Pictures that I had taken

Here is a pictures of Ben and Damian,
These are the ones I might choose for the contents page or the front cover or double spread page.
This is what the stage looks like.

Ben

This picture shows power and authority of the model because his arms are folded and his face is serious, its an medium shot of him and he is looking directly at the audience and this will get their attention also the audience can see what is he wearing a black T-shirt that has a picture of a skull and this shows how scary he is.

This picture shows that he plays guitar and that he has his head high and this shows that hes looking down at people.
This picture is a medium close up and the audience can see the spiky bracelets and the necklaces he is wearing.

This picture is a wide medium shot and it shows the costume that the rock star is wearing properly and this is what they would normally wear.

This is a long shot and this shows everything of whats he is wearing and the props, this picture shows

This picture shows how he is a angry or he is looking at something disgusting.
This is a medium close up of him and its to show his face. The picture is in a dark background due to the lighting and this is underexposed so I might not use this picture however I am use Photoshop to manipulate the picture to make it, look the way I want it to look on the front cover or on the double spread page.

This is a long shot and it shows power and authority because his arms are folded also his head is slightly tilted down to show that this power and authority he has also another costume of his is that he is wearing black jeans and this is the type of clothes they wear also he is staring straight at the audiences.

This is another long shot, its similar to the one above however its a different pose and this pose is that he is making a fist and this again shows power and strength. This pictures shows that he is angry at something or someone and he looking straight at the audience so it looks like he is angry at the audiences.
His left arm is overexposed so this isn't suitable for my magazine.










This is a long shot and it shows the mise en scene costume that my model is wearing and the costume he is wearing is associated with a heavy metal type of band also the facial expression he is making shows that he is angry. This is a picture that I could use for the double spread page.

This is a medium shot and my model’s hair is going backwards this because the fan was facing him.

This is a long medium shot and my model arms are folded and this shows that he is annoyed, angry at something and if the audience see this they will think it’s them because he is directly looking in to the audience’s.

This is again another medium long shot, my model focus is on his hand, and it could be a metaphor to show that he got the power in his hands also again the fan is blowing on the right side this time.

Damien 

This is a medium shot of Damien and he is making a rock out sign/symbol and this is what heavy metal artists do also there is black eye liner under his eyes and this is what the make-up they wear too.

He is wearing a leather coat jacket and that is the type of costume a heavy metal artists would wear.

This is a medium long shot of my model, this picture shows that he plays the guitar and this is the type of instrument heavy metal artists usually plays also in this shot, the audience can see the type of T-shirt he is wearing and its black again this links to what a heavy metal type of artists would wear.

This a medium shot, this shows the facial expression of my model, the face that he is making is a disgusted type of face as in he is disgusted of what he sees a kind of scary face to scare people off. The prop is the necklace around his neck, a yin and yang.this could show that he has two sides to him.

This is a medium long shot and it shows that proud of himself, however his eyes looks like its close and this can the audience less interested in the magazine if they see this on the front cover so it’s not suitable. 

This is low angle shot and this is trying to represent power and authority because heavy metal artists look powerful also that’s the purpose of a low angle shot to power. This picture shows the ceilings and this is not suitable to be in my magazine however I can use Photoshop to get rid of the background if I want to use this picture.

This a medium shot, and it’s the disgusted face however it’s with a leather jacket so it slightly different. 

Looking at the pictures I can say that there some good pictures I can potential use how ever I want to make a decision when I take pictures of my other models to pick the best one that is suitable for my front cover.

Final decision on the double page spread

Double page spread

What I had previously post about what decisions I am going to put in my double spread is not a double page spread because it going to look like to different pages also I didn't see this in my research so I have to think of a new idea that I am going to put on my double page spread. what I am going to will be explained in this post.

In my double page spread I want to have a double spread page about a up-coming event and the content of the up-coming event is going to be articles about bands and artists that who is going to play and so there is going to be a picture of where the up-coming event is going to be and pictures of some of the artists/bands that will play there and the text will be articles about some of the artists/bands.

By doing this, it allows me to use the feedback from what I got from the respondents who has taken part in my questionnaire.

The text on the left page is going to talk about facts about the up-coming events, how long it has been going on and stuff like that, how many bands/artists are taking parts this year and its kinda a preview of whats going to happen so the articles are not going to explain everything in detail just a belief or whats going to happen on that day.

Then on the right page is going to be a picture of the up-coming events/ bands that are going to take part this year and then text about the bands/artists so a article about the band/artists and so reviews about them also and this again it me using my feedback from what I got from the respondents who taken part in my questionnaire.

