photo shoot plan out

In my photo shoot I was planning to wear some smart cloths this is because most of the artist in there music video. They wear smart cloths such as suite. But I took few pictures of myself wearing vest this is because in some music video they are trying to show how hard they are. These type of cloths matches the music scene's.

The camera I used was 'Samsung' 10.2 mega pixel.

Background information About 'R n B'

RnB stands for Rhythm and blues. The founding labels of R&B started in the 1940s. R&B, is a genre of popular African American Music, The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. Today’s contemporary R&B music has a distinctly different sound than its forebears, focusing on pop beats and culture rather than the blues, gospel and jazz sounds of previous generations (though those elements are still sometimes present). In the late 1940’s and into the fifties, R&B groups consisted of brass instruments and woodwinds, as well as drums, piano and vocals. These elements were common in jazz bands, but R&B musicians produced a heavier sound with a steady beat. As the fifties progressed, the genre became notable for its sexually suggestive lyrics and provocative dancing associated with it.


As the genre progressed throughout the decades, R&B music started becoming known as soul music; it was also no longer exclusively made by black artists. White musicians started composing R&B songs, though thegenre was still dominated by black artists like Chubby Checker, Sam Cooke, and bands like The Miracles. 


The type of artists or sing R'n'B songs are 'Jay Sean, Beyonce and Rihanna and more...'

My own shots for my magazine

This picture has used an effect of black & white, which this leads to a classical image and the picture has high bright contrast to make the character stand out more. Its a indirect shot and also a medium shot (MS) which is a tight shot of the charcter within the frame.

The shot that is been used is medium shot, its been edited by adop photoshop to have a clear white background. Its a indirect shot, the effect of this that it shows that the character is concentrating on something else. 

The background of this picture shows that the picture has been edited.

The character is wearing west top which shows that he is confident

and likes up taking challenges. Its also an indirect shot with medium shot.

This picture has used an effect of black & white,

which this leads to a classical image and

the picture has high bright contrast to

 make the character stand out more. This image shows

that the character is like a ganster, hard or also can

lead to an bad character.

In this picture it shows that the same character has three different pose. it shows that his a compitive and strong character. on the right hand the charatcer image is faiding which creates an strong effect.

This image is a along shot showing the full figure of the character.

the character is sitting next to the steps which is leading  to the top, which shows his aim is to get to the top. its also a indirect shot which is showing that he looking out for someone to approch for him.

This is a long shot which is showing the backgroung and the full figure of the character. the picture is very bright which is fading away some parts of the picture and making the charater to stand out. Its a indirect shot and the character is looking down which shows that his waiting for saomeone. the character is making a pose which shows that he is having a photo shoot.

Audience Research

 

1. How do the magazine address the reader?

Bilal: 'Large text is visually appealing and the large central image of 'Lil wayne' conveys an attitude due to his pose.'

 Laura: 'The image is the most striking thing of the cover and the bold yellow of the 'Scratch' label is definitely eye-catching. the cover entails reference to articles within the mag that may appeal to the readers.'


2. what are the most interesting or essential features of the magazine? 

Laura: 'The images and text, in particular the font choices. I especially like the shots of the rappers because their poses emphasize their music which is something I can recognize and relate with. And the font style is quite high impact- it's really cool and eclectic.'  



3. what, if anything, do the magazine assume about the reader?

Bilal: 'Their interest is is in this particular genre of music and they approve of the lifestyle the artists within this genre lead.' 

Laura: 'Definitely, the magazine has its own ideal image of their targeted reader so they have used things that will intrigue the reader, thus making them buy it.' 



4. what sort of people are into this type of music?


Bilal: 'The sort of people that would listen to R'n'B is who are challenging type of people which would give them energy. plus now days R'n'B is very poplar and getting common.'

Laura: 'People who like contemporary R'n'B, most music in the charts these days are of the R'n'B genre so that has influenced people a lot.'


5. what would they personally like to read about?

Laura: 'Probably the new music that is being released or an interview with a specific artist of this genre about their own music.'  


Bilal: 'Personally I would like to read about the interviews and their new songs that are coming out. I would like to read about the sub headings they have on the front cover because it catches my eye.'

