Photograph analysis (school based magazine)

Intro

• In this presentation like I said in my previous post, I will be analysing the pictures that I had used in my school based magazine and why, I will also be talking about the images that I had not used and why.

This is the main front cover image, I used this image due to the fact it shows two school girls who look happy, this therefore makes the parents, who are my targeted audience see that the children who are at the school are happy. I also made sure that the school logo was showing to emphasise that these girls are at school; also I have deliberately place the two models in a classroom to show a little what the school looks like and maybe to reflect the eagerness of the students.

I used this image for one of the many pictures on my contents page. I chose this image due to the fact it shows a student working and an action shot is needed for the purpose of showing parents that the students are always hard working and good equipment is provided for the students to work. The placement of my image is in a work area not a classroom, this shows that students are hard working out of the classroom and used their time wisely in this school. The image doesn’t have a lot going on inside it which makes it easy and not confusing for the parents to look at, its simple yet effective in showing a student working hard in school.

This is another image that I had used in my contents page, the main reason why I used this image is that its another action shot of a student doing work, which once again shows eagerness of a student. Also as you may notice I have the student not looking at the camera, the main reason for this is that in order for the student to look eager, they need to be concentrating on their work, this shows parents that children are eager to work. Also a lot of the image contains the work they are doing which shows the work load that children work with and shows how knuckling down and hard work is the main focus in this school.

These two images are others that I had used in my contents page; the main reason why I had used these images is that it’s fully concentrated on the work and the creativeness of the students close up, this gives parents ideas of what their child could produce, and the neatness of the work makes them feel their child could do the same if they came to this school.

The reason why I didn’t use this image was due to the fact that it doesn’t show the student very well, the student is moving which had caused that part of the image to become blurry which makes it looks cheap and unorganized, this will then reflect on the school and will make parents think less of it.

I didn’t use this image because it looks too empty, although the work is well placed and neat, it doesn’t show very much productivity, which is something that parents would like to see in a school, in order for this images to have been successful, it would have had to have more going on in it, too much extra space is not good in an image for a magazine.