My pictures for my magazine

These are the selection of pictures that i have for my main cover artist. Out of these i will pick the most appropriate for my magazine to make sure its as good as it can be. First of all with any of the pictures that use i will manipulate them in Photoshop first then bring it into in design when i'm finished. 

Organisation of costume and props

I knew straight away that my character was going to be a late teen, male and indie. This meant to me that I cannot have him wearing something very branded that you would see rappers or hip hop artists wear. So I felt that it was best to put him in a grey woollie jumper and dark jeans. This is because I have seen artists such as ed sheeran and jack Johnson wear the same type of clothing. Also of course I felt that the guitar was very necessary in bring his music and personality to life in the picture. So this is items that I have focused on for my pictures. 

Organisation of location

I had lots of ideas for this at first such as the beach and get a view of the sea with my star in the middle or maybe even the city centre to get a view of the public life. But in te end I really wanted like a plain background so I could have a simple setting as if my character is in a blank room with just his guitar. The best place in the end for that was in my house. So I have decided to shoot my pictures in front if a blank white wall so it is easier to edit on Photoshop and produce a good standard picture. 

Organisation of actor

For my magazine I decided that I wanted a teen male who was about 6 foot and mature. I decided that my friend Scott was the best person for the job as he fitted in to the list I wanted. Also I wanted a simple but effected name for my character as well so people will be able to remember it and for it to be Iconic. This is why I went for Jake Green. the well know star Jake Bugg is very similar to my character as well so I feel that it fits in well with my genre.

Mock up Front Cover

This is my very first draft of the mock up for my front cover of my music magazine. I have decided very carefully where everything goes and so everything has a reason and a point of being on my front cover, whether that being the pull quote by my headline artist or the cover lines that draw you in. My cover is inspired by issues of NME, as i have looked at a few different magazines to make this overall front cover.
First of all i have decided to make my masthead big and bold across the top of the page.

Font Ideas

 The 2 fonts above are the ones I feel would be the best font choices for my Masthead for my chosen magazine name 'Upcoming'. They are named 'Brain Flower' and 'Geo Sans Light'

 Jake Green will be my main cover line of my Magazine front page as he is the main artist that will feature in my magazine. The above pictures show the possible fonts I may use for this cover line.  They are called 'High Thin Light' and 'Kakawate'.

The text that I will use throughout my whole mag as my house style text will be this one I have chosen named 'Linuz Libertine'

Mag name

At first I was thinking on naming my Magazine 'Acoustic' but after researching it I realized that acoustic was already a music magazine in the media. So I have been trying to think of a name which still has the same feel as 'acoustic' did. Then I started to think I wanted to name the magazine to show a feel of artists starting from low down in the music industry, but working them selves up. After a lot of thought I felt the name
'Upcoming'
would be the most appropriate, as it indicates that the artists included will be more underground and wont be in the mainstream eye, but they will be working their way up towards it. An example would be Ed Sheeran as he did hundreds of lower end gigs in bars and pubs before making it as an international artists, the performers included in my magazine will be characters just like Ed, before he hit the big Record labels.

Mindmap

This is a picture of the Mindmap that i created that all things to do with my chosen genre, Indie Pop. I have included elements such as fashion, artists, colour and more. This will help me as i try and create a front cover page for my magazine.