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Magazine Covers

1. Familiar recognition from issue to issue (brand)
2. Emotionally irresistible
3. Arousing curiosity
4. Intellectually stimulating interesting
5. Efficient fast easy to scan





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My favorite Cover

"For W’s December/January Art Issue, the magazine collaborated with artist Yayoi Kusama to create this iconic cover image depicting George Clooney. The visually arresting image is the highlight of the cover story, for which five leading female artists were invited to create interpretive portraits of the actor. Clooney wears a suit painted by Kusama with her signature polka dots and stands against a polka-dotted backdrop. Planned to coincide with the opening of an exhibition of new work by Kusama at David Zwirner Gallery, the cover makes a powerful reference to the artist’s iconic self-portraits."


This cover does a good job of catching the eye. It has a very interesting and distracting pattern. It also uses a cool and unique merger. Since the suit has the sam pattern as the background his body merges with it sparking curiosity. The portrait is exposed properly and is focused and crisp. One thing I would change about this cover is the font. Especially with this pattern the title is hard to read.

Fashion

Video 1: Some changes that were made to the model's face in this video were making her eyes bigger and making her neck longer.

Video 2: In this video there were dramatic changes from before and after. They gave the model longer hair, took away her freckles, gave her a stronger jawline, bigger eyes, smaller nose, redder and fuller lips, higher shoulders, and more shaped torso and legs, longer legs and and forearms, longer neck, bigger butt, lighter/smoother skin, and better posture.

Video 3: This vide showed the biggest and most surprising changes. In the beginning the model was overweight and very light skinned. They first made her body thinner everywhere and smoothed out her skin and blended her fat rolls. they gave her longer hair, a stronger jawline, bigger breasts and a more shaped butt.

In my opinion it is highly unethical to change a persons body this drastically. It completely changes the persons appearance and it's pretty much the same thing as false advertisement. In some circumstances it could be ok to edit someone's appearance a little such as getting rid of acne but not to the point of making them look like a complete different person. The difference between photojournalism and fashion photography is the way you edit the picture. Photojournalism is focused on capturing things exactly the way they are. The only editing you would ever do for photojournalism is levels and cropping. Fashion photography on the other hand is making someone look as attractive as possible, even if it completely changes their appearance. I think we watched these videos to make us realize really how much fashion photographers change the way the models look.

American Soldier

In my opinion the most powerful image in this collection is the soldier and his mom and girlfriend walking together. It shows that he is back with the people he loves. The images work together to tell a story by showing everything that the soldier went through in his military and personal life. The captions enhance the images because it gives background information about the picture. Ian Fisher was a normal 17 year old until he got recruited into the military. He went through many weeks of training and faced many physical and mental challenges. Fisher did have some discipline problems and got moved down a rank from when he started. He served in Iraq for a year before returning and marrying his girlfriend, Devin. Most of the captions are written in present tense, describing where and when Fisher is in the photo. Most of the captions have an average of 3-4 sentences. The first sentence describes what is going on in the frame while the second gives some background information. Some captions have quotes but not all.

Funny Captions

Paul and Linda, professional cart racers, participate in the annual 60+ death race. Paul is avenging his brother, George, who died in last years race.


Nora, a 96 year old protester, expresses how she feels about the 2016 presidential candidates. She tells press that she was lucky to live a long and happy life before things went to shit.