Photoshoot Planning

Within my photoshoot I am going to photograph one of my female friends, Jessica Jackson. I have decided to photograph her in 3 different outfits to allow for alternating aesthetics on the front cover, contents page and double page spread.

I have already picked out these outfits using a combination of clothes, shoes and jewellery from both of our wardrobes. The outfits consist of:
- A leather skirt, bright pink cami top, a denim shirt accompanied by a gold collar chain, a gold watch and black platform boots
- Patterned black, white, grey and pink pants, a black long sleeved crop top, gold cross earrings and black platform strappy shoes
- Patterned black and white pants, a black cami top, gold chain, gold hoop earrings and gold and black shoes

I decided upon these outfits as I believe they are slightly unusual and the inclusion of gold jewellery fits in with the R&B/Urban genre. As well as this, as I want my magazine to have a fashion orientated twist I believe that these outfits would make people instantaneously recognise this element.

I am going to use the photography studio within college to take my photographs to ensure that they appear as professional as possible. I don't believe that I will use any props as I don't want any attention to be drawn away from the 'artist' and her clothing and would like to maintain a simplistic and professional feel.

Furthermore, I am going to utilise the lighting facilities within the photography studio and use the backdrops available. I have been informed that the white backdrop appears dirty and so unless this problem is rectified I will be using the black backdrop. However, for the photographs I would want to use on my front cover I may use the green backdrop as I will later be cutting around this to allow the masthead to fall behind the main image and therefore I could change the background to white on Photoshop.

I do not believe I will be using any props within my photoshoot as I do not want to draw any attention away from my models clothing.