Photo Shoot Ideas

Image Ideas

Mise-en-scene
My images for my cover, my contents page and my double page spread must include the conventional rock props. The Kerrang! issue to the right (K1540) includes a guitar and a drum kit, traditionally associated with rock music, which makes this issue of Kerrang! a great example of rock mise-en-scene. However, I don't need to include these in my magazine, but it will make my cover more believable.



Clothing
As shown above, it is very unlikely for rock artists to wear bright colored clothing. The most likely color for a rock artist to wear is black, as this represents rock. Some artists differ from this, such as Hayley Williams of Paramore (as shown below), who's clothing always catches the eye because it is so bright. Many rock enthusiasts like Hayley's style, and because of this I have decided to have clothing like hers on my cover.

Background
It is better to use a blank, simple colored background for my magazine because it will make it more believeable, such as the Kerrang! issue to the left looks more conventional and more professional than the Kerrang! issue above. I will choose either black or white, depending on how my main image contrasts.

 



Lighting

My main image needs to be very well lit in order to look conventional, and so the main model is easily seen. If the image was to be dark and dismal, my magazine would not look very professional, and would not be a believable front cover. If my image was too bright, my magazine wouldn't be dark enough to have a contast balance.



Focus Group

Study

 

I am going to carry out a study using people my age. This shall be a focus group and I will interview them to find out what teenagers expect from a music magazine, and what it should contain. I will use their feedback to create my own magazine that will fit what they have described. The questions I will ask are the following:

Q1. Do you buy any music magazines?

Q2. What would you expect the front of a music magazine to look like?

Q3. Would you be more likely to buy the magazine if there was a free gift/offer?

Q4. Do you prefer weekly, less expensive magazines to monthly, costly magazines?

Q5. Do you prefer an entire band on the front of magazines, of just one member?

Q6. How many pages would a weekly music magazine have compared to a monthly music magazine?

Q7. What would you expect the main article of a music magazine to be about?

Q8. Finally, what genre music magazine would you prefer to buy?

Fonts and Color Schemes

FONTS

My magazine is in the rock genre, and I have decided to choose different handwritten fonts for my text. Microsoft and Photoshop do not have fonts that I think are ideal for my magazine, but some websites offer free to use fonts that I want to use in my magazine, such as the following:

  http://www.1001fonts.com/candy-inc-font.html

http://www.1001fonts.com/angel-tears-font.html

http://www.1001fonts.com/brushed-font.html

http://www.1001fonts.com/the-unseen-font.html

http://www.1001fonts.com/mostlymono-font.html

http://www.1001fonts.com/protestpaint-bb-font.html

http://www.1001fonts.com/kg-tangled-up-in-you-font.html

http://www.1001fonts.com/kg-chasing-pavements-font.html

http://www.dafont.com/the-chicken-love-story.font

http://www.dafont.com/colors-of-autumn.font

http://www.dafont.com/cf-jack-story.font

http://www.dafont.com/trash-hand.font

 

COLORS

 

The color of my text is just as important as the font, and therefore I also need to plan out a color scheme for my magazine. Since my magazine is in the rock genre, I will use bright, contrasting colors to represent the loudness of rock music.

Music Magazine Templates

 

I have decided to use the contents template from my college magazine for my music magazine. I think this template is perfectly suitable for a music magazine and is a good first draft of a contents page.