Thursday, 4 December 2008

magazine names















I like the Q magazine name style because it is really bold. But i also like the font used for Vogue because it is so recognizable. however i think considering my magazine is aimed at a relatively young audience, a more lively and exciting font would be more appropriate.



NEW MAGAZINE NAME. 

my new idea for my music/surf magazine is to call it 'CATCH'.
I have downloaded a font which i like that could be used for my title.

Magazine Name...

These are some of the fonts i was trying out for my title...

I asked some of my friends to look at this title, but they commented that they 
liked it but wouldn't buy it because they wouldn't want to read only about in
die music, which is what the title suggests would be in the magazine.
I decided i needed to change my ideas slightly. This is when i decided to think about what type of audiences there were out there for magazines. 
Having looked a lot at 'carve magazine' I found that surf magazines in certain areas such as jersey have a high readership. Because my interviews for my double page sp
reads had a lot of mention of surfing i thought i could do a music magazine for people who like to surf. I haven't seen it done before but i think it could really work. In jersey i know alot of people who surf. I asked if they listened to music alot and what kind. I found that they actually all said they listened alot and the genres they liked were- Accoustic, Rock and Indie mostly.


My second photo shoot...
My favourite photo of laura, which i want to edit and then use for a double page somehow. The background needs editing on photoshop because it looks messy.

Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Fonts...

Im about to do write up my interviews and I'm deciding on fonts to use when i put them in my magazine. 


These are some of the fonts that I thought i could use throughout my magazine. Obviously the text would stay the same all the way through to keep a theme going and make it recognisable. 

Monday, 1 December 2008

Double page background images ...

Im now thinking about the type of images that will look good as background images in my magazine...
I really like this image  because of the free space around the main focus of the image where the text could go. E.g. on the grassy bit some white text could look good.


 
I like this image i took at the Grass Roots music festival because i like the way the wall goes diagonally across it and the free space it leaves in the bottom right hand corner for possible writing. Also it is the kind of image i may use in my final magazine because the setting looks right.



I like this image because of the colours and it would really stand out in a magazine. Some white text would look really good over this picture.



I also like this image, from Jersey Live, because of the free space at the top. A mixture of light and dark text in maybe two columns per page (which would be four over the whole picture) could look good over this image.



This is my favourite image because of the colours and I think a title in light text would look good in the bottom left hand corner and black text for the article over the sky and sea in about 4 columns would look really effective.


Double Page Layouts...

I really like this double page spread because i like the way the picture at the top is links between both pages, showing that it is all one article and it looks really good. I think the way the 3 column rule has been used is really effective because of the variations on it they have included. The bigger writing in pink going across two columns, makes the page more interesting and breaks up all the writing. I also really like the way the third column on the first page is half little pictures and then a thinner column of writing that variation also adds interest.
I like this one because the big picture looks really good and you can still see the layout being used on this page, although there is only 2 columns of writing they are in the same place that they are in the rest of the article. This also helps with linking the two pages together into the same article and the continuity of the colours also keeps the theme going effectively.