Looking at other existing artists for inspiration!

Before taking photos of the models or my magazine I decided to look at existing celebrities to help me create the image of my solo artists and other members featured in my magazine. I wanted to create artists that my target audience are likely to be interested in. I researched artists that have been featured in other rock magazines such as Kerrang and Q to help me decide what body langauge they should use and how to position them in my photos.


The first artist I looked at was Hayley Williams from the band paramore. I looked at this particular artists to help me out with my solo female artist that is going to be featured on my front cover, contents page and double page spread.
The first few images I looked at were,

From the smaller image Hayley is looking directly at the camera which is something I will want my solo female artist to be doing for the main image on my front cover. This is so that the audience is drawn to the celebrities eyes and they can feel like they are looking directly at them. She also has bright red hair and is wearing black, this creates the image of rock as these two colours are featured a lot in rock magazines as I found out from my research on magazines. I will want my solo artist to also be wearing black. Also the person I am planning to photograph for this has red hair. In all of Hayleys photos she seems to either be smiling or pulling another face, this is what I will be making my female artist do. I will have a few pictures of her smiling and the rest will be 'crazy' faces. These types of images are used a lot in other magazines such as Kerrang.

Here is an image of her pulling a crazy face. This image was used in a Kerrang issue. This is the type of thing I will be getting my artists to do as I feel it would interest the reader and show what type of artist she is. This also shows what type of magazine it is as this type of image would not be found in a pop or country magazine as they use much more calm images. I will be getting my model to pose like this however I will make it my own image by maybe getting her to hold her head.


As I wanted to include a band photo on my front cover I needed to look at band pictures to help me understand how to position them. For this again I looked at the band paramore. I noticed that in most band pictures each member is positioned very close to one another. Usually a few members are further more backwards than others as you can see in the photograph below;