Detailed Draft

I looked at a range of different colour schemes for my music magazine, and so I wanted my masthead to be bright and bold. In the end, I liked the red on the 6 strings and so I went with the third idea on this, but made the full masthead red.

This is in the process of my draft mock up.

This is my draft front cover. Obviously there will be a lot more text on the real one, but I like the use of the purple text, because it matches the model's t-shirt. In addition to this, the masthead '6 STRINGS' really stands out because the colour isn't seen anywhere else on cover.

Production Plan

Detailed Draft Front Page
28th November
29th November

Shoot Photographic Images (at least 20 examples: front page, contents page & double page spread)
5th December
6th December

Photoshop Manipulation Of Images
12th December
13th December

Finalise Front Cover Design
19th December

Complete Front Cover To Deadline
20th December

Photographic Influence

These are some of my photographic influences. This is because the front covers are all very busy, and do not seem to have any room to write more anywhere! I think this is a good thing about NME magazine, because you know in each issue that there is always going to be something worth reading!

These album covers were photographic influence to me because the majority of them are basic images made to look interesting, and appealing. For example, the Two Door Cinema Club album is a basic image of two people stood on a bridge, however, because it has been manipulated by the effect on the picture and the large bold writing above it, it makes it eye catching for anyone. That made it influential to me because I had already chose to make the image on the front of my cover plain like this, and then manipulate the image to draw attention to it. In my opinion, I think I made that work on my front cover quite well. 

Cast

This is the kind of person who would be ideal for the front cover of my music magazine because of the clothing he is wearing. This in itself is one of the many styles that the indie genre is associated with. This is because many of the artists within this genre wear a lot of clothing like this of the model on here. 

Props And Locations

These are my photographic influences of where I could set the main image of my model on my music magazine front cover. I wanted it to be behind a clear background, so the focus was on my model instead of the location it was set. Furthermore, I wanted it to be focused on the way the main artist was stood, and the clothing he was wearing as that would tell any potential consumer who the target audience was. 

These are a variety of the types of clothing items and things associated with the consumer of my genre of music magazine. The audience would probably wear band t shirts relating to my genre, for example, Ramones. In addition to this, Dr Martens are generally seen on a lot of festival go-ers, and a lot of festivals are targeted at the indie genre.

Name Ideas For My Music Magazine

These are some of the ideas I have for the title of my music magazine. I chose two, "6 strings" and "chord" because they are things to do with music, and therefore they both seem like genuine titles. However, I also thought of some other words I could use for a title, and even thought of two acronyms; "NIM" and "PIM" which stand for "New Indie Magazine" and "Popular Indie Magazine". These also would be good magazine titles, because even NME is an acronym.

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