Is there anything I could do to improve my front cover?

Do you think my colour scheme is representative of the magazine as a whole?

What type of magazine do you think High Voltage is?

What age group do you think my magazine is targeting?

Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Images: II














































These are the images produced from the photo shoot.


















Images

For my images I plan to take some of a fictional band I have created called 'Taboo' whom will be a three-person, all-girl, rock band. For the pictures I intend to have them looking like ''normal'' teenagers as it will inkeep with the article I am going to write which shows them to just be average teenagers who are lucky to make money from what they do with their friends. This will come through in the way I intend to have them looking as if they are just three friends just playing about in front of a camera. Because of this there will be no props or special costumes, they will just be dressed in natural clothing.

For the models I have chosen my three friends: Thoma, Kelly and Dana. Thoma is posing as the singer and bass player of the band, Dana as the drummer and Kellyas the guitarist. This si shown in the way Thoma is going to be in the foreground of the pictures a majority of the time so the focus is on her.

Cover Mock- Up


This is the IT draft for my front cover.

The Contents Page

Features

Your contents will be split into two main sections: regulars and features.Your features section still needs to be selling your magazine- think of it as a more detailed front cover. You need to decide if you are going to focus upon one main artist or if you are going to feature a number of them equally.

In my magazine I will be focussing on a number of different artists on the contents page but with the main image being that of 'Taboo' who are the cover stars and the main feature of the magazine.

Regular Features

You need to come up with a series of regular features that will appear in your magazine that relate directly to your musical genre. Use ones that are common and essential (e.g. reviews), but also try to include any new ones that you can think of that will make your magazine stand out (e.g. Smash Hits! printing of song lyrics is a good example of this).


In my magazine I will include regular reviews of recent gigs by bands fitting to the rock genre of the magazine. I will also use a feature each week to showcase a new band who may just be a small local band whom are gaining popularity which the magazine feature will aid. I will also use a weekly 'quiz' with a member of one of the bands usually featured in the magazine, this will be purely humerous and something for the readers and audience to engage with. I will also do album listings of CD's coming out in the future as well as reviews for the new releases of the week. There will also be a gig listing for across the country as well as free posters in the centre.