One of the main books I have used as inspiration for my book design is Martin Usborne’s book ‘I’ve Lived In East London For 86 1/2 Years’. This photo book is about an old man who is living in East London and Martin Usborne, the photographer is photographing him in his everyday life.
I really like how each photo is presented alongside a couple of sentences which are Joseph’s words. These words show Joseph’s view on a topic. I think it makes the book have more character as you are able to read his thoughts and different views on modern life.
In my photo book, which has a similar concept to Martin Usborne’s book I will be taking extracts of my grandparents words. I will be taking these extracts from the interviews that I conducted with them a couple of months ago. The main headings/ topic heading will be; Music, Family, Jersey, Wales and Faith.
For the cover of my photo book, I am going to cover it with a patterned material, rather than a photograph. An example of this is Julian Germain’s photo book ‘For Every Minuet You Are Angry You Loose Sixty Seconds Of Happiness’. This cover is very colorful and eye catching. The type of pattern gives an essence of what the theme of the book is going to be.
This photo book has presented its pictures with white boarders around the pictures rather than full bled. I do like the white space around the photographs as I think it gives the book a clean cut look. Germain has also included random plain white pages, which breaks the book up nicely.
In this book, Germain presents some archive photos:
Although it is effective I not like the style he has presented these photographs. I don’t like how he has scanned the whole photo album, however I do like the positioning of the archive photo’s in the book. Germain has positioned them all together, in the middle of the book. I am still yet to decide how I would like to preset my archive photographs in my book. Either have them all together in a cluster, in the middle of the book. Or have them spread evenly throughout the book.
I am choosing to title my photo book ‘The Heavens’ because I think it has a strong sound to it, and makes the book clear what is going to be about.
Over the past couple of weeks I have been experimenting with different photo shoots and styles that I want to create. I originally had the idea of creating a fashion magazine, taking inspiration from Claude Cahun and dressing up as both the male and female models. This worked out well at the time and I think that the experiment was successful but I think that something was missing. All of the previous work that I have created in the lead up to my final idea has actually helped me a lot and is still very relevant to how I am going to go about my final piece. The work done has taught me what to do and what not to do. What I now know will work and what won’t. The experimentation has really helped me get my head around a final project. So for my final project I am sticking to creating a short film of my mum which is very nearly finished. I took inspiration from this short film and the interview that I did with my mum and have also made some images of myself mimicking my mother’s role. I think that this is working out well and will be the best final project for me to create. For my staged shoot I took much of my inspiration from Cindy Sherman and her Untitled Film Stills. On the photo book aspect of this I have been looking at past students work and think that possibly a small handmade book will be the most effective as I don’t think that I would have enough photographs to make an entire photo book. This gives me room to be more creative and to experiment a bit more, I want my images to almost be like film stills and to look different. I think that this will complement my short film nicely and they will work well together. Another reason that I would want to create my own book is actually because I came up with the idea of creating a folder type thing to put it in. I want to get a tea towel, sew around the edges, leaving a hole in the top obviously, and have my book live inside it. I think that this will be really interesting and give my spectator more to look at and it will just be another layer into the mix as well as photographs and film. I also think that this will add to the whole idea of stereotypes in my work as I myself will be sewing the fabric and putting it all together which is what women are actually expected to do. I think that this will work out well and showcase another element of female stereotypes in my work. The book that I want to create will be quite small and I am considering making the images square to mimic an old film camera, bringing it back to the traditional roles that were always expected of women and still are today. This will be an interesting experiment and I think that it could work out really well.
Short Film | Review
My short film is an audio interview with my mum and visuals that correspond to what she is saying. This has worked out really well and given me inspiration for my essay as well as what photographs to produce. I found the film really fun to create as I got to make videos instead of just photographs and it was interesting to actually get to know my mum a little bit more and about her upbringing and her own life. I found the whole experience of making this short film exciting as it is something new and something that I was interested in. If it was on any thing other than the topic of feminism or something that I am passionate about I don’t think that I would have enjoyed it as much and I wouldn’t have been able to create the work I have. This short film has been a really great gateway towards figuring out what kind of photo book I want to create and how I should go about creating it.
