Font Decision

This is the font I decided to use as my main font for masthead and headings. It is quite conventional with a good mixture of straight lines and minor curves.

This is my masthead in the font above, but I have also edited the 'T' to extend more to the right, so as to make into more of a logo style.

First Draft

Magazine Mock Up

This is a Photoshop Mock-Up I did using outside images so I could work on the layout of my Front Cover

Possible Front Page Images

These are all of the image I took as possible images for my pop music magazine.

Posed but not enough happening in the shot, too still and dull.

Good connotations and bright picture

Too still, not enough movement or anything interesting in the shot for a pop music magazine.

Framing has cut off the models hands and colours do not match.

Background is dark and not white enough.

Good image but the use of prop could lead to  bad anchorage to the image in a music magazine.

Positioning of prop guitar makes it look too big compared to the model.

Good shot. Well framed, relatively simple but  works well

Posed shot with prop but the image looks too still and background looks too dark.

Quirky pose, interesting shot with sunglasses going forwards,  adds depth to the shot.

Bad frame, has cut off the end of the guitar, and background is too dark.

Costume Mood-Board

Colour Scheme

The colour scheme of my magazine will be very busy and full but bold colours will make certain parts stand out over other the top of others and fill the page. This would keep my magazine conventional to the pop music genre. In the example bellow we see only 5 very simple colours and combining this with the many layers of the front page it creates the busyness often seen within pop, that draws in the audience to read further into the page and to the bottom layers of stories and plugs. In my magazine, I hope to use this mass of simple colours as well and to try and fill the pages with images.

Font Ideas

These are fonts I chose out from www.dafont.com, I chose them on a basis of how similar they appeared to be to other font styles of other Pop Music Magazines.

Shot Type Examples

Two Shot - Two people in the same shot, side by side

Group shot - More than two people in the shot

Long Shot - Shows whole body

Posed Shot - The Model is in more of a posed/unnatural position.

Medium Close-up - Shoulder/Chest upwards

Close-up with Bad Framing - Has cropped off the top of the image