However this idea that I want to, I haven't seem in it in my research and I am not trying to invent a new magazine so I won't be able to make this on my double page spread.

Instead in my double spread I am going to have a band/artists and its articles and reviews about them and how they become a artists/bands.

On the left page the double spread page could be a article about the band/artists and then a review about them also and facts about them that the audience wants to know about them.

Then on the right page is going to be pictures of the bands/artists and then more text about them and then at the bottom right corner will be a music chart update to inform the audiences about popular songs and bands.

This is the decision I am going to go with because I saw this in my research for all of my magazine they have articles and reviews about them on the same page. 

Individually Responds of respondents

Individually Responds of respondents 

Respondent 1 is a male who is 14 or under years old and their favorite genre is rock and roll and they colour  they normally see in a rock genre magaizne is black, how much they are willing to paid is £1.00-£1.99 and they never purchase a rock genre magazine also the most important feature for them to see in a rock genre magazine is promotions of up-coming events(concerts and festivals), the content that they expect to see in rock genre magazine is competition, band/artists reviews and promotions of up-coming events (concert and festivals), and they always see the content of band/artists, competition, music chart update, promotions of up-coming events(concerts and festivals), articles about Artists/bands and new album reviews and never reader interaction(crosswords, sudoku) and main image artists/bands is what attracts them to a rock genre magazine.

Respondent 2 is a female who is 15 to 24 and their favourite genre is punk rock and the colours that they normally see in a rock genre magazine is black and red, they are willing to pay £2.00-2.99
and they purchase a magazine once a month and the feature that is important to them is promotions of  up-coming events(concerts and festivals) and what they are expected to see is competition, free gift, Bands/artists reviews, promotions of up-coming events(concerts and festivals),the content that they 'always' see is articles about artists/bands and 'pretty often' is band/artists reviews and promotions of up coming events and 'not that often' is music chart update, reader interaction(crossword and sudoku) and new album reviews and what attracts their attention to the front cover of a rock genre magazine is the main image of a artists/bands.

Respondent 3 is a male who is 15 to 24 years old and his favourite rock genre is Classic Rock and the colour that they normally see in a rock genre magazine is black and they are willing to purchase a rock genre magazine for £1.00-1.99 and they have never brought a magazine also the most important feature to them is new album reviews and what they expect to see in a rock genre magazine is a free girt and they skipped the last two questions.

Respondent 4 is a female who is 15 to 24 years old and her favourite rock genre is Heavy metal and the colour that they normally see in a rock genre magazine is black also they wouldn't spend any money a magazine also they never brought a rock genre magazine, the most important feature to them to see in a rock genre magazine is music chart update and what they expect to see in a rock genre magazine is competition, new album reviews, free gift, band/artists reviews, music chart update, promotions of up-coming event(concert and festivals) and articles about artists/bands, they skipped the last two questions.

Respondent 5 is a male who is 15 to 24 years old and he doesn't have a favourite rock genre, the colour that he normally sees is black and the money that he is willing to pay for rock genre magazine is £1.00-1.99 and they had never brought a magazine, the important feature to them to see is promotions of up-coming events(concerts and festivals) and what they expect to see is a music chart update in a rock genre magazine and they apparently never seen any of the options in a rock genre magazine also the colour attract their attention.

Respondent 6 is a female who is 15 to 24 years old and her favourite rock genre is Alternative rock and the colour that they normally see in a rock genre magazine is black, red and grey also they are willing to spend £2.00-2.99 also they buy a rock genre magazine once a month, the most important feature to them to see in a rock genre magazine is promotions of up-coming event(concert and festivals) and what they expect to see in a rock genre magazine is Band/artists reviews, promotions of up-coming event(concert and festivals) and articles about artists/bands, they ‘always’ see Articles about artists/bands and ‘pretty often’ promotions of up-coming event(concert and festivals) and ‘often’ bands/artists reviews and ‘not that often’ is Competitions, music chart update and New album reviews and ‘never’ Reader interaction(crosswords and Sudoku) and the feature that attracts them to a front cover of magazine is main image of artists/bands.

Respondent 7 is a female who is 15 to 24 years old and her favourite rock genre is Alternative rock and the colour that they normally see in a rock genre magazine is black, red also they are willing to spend £1.00-1.99 and they had never brought a magazine, the most important feature to them to see in a rock genre magazine is promotions of up-coming events(concert and festivals),  what they expect to see in a rock genre magazine is new album reviews, promotions of up-coming event(concert and festivals), competition and music chart update, and they apparently never seen any of the options in a rock genre magazine also the main image of artists/bands attract their attention.