Overall the social grade they are in is B because they re middle class people.  My magazine’s audience fits into the psychographic profile of emulator-achievers.

 

Interview with Jay Sean ( identity & ideology)

Let’s speak to the man himself, shall we? So Jay, tell us about your background, heritage and culture.
I’m a British born Asian (as Kamaljit Jhooti in Southall, UK), brought up in a Punjabi Sikh household (in Hounslow). My parents came over to UK in the 60’s and I’ve grown up in an extended family, living with my parents and grandparents.

What languages do you speak, rap and sing in?
At home, I speak Punjabi with my grandparents, but I rap and sing in English. I also speak a little French and German… and now I feel like I’m writing a CV.

What is the music you grew up on and how has it had an impact on where you are now? How did you get into the 'beat-box' thing?
Beat box was something I never tried to actually learn... I just starting emulating the hip-hop beats that I heard on radio ever since I was 12 years old. When I was in Compulsive Disorder, my rap group, when my cousin used to rap, I’d beat box, and it was just one of those things where no matter where we were we just couldn’t keep our mouths shut! Since then I’ve tried to hone my beat box, studying other techniques, learning new vocal scratches and recently I’ve learnt to sing AND beat box at the same time. When I was 12 years old, my cousin and I started getting into hip-hop. It became a way of life for us and within a year or so were heavily into hip hop culture. We wrote our first rap for my uncle who was leaving to go to Canada as it goes! We’ve still got it on film somewhere, and admittedly it was really, really, really bad. Over the next 4 years we wrote and produced our own music and performed at local community gigs where we tried to establish a name for ourselves and got a taste for live performance. Our high point came when we got on the front cover of a music magazine in Canada!

How have your family reacted to you giving up a career in Medicine (at Queen Mary’s College, University of London), for music?
They’ve been really supportive. My Mum & Dad always knew my heart was in music & when I came to them & told them I had an opportunity to sign a major recording contract with a major label they have been right behind me. I can’t thank them enough for the encouragement they’ve given me.

What sort of difficulties have you experienced in the industry so far?
Well I’ve learnt an incredible amount in a short space of time about the industry & people. As far as difficulties are concerned, I’ve been too lucky so far to complain about things. There’s an un-believable amount of hard work which goes into being an artist which I didn’t see a couple of years ago. You’ve got to be very determined & keep focused to be successful which is quite difficult when things go well.

Tell us about your association with 2point9 and Rishi Rich, Juggy D e.t.c.
Well 2Point9 are my Management & Production Company. They are an intrinsic part of all our careers & properly criticise me if I have stepped out of line or am slacking in any way... They really keep me on my toes but praise me when I’ve delivered a great performance. They have a lot of experience & between us we have proper discussions about how we should move things forward, left or right creatively. Juggy is a great friend & it’s been wicked going through all of this with him. We’ve been writing his album & mine and Rishi’s album, together for a long while now, so we’re vital part of each other’s careers. Rishi is someone who I totally look up to & aspire to have the longevity he’s had. I really admire how hard he works & how much passion he still has for music. He’s very focused & he’s a role model for me.

What's it like working with Rishi Rich?
Wicked! Hopefully I'll be back heavily working with him again soon as he’s an inspiring guy to be around. He’s got such creativity. I’ve seen him literally writing two tracks at the same time before. It's like as he has one idea, another one comes into his head & he stops & puts it down. He’s a phenomenally talented guy.

Housing Style

Flat Plan

'Front cover

 

Content 

Double page spread

 

Mediation in Jay Sean Album Covers

Mediation involves selection, organisation and focusing which are used to create a particular image for an artist.

The selection used on the album cover has an urban font which is bright blue glowing color so this makes the title of the album stand out. And it also matches with the background color the sky. It contains digital font '2012' which this highlight that his a modern man. The selection his wearing long smart coat, which this also show his modern and up to date with fashion. The photo has been taken in full body shot, which shows the characters whole body. This shot is an indirect mode of address because he is not looking at the camera. This show us that his a different person and keep things to him self. The organisation of this photo has been taken at the top of the building because this show us that he is at the top of the world and has its own power of singing. In the background it show us more building which this can also mean that they are his competitors and he has to face them. The clean sky show that his getting closer to his success. The Focusing of this image which leads to the audience is that to show that he is an very modern man because of the cloths his wearing and digital font. 

analysing magazine conventions

Analyse Chris Brown

professional photo shoots

this picture can go on double page spread because it has open spaces around it where you can add text.

