The artist Harry Hayes, is a 15 year old boy from London who has made it big extremely quickly, he nearly won a grammy off his first mix tape. I organised the photoshoot with Harry behind a white back drop, as I wanted to be able to add effective shadows easily. Most photoshoots for magazines include a white background and I wanted to be able to make my magazine look as professional as possible. A white background can also make the artist stand out and that is what I wanted as Harry is a up and coming artist. I wanted Harry to still look young but wear a mature outfit so I researched possible outfits that I could dress him in. I found a picture of the Rapper T.I, he is wearing a red polo shirt which is extremely bright and that is what I wanted Harry to look like, bright and bold. After I had chosen Harry's outfit I need to think of possible props he could use to make him look more like a 'Rapper'. I wanted to Harry to wear a simple thin chain, as I didn't want it to be too overpowering, I found that Justin Bieber frequently wears a thin chain and he is a major artist in the Hip Hop industry. As everyone knows one of the stereotypes of being a artist in the Hip Hop and Rap industry is that you are associated with money, but instead of actually having Harry holding money, I choose things that are influenced with money. I made him wear a expensive watch, which is a common thing for rappers and they like to show it off, sometimes by wearing more than one. I found a picture of Justin Timberlake wearing a similar watch to the one in which Harry wore. I also had Harry wear a pair of Dre Beats headphones as Dr Dre the owner of the brand is a extremely big influence in the industry,I could imagine every celebrity must own a pair and alot of celebrities wear them in public. Again when I researched about rappers I found that in almost every picture they have to have a bottle of champagne in there hands, which is something I instantly copied.
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