With so much of our world going online these days with e-zines forums and websites
etc,
it's kinda reassuring to know that they're some professional, traditional
photography magazines available on the news stands.
We've come here to cheltam to visit archland, publisher of
photography magizines, to
see what goes into the making of two national photography titles.
Excuse me is Adam scory about?
Yes, he's just in the cuboard
story yeah, thankyou. Scory, Hello mate how are you doing? you alright?
yeah i'm alright, what are you doing in the naughty cuboard? yeah naughty cuboard yeah good one.
We've just had a re-vamp so we're just packing this sort of stuff away and
i'm busuy opening boxes and tidying stuff away, so
yeah. Cool, I haven't seen you for ages. It's been a year, yeah it has.
So you, all out here then? No no my desks these centre ones here,
like this the ones on is this sense 1 p.m.
the one on the left there, so this is my little small team,
so we're talking 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
seven, yeah seven or eight people, and there's
two national photography magazines in one month, or more actually yeah
it's a busy little department yeah. They beaver away like made actually,
I mean that the common thing is, yeah beavers, we do more than just
photo's, i mean we do stuff like
we've got english homes, english gardens, so you're a big group? Yeah.
there's all sorts of magazines, not just photos.
Cool, anyway erm, i'm a bit busy,
i know the girls upstairs are just having a meeting so it's probably
a good idea that you start with them, I can get
finished here and then we can talk a bit later, is that alright?
Yeah alright mate, I'll see you in a bit.
We're just doing a page plan, which is this piece of
paper here,
that's one of our bible if you like.
This is basically the magzine, this is every single page,
got it. So you've gotta fill every single one of these? these are
dps's as i believe are the little page spread,
yeah the little page spread, this is just, basically a look of the whole magazine of how it's gonna look and been layed out,
star designers and also creditorials, this is a big loop about how it's going to be coming togetehr.
so we've got one hundred and fifty nine, is that right? of these sort of advertising pages or something?
it's one hundred and sixteen so this is where the magazine ends,
and these grey boxes are advertising, got you, so you can see there all that has to be planned out
and so you you literally bring it in on each box and so you literally write in on each little
box what you're gonna do and how it's gonna stick together? Yeah that's the only way to have
good over view of what's happening and where things are,
and to see which articles we have got in already,
what are we waiting for ? is anything going to be late? this is a good way to kind of.. er
to lay it out and know what you're doing, so
yeah, and also because we're a splitting photgraphy department
we're splitting up into different genres and sections of photography,
it sort of helps us, erm to figure out how
we're gonna factor different parts in, like that'll be good for landscapes and
what'll be good for portraits, things like that,
so we really have a noble view of how the magazines going to be layed out and what should go where.
Got you, so we've got two different titles here, i mean we've got professional
photographer
and photography monthly, So
they have two very different styles for the different readerships,
I think so but also because erm, as Catherine says, professional photgrapher
is for professionals by professionals, where as photography monthly is an
enthusiasm magazine, erm so yeah
they're quite different audiences.
Yeah, so we wont have er how to articles
because we're not gonna tell professional photographers how to do things.
So just kind of more about liker erm how a shoot goes or how that photographer aproaches
it
in their own unique way rather than you know I used F 11
at two hundered millimeters, yeah yeah, it's that sort of thing? Yeah exactly so you're writing stufff down
that you did, so you say you've got your contributer,
so how would a contributer, probably from your photography monthly
how would a reader get involved with this sort of thing because i'm sure that they would love to do
so? Yeah so we have a website where they can upload their pictures
we have a rediscovery with a kid like that pictures and there were also you
and erm we're also looking for any interesting stories out there you know that they might have,
a particular feature that
erm allows photographers to combine
the photography with a hobby,
if they're interested in surfing or climbing and they like to shoot that in their own time
as well,
either they're a different photographer or they have another different day job, then it's quite an interesting way to look at it,
and surfing is actually one that's coming up
in the next issue, the look on your face you're doing soomethng aren't you? I know
what are you doing? We're actually going to film the surfing
which'll be really really good and erm we're going to go out and
get some people surfing and see how they shoot it as well.
Brilliant, so so, like you've got a feature of the magazine which is also going to be filmed
as is it photographed and
kind of, you're there writing the feature? Yeah definitely, so we're gonna be there
on location with them
watching how they shoot and really giving a disectally of how they do it
so people can go out there and do it themselves, and then that goes on to your pm.tv does it? yeah it does yeah
our chanel yeah, we'll film it and everyone will be able to watch it online, yeah.
Yeah more on that one later, yeah. So i mean working as journalists on national
photography magazines obviously sounds like a very glamorous
sort of a job, now many jobs that sound glamorous sometimes are but
does it have it's.. I recently got back from rome, i was very lucky,
I got to go to a exhibtionist, it was
a sort of accomidation to see his years of work
so he's a really rannound, world famous portrait photographer
and that was a fantastic opportunity,
erm, and a lot
of them are quite short and sweet but it's hard work, but obviously
it has it's perks, it's fantastic so yeah.
So i can see like, is it not only the perk of the job travelling but
like for you, you're into photography yourself, yeah i mean
you have to put yourself in the position of the reader and how
and what they wanna know
when you have the chance to meet the photographer who's you know
has really got the most infumous images in the world, to get behind
their lens and ask them what they were really thinking when they shot particular
pictures is sort of a great opportunity, yeah fantastic.
Yeah, okay so when you gathered this wealth of
material , of content of words and images together, what happeneds next?
Well they get edited and then it gets put into a
folder, er images and copies, which gets picked up by design
where our designers
lay them out and make them look fantastic
before it goes to print.