School Magazine Cover Photograph Research

These pictures are more cliche they show three white people and a black person whereas the magazine I liked before shows  all the races and their skills and creativity achieving whereas  this once they are smiley indicating the photograph to be really staged and false with the end photograph of them laughing on queue. The magazine before celebrates multi-cultural diversity and working together in order to achieve.From these photos you get a sense of community, of people working together,helping one another achieve,which is a message,I also wish to translate.

I like these compositions I think they would be the most appropriate for my magazine cover, there is no negative space on    the photograph; because the space available could easily be utilised and if the text was to come on the fore front of the photo it wouldn’t ruin the composition but harmoniously tie in. I feel that one of these compositions would be the most appropriate for the front page of my magazine. I am going to base all of my pictures on these three compositions and my final decision will be based on the composition   that I can deliver the most practically. The only difference I  will make is that the people I will incorporate, will be real they will not be fake, with plastic smiles plaster on their faces and I will try to incorporate more ethnic diversity.

This is a roughly sketched version  of my magazine cover,there are three versions which are based on the compositions on the photographs above,the final outcome is based upon which composition I deliver the best practically.

Below is further photographic research,that led me to the conclusion above:

This picture is more natural it demonstrates cultural diversity and students achieving UN like the other photos  it is photographed while in action a freeze frame, but it goes back to reality since the shot is not posed and pristine but the people look more real rather than perfect models like the three photographs before.

I do not particularly like the composition of the picture, you can tell by the quality of the photograph and the random composition of the students sitting down that it is an amateur photograph, what I do like about this photograph is that the people look real, they do not translate as fake, which is the kind of people that I wish to incorporate on my magazine cover. However this picture does not convey achievement.

This picture shows a wide range of diversity but I do not get a sense of achievement from this photograph, what I do like from this picture though is the fact that they are all facing directly at the camera.

I do not like this picture because I do not think the composition is very good the people are standing in a long line and this wouldn’t work on a, magazine cover purely because of the width, and if the image was to be stretched out onto A4 portrait on a magazine cover, the people would look warped and abnormally stretched out. Also I don’t think the photograph would make my magazine stand out, as different.