Magazine Front Cover Analysis

As you can tell, this is a front cover of Vibe magazine and the model being used for this is the musician T.I.
The type of shot that is used is a mid-shot because it  only shows the artists face and a bit of his body.
The colour scheme of this magazine is quite simple since it uses red, white, black and blue. These colours go well together and because the background and clothing colour are dark this helps the masthead and the rest of the texts to stand out more.
Also, there is only a few sell lines on this front cover but it takes up quite a lot of space because of the size of the font.
The masthead of this particular magazine is 'VIBE' and it is very big and bright as it uses the colour red but some of it is cut off because it it behind the model.
The type of clothing that the model is wearing goes very well with the background because they are the same colour. Also, as you can see he is wearing some silver jewellery which represents the type of person/music artist he is and the way he is wearing his hat, tilted to the side also connotes this.
Furthermore, there is another feature that you don't see on other front covers which is the barcode scanner on the left and this allows the reader to use their smart phone to scan it and it shows them an exclusive issue of the magazine.
Also, for the text they used two different colours red and white. This is so that it stands out and catches the readers attention.

Contents Page Pictures (Evidence)

Here are the pictures that I have taken for my contents page. The type of clothing that my model is wearing is sort of casual but it is something that an R&B music artist would wear as his clothes are looking new and fresh. The reason why my background is how it is presented is because it doesn't matter how the background is because I will be making it plain and white when editing it on Photoshop but I still had to get the lighting right with it being not too sunny but not too dark, so I chose the perfect day for this.

Photography Experiment Task

These are the photos that me and my group took when were given the task to experiment with the lighting, composition and positioning of the shots. We did this task in order to help us with our photography for our double page spreads, contents page and front cover because as you can see we have taken a variety of shots such as extreme close ups and low angles. 

Double Page Spread Pictures (Evidence)

These are the pictures that I took for my double page spread and I first thought that my background image for it would look good with a brick wall and as this was last minute the only space I was able to find was the one shown in the first two pictures, but as you can see there was a plug socket also in the background. So then I thought that I should change it and I found this plain white wall next to my house and using the flash of the camera it turned out well.

Magazine DPS Draft

Double Page Spread Draft (Photoshop)