clip from short film
clip from short film
clip from short film
Photo Book | Idea
For a while now I’ve had the idea of making a folder/blanket for my photo book. I’ve known what I want the outside of my photo book to look like more than what I want the actual photo book to look like itself. I want to sew around a tea towel and have my book live inside this tea towel, this will just add yet another layer to my entire project and I think that it will work really well. I have recently come up with the idea of completely making a photo book on my own as a way of showing how women seem to do everything, even make their own photo book. This will be an added element showing the stereotypes that women are faced with as well. I think that this will be a nice added touch to my project and will work out really well. I want a small photo book as I don’t think that I will have enough images to make an entire one and it will just look better if I create it myself and make it look more like stills from a film as if it is unreal or something that shouldn’t be real. I might make my book look like one that waiters/waitresses have where they take your order. This will also add to the detail that women are seen as slaves in their own homes and the unfair expectations opposed on them. This will be interesting to create but I think that I will be able to manage it. If I don’t manage to make my own book by hand I want to create a small book on blurb but still have it living inside of a tea towel.
Over this half term I plan to do my final two photo shoots of my mum. I am going to revisit one of the houses that she works at because I think the quality of some of the photographs can be improved and so that I can build upon the photos I already have. I am also going to continue taking photographs of my mum at home before and after work continuing the theme of a ‘hidden identity’ . After I have done this I should have enough photographs to choose from for my photo book. Although I already have some archival material I need to scan them so I have a digital copy ready to use. Finally, I am also going to try and start putting my photo book together on blurb by downloading the software and creating an account, so I can do this from home.
To make my photo book I am going to use blurb which is an online website which can be used to help photographers to create, self publish and share their photo book design. Blurb has already made 6 million books created by more than a half million customers and it ships to over 70 different countries. I can use light room to design my book then once I have finished I can import it to blurb or I could download a software directly from Blurb, which also allows me to design my book but it will also allow me to work on my book from home which is an advantage because I don’t have lightroom. I have explored blurb and found that they offer a variety of different sized books, layouts and designs which will allow me to have different compositions which is something I wanted to do.
I haven’t decided how I want to design the inside of my book, however I think after doing some research and looking at other photographers books I have decided that a portrait book would be better suited for my project because of the large amounts of portrait photographs that I am going to include. I think having the book in portrait will look better visually and it fits in with the style of photographs I have taken. I have also decided that I want a hard back book this is because I think it makes the book look more professional and more presentable visually.
In order to create a design for my photo book I started researching photo books which have been designed on blurb. Blurb is the particular online website that I will be using to create my photo book. The site is easy to access therefore I can work on my project at home because designing my photo book will take quite a while in order to get it the way I want it to look. When considering the design on the book, I need to think about the composition, framing and placement of the photographs included. There needs to be an order as my project is a narrative so it must follow as a structure so that it makes sense.
I created a mood board of photo books which have been designed on Blurb. I wanted to research this a great deal so that I can gain inspiration from books previously created using the same tools. As displayed below, there a numerous designs including full page spreads, collages and text-image cohesion. It is really important the book is designed in a specific way so the story is told well enough so the words which are featured in the book add to the narrative and are not required to explain the meaning of the images.
For my personal study I want to explore more in depth the role of women within our modern society and how they are portrayed. I want to explore the unfair advantages and mainly disadvantages faced with women in our society. I believe that this is a very important subject and it interests me and I want to exaggerate these stereotypes in my images in order to make a clear and obvious message to my spectators on inequality of the sexes.
– does everyone see the inequalities faced with men and women
– how our first world countries have inequalities [social aspects]
– will my work impact my spectators
– the ideals faced with body image on both men and women as well as the expectation put on both sexes to succeed in different ways [women encouraged to get married and have children whereas men are encouraged to work and make money]
– how the fashion industry shapes gender
Hypothesis | Questions
Chosen Question: How does the work of Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman question the politics of gender and female stereotypes?
What is feminism? (linked to a previous post)
Feminism could only come about after the Suffragette movement as women were only then starting to get a voice and being seen more equally. Here feminism came about because men and women are faced with unfair standards and stereotypes. Feminism is the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. This movement does not see women as more important than men but it sees them as equals. In recent years it has become a very controversial topic of which some people are saying it to be a ‘man hating’ movement claiming that women ‘are more important and that men don’t face problems’. This is the wrong perception of the movement as there are male feminists. People tend to get it confused because of the name of the movement suggests feminine which is obviously associated with women. Feminism urges to change stereotype, objectification and derogatory lexis that mainly women face day to day. For example, if a woman were to sleep around she would be labelled as a ‘slag’, ‘slut’, ‘whore’ etc unlike a man who would not even be labelled or even be called a ‘lad’ by friends. This is a hypocritical and unfair label that women are constantly faced with. However, there are many other aspects to feminism that seek the equality of life for both men and women. Another example would be that if a male is seen to be sad or to show emotion he is ‘probably gay’ which is completely wrong as women are allowed to be emotional. There are so many unfair and unrealistic stereotypes faced with men and women which feminists are trying to change. Many photographers use this within their work to further the movement of feminism such as Cindy Sherman, Yoko Ono and Claude Cahun.
