My magazine layout: possibilities.

This magazine layout follows the main codes and conventions of a magazine cover. I could easily make it look original and different by adding my own images and fashioning my own ideas into it.
I looked at existing magazines that used the main codes and conventions such as New Music Express and Q magazine. The main strapline would be bold and standing out, however the main image of the band I am choosing would over ride this headline and the main quote or statement would be seen as 'wonky' to symbolise the 'sticker' look that shows disinterest but care.

List of possible names

For my magazine, I need to come up with an appropriate names that will both hail in my wanted target audience and fashion well with my chosen genre.

-Amplified. I thought this could be a strong contender; it's simple and could mirror the importance of the magazine.

-iMuse. This stands for indie music and I think can be used effectively when the capitals are done this way.

-untitled. This name could hail in my chosen target audience, it's ironic and has a sense of calm disinterest

-Restless. This party culture, 'sex, drugs and rock'n'roll' reflects the magazine I would hope to create.

-RockIt. A pun in 'rocket' and easy to remember.

-Indee. I really like this title because it's simple and obvious.

Possible ideas for images I could reinact in my magazine

This image here is the previous album cover for the Arctic monkeys. To me, I believe this picture works effectively in order to hail the audience in. The model is squinting, however looking directly at the camera, he has a sense of rebelliousness about him, with his laid back overgrown facial hair and cigarette. This in turn, gives the a better idea of what I would like my front cover to look like. However instead of making the model look grungy, I believe my target audience could identify with someone who is cleaner cut, female audiences in particular.

If I used a male model for my front cover, it could persuasively address the female audiences; and in turn hail in men as well, for it could either be an aspiration or even for them to signal with the 'rock stars' life and empathise with them.



Female model ideas.

This image here was previously featured in INDIE magazine. The clothes she is wearing fits with the indie brief and her pose is calm and cool. If I used a female model a lot like this I believe it could attract both male and female audiences appropriately. Women would want to look like her and men would be physically attracted to her 'mysterious ways'.

possible fonts for my magazine

This font if simplistic , but seems a really appealing font to use on my magazine

This font is different and could attract my target audience apprpriately.

I like this font I could fill the white with an approriate colour and is simple yet different.

This I think may be too bold for my front cover, however I do like the font.

Changes of my development and ideas.

Rather than following the codes and conventions with a music magazine, I have decided to go against the whole enigma. In music magazines such as 'Q' and 'NME' the colours and font are quite bold, there are lots of pictures and colour. Although this technique looks good, I would much prefer to do the magazine differently, instead of a colour scheme of red, black and yellow, for example I shall chose grey, black and white. Instead of draining the magazine with many picture and description I shall be to the point and sharp about what I say. To keep my magazine simple and effective I would include any pictures on the front cover as I feel it could ruin the whole effect. Although 'ELLE' magazine is not a music magazine, I believe that it could be adequate to base my magazine slightly on the lines of this. However, Instead of my headline being spread across the page I will put it in the left hand corner.

Development: Images

This lighting her ei s quite dull, the model is looking straight t the camera in a mid-shto and there is a guitr as use of iconography.
This picture has good use of iconograpy, I like the lighting used, and the model is looking straight at the camera.
Here are pictures of a band that I took. This first picture was just them messing around, and the one below was them practising for a gig. I decided to use a low angle mid-long shot to signify how the band feel on to of the world. The poses the models are using have an element of fun attached to them and this would represent to the audience how not everything has to become serious.

Here is a picture of another band practicing their songs in a studio. I decided to use a high angle long shot of this band to get a wholly view of each member of the band. It also looks as if it's from birds-eye view and that we got 'secret access' to take pictures and interview the band.

Typical Indie Girl. (magazine images)

Here are some photos I took of a girl aged 16. I dressed her up in what seems a typical indie girl would wear, I used her to attract the female audience and the male. I believe this would hail in both genders because women would be attracted to the way she's dressed and men for the Physical aspect.

In this picture I have used the appropriate iconography, a guitar. I have sue this in order to hail in the audience that enjoy music and want it to be the prime part of the magazine. She is looking at the guitar almost admiring it. I have dressed her in a checkered shirt and a pair of black ankle boots which are also shown bolder to reflect her interest in fashion.

