The task at hand – Our teacher randomly allocated us all a genre of music. As you may be able to tell from my mood-board, we got Psychedelic rock. Through research we found that psychedelic rock covers tend to embody the genre and includes cool editing techniques, connotations of lots of bright funky colors like blue green and neon’s. They also like to wear interesting patterns and clothes, remember this was popping in the 60s and 70s so is very true to its prime era. we saw a lot of bands such as Pink Floyd and The Beatles, wearing cool headbands and hats and circle glasses. If you scroll through my mood-board you would see all the connotations we have made. Its very dream like and out of this world s its directly linked to drug culture.
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The response – After all our research and findings that enabled us to dress our model in a costume we felt appropriately portrayed psychedelic rock, we asked the class to right posit notes to describe him. They said things like ‘cool’ ‘druggy’ ‘cocky’ ‘out of this world’ etc. We did this to see how the class felt our character was represented. And As a producer i feel we represented psychedelic rock very well. Referring to the costume part of MES, we have the cool hair with the headband, the circle glasses, the bright patterned shirt, the electric guitar which is often used in this genre and finally the cool coat as an out there fashion choice also true to the times. I think they described him pretty well for example i can see how people found him cocky as his clothes are very unusual and out there, thees also this i don’t care feel to hi which we were going for as to be able to pull this off you need.
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Photo shoot – This is some of our photos we took, we tried various poses, angles , facial expressions and body language. For example we did some low angles shots, mid shots, long shots, and movement shots. We tries poses where he had his hands in his pockets for an i don’t care look or poses that give a more intimate feel. We also did some open body language as-well as some stand of ish ones. We also chose a white background as its easier to edit and we wanted this as this genre likes to edit trippy stuff on it.
Final image – I chose this image as i think it represents the look we were going for the best. I think he perfectly portrays the’ i dont care ‘ look while still looking cool with his open body language and eyes away from the camera. He’s essentially flaunting his clothes giving the cocky feel. I also chose a mid shot as these are the most effective on magazine covers as i feel you can see emotion more. he looks unusual, colorful and arrogant.
Reflection- mes is very important in media to create meaning and and impactful story meaning a better effect with more engagement. for example looking into the camera in a really close up shot in black and white would be very serious and maybe even scary. You can tell a story with each image using, makeup hair clothes angles of the camera, facial expressions etc. and how you do each of them have a tremendous impact on the outcome of the overall photo or photos. Now when I Create my own magazine production I will know how to covey the story and idea in an effective manner using MES EN SCENE. I also know know that there’s a lot of thought and detail and planning that go into photo shoots and everything is there for a reason not just chance.