I think that I want to create another short film with a voice over sharing my thoughts on feminism and what it means to me. I want to create an effective video to go along with it and put a visual aspect to what I say. I think that this is a good idea, although it will be a challenge to get it all done in such a short space of time. I wanted to do some added research into my work to make sure that it is accurate. I think that this is pivotal in making an effective piece of work and something that my spectators and audiences are able to really connect with and understand. I went deeper into researching about certain stereotyped groups of people. This was important for the creation of a video that I am creating as it really included all kinds of people and allows my spectator/audience to really get the concept and the meaning behind my work and the movement that I am a part of. One group of people that I wanted to focus on was the black female community, specifically how they need to style their hair to maintain its condition. I find black culture so interesting and want to embrace it myself as well as obviously standing up for the rights of black people too. I find it important for those who are faced with suppression to come together and realise that we are all in it together just at different levels. I also wanted to focus on gay people and the stereotypes that are thrown at them and how being gay seems to label you and put you into a bracket which to me is totally wrong and shouldn’t be the case. I also wanted to work on how transgender people feel within our community and the way that for so many years transgender people, more than others, are being suppressed and made to hide their true selfs and their most authentic selfs. I find all of these people so important in understanding the inequalities of our society and wanted to add this into my work as part of a short film that I am planning on making. I really do believe that the road to equality comes when we realise that we are not alone and that our culture and our being doesn’t need to clash but it can come together to fight suppression. This research is for a small segment of a short film that I will be making which I have decided is going to be my main project and will be getting stills of to create my final book.
How To | Head Wrap
For this particular shoot I wanted to highlight how many white people are happy enough to stand up for black culture yet when it comes to standing up for black lives they take a backseat and don’t want to cause any trouble. I chose the head wrap as I find that it is a clear symbol of black culture and I want my spectators/audience to be able to clearly identify that. This will be a part of a short film that I am currently creating which gives mention to the suppression of black people. I find head wraps so beautiful and think that it makes women of colour look so unique and to me really embraces their culture. After reading more into the reasoning behind the head wrap I really got to grips with just how much of black African culture it represents. The use of the head wrap is to give the hair a break and so that hair can go through deep conditioning, something that black women have to do to maintain their hair. I wanted to embrace this in my work and to really get it right and so I went looking for videos on how to do a proper head wrap. This was really interesting to research and to watch how easy it is to actually do a head wrap yet to me it looks so well put together. Here is a video that really helped me when it came to doing a head wrap on my own head.
Gay stereotypes
There are so many stereotypes within our society today and a lot of those stereotypes come from film or generalisations. I find that movies will often mimic a gay person for comic effect and will over exaggerate a gay person to make it easier for the audience to identify them as ‘the gay one’. I feel that these generic stereotypes have seeped into our society and now people actually think that all gay people are a certain way and have specific attributes. I find this so ridiculous as a sexual preference should not define you as a human being and it shouldn’t be a dominant factor in what you are like as a person. People seem to use these stereotypes to belittle gay people and to put them into a specific box that traps them and often I find that gay people are suppressed. It takes some people so long to ‘come out’ as gay and to actually tell people that they are attracted to the same sex. I really feel that with a lot of people there is a block of what they understand of gay people and think that the movies that they watch portray what gay people are like when in fact you shouldn’t be putting gay people into one category as they are just people who are attracted to the same sex.
