Initial Ideas

For my music magazine I have either chosen two genres but I am not sure which one to choose. I have chosen an Indie genre and current music genre by involving a range of genres such as: rap, R&B, pop, rock. My inspiration magazine is NME because it involves a range of music genres to satisfy all readers. NME is a well known magazine and this could help me to develop a similar style of magazine however with my own style that initials this is my own design and magazine. For an Indie genre, this can only satisfy a certain number of readers even though I would throughly enjoy this type of genre. I will be picking a colour scheme for my magazine that will be strong and bold.

 


If I was going to a current music (Pop) magazine, I would research more into Q magazine because this can give me numerous ideas for what I need to present in my music magazine. Also I would combined my research with NME magazine since it has a range of music. Another magazine which I could see helpful is the Top of the Pops magazine because it provides a pop genre and I would like enhance that pop genre to be more of an adult style magazine.

If I was going to do a Indie music magazine, I would choose colours such as a red, white, black, grey, green and a baby blue because they are well suited to this music genre.

For my the front cover I would present with a bold title and the artist or band would have a median-close up of their face or their body leaning forward to give that connection with the audience.

The reason why I picked this front cover in  my initial ideas post is because the magazine vibe is an R&B genre and I find it useful by the strong colour scheme. I have found out that most magazine prefer this colour scheme because it is bold and eye striking to the readers. This would catch the readers attention straight away, so I have chosen a red, grey, white and black colour scheme because it can represent all genres with this type of colour scheme. I would like to present my artist or band by having either a black or white background, because it highlight the person on the front cover by being more vibrate. 

For my contents page I would have my page numbers in order so my reader is not confused when finding the article they want to read. For my contents page I will have a median-close up shot of the my artist or band, this picture will be different from the rest of the pictures because it will be a still life and plain. My colour scheme will be the same through out the whole magazine by using colours like red, black, white and grey. This because I find them to be strong vibrate colours, which can stand out from the rest of the magazines.

For my double page featured article I would  be interviewing either the artist or band and see how they got on their recent tour. I will have only 3 to 4 pictures of the artist or band in my article, all picture will have different settings or background. My pictures will have one close up, and the rest of the picture will be shot where you can see all of their bodies. This is to show their body language to the camera and how they would behave in an interview. I am hoping for my pictures I can get interesting backgrounds, such as outside photos and vintage room, involving old furniture. For my article I would like to enlarge the first letter of the interview because I find it very professional. I intend the style of writing to be times new roman font because many magazine use this type of font and it looks classy. I intend that my paragraphing is in columns and I will be enlarging quotes of whats said in the interview to give a realistic feel to my magazine. And i will stick to the red , black and grey colour scheme.