Albums

While designing my bands album cover and poster, I looked at some existing album artwork to get some ideas, and see what the general trend was. 

Some of the albums I looked at were the ones below-

Album Covers by gemabema on Polyvore

From these I saw that the designs were mostly simple, with either a simple picture or text. I also saw that they were mostly block colour with black and white.

I took this and applied it to my design for my album cover. I used a simple colours (white and yellow, as they fit in with the background image), and a plain black text with the artists and album name-

I really like the simplicity of my design, and I think it work well with the magazines layout. I also think that it fits the conventions of plain and simple, that the other albums display. 

Final Music Magazine

I have finally finished the music magazine! After long hours of work it is finally complete, and here for you to see!

Front Page-

Contents Page - 

Double Page 1- 

Double Page 2- 

Hope you like it!!

Coda

As some of you may have seen from my last post,  my magazine name is called Coda.

Coda is a musical term meaning 'the final section of musical piece: in some pieces of music, a final section that adds dramatic energy to the work as a whole, usually through intensified rhythmic activity'.

Now, although I don't know what that means, I know it's musical.

I came across this word as I was doing some research, and I really liked the name of it, so I used it! (I also saw it as a better, more unique name compared to Beat and Volume.)

So there you have it, how my magazine got it's final name!

My Drafts

Heres a link to all of my drafts that I have made. http://animoto.com/play/IGUB0g1Mrusq9RIR5WGzhQ

Music Page Layouts

I know I'm a bit late with putting this up, but I've been super busy actually making my music magazine!
These were the hand drawings I initially made for my music magazine designs, before I started to make anything. All I can say is that... it came out completely different.

 

 

 

Throughout the making of my magazine, I used these initial designs as a template, but as the magazine built up, it looked less and less like the first designs, as it just didn't work!

Watch out for my final magazine coming on my blog soon!

Action Plan 2

This is an update of my action plan.

Date	Task	Completed?
24/02/14	All research and planning complete with first draft of magazine work	Completed
10/02/14	All pictures of models taken and collected	Completed
17/02/14	Pictures chosen and edited ready for draft	Completed
10/02/14	Magazine layout ready for photos to be imported	Completed
17/02/14	Have all names for artists and magazine ready	Completed
20/02/14	Have magazine mock finished so there’s time for any changes	Completed

Some of these were done after the deadlines that I had set, but have now all been completed at this moment in time.

Photo Ideas

Here are some photo ideas that I would like to use in my photography for my magazine.

Photo Ideas by gemabema on Polyvore

These are they styles I would like to use when I take my photos. I like these ones because they are clear, and show detail. I hope the pictures come out alright!