Front Cover Mock up

I made 2 Different Mock up of my music magazines front cover, the is only two similarities between the two is that i have banner going across the page diagonally at the bottom of the page, and also that i have my masthead located in the top left hand corner of my magazines front cover. i decided to not go for design 1 because i felt that it was too generic and very similar to most of today's common magazines

Design 1:

Design 2:

College Magazine - Finished

Analysis Contents Page

Features Of A Contents Page

when designing and creating a mock up of my main contents page

Research - Double Page Spread

Research - Contents Page

Research - Front Cover

Photoshoot

For the photoshoot i chose the stage in the main hall at college, mainly because it was a large space with a variety of different coloured backdrops that could be switched easily and there was many power points in the area of the stage, for the photoshoot i had a variety of lighting set up for my photoshoot and Kit Hicks as my model, i also had a guitar with me to use a prop.

Evaluation

Music Magazine Masthead

My Music magazine is called Sticks + Stones, and due to this name my masthead needs a style that can be easily associated with classic rock, i created 4 variations of the same masthead the only similarity of them is that for the word sticks i have made them out of drum sticks or actual sticks apart from one masthead which does not share these similarities, variation 1 has the "+" in Sticks + Stones apart from one masthead which does not share these similarities

Variation 1 (Image Bellow) I used an image of a drum stick that I acquired from the internet to form the word "Sticks" and the "+" of my magazines name. I did this using simple manipulation tools in Photoshop for example I rotated, scaled and duplicated.

the main reason I decided against using this masthead is because the stylization of the word "Stones" I felt it seemed too cartoon like for a professional classic rock magazine.

Variation 2 (Image Below) is similar to Variation 1 apart from i used the warp tool in Photoshop to make the word "sticks" seem more natural and easier to read, the block like style of variation 1 made it hard to read.

Variation 3 (Image Below) this variation was my favourite because it was easy to read and still related to the genre of the magazine and the title of the magazine.

Variation 4 (Image Below) in this variation i used a font that i acquired from www.dafont.com the font is called stickchop and the main reason this font stood out to me from the rest is because of the similaritys to bamboo which is related to the word "Sticks". the other font used in this masthead was called "stonehenge" which is what i got from the same website as the "stickchop" font, i felt that this font did not seem as rock orientated as i like and did not relate as well to the magazine as Variation 3.

after creating these 4 different variations for my masthead i felt that variation 3 was best suited for my magazine because it looked more rock appropiate and coresponds with the words in the title "Sticks + Stones".

Publication Plan

Publication Plan

Magazine Name:  STICKS AND STONES

Stylized Name:

http://www.dafont.com/stonehenge-loboloco.font

http://www.dafont.com/stickchop.font

Positioning Statement: Stick it to da man!

Price: £1.99

Distribution: sold at all major retailers and music shops and festivals

Rationale:  the reason behind the magazine is to supply people my age with a magazine that is informal and cheap which allows them to catch up with the world of Classic Rock.

Style:  the magazine main style and approach will be of an informal manor with a free Rock look, eg. Posters and peeling stickers to help with the styling of each page but it will also help with maintaining a house style throughout the magazine

1p = 1 Page

2p = 2 Page

Regular Content:

1.       Editors note

2.       Band Interview – M(1p)

3.       General Charts(1p)

4.       Classic Rock Chart (1p)

5.       Featured albums – 4 (2 page spread)

6.       Band News(half p)

7.       Calendar/Upcoming Events(pull out poster)

8.       Our Gig Reviews(1p)

9.       This month’s YouTube must watch (5 videos)(1p)

10.   Fans in Force (2p)

11.   Featured Songs(5 Songs)

12.   History 101 (important dates related to the current months)

13.   Labelless (unsigned band of month)

Featured Content:

1.       Artist Interview – F(2p)

2.       Artist Mini Biography(half p)

3.       Money, Money, Money - Spotify not paying artist enough royalties and other stories(1p)

4.       Bridging the Genres – cross genre music(1p)

5.       Festival Horror stories(bad experiences) (1p)

6.       Turn Back Time – our favourite broken up bands(2p)

7.       Fans Speak out – Gig Reviews from Fans

8.       When Genres Clash – unusual music collaborations e.g. Aerosmith + Run DMC (2p)

9.       Live feed (Festival News/lineups)

10.   Live Fools (top 10 concert bloopers)

Styling

Cover lines: Franklin Gothic Medium (Bold)

Headlines: Franklin Gothic Demi Cond (Not Bold)

Captions: Franklin Gothic Demi Cond (Bold)

Body Text: Century Gothic