Respondent 8 is a male who is 14 and under years old, their favorite rock genre is metalcore, the colour that they normally see in a rock genre magazine is black also they are willing to spend £2.00-2.99 also they buy a rock genre magazine once a month, the most important feature to them to see in a rock genre magazine is bands/artists reviews and what they expect to see in a rock genre magazine is new album reviews, promotions of up-coming event(concert and festivals) and music chart update and they ‘always’ see articles about artists/bands and ‘pretty often’ is music chart update, ‘often’ is bands/artists reviews, Reader interaction(crossword and Sudoku), new album reviews ,promotions of up-coming event(concert and festivals) and ‘not that often’ is competition and the main image of artists/bands attract their attention.

Respondent 9 is a male who is 15 to 24 and their favorite genre is punk rock and they colour  they normally see in a rock genre magazine is black and red, how much they are willing to paid is £4.00-£4.99 and they purchase one once a week  the most important feature to them to see in a rock genre magazine is bands/artists reviews and what they expect to see in a rock genre magazine is new album reviews, band/artists reviews, music chart update and articles about artists/bands and they ‘always’ see articles about artists/bands,  promotions of up-coming event(concert and festivals) and bands/artists reviews and 'pretty often' is competitions, music chart update and 'often' is new album reviews and 'never' is reader interaction(crosswords and Sudoku) the main image of artists/bands attract their attention.

Respondent 10 is a male who is 15 to 24 years old and her favourite rock genre is Heavy rock and the colour that they normally see in a rock genre magazine is grey also they are willing to £3.00-£3.99 and they purchase a rock genre magazine once a month and the feature that is important to them is music chart update and what they expect to see in a rock genre magazine is new album reviews and they 'pretty often' see band/artists reviews, music chart update and new album reviews and what they 'often' is competitions, promotions of up-coming event(concert and festivals) and 'not that often' is articles about artists/bands and 'never' reader interaction(crosswords,Sudoku) and what attracts their attention on the front cover of a rock genre magazine is colour.


Respondent 11 is a female who is 15 to 24 years old, their favorite rock genre is metalcore, the colour that they normally see in a rock genre magazine is black also they are willing to spend £2.00-2.99 for a rock genre magazine and they never brought a magazine and the important feature to the is articles about artists/bands and what they expect to see in a rock genre magazine is a free gift, band/artists reviews and promotions of up-coming events(concerts and festivals) and what they 'always' see in a rock genre magazine is music chart update and new album reviews and 'pretty often' is bands/artists reviews, promotions of up-coming events(concerts and festivals), articles about artists/bands and 'often' is competitions and 'never' is reader interaction(crosswords,Sudoku) and what attracts their attention on a front cover is the main image famous artists/bands.

Respondent 12 is a female who is 15 to 24 years old, their favorite rock genre is classic rock and the colour that they normally see in a rock genre magazine is grey and how much they are willing to spend on a magazine is £5.00-£5.99 and they have never purchase a magazine and the most important feature to them is promotions of up-coming events(concerts and festivals), the content that they expect to see in a rock genre magazine is competition, new album reviews, band/artists reviews, music chart update and promotions of up-coming events(concerts and festivals)and all of the options are often and what attracts them to the front is the main image of artists/bands.

Respondent 13 is a female who is 14 and under years old, their favorite rock genre is metalcore, the colour that they normally see in a rock genre magazine is black also they are willing to spend £1.00-1.99 and they had never brought a rock genre magazine and them most important feature for them is promotions of up coming events (concerts and festivals) and what they expect to see in a rock genre magazine is band/artists reviews and they never see any of the options in a rock genre magazine and what attracts them to the front cover of a magazine is the main image of artists/bands.

Respondent 14 is a male who is 15 to 24 years old and his favourite rock genre is Alternative rock and the colour that they normally see in a rock genre magazine is black, red and grey also they are willing to spend £4.00-4.99 also they never brought a magazine, the most important feature to them to see in a rock genre magazine is articles about artists/bands, the content that they expect to see in a rock genre magazine is competition, new album reviews, band/artists reviews, music chart update and promotions of up-coming events(concerts and festivals) and article about artists/bands, they 'pretty often' see bands/artists reviews, music chart update, promotions of up-coming events(concerts and festivals), articles about artists/bands  and new albums reviews and what they see 'often' is competitions and what they 'not that often' is reader interaction(crosswords,sudoku) and what attracts them to the front cover is the main image of artists/bands/

Respondent 15 is a male who is aged 15 to 24 years old and their favourtie rock genre is heavy metal and the colour that they normally see is red and black and they are willing to spend £5.00-£5.99 and they purchase a rock genre magazine and the feature that is important to them is new albums reviews and the content that they expect to see is competition, new albums, bands/artists reviews, music chart update and promotions of up-coming events(concerts and festivals) also what they 'always' see is bands/artists reviews and what they 'pretty often' is music chart update, promotions of up-coming events(concerts and festivals), articles about artists/bands and what see 'often' is competition and what they see 'not that often' is reader interaction and what attracts their attentation on the front cover is the main image of a artists/bands.

