Planning for on location Photoshoot

The weather forecast for the weekend is good to shoot on whereas the day I initially wanted to get the photos the weather turned against me. Therefore I plan to shoot over the weekend instead to get the best quality and the best conditions.

Initial Draft of Front Cover

The idea behind the contrast of colour and black and white is the idea that the genre of music is an old one and that its quite at odds against the modern day scene. I quite liked the idea of something that looks bold and quite simplistic so I came up with the ideas of short and snappy things that stood out against the background and the foreground images therefore I used large text boxes and bold font in order to create something that stands out. The bands are all garage rock bands with the exception of "The Clamps " that was a band I made up in order to use someone I knew on the front cover.

Production Plan

28th November: Detailed Draft front page

29th November: Detailed Draft front page

5th December: Shoot Photographic images

6th December: Shoot Photographic images

12th December: Photoshop manipulation of images

13th December: Photoshop manipulation of images

19th December: Finalise Front cover design

20th December: Complete Front cover to deadline

Front Cover Logo Font Ideas

These are different fonts sourced from Adobe Photoshop, I particularly like the one on the second from bottom on the left as I think it conveys the kind of homemade feel of Garage Rock music by looking quite rustic and not done amazingly well, the way its only purpose is for functionality and its not adorned with lots of un-needed embellishment and serves its purpose only.

Cast

For the cast of my magazine I am using my friend that dresses in the kind of Grunge/Underground look with quite a raw feel and how he likes to dress. As there isn't a particular style for the genre of music I am going for other than a look of not caring what other people think of how they dress its difficult to get a particular style as it varies quite wildly within the idea of "Garage Rock". However some examples are below of how they dress how they want.

FIDLAR

KURT COBAIN

JAY REATARD

Props and Locations

The Location I plan on using is one in the city centre, this reflects the very rough and homegrown roots of the genre of music. Urban dilapidation is a good reflection of the style of the music.
Something along the lines of the following image;

As for a prop to use I plan on using a cigarette and a guitar to reflect the rebellious attitude of the artists.

Photographic Influences

I plan on taking on quite a minimalist theme that conveys a lot in a very simple image, therefore black and white is the plan and not a pose just a very natural look with maybe something to convey a rebellious nature within the person and how they act.

Audience Media Packs

http://magazines.bauermediaadvertising.com/magazines/detail/kerrang

http://www.ipcadvertising.com/resource/g9fgogb7yus90vpvbnh0ef7m.pdf

The Music Magazine Brief

We have been asked to create a front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, produced by you-minimum four images.

LIIAR ANALYSIS OF 3 MAGAZINE FRONT COVER

LANGUAGE:

IDEOLOGY:

NME prides itself on the ideals of getting to new music first. Mainstream bands generally dont feature in it however if a band they previously covered becomes mainstream then they will return to that band for an interview to see how they are doing after becoming popular.

INSTITUTION:

NME is a british based magazine with a publisher based in Britain (IPC Media) that publishes various magazines that are aimed at very different markets. They publish Horse and Hound and OK magazine so they aren't any overlapping markets.

AUDIENCE:
The audience for this magazine are generally in their teens as teenagers tend to have less economic responsibilities and therefore they can spend their money on music. It also seeks to find whats going to be the next big thing so teenagers can become involved in the new trend.

REPRESENTATION:
Generally this magazine covers things that young people would consider cool. It shows these people as being at the forefront of youth subculture and the new styles and crazes. It represents a kind of person that is particularly interested in music in general.

College Magazine Mock Contents Page

College Magazine Front Cover

THE BRIEF

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close up plus some appropriately laid out text and masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.