Mock up and photos

I`ve decided that my magazine is going to be indie/rock. I have chosen this genre because i personally like the music and also we researched this genre in class, so i think that it will be easier to produce this kind of magazine.The music magazines i have researched to get ideas for my own, helped in the design of mine. NME and Kerrang were the main magazines i based my mock up on. The target audience for my magazine would be aimed at young adults and teenagers 15-30 varried age, that are intrested in this genre of music and trends therefore the magazine will apeal to what they enjoy. Images will be of bands, current and upcoming, advertising images from gigs and events. Design of the magazine colours; black white and red, fonts; bold, catching attention and appealing to the audience. Identity role models would be of artists and bands featured in the magazine, trends would be topshop/topman etc. Interactivity of the magazine would include interviews, reviews, and competions that are advertised in the magazine that link to the website and voting for events such as awards that happen. Surveillance would include festivals, gigs, awards ( N! awards). Escape making it enjoyable to read because its up to date in what their intrested in such as music, events, fashion. My magazine will appeal to an audience that are intrested in indie/rock music also such trends that are seen within this category of music. In the magazine there will be interviews with exclusive bands and artists also reviews on the latest music, events and gigs. This will encourage my target audience to enjoy the magazine and have a sense of escape when reading it, being up to date with the latest music and events.

There were a few problems with designing the mock up, i had trouble with the layout and how to link the house style to the style and genre of the magazine. But with a few days of working on it everything seemed to sort itself out. Throughout the magazine i need to remember to use the same fonts and style of headings to gain the house style.

The plan for my front cover is i plan to use a large image that will take up most of the front cover and stand out. Then have smaller images towards the bottom advertising smaller stories that will appear inside, one of the images advertising the double page spread. Also my front cover will have, a bold title that will be at the top of the cover, bold headings and bright coloured backgrounds behind the text. Date, price and bar code.

For the contents page is to have one big picture the covers the top half of the page then below have 3 columns with page numbers and titles linking to whichever page, also using smaller images and text to relate to pages included in the magazine, but not too many so that the page will look overcrowed, the title will be in the same font that i have chosen and will be bright to include colour.

And for my double page spread is to have the main image covering the two pages with a bold title, then a few paragraph`s underneath about it. Then to the right hand edge of the page have a photostrip of images also realted to the main image and information given.



I came up with ideas that i could use for some of the photographs, these being some photos that i already had taken at gigs, and festivals that i had been to, also i could relate the stories and advertising of events in my magazine. The other photos that i am going to use have been planned out i have the people that i am going to use, and there outfits etc all done and photos taken.

It was important that we had our photographs and mock ups ready for last weeks double lesson (11th March) so that we could start straight away on out main task, and that there would be no confusion as to what to do.