Double Page Spread Contact Sheets And Evaluation

Above are my double page spread contact sheets of photographs taken from my double page spread photo shoot. This photo shoot was taken in two parts, first I took photographs of my models in an interview set up of them sitting on leather seats against a plain wall. Next I took photographs of my models against the same off white wall that I used for my front cover photo shoot. 

As seen above, for the first part of my photo shoot I took at total of 87 photographs of the models who make up my band that will be featured on all of my magazine pages. The reason for this number of photographs for this particular part of the shoot was because it was partly spontaneous as I wanted their facial expressions to be varied and natural, not posed. I also asked the models to look past the camera at a certain spot which represented where the 'interviewer' would be. To make sure the photographs looked as natural as possible I asked my friend, Josephine Hearn, to sit in the spot of the 'interviewer' and she asked them a number of questions relating to their 'band', this allowed me to take photographs of the models in mid speech. 

For varied facial expressions I asked my Josephine to talk to the models about personal subjects that related their own personal lives, this therefore would mirror the facial expressions that they would pull if this was an actual band interview, and if being in a band was a part of their personal lives. Because of this set up, I managed to take photographs of varied facial expressions such as anger, deep thought, laughter and also more relaxed positions. This therefore took a lot more time than the posed shots as I wanted to capture the best natural facial expressions and poses during the 'interview' that I could; as a result the models look as if they were in actual mid-conversation and their facial expressions look as natural as possible. A number of these photos will be placed within the interview article on the second page of my magazine double page spread. 

For the second part of my this double page photo I placed my models against an off white wall. This part of the photo shoot took a lot less time as I visually knew exactly what I wanted the photographs to look like and what poses and positions I wanted the models to be in, similarly to my front cover photo shoot. One of these photos will be used to fill the first page of my double page spread. For this image, I wanted the the poses, body language and facial expression to anchor what my double page spread interview will be about. I therefore asked Henry to have a direct eye contact at the camera with his arms folded and Sam to be positioned slightly in front of Henry and to have an emotionless facial expression, facing at a turned angle away with a non-direct eye contact with the camera. This Position reveals more of the bands 'image' and personality, the pose itself also looks 'alternative.

Overall, I am pleased with how all of my photo shoots went and I have taken a number of successful images from them. I will now narrow down what photographs I will be using for my magazine pages and edit them to  fit the 'alternative' music magazine 'look'.