Plans for my front cover

This is  short video to tell you how my magazine is going so far, also about some new ideas and my progress of my magazine in the making.

Market research

I would like to use a black and white image for my front cover. Therefore i have been researching successful music magazines that use black and white images. This is to see how they work and how to make them look good. I found a successful magazine, with the same colour scheme i am planning to do. I also found another one with different colours. I like the idea of having a black and white image because the writing stands out more than on a coloured background. To make my cover look good i think the trick is to make the colours very bright. Also to have a limited colour scheme to keep the simple look, as if there were lots of colours used, the writing would look too busy and the image would be over powered. Also i need to think about what cover lines are what colours because white will not stand out very well on light or grey areas. 

Double page spread Photo shoot

This is the second photo shoot I have done for my magazine. I did a variety of shots for my double page spread. I will be editing these images on photoshop to make the corners of the pictures white. This is because I want each picture to merge into the surrounding ones, so they don't look so separated.

Front cover Photoshoot

These are the best two images i got from my front cover photoshoot, i think they look better edited using sepia tone but when i come to try each one as my main image, if this does not work, i may change them back to colour and see if that works any better. In the second picture, the person is standing on the left, this is unusual because the coverlines would usually go on the right as this is what would be showing if it was stacked on a magazine rack in a shop, therefore i may need to shoot again if i find i deffinatly dont want to use the first image. There is also a picture hook in each photo that i could not get off the wall, therefore i may need to edit this out.

Design ideas for masthead and logo

I am planning on the masthead of my magazine also being the logo, this is because the masthead is the biggest thing on the page and will be most memorable. Here are a few ideas I have been working on but I have not yet made a final decision of what will be appearing on my magazine. The larger font on both logos are called magneto bold. The smaller is called minion pro bold.

Evaluating my magazine designs

I asked my teacher to look at the plan of my magazine to see whether the genre is clear. We discussed this and decided that the images i wish to take and the contents of my magazine will be more 'pop music'. The masthead does not connote this as 'Boombox' describes dance music more than pop. To resolve this problem, i am going to change the masthead of my magazine so it fits in with the girly pop theme. I am also changing the layout of my double page spread. On the left page will be a variety of different photos in different sizes, shapes. The model will be in different poses and looking like they are having fun. On the right page will be all writing about the person on the left page.