Drafting Of Content Page

Pictures For Content Page And Double Page Spread

Pictures For double Page Spread  

I organised a couple of photo-shoots in different locations to challenge myself using different models and using different mise-en-scene.

I chose an outdoor location to contrast with my front cover image. I opted for a typical mise-en-scene consisting of black jeans, a band t-shirt with converse which is quite typical of fans and rock artists to wear. I chose to stick with pale make-up and the bright red lips as it is quite bold and represents women in this genre and industry. I also chose to keep the models facial expressions quite serious to also represent the genre being quite serious.

Here is a Kerrang contents page I chose to analyse as it followed the house style I wanted to portray in mine with quite a chaotic and busy page. By analysing already existing contents pages has reminded me of the typical conventions found in this specific genre and what to include making it more of a realistic magazine page. I chose to use Kerrang as it is the UK's most popular Rock magazine which indicates that it sells well and attracts its target audience. For my contents page I will be looking to split the page similarly keeping the images at the top and the text towards the bottom as I think it is easier to read and understand the information because of the ordered format.

Content Page Analysis and Sketch

Here is a rough sketch of the layout I plan to use for my front cover. As i have opted for a minimal front cover I will be using the typical chaotic and busy contents page to test different layout styles and incorporate more conventions in my contents page.

Content Page Sketch 

Although Rock in general as a genre is quite chaotic, it still has some quite minimal covers that focus on the artwork and image rather than advertising which is the look I was aiming to achieve with my cover as it is centred around the image. I decided to chose this style as it was ore challenging I my opinion to pull off as it still has to capture the target audience and be evidently the rock genre. In the bottom right classic rock cover the artist is seen to take up a large proportion of cover with minimal text similarly to my cover however I opted to include other magazine conventions such as the banner and the button as well as the minimal colour palette.

My Final Front Cover

Another Draft

During my production I decided to try and stick to a specific colour palette of red, white and black. I decided this was better because I feel it gave a the cover a better look and was similar to other rock magazines I had got inspiration from. I then decided to change the button colour from yellow to red as  thought it gave a crisper finish and maintained the same colours throughout. I also included sell lines to see how they would look however i thought they looked misplaced and didn't work well with the rest of the design aspects.I also changed the button font as in the previous images they held a more retro vibe rather than rock and opted for a blurry styled text to link with my overall theme and its house style. I also experimented with the banner which was previously red, I opted to change this for black and white as they are a good contrast and maintain the consistent style I also thought the red drew too much attention from the artist on the cover and wanted to keep it quite minimal but edgy.