I would use this picture for my front cover of my magazine. this is because he has open space arpund him on his left where I can add texts or sub headings.

Practice Magazine Front Cover & Contents

Evaluation:  

In my front cover I have used the colour green most of the time, this is because it matches the background which are leaves. At the bottom of my front cover I have put some sub-headings this will tell the reader what the magazine contains. I have put my picture which is taken in middle shot and is indirect photo.

On my second page of my magazine 'Content' I have added page numbers to the pictures and to the headings. My content page is not bright as my front cover because I have used dark colours such as black colour for my background.

My different angles pictures

This technique is called juxtaposition, where you see a modern object juxtaposed with an old object. 

The shot it has been taken is a medium shot, which shows half of your body in the picture. It also shows a side profile of the character looking upwards. It also highlight that to the reader that the character in the image is giving a strong and powerful impression to the audience.

The angle of a shot it has been taken is Long shot. where this shot shows the audience the whole part of the characters figure and its background.

This picture had been taken in Close up shot. where this is zoomed in to its object or any characters face. Close up shots show you the picture in more detail.

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

1.     What is you favorite music genre?  Rock:     Hip Pop:      R&B:     or any others please write…………………………..

2.     What is you hobbies/ interest? …………………………………….

3.     Who’s your favorite actor/actress?..............................................

4.     What is you favorite Film?................................................................

5.     Where do you want to go for your holidays?..........................................

6.     Are you planning to go university after leaving college, if No why?.........................................................................................................................

7.     What is your sexual preference?  By sexuality:            Gay:               Lesbian:

8.     What is you age? 15-20:         20-25:          25-30:           30+:       

9.     Are you planning to get a job in future?....................................................

10.  Have you got your goals and aims set up to lead your life? If yes why?.........................................................................................................................

11. What do your parents do?...............................................................................

12.  Are you religious? If Yes what religion are you?.....................................

13. Do you prefer to drive luxury cars such as BMW or Mercedes?..................................

14. Are you sort of a person who reacts positively to change? If yes why?.........................................................................................................................

15. Do you like to recycle?.....................................................................................

16. Do you use your mobile?................................................................................

17. Do your like to read any music magazine? If Yes Which ones?............................................

18.  Do you like to help homeless people? If Yes Why?......................................

Conclusion: 

In our class we got told to create a questionnaire with open and close questions. In my questionnaire I had 18 questions. The questionnaire was based on about music and some question about their life. I handed out 5 copies of my questionnaire, the most common answer was on the age, and all the pupils circled 15-20 of age. The mistake I had throughout the questionnaire is that I asked the question about what is there sexual preference, I wrote three options t o circle, by sexuality, Gay and Lesbian but I didn’t write Straight because I thought by sexuality is where your normal person. But I had 2 lesbians, 2 straight and 1 gay. My second popular answer was about their music genre and all of the pupils went for R&B. So this means most of the people like listening to R&B. I had question that was based on about if they have made their goals and aims in future, which can lead to their future, but unfortunately no one had set their aims because everyone said ‘No’ 5/5. I asked question about their parents life as in what they do, which was an open question for them. One of there parents is police officer that is rated C for the type of job. One of the other parents are airhostess, which this is count as C1 rated for the job. One of the parent is jeweller which is ranked C1 but it also depend what their role is in the job e.g. management. The other student’s parents are career adviser and security; these jobs are ranked as C1. And finally one of the student’s parents is taxi driver, which this is also ranked as C1. Overall I think out audience is around B and C1 social grades. And also I  examined what my audience needs and desires were according to the uses and gratifications theory. E.g. such as In the questionnaire it was included about there family and about their future plans for education.

