6A - Professional Photography

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Selecting and Constructing photography for the music magazine


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To investigate examples of photography used inmusic magazines and music media.

To plan a photo shoot for your magazine. You need at the very least five shots each for your front page, contents and

double page spread.

This can include: background textures, album covers, pop-up figures, editorialphotos, framing shots (for the double-page spreads) and group/pair/singleperson shots.

Your photo shoot must include a lot of variety in terms of: different poses,different actors, different costumes, different props, different setting,different lighting, different shot distances, different shot angles and differentcamera techniques.

Decide on the locations, people, props, costumes and other features that youneed and aim for MOOD, ATMOSPHERE AND/OR CHARACTER!


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Decide whether any could be used as:

background textures, album covers,

pop-up figures, feature article photos, editorial photos,

background framing shots,

inset shots (for sidebars of information alongside the mainarticle)

Also, try to figure out how some of them were shot,what equipment was used etc.


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Produce 5-10 strong ideas for how you would manipulatethese photos on front covers, contents and double-pagespreads. How would you arrange them on the page,whether as:

background textures, album covers, pop-up figures, feature article photos,

editorial photos, background framing shots, inset shots (for sidebars of information alongside the main article)

Also, try to figure out how some of them were shot. Whatequipment was needed to create them?


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Professional Photographer -http://www.professionalphotographer.co.uk/

BIPP (British Institute of Professional Photography) -http://www.bipp.com/

BJP (British Journal of Photography) - http://www.bjp-online.com/ Ami Barwell (Rock n Roll Photographer) -

http://www.musicphotographer.co.uk/ Graham Smith (Music Photographer) -

http://www.grahamsmithphotography.com/ Michael Williams (Photographer) -http://www.michaelwilliams.co.uk/

Dazed (& Confused) Digital -http://www.dazeddigital.com/Music/Default.aspx
http://www.professionalphotographer.co.uk/http://www.bipp.com/http://www.bjp-online.com/http://www.bjp-online.com/http://www.musicphotographer.co.uk/http://www.musicphotographer.co.uk/http://www.musicphotographer.co.uk/http://www.grahamsmithphotography.com/http://www.grahamsmithphotography.com/http://www.michaelwilliams.co.uk/http://www.michaelwilliams.co.uk/http://www.dazeddigital.com/Music/Default.aspxhttp://www.dazeddigital.com/Music/Default.aspxhttp://www.dazeddigital.com/Music/Default.aspxhttp://www.michaelwilliams.co.uk/http://www.grahamsmithphotography.com/http://www.musicphotographer.co.uk/http://www.bjp-online.com/http://www.bjp-online.com/http://www.bjp-online.com/http://www.bipp.com/http://www.professionalphotographer.co.uk/


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Discuss how you can make the most out of what yousee around you by considering possible options for:

Background textures,

Graphic features,

Album (or associated artist) art,

Frames

Silhouettes

Symbols

Gather five ideas and try to figure out how some ofthem were created.

Add at least two more that you could use.


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CG Textures -http://www.cgtextures.com/ Filter Forge - http://www.filterforge.com/ Mayang - http://mayang.com/textures/

Free Textures - http://www.freetextures.org/ Texture King - http://www.textureking.com/ Background Labs -

http://www.backgroundlabs.com/ Vector Art (geometric shapes which can be used

for graphic features) - http://vectorart.org/ How to make vector art -

http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-vector.html
http://www.filterforge.com/http://www.filterforge.com/http://www.cgtextures.com/http://mayang.com/textures/http://mayang.com/textures/http://www.filterforge.com/http://mayang.com/textures/http://www.freetextures.org/http://www.freetextures.org/http://www.freetextures.org/http://www.textureking.com/http://www.backgroundlabs.com/http://www.backgroundlabs.com/http://vectorart.org/http://vectorart.org/http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-vector.htmlhttp://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-vector.htmlhttp://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-vector.htmlhttp://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-vector.htmlhttp://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-vector.htmlhttp://vectorart.org/http://www.backgroundlabs.com/http://www.textureking.com/http://www.freetextures.org/http://mayang.com/textures/http://www.filterforge.com/http://www.cgtextures.com/


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All of the following album covers can be createdusing relatively simple photographic orPhotoshop techniques. Adding album covers

will add to the authenticity of your productionand offer evidence of your growing skills withPhotoshop.

Consider how you can create a similar effect tothe following album covers by using suchfunctions as the filters in Photoshop.

Gather five ideas and try to figure out how someof them were created whilst producing at leasttwo more ideas that you could use.


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99 best designed album covers -http://inspiredology.com/99-best-designed-

album-covers/ Top album covers -

http://www.topalbumcovers.com/ Top 50 album covers -

http://www.ugo.com/music/best-album-covers
http://inspiredology.com/99-best-designed-album-covers/http://inspiredology.com/99-best-designed-album-covers/http://www.topalbumcovers.com/http://www.ugo.com/music/best-album-covershttp://www.ugo.com/music/best-album-covershttp://www.ugo.com/music/best-album-covershttp://www.ugo.com/music/best-album-covershttp://www.ugo.com/music/best-album-covershttp://www.ugo.com/music/best-album-covershttp://www.ugo.com/music/best-album-covershttp://www.topalbumcovers.com/http://inspiredology.com/99-best-designed-album-covers/http://inspiredology.com/99-best-designed-album-covers/http://inspiredology.com/99-best-designed-album-covers/http://inspiredology.com/99-best-designed-album-covers/http://inspiredology.com/99-best-designed-album-covers/http://inspiredology.com/99-best-designed-album-covers/http://inspiredology.com/99-best-designed-album-covers/http://inspiredology.com/99-best-designed-album-covers/http://inspiredology.com/99-best-designed-album-covers/


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To investigate examples of photography used inmusic magazines and music media.

To plan a photo shoot for your magazine. You need at the very least five shots each for your front page, contents and

double page spread.

This can include: background textures, album covers, pop-up figures, editorialphotos, graphic features / banners, live shots, framing shots (for the double-page spreads) and group/pair/single person shots.

Your photo shoot must include a lot of variety in terms of: different poses,different actors, different costumes, different props, different setting,different lighting, different shot distances, different shot angles and differentcamera techniques.

Decide on the locations, people, props, costumes and other features that youneed and aim for MOOD, ATMOSPHERE AND/OR CHARACTER!

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