Shot Types & Lighting

Front Cover

The front cover of a regional magazine is typically of a rural landscape which would be an extreme or long shot of the cliffs and beaches. However depending on the region of the magazine scenes and covers may vary due to the locations. This image would fill the page and set a layout for the text.

For my cover I will be taking a series of beach/surfing images as this is the genre
that most relates to Cornwall which is the region I will be focusing on whils creating my own magzine.

Some regional magazines subvert this style of image and they use a close up or mid shot of someone who will be the main story within the magzine, for example "Kernow King" featured on the cover of "Cornwall Today" to advertise his upcoming show.

Contents Page

This page is made up of a mixture of images and text, therefore the images within this page are normally made quite small to fit in the important text and stories. The images are mostly of eye catching colourful scenes which relate to the story that they are accompanying.As a result the images featured on a contents page are mostly close ups of things relating to the style and theme of the region.

As my magazine kind of subverts the typical regional magazine as I will be more focused on the art and media within Cornwall. So when making my contents page I may also subvert the common conventions and use one single long shot of a surfer and make it look creating like the style of my magazine.

Double Page Spread

It is well known that a double page spread is made up of one image and then the rest is text. This will be the same for my magazine as I don't want to subvert and change the regional magazine style too much and it needs to be appealing for both ends of my target audience. Therefore I will have one long shot or mid shot on the image side of my spread, this image will relate to the theme throughout my magazine and work with the images already displayed in the other pages.

Lighting

For all of the images used in the magazine I will only use natural lighting as my photoshoots will be outside and at the beach. However if some of my images don't work I will use the studio lighting to get a mid shot image of the person I will feature for my double page spread.