For next time if I make another questionnaire I will add more options to circle so I can get different taste of their opinion. And double-check my options so I don’t make a mistake again.

similarities

Similarities

Kamaljit Singh Jhoot   born 26 March 1981) Harlesden London, better known by his stage name Jay Sean, British singer-songwriter, rapper, beat boxer and record producer. He has debuted as Asian background scene as a member of Richi Rich project. With "Dance with You", which reached 12 on the UK Singles Chart in 2003.

JLS (an initialism of Jack the Lad Swing) are a British boy band, who was runners-up in the fifth series of ITV reality talent show The X Factor 2008. There are four members of this group: Aston Merrygold, Marvin Humes, Jonathan "JB" Gill, and Oritsé Williams. They are from London & Peterborough, England. There genre is Pop and R&B, dance pop which is smiler to each other.

Jay Sean and JLS are a similar type of artists, who wear similar clothes and produce music of the same genre: R’n’B and pop music. Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. They both wear casual and smart clothes to look good and smart. This presents a positive image to the audience.Jay Sean did not become a singer through X Factor or by entering into any competition like JLS did.  He joined Richi-Rich productions and started his career off from there. 

Hits  

These singers have been very successful with their songs.

After Jay Sean joining Richi Rich production and made a song ‘Dance with you’ which reached 12 on the UK single chart in 2003. This led to him being signed to Virgin Records and having two UK top 10 hits as a solo artist in 2004: "Eyes On You" at #6 and "Stolen" at #4. They were included in his critically-acclaimed debut album Me Against Myself which, though only moderately successful in the UK, sold more than two million copies across Asia and remains his most successful album to date.

JLS Following their appearances on The X Factor, JLS signed to Epic Records and enjoyed continued chart success throughout 2009. Their first two singles "Beat Again" and "Everybody in Love" both went to number-one on the UK Singles Chart. The band's eponymous debut album was released on 9 November 2009^, and has since sold over one million copies in the UK.   JLS won the awards for British Breakthrough.

Cloths

Jay Sean normally wears smart casual clothes. In his most of his video he is wearing a suite or very smart looking shirt, coat, or vest coat. This shows to the audience that he has good personality. This also shows he has nice attitude against other people and shows respect because smart cloths shows his more of a mature person.  It’s suggested that the smart casual wearing are for men’s. The type of cloths include are trousers—some, but not all definitions may allow jeans or chinos—a long-sleeve dress shirt (tie optional), leather loafers or dressy slip-ons, dress socks, a belt, and, if appropriate, a sport coat.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

  

Music Scene

Music Scene

In this photo shot of Jay Sean, he is leaning against the wall. The angle of the photo shot it has been taken is medium shot, this cover half of you body in the camera. This doesn’t show the whole part of him in the picture. The photo is in not coloured it has been taken in black and white a classic style, which this allows part of the body stand out in more darker colour e.g. his top his wearing and the colour gradully start to go light in the bottom of the picture this effects the audience and make them look at his upper part of his body because it has darker effect of the colour. The character of the photo is indirect because his not looking at the camera, this shows that he is looking somewhere else or busy thinking. It also has a sahadow of his head on the wall, which this creates a effect on the pictute and make it more realistic. It also gives you a emotive representation of the character. It has white plain background to make the picture look emotive. This shows that the good side of the picture. In the picture it can also show that he has something in is hand maybe a small item which he wants to throw it away this makes the audience emotional. And this links with his face emotional too because he doesn’t look happy.

In this music picture all the members of JLS are stood up and having good time. This is because they are all smiling with joy on their face. This is a colourful part of the scene because all the members of JLS are wearing different colour jacket, which this makes them different from each other and stand themselves out. They have security behind them; this shows that how important they are and how much protected they are. In this photo it all so show that they are getting cheered by the audience because they are supporting the audience back by putting their hands up and smiling at them back. It also shows the member of JLS in the far right with blue jacket, he has a bottle in his hand, and this shows that they have being coming out from a club and also the lights behind them shows they are coming from a posh place which include a hotel or a nightclub. The camera shot it has been taken is medium shot. This shows the half of the characters body in the picture. The characters of the photo are looking indirect and direct. Most of them are looking somewhere else such as looking at the audience and one of them is looking direct to the camera.