Main Task - Costume/Props Planning

Starting to Come Together!!

I have to now think about what my front cover is going to look like, with all of the images that I will photograph. Already due to my audience research survey I know that the main focus on the front cover will be a single artist.

The next question is male or female? To answer this question I will now look at real pop magazines, at least 10, and take the most popular gender to get my answer. The 10 were picked at random and the final ratio was 7 females to 3 males.

So as you can see I will focus my magazine front cover on a female, which will also now help me with the costuming of this single artist. The female will be the main artist in which my magazine will focus the most on but there will be a little article on a male artist, which I will need to do some costuming as well. To conform to a pop music magazine my artist will look stylish, maybe with a medium shot which will show the top half of the body and the face.

This is a possible shot for the front cover of my pop music magazine. It  shows from the waist up, which is a medium shot.

Female Artist

As you can see from the drawings below, the character will be positioned in front of a wall, or another prop such as a tree, surrounded by grass which gives the magazine a fresh feel, and will also link in with the colour scheme of light blue, dark blue, light green and dark green. The costume has to represent a new artist, who is fashionable and looks good. To represent this in the costuming I will put the female in a knee length dress. This can give a feel of a pop music magazine as it shows them as fun, but not to classy. If I were to put them in an ankle length dress it would feel more like a classical music magazine. She will wear a white dress which will contrast with the colour scheme making the magazine stand out.



This will be the type of dress I will use for my main female artist

The artist is against the wall. The picture shows a general feel of how the character will be positioned and where about it will be taken

This is the dress that the character will wear, but not in red. The red is to outline the dress, making it easier for the costuming to be done. 

 

Male Artist

This character will be part of the sub story which will be found on the double page spread of my magazine. He will wearing plain clothes, maybe a random t-shirt and a pair of chinos, giving him a casual but smart look. I will position him indoors, maybe pretending to record music, which means I will need to use a microphone as a prop, or might have an action shot of him walking, which I can make a section in my magazine about celebrities in public. Here are some illustrations;

This shot can show the character walking in the streets, in front of some shops which is where I may take this picture. This can show a section in the magazine where some celebrities are out and think there is no paparazzi about. It can be called 'Reality'

This is the smart/casual dress code for the male