Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a magazine known for its ' traditional mix of content'. Due to the lack of indie magazines on the market, trying to identify one to mimic was difficult. Since Rolling Stone features many varying artists, the need to re shoot in order to fit the criteria of a music mag was not needed. 

An example of this would be Taylor Swift. Who like my artist, is also a guitarist. 

From Acoustic, to Hip-Hop and powerful black and white Pop covers, this will allow me to mimic a magazine, which is broad in genre but still artful in its own way.

I had a fifth photoshoot, in regards to the new magazine to consider. By using Rolling Stone's 2011 April 14th  issue of Rihanna, I was able to use the similarities between the two of them to my advantage. By picking out the similarities between the two of them, such as the curly hair on both of them, where I also positioned her hair similarly as Rihanna's (hair covers a bit of one eye) and with the similar skin tones, I was able to photoshop her glow as a selling point towards the readers. By doing this for my magazine, I hopefully will be able to create a successful magazine by mimicking the conventions of this issue. I will focus on how Rihanna is presented, how light is focused on her, and I will evidently show that through my own work.

So far following the shoot, I have an altered image on the left (original on the right), where similar to Rihanna, used her curly hair to cover one eye. Also, the shot from eye-level to capture the emotion of my artist  will help convey what my feature will be about. The red background is still a consideration, as like Rihanna's cover, red is shown to maybe present danger or lust. The clothing I had picked out all compliment each other, and when I come to do my market research, find that it does not go well, the red background will be used to easily photoshop her into a different background or colour.

Possible layout for my contents page.