Considering THEME, LIGHTING and COLOUR

In today's lesson our group were split into groups of three and looked at an article from a music magazine. After skimming through he magazine article we had to look at 3 different things: Theme, lighting and colour.

The magazine my group given was Classic rock and we focused on the main article which was on 'The mysterious death of Jimi Hendrix'. First of all, my group looked at the dominant colours of the article, which were black, whites, greys, purples. Jimi Hendrix was written in multicolour which could have been done to show the charisma and personality that Hendrix had. There was also suttle reds throughout the article.

In addition to this, the pictures in this article were very iconic images and the majority of them were in black and white, showing that Hendrix was from a past time era and the lighting on each of the photos focused on his face. Another reason to why the photos might of been edited and presented in this way links back to the main issue in the article, 'the mysterious death of Jimi Hendrix'. Although there are dominant black and white images right at the end of the article is a coloured picture of the rock star, suggesting that we should remember him for his true personality and nature instead of all the negative vibes and conspiracies that surround him.

After this task, individually we had to go through the same process for our task, thinking about ideas for our front covers and what colours to use. Also when having the photoshop, thkning about the lighting. Overall, after thinkning of these things the most important thing of all is that it has to link to the theme of our magazines. The theme of punk rock so baring this in mind i had to use my photoshoot as a chance to think carefully about the colour and lighhting of the photos.