My Photos

For my photos I am using my Canon EOS 1100D, this is what it looks like. I think it is a really good camera to use as it takes really high quality photos and you can adjust settings on it that will make it look better such as changing the shutter speed, aperture, focus and adding flash. There are also features that will let you take photos that are suitable to certain weather and lighting conditions such as 'outside' and 'dark'.

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These are some of the photos I have decided not not to use. The main reason now to use these following photos is because the photos were a bit blurry, the lighting was bad, the model wasn't looking directly into the camera or because there was people in the background:

Makeup Ideas

This is the moodboard I have made using the app Pic Collage. Two of the biggest female names in rock are Taylor Momsen and Hayley Williams so I thought they would be the best inspirations to use for the female model makeup for my photos. They both have two completely different styles and both look equally as effective. Taylor Momsen wears really heavy, black, smokey eye makeup and this creates a typical heavy rock look and I will get half of my models to do their makeup like this. Hayley Williams' doesn't look as typically rock but works so well, she uses bold, firey colours such as red, orange and yellow eyeshadow and also wear winged eyeliner. I also found an image someone posted on a closer look on how to create this look and this image has really helped. I am also going to get half of my models to wear makeup like this too. I also found an article extract from an interview with her saying what makeup she uses and this has helped a lot too as I can use it as I have a few of the things myself. I want to try and create these looks as well as I can so the images look even better and that my models fit in with the rock genre even more.

Double Page Spread Flat Plan

For my double page spread I want to make it look really similar to ones from inspirational texts that I had looked at. To do this I wanted to include a really large pull quote alongside the main image on the left hand side. In an article in Kerrang! I saw that they included a setlist alongside the main image so I wanted to make something really similar to this so decided to include tour dates as this is something really similar and looks really effective. Also after doing my reader profile and looking at other rock magazine reader profiles a real interest of a lot of the readers was going to gigs and live music so I felt like this feature would be really useful and fit with this theme really well. To also fit with the genre I wanted to create this tour date list on a crumpled up stained piece of paper, I did this using a teabag and this fit really well with the whole rock, chaotic look to the magazine. I wanted to make the image a long shot so it fits the whole page up. I made it a direct mode of address again so it really appeals to the reader and they feel some kind of personal connection with the model. For the font I wanted to make it really easy to read for the readers so I am using red and black alternative text to represent both the interviewer and the singer. I really liked a ransom style of font that I saw on a NME double page spread  that I liked so I used a similar font that I found on dafont.com and I think that it fits really well with the theme. I also added an album review at the bottom as this is another thing my target audience really find interesting. I also made a 'recommended for you' section too so other fans of similar music would be really attracted to the this artist even if they hadn't heard of her. I also used high key lighting to stick the the professional feel like the other images and I stuck to the black and red colour scheme too.

Contents Page Flat Plan

I want to stick to the same colour scheme throughout the magazine as I think this is really important as it identifies that it is the same magazine and genre. I want the contents page to be broken down into categories such as 'News' 'Album Reviews' etc because when I read music magazines I find this really helpful and it makes the layout look really neat. As well as making the magazine easy to read I want the actual layout looking a little messy like other rock magazines where the images are all over and on an angle as this chaotic look really fits with this genre. I want my background to be white as this is what music magazines do and they alternate between text colours of black and red to anchor the images which looks really good. I want to put my main article in the biggest space as this is the thing that will be the most interesting and possibly the reason people would want to read my magazine too. As well as sticking to the same colour scheme I want to use some really similar fonts too. I want to keep the style of bold, capital black font throughout this magazine. I also want to mix the font styles up a little bit too as it will help section off different areas of the contents page and this could be used to help highlight certain areas more if you want to draw the readers attention in, this is things such as the puff in the bottom right third. The model images on this page are both direct and indirect and this is so it looks more varied and so the main article image will stand out more if that is using a direct mode of address it will shift the attention to this image more than others. The shots are mainly medium close ups and close ups and all the lighting is high key also to add a more professional edge like an actual rock magazine.

Front Cover Flat Plan

I want my main image to have a direct mode of address and to be female to attract a male audience as when I looked at other rock magazine reader profiles the audiences is predominately male so male gaze would be a good thing to include. If the image is direct it feels more personal to the reader and really helps to draw them in. I want the lighting to be high key as it creates a much more professional feel and this is the lighting style they use in music magazines. I want the image to be a medium long shot as this gives the reader a large image so they can see a lot going on in the frame and there is more room to tell a story. I want the font to be mainly black as this really stands out well and will contrast really well against the red background which I want. Rock music magazines mainly use a red and black colour scheme using bold, capitalised gothic style font so this is what I want to use. Rock music magazines also use yellow a lot I have noticed to highlight the puff so I will be using a yellow font for this to make it really stand out. I think all of these features of my front cover really relate to my inspirational text and would work really well to help draw in a really interested audience.

Inspiration For Flat Plans

Before I make my final flat plans I want to look at some examples of front covers, contents pages and double page spread layouts from magazines such as Kerrang!, NME and Rocksound.


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Name Ideas

I wanted the name of my magazine to really stand out and sound good. I first of all thought of ideas like NME, and thought what abbreviations I could have that were similar. I came up with 'RMM' -Rock Music Magazine or 'RMH' - Rock Music Hits.

After I thought of these I then thought of names that could relate more to my magazine such as ideas to do with rock music for example, I then came up with the ideas 'Soundwave', 'Beat' and 'Amplitude'.

After thinking of a couple potential names I decided to go with 'Beat' as it related to the magazine as it showed the magazine was music. It also associates the magazine with being rock as the first thing you think of with the word beat is drums which makes you think of rock music. I think it will be a good name to use and sounds quite catchy too.