By taking a variety of photos using different camera angles and shots has allowed me to understand how these can represent a story towards the audience. Creating a mood board consisting of nine different photos has enabled me to use different angles, perspectives, shots to create a narrative and allowing the audience to decode an image to create their own stories. Camera angles are extremely important and within my photos I have taken a variety using long shots, mid shots, high point of views, low points of views, canted angles to represent certain connotations and emotions I wanted to display. I have also given hashtags for the photos to portray how the images are able to covey a narrative through the camera as well as showing how people can see different perspectives of this.

Camera angles can work in different ways, for example: a high view point on somebody can connote vulnerability and a powerless feel for the audience whereas a low viewpoint can connote dominance leaving the character to be powerful. Also the shot of a camera can affect the narrative too; a long shot can show more to the audience revealing isolation and loneliness whereas a close up may reveal more about the characters emotions to the audience helping to create a narrative easier.

As well as focusing on the camera angles we also took into account the Mes En Scene within the images in order to represent the narrative towards the audience. Within our photos the acting is represented through how the characters are standing, facial expressions or if they’re facing away from each other allowing the image to represent a tone of anger between the two people. Lighting was also an important aspect when displaying a narrative as high-key lighting brightens the mood whereas low-key lighting darkens the mood helping the audience to decode the meaning behind the images.

Now understanding the importance of how camera angles and Mes En Scene work together along with their affect on the narrative of the entire image will allow me to focus on the all the aspects of them within my music magazine in order for the image to convey the right meaning for my targeted audience.