Spider Diagram Of My Ideas

my moodboard

Dictionary definition of a mood board: 'An arrangement of images, materials, pieces of text, etc. intended to evoke or project a particular style or concept' My mood board was inspired by rock music which is my chosen genre, it has pictures inspired by rock music and pictures of musicians. the colour is dark and gloomy. There is a lot of black which is a colour used in a lot of rock magazines and a colour associated with the genre. The mood board will also inspire me when I am making my magazine pages.

This music video contains a band playing a long with another story line to the magazine. the setting is very dark and gloomy which is typical of a music magazine although the story line is fairly comical as it includes teddy bares which contradict the dark theme. This is the type of  theme I am planning to use for my magazine.

This music video also features a band playing. There is a dark theme running throughout the video and it gives a story line. There are a lot of different angels of the band when they play live but the main one features the main artist facing the camera. The artists wear clothes which could be smart although they are dressed to look slightly rough. most of the costumes are dark which is something I will have to consider for my magazine.

These are some of the music videos that inspired my magazine and they feature some of the themes I hope to add to my magazine. They are very typical of alternative rock and the kind of songs and bands which would be featured in the magazine.

Media from jackcooney

I found choosing my genre fairly easy, rock music is the type I mostly listen to and it is also the genre which I am most familiar with so I knew out of all the genres, rock would be the one I specialised in and was most likely to get the best mark in. Using this genre was also helpful because I enjoy looking at rock magazines so I believe this genre and looking at other magazines in this genre will inspire me to do well. I also found the work I did in this lesson when I looked at the genres the most enjoyable and I think that will help me get through all the work and provide me with a greater work ethic.

Through designing and creating a magazine I have realsied the effort and time which must go into creating a real magazine. Seeing this has given me are lage amount of respect for the people who design and create magazines, I understand the amount of work, time and effort people must put into making these look as good and as professional as they do. I have also realised how hard it is to make a magazine look prefessional and the skill and time which needs to be put in to do this. Looking at other magazines has not only made me realise the wrok I will put in but has also shown me what I will need to spend a lot of time and do lots of planning to make sure I get the most professional looking magazine I could possibly achieve.

I am happy with this contents page I think the layout of the pictures on one side and the text on the other is good wit the contents page at the top however I also believe that it would have been better if I had used a different colour scheme as the black and yellow which I used made it seem unprofessional. I think that overall it was the a good contents page to practice with however I think I wasn't able to spend enough time on it to make it as good as I possilby could. I think the pictures I chose were alright although they could have been better if I was given the opertunity to bring in props.

I like the fonts which I used in the magazine front cover and in was very happy with picture I used in the corner of the magazine of the boy who was playing table tennis as i think it works really well. the fonts I used and the layout was inspired by other pictures which I saw on the internet of other school magazines which other people had made. I was also pleased with effects I used on the font on the magazine as without them the magazine would look very unprofessional and I think if I had used them in the contents page it would have really improved it. One if the problems I have with the front page is that the model in the main image is not looking directly at the camera which is not usually seen in magazines and as his face cant be seen this makes the magazine front cover look fairly unprofessional.