Double page spread

For my double page spread I want to keep it simple. As the girl is the main person out of the 2 I'd like her having the bigger picture alone. I am aware my sketch looks very plain, but this is just a rough and along the way I'll be adding certain things. When it comes to the photography there will be more features and back grounding in the double pages spread. This is just a rough outline of what I'm currently thinking. 

Contents page

From looking at many contents page styles in rock magazines I've picked various features from them all and came up with my own. From the sketch you can see that I'd like all the images and page numbers to stand out by being big and bold, with just a sentence of text explaining what that specific page is featuring. Also in my contents page I will be keeping in with the colour scheme of black red and white. 

Front cover

I've had a few ideas for what style I'd like the front cover of my magazine to look like, this is what I've come up with; my favourite idea and it is the style I want for this magazine. 

Model Research

I showed my target audience a range of models that were in the line up to becoming the models for my magazine.


From their results these are the models I have chosen that my target audience think are suitable and work well with the rock genre:

Colour scheme

As I am doing a rock magazine I'm using the colour scheme of red and black. I have chose these colours because they are the stereotypical colours to use for a rock magazine and they are both uni sex colours, therefore it will appeal to both the males and females in my target audience. 

Over the past few days I've been doing an informal tally chart is which title friends and family like the best, from this I have found out that they like the name BLACK VELVET the best but in the black BLUR writing. Now this has been pointed out to me I prefer it also, BLACK VELVET is going to be my magazine title.

These are some initial sketches that I have in mind for the title, as my magazine is rock the colour schemes I'm going for is black and red. I wanted these colours to be part of the title which is one of the first things my audience will look at. 

Title Ideas

As I want to do a rock magazine it's been hard to come up with an appropriate title but I've thought of some that would be perfect: 

Black Velvet

High Voltage 

Blur

- there's are my main 3 and I'll be doing target audience research to see which my audience will prefer. 

I found out today that I passed my school magazine!
 As an introductory task I did a school magazine to get a understanding and develop my skills in order to do my best on my music magazine. The requirements for the magazine was to create a front cover and contents page appropriate to be viewed students.To impress the teacher my main goal was to use some of the main conventions of a school magazine, such a medium close up of a student.  I found creating the contents page easier than the front page, as on the front page I struggled to find a eye catching way to position all the stories and my main model. ( also my Photoshop cutting out skills aren't great ) Where as on my contents page I knew exactly were I was positioning all the stories and the appropriate images. Overall I found the task very enjoyable and this introductory has expanded my skills on Photoshop and InDesign to get me ready for the Music Magazine and has been a great introduction to show off my new and improved skills. 

Welcome

Hi everyone, I'm Iona. This is a blog for my Music Magazine I'm creating to show you all my progress and eventually my final product! I will also be showing you all my initial ideas along the way. Hope you all enjoy.