Recce Photos

As my chosen genre is acoustic/indie, I have looked at artists of this genre typical photo shoots and also looked at some of their music videos to see how the background of the images or video helps to convey a certain ideology. Looking into these I have realised that typically they involve either a warn down or aged background, or the countryside. This then allowed me to visit some possible locations for my magazine photographs.

Possible backgrounds for photos

Although this is a plain and simple background it could work to represent the ideology of the genre of music. This background would be more conventional for an article about an indie band or artist as oppose to an acoustic artist. Therefore if my article was focusing on indie then this is a more suitable backgrounds than others photos I have taken. This would work because it is slightly damaged and scratched which fits into the ideology that indie artists are quite laid back and don't want to have a slick, perfect appearance. The second image has a very similar background to the first image, conveying all they same/similar representations but in this image the wood could be used as a seat. This would then make it suitable for an acoustic artist because they could sit on the wood with their guitar.















This would not work as just a background to the image in my opinion the model would need to be either sitting on the front of the caravan or the step of the caravan. This could work for the acoustic genre as camping links with the countryside and  the country is what is typically thought of when people think of acoustic artists. The two different caravans could both be incorporated into the picture in a similar way, but when the photo is completed they will convey separate things. The first caravan is a lot cleaner and more liveable than the second so would convey more ideologies of an acoustic artist. However the second caravan is more damaged which would give an unusual backdrop to a photo but could work in a way that indie artists are different and bring something different to the music world.

These 3 images would be what you would typically expect in a folk or country music magazine as oppose to an indie magazine. However most folk singers fall into the acoustic genre, meaning that if the article was about an acoustic folk singer these backgrounds could be successful. The horses add to the countryside stereotype, but would be difficult to photograph as they would constantly be moving around. However the stable could work as a background to the images. With the image of the fence, the model could be sat on the fence looking into the camera or into the distance.

All of these images, like many of the others create the countryside theme and ideology of the acoustic genre. The stream in the background helps to create this and the model could sit on the bench, in the tree or stand near the bank. This is not as suitable for the indie genre though as there is nothing individual about this place and it would create ideologies of acoustic rather than indie music.
The third one of these images could be too busy to have as a main image on an article as the model would appear very small in the shot in comparison to the tree.

This background would be much more suitable to a more indie band as they would fit into the dirty and imperfect nature of the steps. This would be very easy to model someone one, however it would look better if it was a band being photographed as they would fill the height of the steps.