer for my double page spread. She will wear quite a lot of makeup, but not too much as we want her to come across as an idol for other young girls, as she can possibly relate to them. The makeup that she does wear will be bright and colourful with different colour eye shadow and lipstick. The picture of Rihanna in NME magazine to the right gives an example of the type of style and makeup that I am aiming at. Her hair will be big, either back combed or curly, I want the impression of the wind blowing in her hair. Her clothes are going to be simple and casual, with maybe a plain jumper and jeans, and maybe a scarf. So she doesn't look too immature and disorganised. Even though I want the young look I don't want the audience seeing the magazine as too young, as teenage girls are trying to grow up fast. I may use props, like an ipod for instance, to reinforce the subject of music and Beth will definitely be wearing jewellery like rings, earings and necklaces.
Location
The location will be in a field/forest in Broxbourne, as shown beside. The reason I chose this particular location is that it's colourful, with a lot of green and if the sun is out it will help to create a younger, carefree look that I am going for. The forest may be useful in order to get some variety of shots using shadows etc, so I have a large range to pick from. When I take photos of other teenage girls for the contents page I will want the same look so am likely to use the same location.
Lighting
Because I'm shooting outside, there's not much that can be done about the natural lighting, but considering I am aiming for a young, vibrant look I hope there will be a bit of sun in the shot to emphasis that to make the magazine appeal to the female audience at first glance. Photoshop can always be used to my advantage in editing though. I definitely want to shoot outdoors to get the natural lighting effect, rather then artificial lighting indoors.
Position in the frame
Preferably, a close up of Beth's face will be used for the front cover, of her looking straight into the camera, so it focuses on her eyes. This is just an idea, as I may decide later that I want a mid-close up of her laughing or smiling or at a certain angle. However I want the front cover facial expression to be a bit more serious then a more jokey, long shot or mid shot of her in the double page spread. I will experiment on doing birds eye and worms eye views of her face so I have a decent range of poses and angles to chose from.
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