Shot Types

Front cover

For my front cover image I want an action shot of a surfer riding a wave, therefore I had to research how to take effective outdoor action shots as this was a style of photography that I had not experimented with before. I learnt that in order to be successful I had to plan the exact shots I wanted and I would also have to play around with the exposure and ISO whilst I was there as all shots would be different due to the change in natural lighting and weather conditions. I also had to thing of the range I wanted for my cover shot, with the research i had into pre-existing magazines I chose to go for a mid range/long shot so that the male surfer would be the in the centre of the shot but I would still be able to include some of the extra elements like the waves and blue sky. The magazine front covers that helped influence my choices on this were Wavelength and carve as a common convention for their covers are mid shots.

In very basic terms, ISO is the level of sensitivity of your camera to available light. The lower the ISO number, the less sensitive it is to the light, while a higher ISO number increases the sensitivity of your camera. The component within your camera that can change sensitivity is called “image sensor”. It is the most important part of a camera and it is responsible for gathering light and transforming it into an image.

Cover Image

For my contents page I chose to fully subvert the common conventions and styles that you would typically find on contents pages. Regional magazines tend to have one main image and then a series of extra reduced sized images relating to the stories that would be featured within the magazine, Also although surfing magazines don't have so many extra images on the contents page they do still include a few just to follow conventions slightly. Therefore this would mean that I am breaking magazine conventions rather than just the magazine genre conventions. On my contents you would find an artsy image that follows cubist conceptual conventions as the image is a close up of the water and I have played around with image filters and added extra layers to make the waves into a patterned background for my text.

Double Page Spread

For my double page spread I am going to follow the conventions of magazines by including one main image that will take up on of the pages and the other side will be filled with text. The image itself will be a mid rage/long shot like I have used for my cover image as it has been proven that repetition helps sell a magazine and creates a recognisable brand image. I will take this image with the page layout in mind as the placement of the model within the image can help shape my page and find the best combination of text and image.