Link To evaluation

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Secondary Artists - The Hallowed - Photography

Secondary Artists - The Hallowed - Photography Planning

For the photos of The Hallowed, I wanted to include some gig style photography, as live shows and concerts are a big interest of my magazines target market.

Time: 6:00p.m. 21st November

Place: O2 Academy Oxford

 - I plan to take the photos during the support act (Frank Iero and The Cellarbrations) of a Mallory Knox concert at the O2 Academy Oxford. The venue is quite small, meaning it will be easier to get close to the stage and get good photographs of band playing. 

Photography - Main Artist

 For the photography of my main artist I mainly followed my planning, however due to technical difficulties I had to start later than planned. This didn't seem to be a problem though as the lighting, along with the cloudy weather provided good lighting to take photographs in.

Below is the majority of the photos I took unedited.

Of all the photos I picked out these 3 below to edit for my magazine. Although I had originally intended on having a woodland background I wanted to try editing a black background. This was easier to do with the first two, as they already appeared partly on a black background. After editing the background and the skin tone slightly, I decided that the black background looked better and more professional. If I had time to do another photo shoot, I would have liked to have done more photos with a plain black background.

Photography Planning - Main Artist

Raven 

Model - Iona Hodson 

- Iona already has a very alternative style that fit's the look of Raven well. She also has very clear, striking eyes and a palish skin which fits with the Gothic image.

Hair- Although my model has a short blond pixie cut, I will use use a wig to give her longer hair, as I feel this suits the gothic image and the clothes I'm planning for her to wear, better. I plan to have a Black mid-length hair style with a block fringe. The length will also be curled or back combed to add volume.





Make-up - I'm planning to do quite dark make-up for my model. For the eyes I will use a dark purple eye shadow with black eye shadow around the edge. I will also give her winged eyeliner and mascara to make her eyes look bigger, with longer eyelashes. For her eyebrows I will also make them black to match her hair colour. For the lips I'm planning to use a gradient lipstick which is black at the edges then fades into red at the middle. The red lip in the middle would add a small amount of colour, but still in a gothic style.


Wardrobe - The artist Raven has a very striking, gothic image, so I want to reflect this in the clothes she wears. I plan for the model to wear a decorative black, underbust corset with a large black petticoat. On top Iona will wear a plain black long sleeved shirt, to balance out the busyness of the skirt and corset. This style gives a very gothic classy, yet still edgy look which represents the style of music well. 

Time and location - For the backdrop I want to use a woodland scenery. At the local park there is also a good area that has barbed wire fences that could help make a creepy setting. This would suit the genre of music well as it is often seen as dark and creepy. As it is getting dark early this time of year, I'm planning on doing my photography around 11 a.m on Saturday 15th. This is so that there will be enough light to take good quality photos in my chosen location. 

Secondary Artists - Black Poison - Re-Shoot

Secondary Artists - Black Poison - Photography