Music magazine Front cover

Music Magazine Design

 Here is the first draft design of my music magazine. I've made significant changes and additions tony magazine. I have increased the text in the logo so that the magazine may be better recognised from the left-third. Using Preview, I have also used a more accurate crop feature to gain a better outline of my image to look more professional. The inspiration for my design came from the mixmag magazine below. I liked how the anchorage text is used which is why I used a similar idea for my own magazine to show what the image clearly is. From the others I looked at, I thought that this one best represents the genre of music I selected, I noticed one of they key qualities it had that made it look so professional and suitable was the different font designs with each piece of text. It gave it a more vivid look, a more energetic look which of course dance is. Seeing it, I thought it would be an ideal role model for my own design. I have used hyperbolic wording with graphical effects in order to grab readers attention to the magazine. After viewing other dance magazines, I think that the cover lines I have created will give a broad vivid attraction. The barcode is located in the bottom left of the magazine along with the issue and price of the magazine.

Music Magazine contents page ideas

Ideas

Here are some contents page ideas I have drawn. I am still unsure which one I would go with or even use either of them. The idea for the contents page is to boldly show the genre of the music. There are two main ideas I wish to use for the contents page, this is because I think they will be appropriate for representing a dance music magazine. One idea is to use half of ones face as the cover image and arrange the text around the image as it will bring more focus to the page, drawing the reader to the design as a dance music magazine usually contains a flowing, vibrant style. The other is to use a more orderly styled layout, keeping images to one side and text to another. Using one main image and arrange following images beneath it. Although it is not that energetic, it will still have the style of my chosen genre and it will clearly show the text clearly.

Image Editing

Software and Image

Here I took a picture of a model I am using for my front cover. At the moment I am taking multiple shots of him as I am unsure how I want him to pose, the image needs to be suitable for a dance magazine, at the moment I am experimenting to see which image is ideal. Here is one of the images I have taken, using the software iPhoto editing features I cropped the image and edited its colour contrast to give a more vibrant look. I wanted to remove the picture of my model from its background, I did this with the software Preview I used its lasso cropping feature to remove it from the background. I am unsure whether this final image is what i want on my front cover.

Music magazine

Front cover idea

Here is my layout design idea for my music magazine. I want to use a layout style different to my school magazine. The idea for this layout came from the basis of most music magazine front covers of my genre. Although the idea of the logo is the same as my school magazines, I wish to keep it as it is because thats what I intended on doing with my music magazine, this is because it can be recognised by its own original design. The reason as to I've added in a from cover from MixMag music magazine is because I am intrigued by its design. I like how the image has been displayed over the masthead giving more focus and more likely to catch the readers eye, this makes me consider cropping my own photo and using the same style. There is anchorage text used, which is displayed in front of the focus of the image. This particularly caught my eye as it brings more focus and meaning to the main attraction to the front cover. 

School magazine contents page

Contents page inspiration

The reason why this contents page became my inspiration is because of its design structure and its layout. What caught my eye about it was the introductory message at the top of the page and the separated column, the featured articles. I liked the idea of these design ideas so I decided to implament them into my own contents page idea, in my own design style. Another reason why I liked the contents page (where the inspiration for my own came from) is because it was friendly, it gave a welcoming message at the start, the layout was structured well and clearly showed the page numbers for each topic in a organised way. 

School magazine front cover

 Front cover inspiration

Here is the background image I used for my front cover, my final design for my College magazine, and the idea for the style of my sub-headings. You can notice that the image used for the background has changed on my final design. Using iPhoto I edited the image to give a more vibrant, joyful appearance as the original image had a lesser look due to the weather conditions. Also, I used the programme to remove the 'College' masthead to give room for the heading of my magazine, it would look bizarre if I left it there and added in my heading. The college logo was added in to give the same effect as the idea I have for my music magazine, as the heading was further down the page I needed a logo for the top half. The idea for the font design for my heading came from the 'MixMag' music magazine. Although it is a music magazine, I thought that the design would look good as it is simple and modern. The size and style of the magazine would have to remain the same for the next issues of the magazine, I have sort of trapped myself with the design of the heading as it cannot be changed that much. The reason why I was inspired to use the style from the example for my own was because I thought the style is quite fitting, friendly, and suitable for a school/college magazine as it represents the youth of the students.