Transgender | What it’s like
I really wanted to get what it is like to be transgender more so that I am able to successful portray my character in such a way that will represent this. I am intrigued with transgender people as it seems like such a hard place to be in and can be so isolated at times as I get the feeling that there is a lot of fighting going on in your own head of what is right and wrong and how gender should be. We tend to focus ourselves on how we should look, a woman should look one way and a man should look another way, limiting how people are expected to be. For me transgender people are trapped inside the wrong body, they aren’t authentically themselves if they remain trapped and if they conform to what is expected of them within society. I really want to be able to express the suppression that many transgender people go through as they are not given equal opportunities and people seem to turn a blind eye and think that it’s ‘just a phase’. Funny how our society has really only started to accept gay people over the past few years and they were labelled with the same thing, ‘just a phase’. I want to show how being transgender isn’t a phase and that people actually struggle through and are suppressed by our society.
My response | Experimentation
Originally this work was going to be a part of a short film that I wanted to create but I have now reshaped my idea and will no longer need this content for it but I wanted to post it anyway as this experimentation has helped inform my final project and has helped me to develop my skills with staged images, props and creating different and unique personas. I find this work to be exciting and will get my spectator thinking. This idea came from a short speech that I made with the intent of creating a short film adding in clips over the audio to visualize what I was saying. However, this idea isn’t too relevant to my other work and I feel that, although would have been good, isn’t necessary in my final project.
Inspired by black cultureGay stereotypeTransgender oppression
I wanted to devote a few double page spreads of my magazine to different issues that I also feel strongly about and think need to be highlighted. I wanted to show a bit more diversity within my magazine and not just solidly focus on the rights and inequalities of women. I am going to add an article about black rights and also the rights of animals as I feel that these issues are also really huge and have, in recent years, been coming into light. This will also make an interesting change in my work and will show another side to my style of work. I really do feel strongly about all three issues that I am going to have in my magazine and believe that each of them are so important and we should really look at them much more than we do. I feel that when people don’t want to get in ‘too deep’ or don’t want to disturb the peace they tend to glaze over these subjects, ignore them and pretend they aren’t there but really all of these issues are right in front of us and we need to start making changes now and we can’t keep on ignoring issues that affect all of our everyday lives.
Embracing black culture
I wanted to make an image about embracing black culture but also being there to fight for the rights for those people who face inequalities. I am constantly seeing black American citizens being ridiculed and attacked just for being black. They face police brutality and always seem to be at the receiving end of their fists. I have never really understood why people discriminate at someone simply because of the colour of their skin. It just seems so stupid and small-minded to me. I would never look as a black person, or anyone for that matter, and think that they are ‘below’ me. I see everyone as my equal and I feel that the rest of the world should see that too. I came across a song by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis entitled White Privilege II and it really made sense. Through this song they express how white people will happily adopt the culture of black people, dress like them, take their music style and yet when it comes to standing up for black rights many white people take a step back and stay silent. This is something that I don’t understand is why wouldn’t they stick up for what is right? I feel that people are in fear that they might get hate or that what they are doing is fine and that there aren’t really any problems. This is wrong, just like feminism people are afraid of it and are unwilling to help because it will make them stand out and some people may try to put them down and tell them that what they are doing is wrong but there is nothing wrong with wanting and fighting for equality. We need to understand that everyone is equal and that we cannot stay silent and just allow these inequalities to persist. The fight for equality doesn’t only lie with women and that is what I want to express through my magazine by adding pages with other unequal parts of our society and highlighting the change that we need to create a better and more equal world.
For this double page spread I am adding into my magazine, I want to have the right page filled with an article that I will make expressing my opinion as well as some facts and statistics about black culture and the way black citizens are treated in the Western world and on the left page I want to create an image of myself wearing a head wrap to show me embracing black culture and to make it really stand out I want to add a caption or slogan down the side, more of a statement that will stand out and make my spectator stop and want to read the next page to find out more about the image and to really understand the message that I am putting across. I have wanted to create an image like this for a while as I feel that it is so important to understand, especially with the constant news reports making worldwide news from America showing white police brutality on black citizens. I chose to wear a head wrap because it holds so much meaning. Before researching I didn’t know much about the head wrap and why African (American) women wore them. I’ve even seen celebrities like Beyonce wear them. After doing some additional research into the meaning behind it I found something very interesting. The head wrap was given to black slaves in America by white American’s who used it as a way of saying that they are owned by them and as a badge of enslavement. This was a way of belittling black people and making them feel less than equal and to show that they were slaves for someone else. It has now evolved into something much more than that, black American’s have taken it back and are embracing their descendants and to show that the head wrap is not a symbol of enslavement but rather a helmet of courage that has evoked an image of true homeland. It has become a uniform of identity and more a uniform of rebellion signifying their resistance to inequalities. I find that the head wrap holds such significance in black history and it really empowers women to embrace their culture and to be proud of who they are. I wanted to add this into my project because it is so strong and I want my entire magazine to be filled with strong and clear images.
