Finished front cover for my magazine



Contents page for my magazine

Finished double page spread

After having discussons with my teacher i have decided to change my magazine in a huge way the ways i am going to change are as follows:change my house style, change my front cover picture so he has a instrument with him. For my contents i have decided to have a image behind the contents of the bass guitar but from the angle of looking down the strings and finally my doule page spread will be dfferent by adding more questions to it and having a better picture with a big banner of who the band is. 

This is the photo that i have used on my front cover i used this one because i believe it is the best one and looks like a photo that would suit best on the front of a music magazine.

I did not choose the phot oabove because i do not think it looks good and does not suit the idea i was going for.

This is  one of the photos  that i am going to use in my double page spread i am going to use it because i think that it is one of the best ones that i have taken of him so that's why i am using it.

This is the second photo i am going to use on my double page spread i am using this one because i think that it looks good because it looks like he is altering the bass its self not just playing it.


These are all my photos which i had to decide which ones to use for my magazine

Magazine front cover

This is my front cover for my magazine as you can see i havent really stuck to what i was going to do in my plan. This is because i came up with another idea of a band member just standing on his own then on the double page spread have him with his instrument.

Plan

Photo planning

·        Person with microphone swinging it round

·        Person holding bass /guitar on a stage

·        Group all stood together no instruments

Contents page photo ideas

·        Person singing into the microphone

·        Band playing their instruments

·        Person playing their bass/guitar

These are just some basic ideas for my photo's there will be alot more because i want to be able to put alot of drafts up on to my blog.

The name of my magazine will be Rock City i decided on this name because rock is the type of music i am going for and i thought that city would be good along side the word rock.

Colour Scheme

My colour scheme for my magazine is going to be blue black and white i decided on these colours because i believe that they work well together and will be a good house style for my magazine.





Price
The price range for my magazine has to be the right cost to be able to keep up with the big brands like Kerrang and NME. If it is not then this magazine will not be successful. So the price i am looking at for my magazine would be around £2 to £2.50 ans maybe abit more if there is anything inside for example a CD or anything like that.




 

Examples of music Magazines

The return of Paramore is a good example of a music magazine cover from the magazine Rock Sound. The magazine looks appealing because visually it is appealing with the bright blue and the band been the center piece of the whole magazine. As you look at the front cover the reader is drawn towards the lead singer in the center of the image because she is jumping in the air and her hair is bright red.

Here is a article from a magazine about Hayley Williams this is a good example of a good layout because the writing fits round the image. Even though the picture takes up most of the space in this double page spread there is still enough room to have a decent article.

Blinks return to kerrang for the first time in 6 years. This magazine would have been a huge hit not just because of whats on the front because kerrang is one of the most popular music magazines there is out there.

This is a Blink 182 article from a magazine about the band returning the problem I find with this particular article is that there seems to be to much writing and the presentation of the whole article might make readers not want to read it because their is a lot of writing which does not seem very interesting. 

Evaluation

This is my final upload of my magazine cover. In the front cover I had to Include images that i took my self which had to have people in it. I decided to just include one person and my image is situated in the new oak building on the balcony near the media department. I decided to have the image there because it gives a good over look of the new building and a good view of the lockers behind the person. I think as the building is all in white it makes the reader be drawn towards it because it looks bright and interesting.

When i first started planning i wanted to have a person outside the new oak building with a book looking towards the building but after taking the image that i put on the magazine i decided i liked that one so i decided to put that on and scrape the image i wanted. The images I took are on the blog and a description of why i didn't want to use them is below the images.  The magazine its self. Before i started the image i decided to use was to dark so i edited on photoshop to make it lighter to bring out the building which i behind him. After i edited that i started to choose a font to write the title and my sub headings.I used a website called http://www.dafont.com/, which gives a range of fonts for any thing you want i decided to use a graffiti like font which you can see on the cover.

The sub headings on my magazine are 2 simple stories. The first one i selected just a question being able to ask the students what they think about the new building. The second one is a exclusive interview with the basketball team where they are going to talk about the upcoming season having won the league last season. The page info is available on the contents page:

This is my contents page highlighting the main stories within the magazine one that is not on the front cover is the students thoughts about the college as a whole. This is just a simple draft showing what goes were and how everything will be displayed.

This is the latest version of my magazine as you can see i have added a interview with the basketball team on to the cover to make it look more interesting.

I decided to use the picture I did because it is on the balcony of the new oak building so you get a small overall look over the persons shoulder of what it looks like from in the inside.  

The picture i really wanted to use was one of someone stood outside of the new building but i could not get on that i liked so i choose this one. I think that the lighting behind him makes the building look brand new because it is all white and giv es it a clean, shining brand new look.