Planning the Photograph for Front Cover

Personally, I hate photos that are so normal. With the posy front cover and the normal typography. Usually for those magazines, I think it’s the content that makes the audience want to buy the magazine. The cover is so full of information and bright colours that were meant to grab the audience’s attention but I just think that the magazine is plain messy. So I want to go for a cover that a customer would want to buy because the looks and content-wise are great.

My magazine would be about how different ISCA students present their creativity and individuality. For example: in fashion, illustration, photography or graphics. For my “photograph”, I want to incorporate all those mediums into my front page photograph. As for my model, I will choose Mayuko as her fashion style is really amazing. Mayuko’s style includes many different colours and textures; it is almost like a replica of her personality. I chose a prop for her, the omg necklace, as it represents people’s reactions when they first see her style. Also, it will be placed on her mouth as people are usually stuck for words when they describe her style. Graphic comes in with the play of different saturations of the photo, inspired by the catalogue magazine. The tint of colours on her, kind of shows the fact that she looks colourful on the outside and also behaves like that on the inside. I will crop the photo into a shape of a circle because it illustrates the viewers looking through a telescope.  This ties in with the Masthead as the “ee”s look like binoculars. For illustration, I have decided to extend the image, using pen, that I have cut out, making the photo a medium sized one. My background would be plain and simple because I want the full attention to be on my photo.