Mise En Scene - Location

The location that I will be using for my photo shoot is going to be in the school hall, the reason for this is that I can remove the blank background more efficiently than if I used a busy or colourful background. This will allow me to get a sharper edge on the actor to background. 

I will be wanting to take some images outdoors also in order to allow myself to see the difference in a blank background to a city skyline type of background. The background, if I choose to have a skyline background, will be slightly blurred in order to create the effect that the image was taken as one instead of two, thus creating two layers. 

If this does not work out properly I will also be taking some images as one. This will mean less editing however it may mean that i do not have the desired lighting upon my actors features. Also, I have to consider the fact that I want my actor to pose topless; this is hard to do in public places because of the safeguarding of the possibility of passing children. 

My location for the skyline shot would be on the Seacombe promenade looking over towards the Liverpool skyline with the Radio City tower, the three graces buildings, the echo arena and some of the skyscrapers. 

The reason that I wanted to do a double layer is because I wanted the buildings to have less of a natural colour and use photoshop functions to make my image bright and colourful. 

This is the type of colourful edit that I am aiming for.

Mise En Scene - Actor

The image for my front cover will be an image of a male character with good facial features. He will be posing with a microphone. The reason I would like my actor to pose with a microphone is because my music magazine genre is a mainstream pop music therefore a lot of pop music is based around singers.

My actor will be a dark haired male with a desirable body figure in order to portray a male pop star. The reason that this type of image will be my cover photo is because of the audience that will be attracted by the image. The actor will have a seemingly natural look on his face whilst looking happy simultaneously.

One feature that I will contemplate is if my actor will be topless. The reason for this is because the audience that I am targeting are going to be mostly female. The actor should be a talking point of the magazine; this will make the magazine more topical in conversation, thus selling more magazines.

The shot of the actor will be a medium close up in order to capture the detail of the actors upper chest and facial features such as the jaw line.

The actor of choice is shown below with a similar expression to the desired expression. My actor will be the actor that i used in my preliminary task because i am able to manipulate my actor fully to get the desired shots.