I included a guitar also in this image. I used a mid-long shot with the model looking directly at the camera. however I don't think I will use this image in the magazine because it looks more 'grumpy' than calm.

This picture I believe to be very effective, I think that it highlights the model's features. I like the use of the colours used in the pictures when I edited it. I did this by turning down the brightness and turning up the contrasts. I made it quite bright and to make the model look fresh and pure, to contradict the front cover of grunge and black and white.

I think this picture to release the funny side of the model. She has thrown her shrug on the floor and has decided that this is far more interesting. This is something that I could use in a double page spread to duplicate not just that the artist is into her music but she has an out-going personality as well!

This picture is a high possibility as a front cover. The model is looking at the camera and alluring in the audience is an allusive manner. This in turn will hail in the appropriate audience for the magazine. Once again I have contrasted the colours in this picture to make the model's skin look pale and interesting, she looks pure and has that 'girl next door' look to allure in the male audience.

Here is the model lying on the floor with her guitar led on the scattered clothes around her. This could symbolise the materialism of the readers or the recklessness to do anything. I have made the colours in this picture browner and closer to sepia; this in turn would mirror the look of money and materialism in the shot.



Typical Indie boy. (magazine images)

I took images of a 16 year old male, who I feel would relate and hail in my chosen target audience. His image, to me resembles the classic image of Indie. I looked at pictures of existing or old bands in the past, such as the Buzzcocks and created a look based on them.
(The image of The Buzzcocks is printed above)



PHOTO 1)


This picture could be considerably effective in order to attract my chosen target audience. I adopted a mid-long shot with the camera looking down on the model, the model is looking directly in the camera with a sense of disinterest and moodiness. He is sat on the floor smoking, however controversial; the typical stereotype image of 'Indie' is smoking. Subsequently because of this rebelliousness he is seen as automatically attractive to woman of my audience that I wish to represent, and a person men would aspire to be in order to entice the opposite sex.

PHOTO 2)


The model here is looking away from the camera laughing. The consequence of getting my model to laugh would, in return, convey to the audience that we are, in fact, symbolising and representing them and revealing the element of fun in the subcultures that they belong.


PHOTO 3)


However compelling I believe this shot to be, I didn't realise how close the models head was to the top of the wall. This is unlikely to be part of my magazine. Although, I do hold the opinion that the effect I used on photoshop seems very effective. Although, forgetting this problem, I do like the colour effect of this photo as it's bright, but not too over-exposed.

PHOTO 4)

I believe that this photo would allure female audiences and hail them into reading the magazine. The model is looking away from the camera in a seductive manner biting his lip.
This photo is the original. However in colour I don't think that it's quite as emphatic. As the black and white below.




In this close-up shot I edited it in photoshop by removing the colour and decreasing the green in black and white to create more blue in the picture. This photo would be adequate for the double page spread because rather that the serious poses, it fits in more with the fun side. Much like photo 2.





PHOTO 5)


The effect used on this photo I perceive expressive. The fact of it being in black and white could possibly to epitomises quite the opposite. That everything isn't just black and white. It could mean how people only see what they wish to see, but don't look underneath because on the basis of things there is more. However the colours are too over-exposed and the features of the model is not as visible as I would of encouraged.

PHOTO 6)

This here is the original photo, I portray it as allusive and ambiguous. On the face of this photo we see a young man smoking looking mysterious and rebellious. I used a mid-shot and decided to get what the model was wearing in the shot to signify how Indie's are into their fashion.

PHOTO 7)

Here I have made the image black and white. I feel as if this could be a good contender for the front cover of my music magazine. The model is looking straight at the camera and the use of iconography is alluring. The mdoel is squinting at the camera and coolness in his eyes. We can see the jawline in this picture which looks sharper with the black and white effect; because the model is looking straight at the camera he is drawing in the female audience becoming almost a rebellious 'sex-symbol'.

This picture here is another high possiblity to get into the magazine. I have edited it to make it contrast slightly. The model is looking directly at the camera with the the cigarette in his hand. This wil hail in the female audience with the model in this carefree manner leaning with one leg on the wall.

Here is the original picture.