Music Magazine Pictures Overview

This photo is well presented for what I feel would look good on a double page spread. The reason for me not using it on my front page is because it is difficult to situate the left thirds on the photo unless I flip the picture. However, because the person in the photo isn't looking at the camera, I feel that it is irrelevant as it wouldn't encourage an audience to buy the magazine. I also feel that the location of the picture relates well to my music magazine genre of acoustic/folk; it originates from an urban background. As well as this, I wished to emphasise the background the artist was from so that the audience had a more personal encounter whilst reading the story on Jerry. 

I feel that this photo of Jerry is good and was highly considered for the front cover of my music magazine.

The reason I chose not to use this photo for my front cover was because the artist was too centred which made it difficult to design the magazine front cover. In my research, I found that some music magazines had the artist centred although, they had a full body shot. When looking at other music magazine front covers, the artists who were centred usually had a full body portrait which made it look effective. This photo is a medium close up and wouldn't look appropriate to be on a front cover as it is centred and over posed. When I planned the picture for my front page, I wished to have a neutral background, which this has.

Passion and love are two prime feelings shown in this photo which is great for an audience to see. I feel that for the feelings of the artist to be presented to an audience is a key way in attaching people to read as well as engage more with the magazine. I will use this photo on my contents page introducing the article that will be found on my double page spread; an aspect of my article will be talking about the artists feelings in what they do.

This photo is ideal for the front cover of a music magazine. I feel that it had a more rocky impressions therefore, this isn't appropriate for my front cover; photo is in black and white and the person in the picture is wearing black. Besides this, the bricked background gives the connotation of rough, solid and unmissable music which I believe is irrelevant for my magazine genre.