Tuesday, 3 February 2009

A update on my ongoing music magazine

In the past couple of lessons, my magazine has began to take form. I have chosen my locations for my photographs. These are my previous high school, as they have superb facilities and a available free studio, meaning i can edit the environment as to how i like and my garage. The house is contstantly available.
My model is a close friend who lives nearby. Not only does he play the guitar he is old fashioned and organiszing costumes or props should not be a problem as he is what my audience relate to. Also living nearby means i can contact him easily and meet up easily. I own a high quality camera and have appropriate editing software therefore i do not need to book equipment.
Ive chosen my layout designing a mock front cover, contents page, and doublespread. I researched into several fonts and have drawn up a shortlist of styles, and have found 1942 report, Noiret blanc, beauty school dropout and all hooked up. These will be demonstarted below along with scanned in versions of my mock design pages.

I have began writing my double page spread interview about my friend. This hasnt been completed yet as the other issues i felt were of higher importance. I plan to have a large image which will cover the double spread with white writing in the bottom left hand corner. There will be an adequate amount of writing to match my audience who will enjoy reading rather than just looking at a picture.
Looking into the colour schemes that will help construct my brand image, I have found various schemes that could work, My front cover will have a black and white font relating to the main sell image, and the contents will be a little more brighter. The audience for this genre will appreciate the colour scheme as the my font choices will connote the retro age my audience currently like.
In the next few days i will post a updated blog showing a time table / schedule for my half term preperations.


Attached below are the font style shortlist:

All Hooked up




Beauty school dropout





Noir et blanc.

.





Attached below are my mock designs of the front cover, contents page and double spread.

Front cover


Contents


Double page spread.

No comments: