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60’s Photoshoot – Zine

When i was planning to do a 60’s inspired photoshoot i went straight to Pinterest to build up ideas and to get ideas from photographers looking a the style of the photograph, the styling, backgrounds and editing.

https://uk.pinterest.com/Milldyson/fanzine/



I didn’t want to replicate the photos exactly but i liked the colours used and took this as my colour pallet for my photoshoot and zine theme. I also liked the fact that even though you can tell the pictures are posed its fun and carefree with the two models, there for i used two friends to get that chemistry across in my photos as i wanted the same effect. I tested out colour and black and white editing to see what looked best with my photos, however i did sway towards preferring the colour photos because of how much the outfits stood out and the black and white lost this element, though i did use black and white for two pictures within my zine because a lot of iconic 60’s photos espesially ones with Twiggy are black and white.



These photos being a few i selected and edited for my zine, doing the photoshoot on location, looking at   different locations to get the perfect backdrop, finding different locations to work with the inspiration i have taken from some 60’s fashion photos. The car was a perfect find and fit well with the style i wanted to portray, the white house and stairs stood out to me and i wanted to use this as the location as the makes the yellow and red stand out above everything else. Even though my zine topic is Twiggy i focused of colour and i think that was i have i managed to make stand out through out both my photoshoots.

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60’s Make-up

I knew as as soon as i picked Twiggy as a topic for my zine that i wanted to do a photoshoot dedicated to the make up of the 60’s looking at iconic looks Twiggy wore and 60’s make up trends looking at the colours that were worn and how. 

Shapes
        clashing
Iconic look
Colour

I looked at the colours, the contrasts, eye shadow and liner shapes. The most common look was the bold black eyeliner with a catlike and cut crease line with the nude lip so this was definitely  work from and adapt to the models face. I look that i really like that i saw used within fashion magazine’s through the 60’s was the bright blue eye shadow, a typical 60’s look that isn’t as bold when used today in fashion. I used the blue eye show and but stuck with  the classic Twiggy eye liner shape but i did use a pink lipstick to completely clash with the blue, i didn’t want it to bold as the eye was the statement bit but also wanted to work to clashing vibrant colours throughout the look.

60’s make-up was always bold and vibrant working and matching with the outfit, if that was having clashing colours or matching. I enjoyed the make up and going over dramatic so it worked well on camera with the head shots i did so through my other photoshoot i will still like to use the make up as a stand out section to each photo.

Blue and pink
Iconic look – colour
Iconic look
Eye liner

A few photos from the photoshoot i did for the make up after editing them and adapting them within photoshop.

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Zine research

As a starting point for my zine layouts I’ve been looking at pintrest as it can get quite creative. However i decided to buy a couple of zines to get a real feel for them. I brought two on a trip to London for the exhibitions, one being called Sister and the other being Electic i chose these two as they are the size i want to make my zine in but also i really enjoyed the content. I like clean cut layout and this is what these zine offered, they work to the guidelines we have learned about layout within the workshops there for these were the best ones for me to analyse and get inspiration from. 

Front covers
Background

Within the Sister zine a few of their pages were pink. I want to take this idea and use in within my zine, it makes the black text stand out and makes it more bold and interesting and bit more feminine. The 60’s is filled with bold colours and i think a colour paper zine will work well with the ideas i have.

Text 

This page stood out to me as i like the simple text block in the corner of the page with so much white space around it, this being something i will adapt and use within my own zine. Something that i really liked in this page is the simple fact that the photo on the right doesn’t fill the page completely and has a thicker boarder at the top of the page. For a page like this within my zine i would look into the typography and make it stand out on the page but to make sure to compliment the picture.

Double page

The simple double page spread. It fills the page completely with a bold strong image. Nothing but the image so the eye can not be distracted. So effective it will be something i look at doing if i take a strong photograph.

I liked these two pages for the fact that there are two photos but the right hand page is smaller get for me thats the one that stands out more to me on the top image. I think this is due to the bright red background. The bottom picture is really clever as they have placed photos behind the main ones, but they have though about it as its kind of got a collage effect as it doesn’t take away the focus from the photos or overpower the eye with two much information.

 

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