Vinyl

These are some images that I have taken of vinyls that I will use as the O's in my magazine name, I have taken these images because I can not take images off the internet.  After taking these images I am now going to edit them on Photoshop so that they look more appealing and professional.

Notion Name Design 2

Name Design

This is another design that I have made for my magazine name 'notion'.  I created the main text using word art font, having a dark blue fill and a black outline of the text.  I picked these two colous because they look very appealing when they are put together.  For the two O's in Notion I have replace just standard letter O's and replaced them with two records, these make the name look very appealing and they also add the music effect to the name to show that there is a purpose to the design, they also match my indie theme.

Initial ideas double page spread

Double Page Spread 

This is my first initial idea for a double page spread.  The image will cover the whole of the two

pages, however the artistwill be positioned on the left hand side of the page and the article writing will be on the right hand side of the page.  The location of the image will be in an area where there is a wall of grafiti, i have chosen this location because grafiti is a sign of a run down area and my model is going to be standing next to this grafiti with a guitar and the guitar prop is used as if the artist is saying music is my way out of this area.  The model will be standing with one foot on the wall, this is to show the models coolness and swagger.  The grafiti in the background will be slightly blurred out and the focus will be on the artist to show that it is all about him.  The writing on the right hand side of the page will be in columns and i have drew 3 small columns but I have decided I do not like this and I am going to change it to three columns instead.  I have drew a box with jagged lines and inside there is a quote from the artist, however the jagged lines makes the image look very unprofessional so I will propbably not use this for my final design.  The page numbers appear in the bottom far corners of the pages.  The magazine name appears in the top left hand corner of the left page and this is so that the audience notice it, hence they read left to right.  There is going to be no information down the spine of the page and this is good because no information is lost.  Other pieces of formating such as a drop capital and dividers between the columns of text will also be added in to the page for the appearance of the magazine.  The artist name will apear nect to the image of the artist to show that the name is about the person on the image.

Magazine name design

Notion Design Name

This is one design that I have came up with for my magazine name.  I drew it in black ink to get a bolder style of drawing.  My original design will be highlighted in blue to make the name look more visually appealing to the audience.  I have made the O's in Notion into images making them look live records, I have added this affect to show to the audience that the magazine is definitely about music and also the O's add a very psychedelic and psychedelia is used often in indie music.  The main font is in block font and this is used so that it stands out and looks more like a heading.  To improve this design insteadof draws the two O's I will add in images of records to make it look more appealing.

Magazine name

Magazine Name

For my magazine name I had came up with four ideas, one which included the 'notion' and this is my preferred name idea.  I created a questionnaire and one of the questions asked what name people preferred and they also said they thought 'Notion' was the best name.  I came up with notion because i was listening to a song which included the word 'Notion' and I straight away thought this was an interesting word, however I did not know the meaning so I searched it up on google to see if the name was suitable for my magazine name.  The definition of notion is 'a conception of or a belief about something' after reading this definition I instantly knew it was suitable for my magazine.  When people ask me why I am calling my name notion i respond by saying 'the definition of notion is about something you believe in and this is good because it is basically saying people should believe in my magazine and read it'.

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

For the first question on my questionnaire I asked an audience if indie music appealed to them and gave them an option of yes, no or some.  6 people said they did like indie music, 1 person said they did not like indie music and 3 people said that they liked some indie music.  The fact that a number of people said they do and don't like indie music shows that i have branched out to a wide audience.  The second question was asking them if they read music magazines often, this question was made so that the audience can give me some ideas based on the regularity of how often they read magazines.  Three people said they read magazines weekly and gave me some ideas that I should have my magazine name in blue, this is based on their viewing of indie magazines.  The next question I asked was what colour appeals to you the most as an indie audience?   6 people said that dark blue appealed to them the most, I then asked one person why they chose this colour and they answered 'Dark blue isn't used by any indie magazine, the predominant colour used is red in the NME and Q so dark blue would make your magazine different to other indie magazines'.  The final question i asked the audience was what music magazine name sound the best?  One option I had was notion and 8 people said they preferred notion out of the four options, I will be uploading a blog post on the meaning 'notion' in a future blog.

Initial ideas front cover

Initial Ideas

These are my first hand drawn initial ideas of my front covers, there are three designs to show the revolution of the three ideas.  I had to make three different copies because i realized things that were wrong with each initial front cover.  For the first idea on the far left of the image i firstly drew the image of the model and i instantly realized that it was not the right size of what i was aiming for.  I was aiming for a medium close up and i drew a long shot and i realized that to change this I had to draw the models head larger.  On the second initial idea I also drew the model first and I did draw it the right size this time, however i realized that I wanted the persons shoulders touching the sides of the magazine and this lead to me creating a third and final initial idea.  For the last idea of a front cover I started by drawing the artists shoulder and then drawing the head, this was to make sure that the image was meeting my needs and it did.  I then went on to add props to the drawing of the model, i added sunglasses and a bomber jacket which are two typical props for an indie artist to show their coolness.  I then added the bar code which was at the bottom right hand side of the page this is so that it is out of the way and not recognized by the audience because the bar code is not relevant.  I then added the box at the top right and this is to represent where my magazine name is going to go.  I added lots of boxes around the main image and these are there for different stories that occur in the magazine.  Finally i added a main box going across the image and this is there as a heading for the artist on the front page.