Research and planning blog tasks
.1) Research music magazine cover key conventions. Look over the magazine cover key conventions notes sheet and write which of these you will use for your magazine cover. (This is a film magazine example but the conventions still apply).
One of the magazine cover key conventions i am going to be using the title of publication and I am going to be placing my title on the top with the slogan right on top of it and the central image will be in the middle and it is going to be a medium shot.
2) Find at least five music magazine front covers (either current or former magazines as many have stopped their print editions) aimed at a similar target audience to your project (mainstream music audience). For each one, pick out one design idea or convention that you could use in your own print work. A few examples to start you off:
Planning, sketching and writing
Complete the tasks below in the same blogpost you have already created for research and planning:
1) Plan a title and slogan (sell line) for your new, original music magazine. Sketch out possible designs for the masthead - font, style, colour etc. If you are creating a front cover for an existing music magazine, make sure you recreate the magazine's style and branding accurately - what font do they use? What colours? What is their slogan?
2) Plan the content for your magazine front cover. What will be your main image? What cover lines will you include on the cover?
3) Produce an A4 sketch of your front cover including the key conventions and design tricks you have studied in existing magazines and then planned in the planning tasks above.
Photoshoot planning
2) Write a shot list for your photoshoot. Make sure you plan the right camera shots for a magazine front cover - medium shots, medium close-ups etc.
3) What costume, props or make-up will you require for your photoshoot?
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