The evolution of my article picture concept

The original concept which I implemented for my article draft depicted Jessie with a pair of hedgeclippers. I wished for these to have red paint upon them and for Jessie to have paint on her to convey the idea of blood to reflect that she is metaphorically "killing off the competition". The idea however was hard to organise within the time constraints of organising the photograph within school time and the final idea turned out insufficient. This picture idea was both too hard to take and not a striking enough image for supporting half of my double page spread.

I understood, therefore, that it was neccessary for me to change the idea for the purpose of both making it easier to take and also to make it look more authentic towards my magazine. And so whilst drafting, my concepts on the morning of Friday the 14th, I concieved the idea of having my model, Jessie, lying on a bed of CD discs. However, it later occured to me that this was a result of subconciously recalling a single cover I had seen in the past, pictured below.



When I discussed this with my teacher she brought it to my attention that this shot was merely a remake of a famous shot from the film American beauty in the iconic shot of Mena Suvari lies upon a bed of petals with them covering parts of her body. And so, I decided that recreating an iconic pose would be a good route to go down, yet an album cover modern recreation would be much more inkeeping with a music magazine. When searching the term "iconic album covers" on google images, I was reminded of the classic cover for the Clash's "London Calling". Although the cover star may not be in the vein of punk rock and not reflective of what the Clash embody, the ideals of shaking up things and not obeying the rules are alive in both Jessie and Joe Strummer. Also due to the faded background and minimal props required this would not be a hard recreation. However, it was essential that there was an element that placed the picture within the vein of my article and this came through changing London Calling to Hollywood Calling, in keeping with the rags to riches ideas expressed in the article itself.