Location and mise en scene prep

 To take my music magazine photos I used this facility in my school media room which has a green screen backdrop. I used this as it was not only time efficient for myself and my talent as we both attend this school, but it also has various useful equipment that I could use to aid me in my magazine photo shoot session. I used the back drop and had my talent stand exactly in the centre of the screen with her back facing the wall and her front facing the camera which I was using to take the photos. When I analysed other magazines within my chosen musical genre such as VIBE and BILLBOARD I noticed that many of the magazine images had been taken in a natural location which often looked like a studio in the middle of nowhere. I adopted this concept when making my own magazine and this is partially the reason that I chose this location as my backdrop. Even though this room is a classroom, it nonetheless provided me with the perfect 'studio feel' and natural setting that I needed to get my talent feeling and being her best to produce the best images possible.

My favourite part about using this as my location was these lights. They were the icing on the cake when it came to making my images the best they can be. The lights definitely made a huge impact on the quality of my images. While using these I learnt how to control the intensity of the brightness and dullness of the lights as well as discover the various colours of light that were available to me. This was great because I took many images using different shades of light which gave me a wider range of images to chose from in the end, once I had taken my photos. I mainly liked the colours red and yellow for my photos as I think that they complimented the bright-green backdrop and enhanced the overall look of my talent so that she stood out and was the central focus in my images. I stayed away from using colours such as green and blue for my lighting as I found that they resulted in my talent looking a funny colour and the green on green element I had going initially seemed to clash and not work at all. Yellow and Red were the best colours for my photo shoot in relation to lighting and I am very pleased with the outcome of my photos.