MOCK UP OF DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

I decided to arrange my text in a different way and add colour to the font. I used the font 'Arial' and 'Arial Narrow' because I want to keep a sans serif theme as it looks more professional and matches the theme of my magazine. I carried on the colour of the teal blue and intend to carry the orange through as well, in order to make the theme consistent.

DRAFT OF MY CONTENTS PAGE

This is a draft of my contents page, which provides the idea of what stlye and theme I want. It's quite clean cut, with black, blue and orange font - which are the colours carried on from the front cover. I have listed all the features inside the magazine by using pictures of what would be on the feature, and I have made my main feature, my double page spread's, image the largest and in the centre, and I have used an image from the same shoot to provide fluency. I have labelled the images of the 'main features' with page numbers.
I do not want to include an editors letter in my magazine, as although this is conventional of other magazines, it does not appear as often in music magazines.
I have included a variety of fonts however my main two being Helvetica Narrow and Georgia, I have used the same fonts so that the magazine looks consistent.
For the style of my contents page, I got a lot of the inspiration from the NME contents page, as I really liked the way their layout was quite neat however still contained a lot of images and information.

IMAGES USED ON MY CONTENTS PAGE:

 

'ENZIA DARKO': 

These are some of the images I took to use on my contents page as another artist who will be featured in my magazine. I took all of the photographs of my friend Emily in various locations because I wanted to do a little section of the contents page dedicated to this feature. In the end I decided to use the 2nd and 3rd picture along from the top row because I think that these depicted her being on 'tour' best. This is featured on the contents page and her name is 'Enzia Darko'.  

 FESTIVAL PICTURES:
Because I wanted to also do a festival feature in my magazine, I used pictures that I had taken from a previous summer festival, as there were no upcoming ones to attend due to the time of year, and used these on my contents page. I used pictures from 'Lounge on The Farm' festival.

TEXT FOR DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD - INTERVIEW WITH JESSICA QUAIL

So Jessica, this is the second album from you that we have been long awaiting, how do the tracks from this album differ from your older material? Talk us through the songwriting and recording process and what makes this album different?


Well, my first album I spent years creating this sound and specific type of track that I wanted the album to be typical of, but with this album I had a lot less time to create such depth to all the sounds I was working with and I wanted to make something different, but still recognisable. So this one is really stripped back, I wanted to focus a lot more on the lyrics and the voice as opposed to the sound and instruments. For the old album, we would use lyrics that I had written years and years ago and try and turn them into a successful track by adding a wide variety of different beats or instruments on top of them, but with this album I spent nearly all the time just working on the lyrics and using my voice as the main instrument and trying to experiment really with what it was capable of.

You mentioned quite a lot there about your lyrics, is this album quite focused on personal sentiments? Will we be able to notice any general themes?

Yeah I think this album particually is very much focused around my own personal experiences and emotions that I have felt. There are quite a few re-occuring themes in the album and the main one being centered around a break up I went through not too long ago so yeah, I would definitely say there are some re-occuring themes in this album.

You’re on a collobaration record deal partnership with Moshi Moshi records and Island Records, who have signed the likes of Florence and The Machine, U2 Amy Winehouse and Drake. Does this add any pressure to you or do you think it motivates you?

Yes I am, and it definitely does add pressure! Whenever I was writing a track or recording it in the studio from this album I was constantly thinking to myself what if people don’t get it but you can’t think like that or you’ll never succeed, in this industry you have to take chances and just hope that you have people that will always support you in what you make and what you do.

So the first album off the track is called Revolution which was released a month back. Talk us through this particular track and the lyrics behind it?

I was thinking to myself about my generation and it’s pretty much just me asking you kow, what’s happening? There’s a whole load of madness that goes on today just as much as there was back in the sixties and seventies, but for some reason back then people felt they had a voice and that they could fight for what they believe is right, whereas what we do, is well we don’t really do much so it’s just me saying we have a voice, so let’s speak.

It’s been an absolute pleasure talking to you and we can’t wait to see you in action soon, when will you next be touring?

I will be touring early june, after the release of the album and I will be doing all over the UK hopefully and then over to Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam which are places that I love playing so I am really, really excited about that.

DEVELOPING MY FRONT COVER

This is my first draft of my front cover, I chose the image of my model that I thought was most appropriate and fitted my theme best. I used a colour scheme of Orange and Blue because my issue is a spring/April issue. I think the picture works well because she is face on and looks quite posed however she also looks natural and comfortable giving the magazine an inviting feel.

I highlighted the model in white so she really stands against the grey background. I still need to add more cover lines on but I have my main two on at the moment.

FRONT COVER IMAGES

I took pictures of my friend Jess to feature on the front cover. I decided that I wanted the image background to be outdoors so we went to an old church and graveyard to stand against an old deteriorating brick wall.

These are the best of the images I took:

I then decided on a few that I think would work best on the front of my cover after looking at them once I got home and began to edit and touch them up a bit to make them look more professional:

These three that I edited are my favourite out of the pictures I took however I think that the one that will work the best against my masthead and look like a magazine is the top image, however I think I will include the second and third in my contents page or on my double page spread.

CONTENTS PAGE IMAGES

These are some of the images I have taken to use in my contents page. I am going to use them to create some album covers that I am going to include. I used a fish eye film lomography camera to take the pictures to maintain the vintage indie theme.

To make an album cover I took an image I thought resembled a band, and then edited a name of a made up band onto it and edited the contrast, brightness and saturation of the image. 

MASTHEAD:


I have decided to call the magazine ALT LOOK, but have decided to shorten it to ALTlook with the 'ALT' in capital font. This is shortened for Alternative Look, because my magazine is of the genre 'Indie/Alternative' and I want to give the impression of this being an alternative option to purchase instead of other magazine that are currently on sale as well as giving an alternative look on music and lifestyle.
I have some ideas of what I want my masthead to look like and these are a few samples:

These are a few samples of the masthead design I am aiming for, I want the font to be simple and quite large so it has a big impact against the image on my front cover. I have not decided on the colour of my masthead but I want it to be a bold colour so it creates impact on my front cover.