Artist Profile

Before the creation of my double page spread, I considered how I wanted my artist/model to be represented in this piece of work. From my research I knew that women aren't typically featured in indie music magazines, but when they are it is usually in a sexualised way. I tried to follow this convention with my front cover, which can be seen with the positioning of Ambers hand on her lips. This can be seen as supporting Laura Mulveys' theory (1975) which argues that 'females are sexualised and presented as objects of desire for the male audience'.

I wanted my media product to have originality and uniqueness, which is why I used a rabbit head in my most recent photo shoot. I used what I considered to be the most effective and of the highest quality image, and positioned it on the left hand side of my double page spread to follow typical layout conventions. The pink filter is an additional feature of excitement, and draws more attention to the rabbit head.

The inclusion of a rabbits head improved the quality of my images and will hopefully make my media product stand out from the rest. In the first draft of my double page spread, I used the picture that is now presented on my front cover. With this photoshoot the image quality was significantly poorer, and whilst the images followed conventions, I felt as though my double page spread could be greatly improved. This improvement has hopefully been successful, and my representation of Amber has changed because of this alteration. Amber is given a slightly sexual representation in my front cover and contents page, but the rabbit mask makes her appear intense and menacing in the double page spread.