Google Mock Ups TBC

Cover Page 1

Contents Page 1

Cover Page 2

Fonts, Names and Colour Schemes TBC

Name Ideas

 Fonts Mood Board

Inspirational Quotes for a Slogan

Colour Scheme

Hand-Drawn Drafts TBC

My hand-drawn drafts show rough ideas of the layout for cover pages, contents pages and double page spreads. There is a development shown throughout each layout.

Costume

Why is costume so important?

The attire in which the artist wears will give the viewer an idea of what genre the magazine is. For example, if somebody was wearing a fitted cap and gold chains with baggy jeans, the first thing you would suggest is that it is a Hip-Hop/R&B magazine. It is the same with rock and so on, if someone is wearing dark clothing with metal chains around the torso, you would suggest that it is a music magazine. The type of clothes the models wear can completely change the genre or style of the magazine. That is why I have to be very careful and make sure my model's attire matches the conventional clothing for the Indie genre.

I have collected images of costumes I would like to see in my magazine. If I stick to these items of clothing it will look professional, realistic and most importantly, indie. Below this are hair styles and colours that are popular, I think that my model will make the magazine more effective and will explain the genre if they have coloured hair. It can also create a colour scheme for the magazine, for example, if the model had green hair I could have the masthead and subheadings green. I could edit my model's hair colour on websites such as www.picmonkey.com or Photoshop, this means I can use the same model's hair and make it multiple colours and compare them to see which looks the most effective.

Indie Artists

Indie rock includes recent artists such as: The 1975, 30 Seconds To Mars, American Authors, Arctic Monkeys, Bastille, Florence and the Machine, Imagine Dragons, Jimmy Eat World, Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers, Kings of Leon, Coldplay, Kodaline, Mumford & Sons, Of Monsters and Men, Snow Patrol and The Script.

Indie pop includes recent artists such as: Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Ellie Goulding, Marina and the Diamonds, Florence Welch, American Authors, Bastille, The Lumineers, Mumford and Sons, and more…

These are gifs I made of music videos from some artists above.

Mallory Knox - Shout At The Moon

The Killers - Mr Brightside

Florence and the Machine - Cosmic Love

Lana Del Rey - Ride

Some of the artists are on these chart lists below, these are specifically the independent music charts from Official Charts and BBC Radio 1.