Front Cover Photo Shoot

Today the photo shoot took place, Leanne brought her camera and light reflecter so we would have some decent shots and Holly had collected the clothes from Mayhem yesterday. At 1:55 Leanne collected the keys to the green room from Nick, While Holly went to meet the models Leanne and I made our way over to the green room. Once we got in we had a look about to see what we were working with. There was three rooms, a green room, a white room and a black room. We used the green room to get the models hair and make done and the black room for them to get changed as the white and green room have glass doors. Holly the model was ready first, so while Holly was getting Beth (Model) ready, Leanne and I got started taking photos of Holly, to get some nice light we had to open the glass doors and I had to stand outside and direct the sunlight into the room onto the model. As we were on a tight schedule we had to make sure we got all the shots we needed and to the standard we wanted. We spent just over 10 minutes with Holly and then when Beth was ready, we had just over 10 minutes getting the shots we wanted. Now it was our turn to get our pictures taken, It was my (Amber) go first to have a few pictures taken, I'm a very out going person but as soon as a camera comes out I don't know what to do, I had a bit of fun, didn't want to look to serious. After me was Holly, Holly too pulled a few faces agreeing that we wanted to give people an insight to our personalities, Leanne went after and also went with pulling a few fun faces. We then decided to do a few shots of us all together, this was great fun and we evan had a go at doing some modelling poses!  

Background Making

I (Leanne) decided we needed more different backgrounds that will not need permission and will tie in well with the page. I thought about scanning in items.

I thought for the hair I could place lots of hair bands, bows and a comb on the scanner and see how it comes through. As I could not close it I tired it with just the lid up then next coverd it with a scarf. Next was make up, I thought use all sorts of make up as if it was paint however I realised this could not be scanned as it would damage the scanner. Then had the idea of using just eye shadow to colour the paper and use eyeliner to make a pattern on the page( I 
did one before pencil then with). From the pencil 
shavings I had one with no background then added the paper that had been coloured. For the nail page I thought of once again using nail vanish as paint. I made it drip down the page and made it thicker in place to give it depth. To dry and help the drips I hung it on the washing line, this really helped the effect.

My other ideas was that I get all my handmade jewellery and place it on the scanner to create the background for the Accessories page. I did this a few times however kept changing the placement of the items.

There was other pages such as the photoshoot and beach body which do not have a background that we had already thought to use. So I thought it be great to use scarfs, fabrics and jeans to be some more background ideas. I did the same item about 3 times in different ways to get different looks.

Front Cover Photo Shoot Planning

As our deadline is fast approaching we have a few things left to do, we have planned a photo shoot for the front cover of the magazine and also a picture of each of us for the editorial page. As Mayhem (Clothing Shop) let us borrow clothes for a photo shoot for a feature in our magazine, we wondered if they would let us borrow a few items to use to dress our models for the front cover. I (Amber) soon got to work emailing them to ask if they would be willing to help us out a bit more than they already had, I simply asked if they would be willing to let us borrow two dresses, to dress our models in for the front page of our magazine, I said we would leave a deposit if they had any worries. We soon got an email back saying they were happy to help us and asked us which items we would like and said not to worry about a deposit. 

Holly then got to work planning it with the models and emailing back Mayhem arranging when to go as she was picking the clothing up. 

The plan was to go to Holly's house on sunday as she has a white back drop for the photo shoot with the models, I thought it would be easier if we used the green room at the college which also has a room which is painted white, as the models also attend Long Road, so we decided that we would do the photo shoot on tuesday at 2pm, Nick said gave us permission to use the room but said we could only have 30 minutes. 

So Holly arranged it with the models to go with her to Mayhem on monday to try on the dresses and also made sure they were free to do the photo shoot on tuesday.  

Interview Time

Today we had our interview with the Cambridge Evening News, we were greeted by a young girl, Ella who couldn't of been much older than myself (Amber) we took her to room C122 where the interview would be held. The interview started with the basic questions of name and ages and then we moved on to the magazine it self. We explained what the subject of the magazine was, which is to showcase independent clothing stores around the Cambridge area as Cambridge is known for it's chain stores like New Look, River Island and Topshop for example. Ella agreed with us and also knows many of the independent clothing store we mentioned. We were then asked about how we were funding the magazine and we soon had lots to talk about, we explained that we sent out hundreds of emails and then re-sent emails to companies who didn't reply asking if they would like to pay a small fee for a advert in our magazine, and many didn't get back to us until it was too late and we had already got all the advertisers we needed. She seemed amazed as we were so enthusiastic and excited about the magazine. Ella asked us if this is what we were planning on doing in the future and was surprised to hear 3 different answers, Leanne is going to university to study graphic design, Holly is going to university to study radio and I've decided that I want to go straight into work and start from the bottom and make my way up while learning the skills I need to hopefully become a director. We explained that even though we all want to do different things after college our skills all work well together to make this magazine successful. I feel that the interview went really well and I cant wait to see it on the website. 

Online Pages

The pages online are already hitting off well with only being up and going for less then a day. We are highly postive this will help us sell and get the word out for our magazine. More people who find out more chance we can sell all and make enough money to make more.

Twitter Page

I (Leanne) have just created a twitter page. Just like the facebook page its a way we can show off our magazine to protencional buyers. We can also contact the twitter and facebook together to let people know it is the same thing. When we start finishing the pages we can add them on to the pages and get people to see some of the pages.

Facebook Page

I (Leanne) have created a facebook page of our magazine for basically free adversitings through the internet. I am asking people to add all their friends on to the page so they can see it. Meaning if we sell out of the ones we have printed we can re print more. This could work in our favour however many people may ignore so adding photos and getting reviews will be the best for the page.