MUSIC4LIF3

 

Relating back to my target audience, I thought because my target audience is age 14-26. There use language such as ‘slang’ therefore I wanted to create a magazine title which they would understand better. ‘MUSIC4LIF3’

The black looks very formal, but looks really nice as well. Although its just plain and normal the moment. Most mastheads on other magazine has designs on them.

I blured this example, however it didnt look like it went very well. I'm going to use this in my first draft and work on what needs improving from there.

Thought this writing was ‘cool’ however it does look a bit childish and unprofessional. However love the colour purple.

Connationtions of the colour PURPLE: (All underlined ones are the ones relevant)

Independence intuition intellectual spiritual creativity mysterious transformation wisdom

enlightenment royalty nobility ceremony richness power sensitivity passion

love dignity wit keen observation super sensitivity vanity moodiness.

Relating back to my target audience, I thought because my target audience is age 14-26. There use language such as ‘slang’ therefore I wanted to create a magazine title which they would understand better. ‘MUSIC4LIF3’

This is just a draft, I started with creating a few ideas. I wanted to create a music magazine, which had bits about their lifes also. Ive seen a few magazine, which make you want to but it simply because of the the lie about the singer/musician.

I decided to put the cirles on parts of the magazine, these will contain more information and mug shot photographs of 'celebrites' I think knowing what goes on in somebody who is famous' life is very important when trying to sell a magazine.

This photograph is not my genre, but i used it as a template to give me a brief on what my final design/magaizne will look like!

This is a template of my finial draft, yet to be worked on more.

This is basically my offical draft. This will be the layout and colours used on my final piece, all I need to do now is edit my final photograph and fit the picture into my front cover! The red and black make it look alot more preofessional, rather then doing loads of different colours, making it look abit childish.

This image was taken by myself and decided it was a good image to use, however it doesnt match with my genre and the colours make it seem more emo/punk magazine and thats not what I'm trying to achieve.

This is a great example of how i would love my magazine to look. The idea of it been overcrowed means there is alot to read inside and more to look at!

Once my picture is edited, this final draft will be done.

 

MOCK-UP MAGAZINE COVERS

 

This is a mood board I have made to give me a grasp and ideas of how my music magazine will eventually look, and get a feel of what I need to include to be able to make it look as professional as these. Also help me develop some ideas by comparing my magazine to these and see if they are similar and fit in with my genre. The genre is very important in my magazine; these represent hip/hop, rap, chart music.

These also relate to my target audience. 16-24, simply because the music and singers are all targeted at young teenagers, and are represented as idols for people this age, who feel like they need to look like this and dream of looking like this.

Which tells me: All photogrpahs on magazine front covers need to be appealing. Otherwise no one will buy them, simply because the person on the front cover is not appealing...(horrible but true!)

Making and designing different magazine templates helped me understand where everything goes and why on a magazine. By making more then one helped me alot, because at first I decided to just do as many as possible just so it looked like I did a few ideas, simply because I thought I 100% knew what was going to do, but then I ended up using these and examples as help for my final template which was completely different to what I had in mind... I then knew where and what I wanted to put in certain places for my final Music Magazine.

There are two contents pages I got of the Internet (google images) to help me have a better idea of how they can be layed out. Their are so many different contents pages, there isn't actually a pacific way to design them. Therefore I'm going to design it my own way. These gave me a few ideas.