Music Magazine - Front Cover Draft

This is the draft for my music magazine front cover. I haven’t finalised all of the details of the front cover yet however it is all coming together. The house style and colour for my music magazine will probably change to a different font and the colour scheme probably will be red, black and white. This colour scheme is more befitting my indie/rock music genre. Currently the masthead is gold however I may change it to a colour which matches the photo more.

The masthead for my magazine is in upper-case. This is another conventional feature of a magazine. In a lot of magazine their masthead is in upper-case. They've done this to make it eye catchy and so that it would stand out more from the rest. There I have also conform to that convention and made my masthead big and bold. 

Currently this is the image I am using however I think I would most likely change it to an image that I’ve shot a few weeks before. I am currently contemplating on which photo would be the best for my front cover and looks more professional and sophisticate. 

Music Magazine Contents Page Draft

This is a draft of my contents page. Through research and planning I have come up with an idea of what the contents page would look like. I the magazines I have looked at are: Q, KERRANG, NME, and MOJO.  

Currently I haven’t decided on what colours to use for the contents page that’s why currently it’s in black and white. The colour scheme for the contents page will be similar to the colour scheme on the front cover. When I have decide on what colour to use for the magazine and as part of the magazine house style I will then use the same colour on the contents page.  As for the images I plan to add a few more to fill up the page. These images should relate to the magazine.

 

As for the content of the page I will be adding names of popular indie/rock artist. This is to attract the audience interest and will intern convince them to buy the magazine. 

Music Magazine Double Page Spread Draft

When I shot this photo I composed it so that he is on the left or on the right side. This is so that I won’t have to change the background colour for the next page but instead use the background that is already there.

Also for the double page spread I need to add a line down the middle of the page. This is to indicate that this is a double page spread and where the spin is separating the pages.

I have already written an article for the double page spread. The article will be an interview with the artist OMNI. I have already double check the spelling and punctuation to my best. I have made the questions in bold while the answer will not be. I will also add a pull quote to the page that’s why there is a space in the middle of the article.  

The red title and the guitar is part of the house style. Although the double page spread doesn’t need any to do with the house style however because of the background colour and the colours on the page I feel that the dark colour red or burgundy red would suit the colour of the title.

 

An addition to the page is the page number. In all magazine pages there is a page number to indicate what content is in what page. Therefore it is important part of a magazine convention. 

Music Magazine OMNI Album Design

OMNI is the name of the artist in my magazine. By using Photoshop I created design based on looking at other indie albums. They all have similarities like symbols, shapes, and animals. Though this research I created this album art design as OMNI's new album. I am very satisfied by what I've created. To me this album design looks quite realistic to a indie album design. I feel that I've achieve what I wanted to do and satisfied with my work.

Music Magazine Best Photos (Shoot 2)

This my second shoot. This shoot was shot in the same location however this shoot was during in the morning instead of at night like the first shoot. Through these two shoot I can pick between these pictures when creating the magazine. In this second shoot I feel that I am quite satisfied with my shoot just the same as my first shoot. 

Music Magazine Best Photos (Shoot 1)

This is some of my best photos for my first shoot for my music magazine. For this shoot I have brought a tripod, a DLSR camera and some lighting equipment. The tripod is to stabilise the camera so that it doesn’t blur. The DSLSR camera is use to take high resolution photo and for clear and good quality photos. The lighting equipment is there is the location of the setting is too dark as we are good when it’s quite dark.

I feel that this shoot went quite well. I have completed my objectives and now I am able to start creating my music magazine. Based on my research and planning I will pick pictures which look good and which would suit my genre of music and appeal to my target audience. 

Analysis of a Music Magazine Double Page Spread

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Analysis of a Music Magazine Contents Page

Analysis of a Music Magazine Front Cover

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Masthead Research

Conventions of a Music Magazine

Front Cover 

Contents Page 

Double Page Spread

Music Magazine Digital Flat Plan

 

 

For my music magazine I have created a hand drawn flat plan and also a digital flat plan. The use of the flat plan has helped me think clearly of what I am doing. For my drawn flat plan I didn’t have a clear idea of what photos I would be using so I just drawn a first draft flat plan. After a lot of research I now know what the layout will definitely be based on. Initially the first draft for my flat plan was something you would typically see and conventional. My of the ideas for the layout came from VIBE the rap & RnB magazine.

For the digital flat plan the main inspiration came from NME, Q magazine and KERRANG! For instance for my contents page the layout is the same as NME contents page and also KERRANG magazine masthead has a spider web like design and I thought maybe I use that in my music magazine. I have used a lot of magazine as reference and inspiration for my magazine. For the front cover of my magazine I have placed majority of conventions you would normally see on a magazine. The conventions are there so that the audience are able to understand and interpret information of the magazine easily. For my double page spread I am still not very clear of the layout however it will all come together after I have created the front cover and the contents page.

Music Magazine Drawn Flat Plan

Based of the conventions of a music magazine I have created a flat plan of what my music magazine may look like.