SOLO 

BOY BAND

Alice & Mickie

ACTORS!

I have actors! I've started grouping them and deciding wheather I want them to be in bands, or solo artists. I also want to use a mix of male and females so that the magazine varies.

Wednesday 26th November

Thursday 20th November

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Tuesday 18th November

Thursday 13th November

Wednesday 12th November

Tuesday 11th November

Today, we've been thinking about names we can call our magazine. I have decided on the name 'ISM'- Indie Sound Music. I orginally took it from just a simple idea that I was working with when practising photoshop, and that is my entials (SM). However, I realised that I wanted to work with Indie music and I decided to stick to my main idea of using 'SM' but included 'I' standing for 'Indie'. I think it will look effective because is an abreiviated name that will stand out. Today, and for homework and possibly next lesson, I will be sketching up differnt fonts for the name of my magazine.

Monday 10th November

I've carried out the same rules as I did on the front cover layout. I've tried to create a house st lye by making the title be carried through onto the contents page. I have stuck to a grid system of three columns, because I think it is fairly simple, and easy to carry out.




Okay, finished the contents pages and stuck to the grid rule. As you can see:

Friday 7th November

Yesterday, I was ill. So unfortunately I missed a lesson, and that was on grid systems. However, Mr Bonney has shown me what a grid system is and I am going to start to do a few sketches of contents pages (sticking to the grid system rule) today, but will finish it for homework over the weekend.

Wednesday 5th November

I've finished my front cover layouts to back up my planning section. This is what I done in the lesson and for homework.
Basically, I have tried to stick to a main idea that I liked. You can see a similar style through out the sketches I done, but I have changed a few things about it.

Tuesday 4th November

I've got my essay back marked. I need to work on a few things on that and I need to start sketching up ideas of front cover layouts. So today, I've started on that, this will take a few days.

Monday 3rd November

Back to school! Over half term, I have been thinking about differnt locations. As I mentioned before, I want to shoot a few photos at my friends house. One of which he has an old abandoned boat. I think it will be really interesting to take a few shots of a solo artist on this beacuse it relates to what I like- isolated and different approaches in a magazine. He also has an old swing which i think will work well for a few shoots of a solo artist having fun, possibly for an interview page? I need to start planning what each artist will do, and weather I want a band ect. But at the moment, I think I will include a few solo artists and maybe two bands? Im still thinking.
So, today I have looked in a few magazines to give me a few inspirations.

Friday 30th October

Now that's the end of practising with different camera angles, I have now got a sense of which angles will be easy to work with, and those that will not be eg: Portrait/full body image.

Its half term next week, but over half term I will be working on layouts and grid systems. I have done my first draft of my essay and waiting for it to be marked, this will be another piece of work to work on after half term. That should keep me busy for a few weeks, as I will also be looking into props, actors and things that I need to start considering.

Thursday 23rd October

Different levels image:




As the last magazine cover idea was a bit too busy, I have created a very simple and non-busy cover. I don't like this either. It really doesn't work well with the black, so for my magazine I will NOT be using black on my front cover, I think it looks tacky and not good. I like the style of the title and the simple teaser.

Wednesday 22nd October

Portrait image:
I'm not too keen on this idea. I dont like the portrait image as it is hard to work with. I have had to overlap a few other images to make it look right. The text is simple, and has simple colours. I dont think it works on the black either as I dont think it looks as professional. But the title of the magazine stands out more, thats about it.

Monday 20th October

Half body image:

I've created the image to overlap the title of the magazine as a different approach to the magazine. I also chose to not make the cover too busy, it is simple and I think it is a good camera shot to work with on a magazine. I like the use of a white background.

Here is some examples of the different shots I have taken, and I have interpreted them into my own designs of layouts for a front cover.

Full Face:
I chose to put the image into a monochome style and create the text in colour. I think this works well and I like it because it has a good contrast between the image and the text.

Here, I selected a photo and then edited the saturation and the contrast. I think edited it using photoshop to explore ways that I can use different camera shots to produce different layouts.

