Conclusion

My magazine has come a long way from where I initially thought , I had planned to create a magazine that focuses on binary’s and gender fluidity, but after talking to various people who identify as this and within the LGBTQ+ community they said that different people identify differently, some people as a purely gender thing and others as a sexual thing, so, of this I decided to abandon the heavy gender influence because I was sure to get it wrong or insult someone accidentally. So from there I knew I still wanted to produce a magazine so I started to look in the direction of creating a platform for other creatives in the industry, to create a magazine that can feature other creatives weather they’ve been in the industry for a long time or are just starting off to showcase their work in a safe environment but I don’t want to limit my audience so I decided to create a magazine that’s part creative collective and part fashion magazine. I’m happy how my work turned out but creating a new type of hybrid magazine that is work but play at the same time, I feel I have extended my understanding of layout and magazine work as well as drastically improving on my photography and styling as well and toughing up and editing skills, I have pushed my typographic work out of my comfort zone as well. In conclusion I feel the project went well, there will always be unforeseeable problems, like two of my models dropping out 3 hours before of the location I had secured fell through, but I did my best to overcome those problems and still produce good shoots.

Tia Yellow Shoot

Today I finished a 5 hour shoot with model Tia Speed, this shoot was for the girls advertorial. The studio was set up in uni in one of the classrooms as all of the studios were booked up. The make shift studio worked well and im really pleased with the final images, ill need to do a fair amount of editing to correct some colours but apart from that i’m pleased.

Tia, the model was amazing and need n0 direction at all, she knew what to do and had to pose so that really helped the shoot go smoothly.

Suburban shoot

Today I pushed myself so far out of my comfort zone, I wanted to do a shoot that conveyed energy, atmosphere and rawness. So I walked around and asked me to model in a shoot for me, I obviously got a lot of “no” but after an hour or so I came across two people that would help me pout, Harry Wood and Sam Cheal. With the pressure and my anxiety I was really proud of myself and happy with the images that came out too.

 

Alexander Johnson Interview

From my initial interview with Kellie Smith we met in a resturant and did the interview verbally, I found this a problem because I then had to listen to the voice recording and dictate the whole thing, this was time consuming and the recording wasn’t very clear. From this for the rest of my interviews I then decided to ask people to fill out their replies in their own time in their own words. For my articles I wanted to keep my questions similar focusing o digital innovation, their personal practice swell as their journey from education to where they are now.

So for my interview with Alexander this worked out really well because neither of us were in the country at the same time, Im very grateful for him to take the time to answer each question as throughly as he could, this was one of my favouriteinterviews.

International article

From some of my images I took from the yellow shoot i’ve decided to split the off from the girls advertorial and create a new article all about digital innovation allowing us to connect and communicate with others across the world resulting in a culture collaboration. I decided to do this because after the shoot with Tia some of the images and styling didn’t fit with the other images and had a bold oriental and French aesthetic to them, thats where the idea for this article came from.

Interview with Kellie Smith

Today I interviewed Kellie Smithwho’s a local photographer who specialises in analogue photography, we spoke about digital innovation and how she sees the industry changing and she said to me that a lot of the commercial work she’s getting now for big events and weddings are analogue, She said she sees the industry doing a full 360 and people are now going back to the “old school” methods and appreciating the craft more.