Photoshoot for Magazine cover

Similarly to the photoshoot for the poster I wanted to create an ambiguous effect that would create an impact, as well as being suitable and eye catching for the front of a magazine cover. The first thing I had to decide was the type of image I wanted on the front of my magazine cover. This made me think about which of my characters I wanted on my magazine cover. After considering which character would be the best for my front cover I decided to put use the same character, Patient 13, that i did for my poster. I thought that it would give me a holistic approach to my project so that both production works link with each other and  work with each other to create the professional standard I am trying to produce. After deciding the model for the photoshoot, which is myself, I had to find a photographer  that would be willing and a location that would be suitable and available for the shoot. I found that finding a photographer and location wasn't very hard at all, the only problem was time slots. The availability of the location and photographer varied quite a lot and I had to do the photoshoot on a particular day within a one hour time slot. With this in mind there was a bit of hurry to do the photoshoot.my costume for patient 13 was the same as the poster apart from the fact that the blindfold didn't say 'I SEE U' on it as I wanted to enforce that it was only for the poster and it wasn't how the character would actually look like in my teaser trailer.

The room i managed to secure was my School's photography dark room and found it was the perfect location for what i wanted as it had professional lights which helped me achieve the importance of lighting and depth of field within my photos. Of course we tried different sources of light and different positioning of lights to see which worked best with my idea of creating an ambiguous, effective image for a magazine cover. It turned out that the time allocation of an hour was not a problem at all as half an hour was enough to get some really good pictures plus more. I am very happy with the images and all have that sense of mystery and ambiguity I wanted to capture. My next steps is to create a draft template for my magazine cover and choose what i think would be the best image for the magazine cover.