For a few years now I have really been made aware of animal testing on products. I find it all so barbaric and just cruel. In the past testing on animals has been a part of doctors finding out more about our own anatomy but then they moved on to testing on corpses and opening them up to see what is inside. In the beginning testing makeup products on animals may have been acceptable because mixing chemicals together is risky and really we don’t know how they could effect our bodies, yet part of me wonders why make these products if you can’t be sure that they will be safe on our skin? I really do question current animal testing. We now know what works on our bodies and skin types so why are they continuing to test on animals? The answer lies with marketing, many makeup brands want to be able to sell their products in China and in China in order to be able to sell any products they need to have proof of testing on animals. This is disgusting and unnecessary. There is absolutely no justification in torturing a animal just so you can make more money on your products. I choose not to buy these kinds of products but it can be difficult to tell whether or not products do use animal testing which is why often those that don’t will have that as part of their packaging and marketing, for example all lush products are cruelty free. Starting in the 90s a lot of makeup brands stopped animal testing and decided against it until a few years ago when a large parent company, Estee Lauder, decided that they wanted to branch out to China for more profits so this meant re-introducing animal testing. Under the umbrella parent company of Estee Lauder is companies such as Mac cosmetics, Smashbox, Bobbi Brown, Benefit and many more. There is only one makeup brand that I know of that does not use any animal testing at all and that is Urban Decay. I admit that I do have products from Mac and Benefit but I got these products before I found out about the animal testings that are going on and I won’t be buying any more of their products again, unless animal testing is stopped. Some companies don’t surprise me with the use of animal testing like Chanel and Dior as their clothing obviously uses leather and real fur, they make their money off of stripping animals of their skin and selling it for thousands of pounds. I will say that I have leather items and I do eat meat so some part of me does use animals. However, I will not use or wear products that have been tested on animals. They get tortured, burnt, blinded and starved all for a lipstick that you might wear once or twice a week. I can’t stand the amount of testing on animals and the fact that many people aren’t really being exposed to this annoys me because everyone should know and see what is going on behind the scenes and how these animals are being treated. Animals that are tested on include: rats, mice, hamsters, rabbits and sometimes dogs. A lot of people will say ‘their rodents it doesn’t matter’ but again is there really any justification AT ALL for torture? How can we allow any form of life to be abused in the way that these animals are. I really hate it and think that it should be stopped.
For my shoot idea I want to create a double page spread I want to make images in an ad campaign style with myself as the model posing for the camera but with my hair slicked back with blood and blood covering my hands to show the real effects of the makeup and clothes that a lot of women (and men) wear. I want it to be hard hitting and for my spectator to really think about themselves and what kind of makeup they carry around with them. I wanted to show what it makes me feel like to wear products that have been tested on animals. The reason the blood will be in my hair is because there are also so many hair products that use animal testing and the blood in my hands will add more effect and create a strong image. I also wanted to create an image of a woman walking down the street wearing a fur coat holding bags from companies that do use animal testing. I just think that this will bring in more context and be an interesting image for my spectator to look at.
The idea of not being ‘perfect’ does stick in many young peoples heads and I find that young women often face such challenges of being beautiful and having an amazing body. I want my spectator to stop and think ‘whoah, what?’ and be intrigued enough to read on and want to find out more and more about what it means. I decided that this would be a good shoot as it shows the problems we have within our society and how judgmental we as a society and community really are. There is constant body shaming in magazines that people actually buy and young people will actually listen to and start to think that if they don’t look a certain way then they aren’t good enough. I think that this is important to focus on as we tend to overlook these kinds of things and never think about how damaging our comments on celebrities posts could actually be on young people, both boys and girls. I came up with the idea for this shoot when I saw a video about an 18 year old girl who got lip fillers and a nose job. I find that nowadays it’s almost common for a young girl to get work done because we as women never seem to feel good enough for anyone and the only way that we can improve ourselves is if we change ourselves and remold our natural look and beauty. I think that it is sad because young women so often feel insecure and as if things need to change and if we don’t look a certain way then we are not good enough and no one will ever love you which is untrue.
