Research & Planning: Music Magazine Inspirations & Photograph Ideas

When thinking about my photography, I think I would know more of what I want from the image and how I want it to look if it was female, so I narrowed down my research to just females, and look at their faces, body language and positioning.

Using my tumblr blog ( http://loveisfreehappinessisexpensive.tumblr.com/ ) I found lots of inspirations for my music magazine, from the fashion of my chosen stars, the style of photography/shots down to the locations of my photographs. Here are some examples:

• The first photograph, has a carefree attitude I would use for a band coverage. It could be a smaller image on the double page spread.
• The second photograph has the young vibe of a festival, a group celebration of music and shared interest, something I am very interested in incorporating that into my music magazine. The edited filter gives it a young look that makes instagram really popular.
• The third photograph I also really like the simplicity of this shot. I think it would work well for a 60 second interview section. Maybe this is something I could incoporate into my contents page?
• The fourth photograph showed me I want to use some editorial black and white photography for my main double page spread, as it's the big feature of my magazine. This simple 'street' photograph has a nice soft yet moody feel about it. I think this would work well for my magazine.
• The final fifth image used the black and white photography I would want as the style of close up I would use for the main stars in each issue.

I then looked into more how you could capture women in different ways to give them a different sense of style and personality. There are less stereotypes for men or presentations of males I feel, so I think if I wanted to get my shots of females right I had to look closer at how photography can present them.

These photographs are the inspirations for my double page spread, the variation in shots, filters and colour scheme. I think these are very in with my genre and capture what I hope to in my own photographs. 

The photographs have a slightly grungy feel to the indie genre, the fashion, black and white and style of shot could be used on a either a front cover, contents page or double page spread. 

I really like the mix of focus and blur I find really interesting and creates a more visual appeal. All these photographs I found online.

After researching styles of image, I looked at the shots and how they could work on different layout designs. I created a prezi of my thought process as I was thinking of different ideas in my head. I wanted to explore all the options to help me decide if I wanted simple of different for my layout.