Preparing for pictures

I had to plan when to take pictures and who will be my models to take pictures of also what props and costume that my models are going to use

A Good friend of mine name Nathan said he free on  Friday

Image  of Nathan	Medium shot of a male person who will be making a ‘rock out symbol’
Description of image	They could have Piercing. Their facial expression is them with their tongue sticking out while making a ‘rock out symbol’ Black short hair A picture of him maybe looking to the side or straight at the camera
Connotations/ Signifiers	The connotations is that this person will looks like a real heavy metal rock star due to the way that they are dressed with the Leather coat jacket and the dark clothing while holding bass guitar, also this person has piercing and this makes it more easier to make the audience actually believe that this person is a real rock star artists or in a band.
Shot/ Angle	Medium close up(left and right sides of the person also Underexposed and Overexposed)
Actors	Nathan
Costumes	Leather coat jacket, Dark clothing
Props	Bass guitar, hat
Location	Anywhere that represents that he looks like a rock star.
Equipment needed	Make up, black eye liners

A school mate

Image Amie	A medium shot of a rock star
Description of image	A picture of her with her tongue sticking out or a serious face. Black long hair
Connotations/ Signifier	The connotations of the image is that to show how serious she looks.
Shot/ Angle	Medium close up(left and right sides of the person also Underexposed and Overexposed)
Actors	Amie
Costumes	Dark clothing
Props	Guitar?
Location
Equipment needed	Make up black eye liner

 My best friend Ben he dresses like this normally, said he free on Wednesday.

Image Ben	Medium shot of a Ben who will be making a ‘rock out symbol’ or making a serious face with his arms folded.
Description of image	Ben should be making a rock out symbol and his facial expression is a serious face. He will have long hair.
Connotations/ Signifiers	The connotations of the image is to show how scary and powerful this rock artist is and how this person looks like an actually rock star because of the long hair that some rock stars actually have.
Shot/ Angle	Medium close up(left and right sides of the person also Underexposed and Overexposed)
Actors	Ben
Costumes	Leather coat jacket or trench coat. Dress in all black
Props	Metal Claws, Necklaces, sunglasses and katana or guitar
Location	Anywhere that represents how scary and powerful this person is so a dark room or background.
Equipment needed	Make up, black eye liners

My classmate 

Image Damien	A medium shot of a rock star
Description of image	This person should have their tongue sticking out while making an angry/ weird face.
Connotations/ Signifiers	The connotations of the image is to show how creepy and weird this person is.
Shot/ Angle	Medium close up(left and right sides of the person also Underexposed and Overexposed)
Actors	Damien
Costumes	Leather coat jacket, Dark clothing
Props	Necklace
Location	Anywhere that represents how creepy this person is so a dark room or background or white background.
Equipment needed	Make up black eye liner

Decisions of what to put in my contents page, Double spread page and front cover page

Today I am going to think about what I need in to be in my magazine as in the contents.

Front cover
On my front cover I have to take a picture someone who is suitable for the music genre because I am doing a heavy metal rock magazine so I will need someone who dresses in the same way and looks similar like a rock artists.
The person that will be on my front cover will have to dress in a leather jacket and will have long or short hair and they might hold a symbolic symbol for example: a guitar or bass guitar or maybe the person make a rock symbol to show that they like heavy metal.
The costume should be a leather coat jacket or a trench coat and they should have sunglasses on maybe.
The facial expression of the person should be them with there tongue sticking out or have a serious face or maybe with their mouth open as like they are shouting perhaps.

The masthead should be at the top so the audience can see it also they will know the name of it when its on the top also in my research I found out that, magazines don't put their mastheads at the bottom or middle of the magazine it's usually at the top.
I will put lots of contents and teasers at the front of the magazine because this will attract younger audiences too also it promotes the magazine too.

Content Page
In my contents page I am going to mention about a music chart up-date because everyone wants to know about rock musics.