Friday 17th October

CAMERA ANGLES.
I've been thinking about shots for my front cover, so today I have played around with a few camera angles that I could possibly include in my magazine.

Portrait Full Face shots:

Half Body Portraits:

Portrait Shots:



Landscape Shots:







Thinking about different levels:

Thursday 16th October

I am still currently working on my essay, and the sketches of band members but I have started thinking about the different styles of music bands I want to include so I have found different styles of indie music through the internet.

Indie rock
Stylistic origins	Punk rock Post-punk Garage rock Mod revival
Cultural origins	Early 1980s, United Statesand United Kingdom
Typical instruments	Guitar – Bass – Drums –Synthesizers
Mainstream popularity	Largely underground, but several bands have had mainstream success.
Regional scenes
Largely global, England – Ireland - Scotland –Wales – USA – Canada – Sweden – Japan

Examples: Bloc Party, Last Shadow Puppets, Maximo Park, Cage the Elephant, Late of the Pier,

Infomation found on the internet of the style of music I want my magazine to include.

Indie:
Any form of popular culture (such as pop music from a group not signed to a major label) from outside the mainstream; a type of rock music, generally soft-style without screaming or aggression, mixed with synthesized music and electronic; relating to, or being an indie

Style: Tight pants, striped tops, old suit jackets, Converse sneakers or ballet flats, boys in retro shirts, girls in second-hand frocks. As a rule of thumb, Indies tend to be more colorful.

Indie pop
Stylistic origins New Wave
Power pop
Post-punk
Folk punk
Yé-yé
Girl groups
Cultural origins early 1980s, United Kingdom
Typical instruments Guitar - Bass - drums - Keyboard
Mainstream popularity 1980s United Kingdom
Derivative forms Chimp rock
Subgenres
C86 - Cuddlecore - Twee pop
Regional scenes
England - Scotland - Wales - Sweden - Ireland, United States, Australia
Other topics

Examples: Black Kids, The Cardigans, Feist, The Ting Tings, Kate Nash,Noah and the Whale

Wednesday 15th October

Back to the idea of using a white background. Last night I helped my friend with a few practice photos for the front cover of her magazine. I have selected a few of the photos for examples of the camera angles I like, but I am not using one person or this idea. I just wish to have a white background. I want to include four boys, possibly band members, who are showing different characteristics and are standing in different levels within the composition of the photo.

   

Close shots of band members and instruments.

Half body portraits.

Lower angle of full portrait.

Full body portrait. 

Band members full portrait. 


Using different levels of the band members. 

Bare in mind these are NOT my photos, (these are NICOLE WALLS) I want to shoot my practice photos soon, but I need to arrange times and dates for the people I want to practice shoots on. I am thinking of doing practice shoots on friends to get an idea of the angles and people I want to include for my final front cover shoot. I also need to stat thinking about who is going to be in my magazine, why and when, and start to take just a full face photo of the people I want to be in my music magazine. 

Tuesday 14th October

Today i have been looking at "The Art Directors' handbook of Professional Magazine Design" and I have found a few useful pages. A few examples are below.

I like this double spread layout because it is easy to complete, but it looks really good! I love the idea of using two pictures across the pages, there is no text, but the images say a lot.


CUT THE PICTURE!!!********

I absolutely love this idea! The boarder across the two pages looks really good. The image is so simple, yet it looks great. I think this would work really really well in a music magazine, and I am thinking about creating this idea in my magazine thanks to this inspirational picture!

CUT THE PICTURES *****

This front cover caught my attention because of the simplicity of the layout. Four monochrome images of a band. I like this idea. Because the images are monochrome, it really makes the people striking, yet the text is still visible.
I LOVE this idea! I think it is really different, which is why it is so nice and eye catching. If I can, I think I am going to consider using this idea in my magazine because I think it is a really different approach to a layout. I could possibly do this with an image and transfer it across to the back page by using the same technique used in this layout.