The process of my magazine

 

 

Image A

 

Image B

 

 

 

Here is my feedback chart from a group of girls in my target audience range. I asked them to choose a photo for me to go on the front of my magazine advertisment, and 70 per cent of them choose image A which i was happy with because this is the image that i knew i could get more out of because its a close up shot and theres not as much going on in the background. Where as Image B there is a lot of field and space and that would distract peoples attention and they would look at whats going on when i want all the focus to be on Grace. I collected my results in a pie chart so it was a clear and easy way to see how the vote was more for Image A and not many girls wanted Image B, i decided to go with the popular vote as i feel like i can also work more with the image, and alot of magazine advertisments Rihanna is in, a close up shot is normally what you see.

 

Here is an advertisment with Rihanna on, she is looking directly into the camera, exactly like Grace and she is in the centre of the photo so the main focus is instantly attracted to her, and that is what i want to happen to Grace. I feel confident that my choosen photo will enable me to produce a sucessful advertisment.

 

Here was my first draft of the image i was planning to use for my magazine advert, I created a template and cropped the image so that it fit into the correct dimension, i then added some chained wire at the bottom of the image to make it look edgy and unique and then decided that i liked this effect and placed it further up her face and added a 'linear' light effect on photo shop to give the defining look it gives to the chained wire on Graces faces. It blends in to her skin which makes the image look very powerful and relates hugely to the music video and digipak album. She looks dangerous and fierce and the chained wire connotes this further. I also blurred out the background so it is still visible, but the main focus is on her. Her clothing and red lipstick is also clear and you can still see it. It looks like 'Her danger is coming to life' as she looks slightly evil and mischevious. I now need to add font and some more information on to it, to make it look like a professional magazine advertisment.

 

 

 

 

This is my finished magazine advertisment, it is the original photo from above, but with the text added to it. I included her name at the top of the page, with a blurred effect so it looks as if her name is melting into the background, this shows her power and independence. I tried to create it as though she is so feisty and powerful she is melting her own name above her and this helps to link to the colour red which connotes to danger and is used consistently throughout all of my media products along with black. I have also included her facebook name and twitter address so her fans can contact her and recieve the latest updates. Along with her album cover, to inform fans what it looks like and to let them know her album is out now! Many magazine advertisments are quite basic and sometimes i believe that less is more and i feel that the photograph is powerful and eyecatching enough and will draw attention to it instantly so lots of text would overpower the advert and would block out the effectivness of the image.