Conventions: Central Image

My central image of my actor, Megan, will make the audience want to pick my magazine up and read as Megan is looking directly into the camera lens and portraying a serious, dominant and confident look which will indicate to the audience that she is a serious artist who's serious about her music. Despite her serious facial expression, she, overall, has a very youthful look which will draw in the kind of audience my magazine is aimed at.
Here is my Central Image:

Cover Photo Inspiration

Megan is wearing a bold red lipstick, soft pink eye shadow and dark black mascara and winged eyeliner. Her ashy, light blonde/white hair has a lot of volume and is not neatly styled but portrays her edgy, shabby chic look perfectly. The pale lilac top she is wearing and the bold, deep red lipstick presents a clear juxtaposition between the overall youthfulness and the more mature, intense side of the image and what message my actor is portraying to the audience (What kind of magazine 'Vinyl' is: Youthful yet mature, exclusive and edgy).

The cover my photo is inspired by is a Rolling Stone cover that features Debbie Harry (Blondie). It immediately struck me as a very fitting and appropriate, main, style model as I knew I wanted my magazine to have similar styling aspects to the Rolling Stone magazine. I knew my model would be Megan, and I knew she would fit in perfectly with my vision and exactly what kind of message I wanted my magazine to present and the kind of look I knew would attract my main target audience (Young Professionals:17-30).