Front Covers

 Q magazine Liam Gallagher -The main image of this magazine shows Liam Gallagher staring with a blank expression into the camera. This music magazines mains story is about Liam Gallagher's newly formed band 'beady eye'. The main image is very clever in the that the reflective glasses that liam in wearing shows the other band members, this is also connoted that he the main band member, or the one who calls the shots. With him having the glasses on it connotes him hinding something? The other three band members could be seen as seen as getting left behind in terms of the bands promation in this magazine. The masthead of the megazine is simply Q and it takes up a reasonable chunk of the magazine  in the left hand coner of the magazine, the masthead is bright read and it is really effective because it attracts a big verity of audiences.

XXL magazine Lil Wayne -  
The main image of this magazine from cover shows the artist Lil Wayne, he is looking very angry and aggressive this is connoting that he is about to do something bad or is mad at something. The image is also relevant to the copy as it is very sharp and bold. The masthead of the magazine is behind the artist showing that the magazine is well known so they don't have to show their full masthead. The white vest is camouflaged in with the white background, making his tattoos stand out, this could also make him look more dangerous.  

Props, Places and People

In this blog i will be listing all the Props, Places and People that am using for my magazine photo-shoot.

Prop

• Acoustic Guitar 
• Clothing to suit Genre
• MicroPhone 
• Make-Up

Models

• Amy Morgan
• Luke Reece
• Nathan Chapman
• Ryan Froggat
• Ben Woodward

Camera used/ Equipment  

• Canon 660D
• tripod

places

• Car Park, using the lights
• town
• graffiti

The Making Of

In todays lesson we started to make our magazine covers. we had to decide how we are going to make it and how the colours effect the magazine.

first off, i had to pick the suitable image for the magazine front cover, the image i picked was of a girl looking up, i thought if i have the masthead then it my seem like she is focusing on the masthead. 

I had to use photoshop to make the image more effective for example, i had to make the blue go away from her face as it was to bright. The blue banner around the cover was done with brush tool, it is very faint so we still see the shutters. 

Division - found a font that i thought was quite simple but eye catching, the colours of the masthead is red and black. The colour red is attractive to the human eye because it is bright and out standing. 

Typography

Typography

Typography -The typography of a Magazine is the colour of the Masthead that is on the front cover of the Magazine, the colours that are in the title are representing the genre of the Magazine and what it contains inside the Magazine. The main colours that are used in a title are Red, black and yellow. Each of these are colours that are on the Magazines stand out from the back ground and the main image. The colours are the first things that any reader will see, the colours attract the reader so that they look at it. These colours are mainly used in titles but they can also be used in the main image and other paragraphs.

i really like is copy because it is simple and ordinary.However i think outlining the back willred to make it stand out more.

By adding the red outlining makes the masthead look more eye catching and adds a little bit more colour.

This is another good example off a good masthead, as it is very on your face and it stands out on the magazine 

Mood Board

This Mood Board that i have recently put together basically reflects on my chosen Genre Indie Rock. The Images that i have used are of recent popular bands, They are relevant to my magazine because Indie rock has a lot of acoustic. Indie rock is a very chilled Genre so my magazine being plain but eye catching. 

Double Page Spread Mock Up

This is my Mock-Up of a double page spread, the layout is very simple as indie rock is usually played on the acoustic guitar. the acoustic guitar is ver simple and is very standard. If the music genre was heavy metal then there would have been loads of writing pictures etc. But in this magazine, it isn't really needed.
    
                                     Heres an example of simple Double Page Spread...

Front Cover

Typography

Typography - The typography of a Magazine is the colour of the Masthead that is on the front cover of the Magazine, the colours that are in the title are representing the genre of the Magazine and what it contains inside the Magazine. The main colours that are used in a title are Red, black and yellow. Each of these are colours that are on the Magazines stand out from the back ground and the main image. The colours are the first things that any reader will see, the colours attract the reader so that they look at it. These colours are mainly used in titles but they can also be used in the main image and other paragraphs.

In all of these front covers, the two colours that really stand out is red and yellow, the colour used mostly is red. In the lesson today we focused on the layout of the magazine and how it is structured. I looked at 10 different magazines and the colours had the same idea, using either red and yellow. Red and yellow have a distinct look to them, they make the audience/ reader have some sort of attraction to the magazine and then seem interested by it, simply by the colours.

In each magazine the main image is relevant to the font, it suggest what colour the masthead is going to be or the simple sub heading and little bits of information.. In some magazines if the masthead is gold then the most important things on the magazine with be gold, such a information, buzz lines etc. The person the main image is mainly looking straight at the reader it is a direct address to the audience, making them involved within the magazine.

For my magazine I will possible use the colour red or yellow, but I have to think about the picture I am using to apply the colours.