Also I should mention articles about bands/artists also have pictures of the artists or the bands that might be on my magazine so the audiences knows who the magazine is going to talk about.
 Pictures then the text next to it and it will be a picture of who the contents page is talking about.

In my content I am going to mention a about the reviews and articles that are going to happen on the double spread page.
Then on the right box on the right side of the page will be text that talks about who made the magazine.


Double page spread 
In my double  page spread I am going to put Promotions of Up-coming events(Concerts and Festivals) because from my research majority of the respondents say that this is important feature to them also I am going to put Articles about Artists/bands.

On one page of my double spread page I am going to put pictures that I am going to take and put them on my double spread page so the text will be above then a picture below of a concert or a festival that will soon come and that will part of the other picture as well.

Then on the other double page spread I am going to have articles about a band/artists because it from my research majority of the respondents say that they "always" see articles about a bands/artists so that's what I am going to put also next the text there will be pictures of the band/artists that the article is talking about so the audience will know who they are also the festivals is the band/artists that the article is about.

Also they will be a music chart update on this page too, I think this is important to have in my magazine because it helps to audience to know what band and music is at the top and that is very popular and what is not also it gets the audience to know more about heavy metal/rock bands and songs that they haven't heard of and this will be set on the bottom page
Black and white images of the bands/artists maybe.

My magazine layout final

My music magazine layout final draft

Front cover
This first image is what my front cover is going to be.

The masthead is going to be over the main image not behind as all the heavy metal/rock magazines have.

In my magazine there.

As you can see here, the main image will take most of the space on the front cover so the band or a artists will be on a front cover and then and the boxes that are on the sides are teasers to promote the magazine to get the audience to want to buy the magazine I don't know yet what the teasers will be but it will be good though.
There are lot of teasers and contents on the front cover because in my research I saw this with kerrang and I am doing the same type of music as kerrang heavy rock.
Also there is a coverline will be at bottom of the page.







Content page
The second image is what my contents page is going to be.

The headline is a the top of the page and then on the right side of the page its going to be picture of whats on a certain page, and on the left side there are two boxes with has crossheads to make it easier for the audience to read and then a the bottom there is another crosshead.


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Double spreadpage

The third image is what my double spread is going to be.This is the left page of my double spread page, on this page there is
6 boxes, 6 boxes are text.

The box on the top is article about band/artist and the box next to it is going to be pictures of the band/artist so the audience will know who the article is talking about.

Then below is a another article about a new album that the band/artist has released and other facts maybe about the album then on the box next to it, is the history of the band/artist so the audience can know more about how the band/artist became what they are today.

This the right page of my double spread page, on this page the top part will be a image that will be informing the audience about a new band/artists.

Then the box at the bottom is music chart so the audience can know who what is the newest popular music that month also it aloud them to know more bands and other artists that they never heard of.

Magazine name, logo and housestyle

Magazine

Magazine name

My magazine name will be now called fullmetal because it states what the magazine is going to be about also it goes with my music genre as I stated before also it makes more sense also it "full" and "metal" together and this makes sense because my music genre is heavy metal/rock and fullmetal could mean to the audience a pure heavy metal type of music.The dark red colour is what the audience will associated a heavy metal magazine to have on it.

This is what the masthead will look like on the magazine or I might change the colour to silver.

Logo of magazine

I think the logo should be this because its a ball that looks metal and it has a red centre and at the sides it silver also the pattern in the circle makes it look a like a rock that is metal, the problem with this logo is that rocks are not perfectly around like a ball.

The logo is a ball that shows it completed because for something to be full it has to be at its limit also inside the ball it’s full of metal and I show this though the design of the ball and the design shows its metal that is full in a ball also the colour is gradually becoming red inside the ball and this links with the colour of the title because the title is also is red.

I have created my logo by using Photoshop, Photoshop allowed me to find the right colour and shading for logo that I couldn't use on Microsoft word or PowerPoint.

House style
The colour scheme that I am going use it black, silver/white and red so the text that the magazine is going to be in will be in white/silver or black or red depending on the background of the page and the font size is going to be 20-30 depending on what happening on the page this is for the normal size font but for headlines it is going to be 40-50 depending on how its going to fit the page the way I want it to.

The type of the language I am going to use is formal and informal at some parts of the magazine and font style is going to be "Franklin Gothic Heavy" because that font will suit my music magazine.

I choose the font style to be franklin gothic heavy because it’s a darker colour of the font colour black also it makes the text easier for the audience to read also the font style is similar like the font being set on bold when it’s not and this makes the audience think that the text must be important if it looks like it’s in bold because when text is in bold it must mean that it is important to read and that it should stand out and this is why I chose it.