Magazine: Equipment List

• Canon 6d DSLR
• HAMA Star 61 Tripod x2\
• Softbox Photography Lights x3
• Apple iMac Computer
• Apple MacBook Pro Laptop
• Canon 50mm portrait lens 
• SANDISK SDHC 16GB memory card

Magazine: 3 Flat Plans

These are three flat plan ideas I had for my magazine task. I created them by looking at existing products and picking out the conventional layouts. I think all three designs are very effective and initially chose the second one to follow but as I progressed I started to create a combination of the second and last layouts as I felt this would be even more effective.

Magazine: Cast List

Lewis Vosper - Man
Lewis is 18 years old, has long hair (normally tied in a bun, is slim, and around 6ft in height, his face is very structured with angular cheekbones and jawline. Lewis is going to be the main character and star vehicle of this trailer and film. He is attractive which means that the cover will be nice to look at and attractive to all audiences.

Magazine: Photography and Lighting Research

Lighting and shot types are important when it comes to studio photography and can give photos different looks and moods which have an effect on the audience. I have some experience with studio lighting and studio photography from last year when creating my music magazine but I am going to re-watch the videos I watched last year to further my understanding and remind myself of some techniques.

In the first tutorial he uses an octagonal soft box which due to its size and two layered diffuser gives a smooth soft light.
The first positioning of the soft box shown is one where the model is sat on the floor and the soft box is to her left but above her so the light is angled slightly downwards to allow the light to illuminate her. The higher angle to the side gives a more natural shadowed look to the model as it is similar to when the sun shines down and gives shadowing to one side of the face.
The second positioning is with the octagonal soft box behind the model and a smaller soft box in above and to the front of the face to illuminate the face. The octagonal soft box behind the model works as a hair light and as a perfectly white background. To achieve the best results you need to adjust the settings on both soft boxes so that the brightness settings are equal. This gives you a really nice close up portrait image but sometimes leaves a shadow under the chin which can be quite dark and distracting compared to the rest of the photo. This means that you will need to use a reflector to hold below the frame as seen in the screenshot. The reflector will reflect light from the soft box to the shadowed area and make the image seem brighter.

The next tutorial explains a lot about the classic traditional 3 point lighting method that you can use to give different looks and moods.

In front and to the model's left you will find a key light, this is the main light that will illuminate the face. The fill light is the light in front and to the model's right this light fills in the shadowy area and balances the key light. You can adjust the fill light to intensify shadows or flatten the image. The last light is called a hair light and it casts a light between the background and the model to achieve a more separated look by accenting the hair and outline of the model. The hair light is usually above the model pointing downwards like a spotlight but can also be used at the same height of the model but at an angle (usually the key light side) behind the subject to achieve backside rim lighting. This highlights the back/side of the model and gives a lot more depth to the photo.
There are many different shot types that are used in photos and videos that give many different looks. I have researched the different shot types, these are the shot types I had in the video.

• Extreme long shot, taken a long way from the subject, used mainly to show the scenery and the subject of the photograph clearly. 
• Long shot, taken closer than an extreme long shot, usually shows the whole person in the photo/video to show clothing and some scenery. 
• Medium long shot, shows about three quarters of the person usually from the knees up to show mise-en-scene and subject clearly. 
• Medium shot, from the waist up, shows the subject clearly but also gives some scenery. 
• Cut in shot, shows a part of the subject in alot of detail, to get full attention for one part. 
• Close up shot, usually of the subjects face, close to show the facial expression so the audience knows how the subject is feeling, can be head and shoulders or just head. 
• Extreme close up, to show detail in a specific part of the subject's face, usually the eyes, and creates drama. 
• Worm's eye, view of the subject from the ground to make the subject seem giant and superior and shows just sky as the background. 
• Low angle, from any where below eye line looking up at the subject, used mainly to give the audience an inferior feeling and shows mainly sky as the background. 
• High angle, from above the eye line, makes the subject look less powerful and shows more scenery as the background. 
• Birds eye view, from directly above the subject makes the subject seem insignificant and unrecognisable to the audience by showing whats all around the subject.

Magazine: Survey Monkey

This question shows me that the people who answered my survey are in the right age group so the results from my survey are reliable. The results from this question show me that 91.17% of the people that took the survey are between 11 and 24.





This question shows me that 55. 88% of the people are male which works well considering my target audience will be male so the answers from the survey will work well.






This question asks what the ethnicity of the people taking the survey are and the majority were White/Caucasian which is the target audience of the magazine and film so shows that the results of the survey will be reliable.





My fourth question asked what their hobbies were, the main three chosen were sports, music and watching tv/films so that shows that there are some avid film watchers that answered so the answers will be somewhat reliable.





Question 5 is asking about the genre of magazine is favourable from the people taking the survey, the results were very variable but the top four choices were Music, Film, Fitness/Sport and Technology.





The main thing that they look for when finding a mag to read was Images and Quality, this makes me need to prioritise these when creating the magazine as the audience look at these mainly to judge the magazine.




The most favourable colour palette was a picture of Black, White, Grey and Red, showing that the magazine should fit this palette to target my specific audience, the common conventions for this genre are also red, black, white and grey so it fits well.





The most favoured option for the style of my magazine was minimalistic, this means that i should make my cover quite simple and classic.

Magazine Genre/Institution Research

There are two main media institutions that distribute movie magazines in the UK and they both make a profit. Upon researching popular magazines in the UK I found that the main distributers were Future PLC and Bauer. Future PLC and Bauer both distribute a range of very popular magazines of other genres along side music magazines. Future PLC distributes the film magazine Total Film Total Film has been around since 1997, it has a readership of 12,280 and the issues are released monthly. The target audience of the magazine are Movie Buffs (Film fans) who tend to be around 18-35 year old and male. It is published by Future publishing which is a small company that publish alot of media/technology based magazines. While Bauer Media group distributes Empire, Empire is the worlds most popular film magazine and has been around since 2001, it has a readership of 193,000 and the issues are released monthly. The target audience of the magazine are Movie Buffs (Film fans) who tend to be around 18-45 year old and male. It is published by Bauer Media Group which is a very successful magazine publisher that publishes magazines of all different genres. 

Ultimately when looking for an institution to distribute my magazine I would choose Baeur because I love the style of their current magazine 'Empire' and feel like Baeur would successfully distribute my film magazine as I would like it to be similar. I feel that this would be beneficial because it means that the distributors already have a magazine of a similar genre and with a similar target audience and therefore would know how to pitch and market it to advertisers and the target audience. 

I did consider distributing independently but after looking at printing and marketing costs I decided I would rather try and get Baeur to distribute because they have more experience and there investment could lead to more profit even though they would obviously take a cut of this.  However, if I could not attract Baeur. I would distribute independently and if print costs were too high initially I might make my magazine an online version as this would be cheaper to launch and could still be popular because most youths use the internet more than they buy magazines.