Front Cover Photos

I have recently taken the photos I am going to use for my magazine's front cover, contents page and double-paged article. Here are the photo's I will be using for my front cover:

  

This is the main image I have chosen to use for my front cover. I originally decided to use three models for my images but after taking them I discovered that one did not fit the theme of the images or my magazine.



I took other images to use on the footer of my magazine. Each photo I have used the models are looking at the camera with a similar pose.

Proposal Form

Genre: I chose to create an indie/rock magazine. I chose to do this because although there are a lot of magazines with the same genre on the market at the moment I think there is a space for a more current magazine which will promote more artists. I will keep to the general conventions by keeping a theme of rock and indie throughout my magazine.

Target Audience: I have decided to make my magazine to target a mixed gender audience aged 14-20 years old. I intend to make my magazine unisex by keeping the house style the same with a colour scheme of black, white and dark red. These colours appeal to my unisex audience while representing the genre of my magazine.

Major conventions: My magazine will follow the typical conventions of a magazine. It will include a masthead, subtitles, photographs. banners etc. This is so my magazine looks professional and will fit in with other magazines on the market.

Model Permission

After choosing my models I asked each person for their permission to use the photos I took of them for my magazine. I showed the models the photographs before publishing them to make sure they were comfortable with the images being used. I did this to make myself and the model more at ease of the photographs being shown to the public, just to make sure they approve of the images of themselves.

Uses and Gratifications

First Front Cover Draft

This is the first draft of my front cover:

I have decided on where to place my magazine title and the colour as well as the barcode placement. So far this is quite basic but I will continue to add to it as I progress further.

 

Double Page Spread Flat Plans

Here is my flat plan for my double paged spread. This is the design of how I would like my article to look and I will be looking back to ensure they're at least similar.

Contents Page Flat Plans

Here is my flat plan for my contents page. This is the design of how I would like my contents page to look and I will be looking back to ensure they're at least similar.