Photoshoot

For my Magazine cover i held a photoshoot in the school's music rooms with several musician friends. I used different musical intruments and props like Guitars;drum sticks and Headphones to create anchored signs that cannot be polysemic so they signify a music magazine.

This is my finished magazine front cover; i chose these pictures for my cover because they signify the right style and target audience i am trying to encode for my music magazine. The fact that the main picture is of a girl means that men are attracted to it and the fact that she is then flanked by two pictures of guys means that men can also relate to it. This picture is an anchored meaning to the chosen music stereotype of my magazine and my target audience; this helps attracts buyers and encoders.

For my Double page spread i took a trip down to the forum on Halloween night to see my friends band 'Honor Amongst Thieves' play. i used took pictures of them whilst they performned that i selected and used in my double page spread. i also used pictures that i previously had from an outing we had taken together to london and used those in the double page spread too.

for my content page i used a screen grab of my magazine and a picture of 'Honor Amonsgt Thieves' this is to make my magazine contents page presentable and eye catching and to make it relatable to the rest of the magazine; this helped me as the decoder signify my magazines sigsn in the right way for the chosen decoder.

Overall the photoshoots i organised were very beneficial and significant to my product as the photos signify the signs and meanings i wanted for my magazine for the benefit of the decoders chosen.