PHOTOSHOOT with Sam and Jake!

I have chosen my two models to feature on the front cover and the main article – my two school friends Sam and Jake. In all fairness I chose these two because I thought they looked like indie singers due to their hair and style. Jake plays an instrument and used to be in a band which was a bonus! They wore similar dark coloured clothing – this denotes and symbolises a gloomy atmosphere which could reflect their music. I also thought it would look good if they wore dark colours to make text on them stand out better and they would stand out against a light coloured background. I paid attention to mise-en-scene and got a microphone for Sam and guitars to represent that it was a music magazine.
After taking nearly 100 pictures using a Kodak camera, I have narrowed it down to a few the ones that I may use in my magazine: 

I picked simple locations, for the first lot of photos I took they were against a whitish coloured background which made it easier to crop out any irrelevant items that were in the background, also I thought it looked effective as it was simple and paid more attention to the models and not what was going on in the background. I thought it was important to have the model posing as if it was an actual photo-shoot which is why i favored the back to back shot holding guitars as this gave a real music vibe to magazine. The second lot of photo were taken on a music stage at our school, this allowed the model to (pretend) preforming in front of a crowd and make it look realistic as possible. These pictures were not posed as I don't think I will use them on the front cover of the magazine, maybe in the double page spread. 

The next step is to choose one for the front cover and a few for the double page spread and then edit them taking away any red eyes or imperfections. I took individual ones of Sam and Jake for the double page as it I think I will be writing the article as an interview, single photos will look better.