Mock Up

In this custom music magazine with Jamie Graceffa, I used Jamie, holding a teddy bear, as my main image with him saying "i'm not as nice as you think!" enticing the reader into wanting to read the article. My front cover also as a house style of text, i think this text fits in to an Indie/RocknRoll type style. I also used as pugg showing the reader their are competition prizes to be won in the article.

I started off finding a house style for my work with font, Marcelle. I used this font because I thought it suited the indie style. I used a black and white font to show that the audience I'm appealing to are late teens to late 20's, I didn't use colour as its not colour that appeals to an audience of this age. 

The 1975

The 1975 are a new and upcoming indie band that are quickly rising to international fame, they bring a new and fresh sound to the modern indie era, they released their first album in September 2013 which gained a lot of good and bad reviews. These are appearing far more in the magazines i have been looking through recently so i may feature them in the one that i will create.

Mock Images

 

 

These are my mock images that i had taken for my mock music magazine cover 

 

 

The Cure

The Cure are a prime example of a typical Indie band that would suit the style of the magazine i am wanting to produce, they are also a band who appear on the front of many indie magazines.

Top Selling Indie Albums of the Week

1. Arctic Monkeys - AM

2. London Grammar - If You Wait

3. Passenger - All The Little Lights

4. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist


5. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

College Magazine Front Cover

How i made the Front cover:
1. I placed the picture i had taken on a blank background and turned the picture into a circular shape and moved it halfway off the page to create a crescent shape.
2. I then place a globe in the top left corner then wrote my masthead for the magazine "The Heenan World". I then curved the first word and bottom word so the title was shaped like a circle, just like the globe.
3. I then turned the background yellow.
4. I then used red colour font for my main headline as it was the same as my masthead.

Music Magazine Contents Page Analysis

The layout

is very ordered and neat, the page is structured under different headings. The contents page's colour is the house style, it uses all the colours from their logo, keeping the theme throughout the magazine. Their is also subscription information at the bottom of the page, advertising how you can save 33%.

Q is a very similar type of magazine but this magazine is very kind on the eye, its well presented, but isn't spotless, bringing in the Indie theme. The only picture on the contents page is of Oasis, which tells us the main focus in the magazine will be on them.