Photo Shoot- Miss Miller

Taking pictures was an important part of our production process. The use of these pictures in the digipaks and magazine adverts that we produced was important in engaging the audience and connecting them with the artist, myself. A variety of different shots was important as it stops the digipaks becoming repetitive and boring, and also gives the audience more variety to look at.


I feel that the quality of the pictures we took was very good and that the connection with the audience through the use of the close up is very strong. The representation of our artist that we created was one that portrays him as a strong character through his intense stare, which also puts him across as professional.


The clothing in the different shots is simple, with him pictured wearing plain coloured t shirts. The effect of this, rather than showing him in fancy designer clothing, was to make him seem more relatable to the audience and also more humble, not flash. This in turn could encourage people to listen to his music as they can see he is not just a show off, and is not flash like many other artists.


If we could have done things again I believe we could have got a wider variety of pictures. The main pictures that we are using in our digipack all include the same red background, with the same facial expression on the artist. When taking these photographs we felt the effect of this would be to have a running theme throughout our digipack and also throughout our magazine advert. However, we have now realised that this can be seen as quite repetitive and unadventurous, especially in the dance genre of music, something usually seen as more out there.


In our group the individual digipaks and magazine advert covers include similar styles of lighting and also include photos of the artist in both. This makes it easier when making our joint magazine advert and digipaks as we have both decided on darker colours being used in the background with an image of our artist attracting most of the attention in order to familiarise and connect our audience with the artist.

The pictures below are the ones we will be using for our digipack and magazine album advert. As mentioned they are similar shots, with different costumes used in each one. The desired effect was to create a running theme by using the same body language and neutral facial expressions in each picture. After finishing our photo shoot it was evident that the photo shoot may be seen as too repetitive and boring for an audience, so given the chance to reproduce our photo shoot we would use a wider variety of shots.