Music Magazine Table Of Context Mock Up

Here is my first draft mock up of my table of context

Backstage Pass Front Cover Second Draft

Presentation Of DPS Analysis

My Possible Fonts

(fonts in order from top to bottom: "Aftershock Debris" "Bring Tha Noise" "Grunge" "Hardkaze" "NeoPrint M319" "The Battle Continuez" "Got Heroin?" Broken 74")


Before i made my magazine front cover i looked for possible fonts for my magzine, then handed out a questionaire to people to see which font they liked best to decide which font to have on my magazine as masthead (whichever got the most votes) cover lines (second most votes) and strapline (third most votes)

The most votes went to NeoPrint M319 (7), followed by Defused (6) and finally Grunge (4)

Front Cover First Draft Music Magazine

Here is the first draft of my music magazine front cover

I used adobe photoshop to edit make this front cover because its a good editing site. Before i started making my front cover first i started looking for possible fonts i could use. (List and example of all fonts will be in another post). I decided on three fonts that i wanted for my magazine. Neoprint m319 for my masthead, grunge for my strapline and defused for my articles. I crated boxes etc... to house most of the text in (idea inspired by kerrang magazine) In the box under my strapline and at the bottom of my page i added in artists that feature in there, these are artists that are slightly well known but not as well known or have less relevance than the ones that appear as part of my cover lines.

for my main cover line i linked it to the picture i took and called it "50 greatest upcoming acts" to show that the image is of an upcoming act. For my other cover lines i included the top 3 bands that my auudience said they liked (see my questionaires for more details on that)
The top 3 bands were Linkin Park, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nickelback respectivley. As Linkin Park and Red Hot Chilli Peppers got equal votes i decided to link their cover line together to it says "Linkin Park VS Red Hot Chili Peppers" with the "vs" match the colour of my main images clothes making it stand out. It also keeps to my main 3 colours of the magazine black and white (as my audience voted for) and red. Purple featured high in my magazine so i will use that later on probably in my double page spread.

My next cover line is off Nickelback and their new album as they featured high in my poll. My next is off a band i didnt put in my poll because i personally wanted to add them. One of the reasons they didnt featrue in my poll is because they aren't that well heard of here, thus why the cover line says "Rise Against Take On England" to show that they are only now trying to make it big in england.

Front Cover Mock Up

Possible Photos Music Magazine

Here are photos i've taken

one of these will be used for my front cover

Music Magazine Photoshoot Plan

Planning the front cover image

Agency Name: Backstage Pass

Model: Thiago Nores

Camera height/angle/distance: Mid shot, eye level

Location: Outside The Roundhouse Studios

Lighting: Light from the roundhouse lights

Mise-en-scene (incl. props, costume): Headphones on the model (music related) Hoodie (and the stereotypes that come with it) The brick wall background Bandana under nose (and the stereotypes)

Attempted connotation: Brick wall – grungy Hoodie – kind of edgy and tough Headphones – He listens to music

Planned denotation

Contingency (in case of model absence/weather): Other emcee’s from the roundhouse

Alternate angle: Low angle mid-shot

Thinking points: Rule of thirds, Semiotics, White background shot

Comments: Rule of thirds will be applied, will add to the brick back wall to make it grungier etc… the font will work well with the brick wall.