Photoshoot Plan DPSModel/Object Shot type/angle Lighting Editing Details Mise-en-scene Connotation

Poppy Casson Medium Shot/Medium long shot, tilt up

Light box High Contrast perhaps black and white except guitar and lips

Sat playing guitar on a bed with dark surroundings

Poppy is glamourous pop star who stays true to her song writing roots.

Photo Selection DPS

I discarded this photo because I don’t like how it cuts off the top of my model’s head and I don’t like the tilt down angle

I chose this photo because it has the perfect amount of space for me to put my article and I love how bright the model’s face looks

Although I love this photograph, I didn’t use it because it doesn’t have enough space for me to work with to put my article.

I don’t feel like my model is the focus of this photo and that the green wall distracts from her so I don’t want to use it.

I really like this photo however for my DPS, there isn’t enough space to put my article over her.

I didn’t want to use this photo because the lighting makes my model’s eyeliner look a bit weird.

Drop cap to draw attention to my article

Small version of masthead to brand the page.

Slug to categorise my page and make it easy to find when a reader is looking through the pages

I have chosen to use AR Bonnie for my masthead because it matches my masthead and therefore will be the most stand out piece of text on the page. I have used Calibri for my main body of text as it is easy to read and I used it for my subheading because its bold and modern looking. I chose to use freestyle script which is a script font as it looks like handwriting which will make it more obvious that its the artist’s own words. I want to use red for my headline to reflect the colour of my model’s lips and guitar strap however this may be too dark.

Having duplicated my layer, I used the convert to black and white tool and changed the contrast until I was happy with the photograph.

I then used the eraser tool to pick out her lips, eyes and guitar as they are the most important features of the photograph.

I used the quick selection tool to select the guitar strap and used the bucket tool to make it more vibrant.

Feedback

Having been given my feedback, I have changed my colour scheme. I chose to use a bright blue and pink as they are both bright and contrast each other and this is a technique often employed by Pop magazines such as ‘Top of the Pops’ to catch the eye of readers and those colours work well next to my photos which are mostly purple toned. I then went about looking for a new font to replace AR Bonnie and Orator Std. I looked through all of the fonts already on my school and home computers but decided I’d be better off finding a new one online. I went onto Dafont.com and looked through all of the possible fonts I could use before settling on GoBold. I downloaded and installed it to my home computer and used Gobold itallic as well on my contents page to create some variation.

Font and Colour Scheme Changes

I used the scribble tool in Publisher to make my article go around my model’s shoulder and guitar to make it look more professional. I also realigned my text using the ruler to ensure that when its printed, it falls to the right of my page. I created my page numbers using the circle tool to make them easy to see.

Having changed my colour scheme, I changed my model’s lip colour and also her guitar strap to be purple using the brush tool seen on the left hand slide.

I inserted a drop cap in order to draw attention to my article. I chose to use pink here to keep a constant theme with my page and the rest of my magazine. I picked up and dropped my pull quotes into text boxes in the centre of my text. This made the text wrap around my pull quotes as it usually does in magazines.

Teacher Feedback:

Here, I rotated my photo credit and put it on the right of the page to make it less distracting to the reader

I made my page numbers smaller and got rid of its pink outline again this is to make it less distracting.

I moved my masthead to the left of my page number. This made it less invasive while also keeping that branding.

I added a slug to my DPS so that my page would be easy to find for a reader and to show that this is a feature article. I did this by creating a box with the shape tool and writing in it