Contact sheets

The image I chose to be on my front cover is the fourth one as the model is looking directly at the camera and appears confident to the audience. Thus, the readers will want to be just like this boy and so buy the magazine in order to identify with him. Also, his pose adds a certain sense of nonchalance and blasé attitude as he does not seem like he views being on the front cover of a magazine as that much of a big deal. For the contents page I decided to do something unique and have am image of my model sitting cross legged on the ground. This gave him the edge of seeming down to Earth and more identifiable with the audience as he was not striking a complicated pose. He was simply sitting down and facing the camera. As I had the camera on a setting where it would take a succession of photos straight after the other some of the images were very similar which is why the last two photos are the same. I chose to use the last photo. I decided to use the last two images on my double page spread. The shot of my model standing up would be the main image on the right page whereas the shot of him sitting down and looking away from the camera would be a smaller image used on the left page. I felt that the main image was of a good, clear quality and sat well amid my article. The other image was chosen because it is not a 'perfect' shot of my model which gives him a rougher edge and hopefully conveys to the reader that he is not perfect, yet people still want to be just like him.