Image Research

After researching music magazine covers, I will now look at images which convey the same style, attitude and colours as the magazine cover I would like to produce. I have been focusing on young women music artists such as Lily Allen and Kesha as I would like my model to represent this type of rugged, care free attitude but not 'off the rails.' I will try to find blonde models in the images I research as it would make it easier to then take my first set of photos and design my front cover as I would know what colours go well together with the models skin tone and colour hair.

I have chosen Kesha for my first set of images to research as she has the rugged style and an unconventional attitude in the music industry. I think this will be interesting to portray in a magazine with my model, and it would not be predictable and boring such as other artists. My only problem is that Kesha does wear heavy make up and extremely rough looking and greasy hair, however I would like to see the outcome of this from my model and it would be fun to photograph.

I will now look at Ellie Goulding as she also has blonde hair and is a young music artist. Ellie Goulding has a different look to Kesha and I would like to compare them both, in order to decide which artist I would evidently base my own photography on, and which would be more useful for my model to portray.

After looking at these two opposing artists, I have come to the conclusion that I would prefer to base my photographs around Kesha's style and attitude. As I do like the images of Ellie Goulding however, my model would look very plain and boring with simple make up and clothing. I also feel that by using Kesha's style as a base I have a wider range of colours and fonts to choose from. I will now proceed in photographing my model and looking at fonts for the music magazine cover.