Planning for my front cover picture

For a my music magazine I am going to have to organise a photoshoot so I can get a variety of images I could use for the cover of my music magazine. All magazines have an image on the front of the cover that fits the genre of the magazine.The front cover is used in a visual syntax of a magazine. The majority of music magazines have just one person on the front as sometimes having multiple of people can make the front cover look unplanned and cluttered if it is not done in the right way.

 First I am going to take a variety of shots of myself and my two friends Jamie King and Sydney Canning. I am going to take both pictures of single people and also take coupled pictures so I have a variety of different styles.I can also test both of these different styles on my mock ups to see which works best. I am going to take a lot of eye line shots, close ups and midshots. I'm going to make some of these shots very fun and others very serious. In some shots I am going to have them looking straight at the camera and others looking away, others are going to be sat on the side a little and looking at an angle. These are the sort of images that are normally used on a front cover. I am going to make sure through out the pictures I take that I try a variety of emotions. The shots I end up taking will allow the audience to see the true emotion on the models faces. The models I am going to be using are teenage females. The reason I'll be using females is because I can do a lot more hair and makeup wise. I am going to have some shots where my hair is going to be down and curly, Sydney's hair is going to be up in a bun and Jamie's hair is going to be down and her fringe is going to be in a small quiff.
My images are going to be taken inside so I do not have to worry about what the weather is like or the lightening effecting what my pictures turn out like. I will be taking my images inside against a plain white wall. This will give my images the more professional look. I am also going to be using a table lamp so I can control  whether the lighting on my images are lighter or darker.I am also going to be using a good quality camera (Canon EOS 600D) so my images turnout really clear and aren't pixelated. The majority of the shots I take are going to be midshots and close ups.

Me and Sydney are going to be taking so more fun shots, we are going to take some shots where we mirror each other, some where we are laughing and hugging just simply to look as though we are having a good time.This will then make my magazine look as though it is interesting a lot of fun and as though a lot of things are going on inside of the magazine. I am also going to take some single shots of myself and Jamie. I am going to try a lot of effects out on the images of myself whereas with the images of Jamie I am going to do 2 different makeup styles. The first one I am going to have her wearing a leopard print top, I am then going to use a lot of bronzer on her face and use liquid eyeliner to draw a leopard print pattern. The next idea I have is for us both to wear a dark coloured top. We will then have silver glitter on our lips, silver stars on opposite sides of our faces and a little wash of eyeshadow. I will be wearing eyeliner and false eyelashes and Jamie will be wearing just eyeliner on the top of her eyes.