Step 4

4. Added Star Plus The Black Block At The Bottom Will Be Used For More
Text & Design

I still felt it didn't look good enough to start messing around with the background and start typing stories on the front page. So, i added a start in between the words soul and city just to get a more authentic look to the front cover and i also added at the bottom the black overlay which would contain more once i reached that part. I felt that this was now starting to look like a good piece of work and at this moment i was satisfied.

Step 2 & 3

2.Photo Plus Text Downloaded from Dafont
3. Text With Black & White Gradient

I went onto the website Dafont.com to find some fonts i could experiment with my the one used on here, which is called Confessions immediately caught my eye. I think this is because that font is associated with 70's or 80's soul or disco, which would explain the disco ball used for the letter "o" which i thought was perfect for my magazines genre.

I made the text a dark pink because i feel that colour
is identified with soul and R&B. When i added the text
to the photo it didn't look right so i added a black and white gradient at the top of the photo
and cropped the photo as well. I wanted the text to stand out more which was why i added
a dark gradient and i think this was successful.

Magazine Ressurection

after receiving feedback from my other front cover, i have decided to start again and i will show you how i will create my new front cover step by step.

Step 1 : New Photo Of My Brother

The reason why i started again with a new picture was because
i noticed my other designs went really thought and rushed. Therefore
i took a new photo of my brother, this time with him wearing the clothes that are fashionable and can be identified with an R&B/Soul genre of music.
The angle is a low angle shot and i used this because it makes the person in the photo look bigger and therefore,dominant. I wanted the target audience to be for all ages and any social class and i think this was achieved to to no explicit material.

Unfinished Front Cover & Final Design

Left Side: Abandoned Design
Right Side: Final Design

Original Pic and Text

Text i created at home
using Gimp 2.6









Photo of my brother i took at home

My Magazines Genre & The Photos I Taken For It

For a few days i pondered on what genre my magazine would represent. At first i thought i would try rock but that fell through as i felt i would much rather create a soul and RnB magazine as that is the music i am most familiar with. So, bearing in mine my research into magazines and studying how RnB mags are displayed, i asked my brother if i could use him for the photos. He agreed :)
So now i have taken a few demo photos of him to see which pose is best and what kind of angles and clothing he should be wearing. Today, i plan to take more pics of him which i will include in my magazine.

If that wasnt good enough his friends have also offered to help aswell so i am very happy at the moment :D The photos have all been taken in my front room but i plan to edit that out and use a different background in order for it to look for realistic and RnB focused

Music Magazine research and ideas

Today and yesterday we were told that our next piece of coursework would be the designing of a music magazine. This magazine will have to consisit of a front pager, contents and a double page spread. Yesterday i looked up a few magazines that have different target audiences and compared them to each other. I found that depending on the style of text, imagery and the whole layout of the front page you can figure out who the target audience is.

Today i am going to continue this research and then come up with a few ideas about how i am going to create my own magazine, which genre of music i will use and the target audience. We also have to use our own images for this coursework so i will ask a few friends to help me out with these pictures and i know a few of them have a lot of instuments and costumes i could use for the photos.