Magazine and edits

From the previous images, we took a couple of the best photos and edited them, these photos will then be used by social media and more importantly the magazine and a slideshow on the website to advertise the magazine.

 

Below are the edited images shown from photobucket

 

Below is a screenshot of the images shown on the website. We have created a mini presentation of the edits below the main image and text for the magazine.

 

 



Photoshoot for magazine

In preparation for the magazine, we took some photos in the green room with Issy's iPhone. We decided to use a phone rather than the bigger camera because the larger camera made the images square and it would be easier having an iPhone so they were portrait and rectangular to suit the magazine size and shape. Issy's phone was still good enough quality for these images and we got some different positions and poses of Soraya. We took around 30 photos but we only need a couple which is good as we know have a lot to choose from.

 

 

More Soraya edits

After creating the first few edits, we found a great feel to what edits we liked and what we liked about them so we made more for the website, social media and the digipak. Below are some more edits that use the same colours as our other favourites.

 

 

 

All of the photos we have taken of Soraya have used either Issy's or my iPhone or my camera (Lucy) which have both given good quality images to work with. The photos above are taken from my camera. (Canon EOS 1000D)

Edited photos

Over the last few weeks we have gathered many photos from photo-shoots and filming which we have used to edit for social media, album covers, digi-paks and our website. We have edited them on Photoshop and iPhone apps to create a purple themed image.

 

Shown below are the photos we have created over the last few weeks so far and we will continue to create lots more to keep our accounts up to date.
 

 

Photo-shoot 4th November

On the 4th November we did another photo-shoot so we had more photos of Soraya to work with for the website, social media sites and most importantly the digi-pak and album covers.

Firstly in the green room we took some photos just against the green wall and Soraya tried different poses for the camera. We got some usual photos which we had got before such as her waving her hair and her looking into the camera.

Below are just three of many photos which we got. We took around 200 photos all together and these were my favourite as I believe we can do a lot to edit these to make them look even better.

After just using the green wall we tried to get some more unique and different images to what we have so far so we used the reflecting screen behind her to control the lighting. We did this by myself taking the photos whilst Issy controlled the lights and the background. Below are some more photos using this set up. Again after taking around 200 photos with about half of them being with this set up I have narrowed my favourite six to these as I like the lighting and how she is standing.

 

New album covers

Here is one possible new album cover. We have had to look at more as we changed our group to just Soraya, however we would still like to use the same photo-shoot photos of just Soraya and have a similar effect. This is only one idea to test the text and colours.

 

 

Similar photoshoots re-done due to changes

Another thing that has changed due to our band becoming a solo artist is the photo-shoots however they have not been a waste of time as we now know what poses Soraya suits for the role when we do more.

 

Also shown below are some more similar photo-shoots of other solo female artists including Ellie Goulding and Taylor Swift, we haven't chosen theme for their genre this time, we have chosen them for poses and positions for our next photos. 

 

 

We liked these because of different reasons. We liked the facial expressions, the settings and how they use their arms and hands. For example we liked the setting of the Ellie Goulding images outside, we like how her hair is slightly in her face and how she stares at the camera. We also got inspiration for the facial expressions from Lana Del Rey and how she presents herself in front of the camera, they all suit our genre really nicely. The bottom left images show the two girls with their arms in the air with feathers/confetti surrounding them as it falls, we loved this idea so will consider it when filming but perhaps with a different crafty item such as paint or glitter.

Issy has also done some more research into more photo-shoots similar to ours which she has presented on slide share shown below.

 

 

Photoshoots of similar artists

 Here are some photo-shoots of similar bands that have the same theme/image to ours. We wanted to have a similar look to them and wear similar clothing. The images above of the band 'Haim' are very similar to our band as they are also made up of three girls.

Photoshoot 2

In the lesson of October 6th, we did another photo-shoot which we planned to do in last lesson. We used my cannon camera which was a lot easier and better to use then the way we did it before. First time we just used a camera to film us in different poses then used the images from that, these came out okay but were a bit blury so in our second photo-shoot we used my camera and the green room to adjust the lighting. A few of the portrait photos came out a little blury but most were really good and the lighting was a lot better.

 

We liked these photos of our group as it shows our theme of colour and shows we are more indie then girly as out clothes are darker and we have more of an edgy look in the photographs we took.

 

Soraya being the main singer and main focus in the song, we also took some photos of her on her own. The name of our band is 'Vision' so we have created a 'symbol' which is shown in the first image. The circle of the eye relates to the name 'Vision'. Here are some images of just Soraya from the photo-shoot from Flickr.

 

Myself and Issy also did some on our own which will go on our blogs, twitter and Facebook pages.

Photoshoot 1

 

On the 5th of October in our lesson time, we spent the hour sorting out outfits which would be good for our band. All three of us bought in outfits although Soraya is the main singer as me and Issy will still be seen in the background being the drummer and keyboard player. We looked at the outfits we all had and discussed what colours were best and what went well together. We decided that we would all wear skirts/shorts with tights and boots and dark colours such as blacks and greens.

 

When we looked at our outfits, we took some photos using the tripod and our phones.

 

Firstly we used a white blank wall inside the school which we used as a background but as we took photos, we realised the lighting would be better in natural light so we then used the brick wall just outside which the result was a lot better and clearer. However, lighting could still be improved and could use a better camera to avoid photos being out of focus and blurry. We are thinking of doing another photo-shoot next lesson with different outfits, better lighting and a better camera. I have a cannon camera which will help us get better quality photos and we can use the green room to use good lighting.
 

Possible Album covers

 

Using different editing programmes such as fireworks, we have produced some possible album covers. Below are the two final images which are our favourite. To decide on a final one we will ask other people for their opinion.

 

We like this one because of the hand over eye position we are in, I like our facial expressions and how me and Issy gaze into the camera where as Soraya looks away.

 

The second one however, I like the colours and the effect. We realty like the name and font so we will keep this.