Linked to this I have taken inspiration from Cindy Sherman and will make a photograph of myself barefaced and then a photograph where I have ‘work done’ and so I will over draw my lips dramatically and somehow change my nose etc with a full face of makeup and changing my body too by adding pillows in certain areas. I think that this will be a fun shoot that will bring in more concepts to my main project of feminism and the rights and expectations of women. From this shoot I want to be able to add these images into my fashion magazine as one of the ad campaigns on one side will be the natural woman and in her natural form while on the other page next to it I will have an image of myself wearing a full face of makeup with overdrawn lips and everything will be exaggerated including my hips and breasts. I want this message to be clear and to the point so that my spectator can clearly see what the message is. I find that we live in a world where it is more acceptable to get plastic surgery than to actually embrace your natural beauty.
I like the images that I have chosen as my final ones and think that they work well. These images will work well in my magazine and I will be able to add advertisements next to the final chosen image so that it blends well with the magazine. I found this shoot really fun to do as it was something different and I was able to parody women who look this way and make a light-hearted joke at how they present themselves and what women that have gone through plastic surgery will often present themselves like. This will work well in the whole sarcastic aspect of my magazine and will really make each image look individual. The reason I wanted to add this in was because I find so many young women are bombarded with images of how they are expected to be and what they are expected to look like physically which is totally unfair and ultimately unrealistic as women are born with different body shapes and what looks good on one woman might not look the same on another, that is just part of who we are. It makes me sad to see young women getting lip fillers and boob implants because they are so insecure of how they look. I feel that as a society we focus way too much on feminine beauty and not enough on education, rights and the actual treatment of women. I wanted this shoot to be obviously staged and sarcastic to give my spectator a clear understanding of the message that I am trying to get across.
I have decided that I will be making a magazine for my project instead of a photobook as I think that I will get a lot more out of it and be able to add more articles into it too. I think that the shoot with my mum and interview with her will look a lot better as a film rather than as stills just because of the way I am making it. I won’t be leaving this as one separate thing as I want to write an article on it in my magazine and add some stills from my mum as well as my parody recreations of what my mums role is. I think that this will work a lot better and give me more opportunity to create something that will stand out as well as bring across my main message of the woman’s role within our modern society. A lot of my work is based on feminism and the way women are represented and shown within modern society, focusing more on the social inequalities of men and women. I also want to add some work on other movements and things that I am passionate about that really should be talked about. I want to focus at least one page on animal testing and the use of animal fur for fashion and makeup, I also want to focus a two page spread on the rights of black people, especially in America. This situation has really been in the spotlight in recent news with major police brutality as well as white people adopting black culture yet not standing up for the inequalities that black people face. I think that this will be really interesting to add as it brings in a whole new side to my work and will add more depth to my work. Basically, I am highlighting the inequalities that so many people face within our society and how unfairly we are treated. I want to live in a society where people don’t see me as a woman and think less of me or for someone to walk past a black person and think less of them. This magazine is a movement for change and I want to put my message across as strongly as possible and to really highlight where we are at with equality in the Western world.
For my shoots I have been looking into some fashion magazines to gain some inspiration on how to lay everything out and also what images to make and where to make them. A lot of the images are taken in a studio with a plain white background which I can do in school but also I want to do some shoots out of school and in a new and different environment just to make my images a lot more interesting and to bring a bit more context and variety to my images. My magazine is obviously going to be mainly photography based and all focused on the visuals but also I want to add slogans and text to bring more context to the images and for them to make more sense. I am also planning on making some articles within my magazine, mainly being sarcastic and showing the struggle and the pressures placed on both men and women to be the ideal human and to look perfect. I want this magazine to really capture my spectators attention and I also want it to look as professional as possible. Doing research has really helped me with what kind of compositions work best for magazines and what kind of shots look good too. For example, a front cover is usually a medium close up shot showing the top half of the models body and the model usually won’t smile but stands in a certain position and has their mouth slightly open and staring into the camera. There is also another style of front cover where the model is closer to the camera and its more of a close up shot. This was really useful to have a look at so I can then make my magazine as professional looking as possible. For the inside covers I noticed a few different things. Most of the ad campaigns spread across two pages and are usually just one big image with the product and text being on the opposite page to where the model is. I also realised that a lot of fashion elements in these magazines have one image on one page covering the entire page and the other image of the other page having a white boarder around it. Research has been key in helping me to plan for my images and has made it a lot easier with the compositions that work well for magazines and what will stand out.
