My original ideas

My original ideas

My original idea was to do a Dubstep magazine because I know quite a lot about this genre of music but I wanted to do a magazine that the majority of people would read so eventually I decide to create a rock magazine. In the magazine I will probably have a few articles linking to technology and music to keep it more interesting. This may lead to a greater range of people buy and reading the magazine.

My idea for the front cover is to keep it plain but effective. I will probably use an image of a group of people to make it look like a rock band of people. I will use bold fonts but keep most of them similar but maybe have a few contrasting fonts so that the text can be easily divided up amongst the images.  I would like to keep the image in the middle so I can have all of the text surrounding it. I will have the email address of the magazine somewhere on the page so that it can easily be recognised and by incorporating technology into the magazine it may encourage people to check out the website which may lead to them subscribing to the magazine via the internet.

For the contents page I am unsure on how I am going to lay it out but I am hoping to use lots of images to keep it interesting. I’ll use some of the colours from the front cover and this will tie them both together. I may add and editor’s note on this page but I may decide against it because I don’t think it really suits the style of my magazine. I will make sure I have the email address of the magazine on this page too, in case the reader missed it on the front cover. I may have it on most pages where possible to keep the idea fresh in the readers mind.

For my feature article I may write an interview of the band on the front cover, linking to how they became famous and what music means to them.  This may include more images of the band members posing on the page. I will use simple fonts because I don’t want it to look too crowded with all the images and stuff going on, on the page.

For the images, I hope to take lots of the different members of the band posing in lots of different ways to show how down to earth they are which may make the target audience feel more comfortable reading it. I would like to take them mainly outside but that depends on the weather, if it’s too dark and gloomy I will probably take them in the photography studio because of all of the lighting equipment we have available. I may take some of the photos in the studio and then edit them onto a different background so that I don’t have to worry too much about a detailed background. I think that a simple background will be more affective as it won’t take the attention away from the images and text on the page.