Photo Shoot number 2

After evaluating my first draft of my front cover, I identified many elements that need to change. I decided that the easiest way to improve my front cover was to use a completely different image. I meet up with my models again to do a new photo shoot.

 Here are the images:

 

I'm going to use this image for my front cover  purely because out of all the images I took, this one works best. I like the way the image focuses more on the lead singer but shows that they are a band. I picked this image due to how the way a front cover layout can be established without intruding the models faces.

 

This image is one of my favourites because I love how natural it looks.I will probably use this on my contents page as you usely find more natural poses. It will also imply a more informal tone which will remove the barrier between audience and artist.

 

 

Pre Production Planning- Front cover design

There was a slight problem with my original front cover image because I had taken it landscape instead of portrait. To be able to use this image I edited the image in photoshop. I firstly cut the band members out indivually using the lasso tool and moving them across to a new blank document. I had to rub certain parts out and move them closer together. I decided the white background didn't look right so I used the eye dropper tool on Mollys jeans and found a colour from that. The clone tool came in very handing because there were parts of Ollie's( male on the right) top missing from where I  postioned him so I cloned the black to create a new part.

Pre Production Planning- flat plans

Front cover

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

Pre Production Planning- front cover ideas

I know I definitely want my masthead across the whole of the top as it makes the cover look striking and bold. I also want to follow the conventions of a magazine by having my coverlines on the left. I looked at the arctic monkeys on Q magazine and they have the band name in a large font positioned at the bottom, which I quite like. 

Pre Production Planning- photo shoot

I really like this image so I'm definitely going to incorporate it in my magazine but I'm not sure where yet. The reason I like it is because the models look really relaxed and natural. this contrasts with the natural location. I also really like the colours from the background, I think they help make the image look 'indie'.

This is the image I took for my front cover, however there have been some complications with the way I have taken it so I'm going to need to adjust this in photoshop. I think this image will work well as a cover image because the models are all looking in the direction of the camera, which grabs readers attentions. The only down side to this image is how the light reflects on the models body,however I maybe able to resolve this problem in photoshop. 

This is my favourite image from the photoshoot, simply because I like how natural they look. 

Pre Production Planning- Article ideas

Regular 

Gig list 

main headline gigs in major cities, 2 pages
How to look indie rock

make up, clothes etc
Hottest bands

arctic monkeys, fall out boys,1997
Feedback
Introducing
Chart list

general chart update
Shots

posters of indiego's  hottest bands
Album reviews

 indiegos top 5 albums with reviews
Rosa Flynn
Competitions

Kings of Leon ticket

Features

Double page spread

introducing dilemma,interview, images 
Festival reviews

biggest most popular festivals, survival kit, 3 pages

Kings of Leon in the studio
Avril Lavigne
Oasis
The killers
Artist comebacks

sudden appearances The Legends

Pre Production Planning- Interview

I want to have a chilled interview, add in some random questions and to just have a chat with the band; nothing formal.

Questions....

1. Have you always dreamed of having a career in music or did it turn up out of the blew?
2. Who inspired you to want a career in music? (role models)
3. How long have you been together as a band?
4. Who is the joker in the band? 
5. Where do you see yourself in 4 years/
6. Where was your first gig?
7. Do you still get nervous performing?
8. Who would you like to perform with?
9. When are you next touring?
10. Celebrity crush?
11. Whats your favourite song?

Pre Production Planning- photo shoot ideas

The Kings of Leon and the Arctic monkeys are both famous indie rock bands. I looked at these photo shoots of the bands in particular for inspiration for my front cover image. I like the layout of the Arctic Monkeys photo and how its in black and white, while I like how two members of the Kings of Leon are looking in the direction of the camera.           

Front cover

I'm going to take an image like the one from Q magazine for my front cover. Below is the composition for this particular photo shoot, focusing on the band from shoulders up. I want them to look directly at the camera to make it look more intense and catch the readers attention.  I haven't decided whether I should have the band members looking in different directions, similar to the arctic monkeys to show that the female is the lead singer. But this is something I will figure out when doing my photo shoot. 

I'm going to have a plain background for the front cover to make it look more professional and then have a background for the other images which will appear in my magazine.

Backgrounds

I like this image of the Arctic monkeys because they are chilled. This is what I would like for my contents page and double page spread images.

 

 

 

Contents Page

My plan for the contents page is to capture a more natural look, such as the band laughing.

I'm going to try and take a picture of the band walking on a road. Instead of having a close up, I'm going to have a body shot to show the band laughing and talking to each other while capturing their body language. 

Other ideas: 

sitting against a wall

leaning on a gate

walking along a road  

My photo shoot will hopefully be outside unless it rains which in that case it will be inside. 

Costumes 

I would like the males in my band to wear denim, leather or printed T-shirts. Clothing with an urban look.I would like the female in my band to wear an outfit based around tights and high boots. This could be something similar to the these images.

 

 

 

I designed this masthead on photoshop using one of their fonts. I got the background from an image online which I then cropped. I really like this design but I have chose not to have it as my magazine masthead because I think it will be hard to design a front cover around. 

Pre-Production planning

Masthead 

This is an analysis of my magazine name to show the idea behind my name. 

 Font style

I asked my media studies group which of the font designs from above they preferred. This helped me identify what design will attract my target audience as the people in my group are the same age.  

 

This is the design my media studies group preferred. Most of them said that they preferred it because of the I. I do like this design but its not my favourite, I prefer the design below.

 

    I designed some more fonts but this time I combined elements from my favourite with the most popular one,so i like the design myself but am still attracting my target audience. The most popular design from my new font style was the second one. However I noticed some features wrong with it. Firstly I realised that by having both capitals and lowercase letters I am not following a convention of a magazine because usually a magazine masthead only uses one. This also might make my masthead hard to remember because the mixture between capitals and lower case letters may cause confusion. Secondly, by having the E,G and O in capitals it looks like its two words, 'indi' and 'EGO'. I improved the design slightly by changing some elements. 

This is the final design that i may use for my magazine masthead. 

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