Planning

On 6th March we were told how to plan and take our photos for our magazine, we got basic ideas and first initial thoughts on what we could include and how to take the photos and edit them. we got about 10 minutes at the end of the lesson to plan the layout and pictures.

I bought 2 magazines, ( One Q and one NME ) to help get ideas for content and how to layout my front cover. My magazine i had already decided was going to have a genre of Alternative Rock/Indie. which meant that NME and Q were probably the 2 nearest magazines feature-wise to what I wanted my magazine to be.

I looked at the double page spreads that these 2 magazines had and any older magazines I had from previous months and issues, a lot of the double pages had interviews or reviews. this is when i decided that i would have a review as one of my main features.

I wanted to make my magazine different from any other big magazines out at the moment so I decided to have as my main A3 spread the story of a band/artist.

The first thing i had to decide for my magazine in my mind was the colour scheme, i chose to have black and blue mainly with some white.

before starting the first thing which would be the front cover I had to know what a good front cover looks like so I went through any magazines I had at home which mostly included NME and Q ( I also went back over the presentation I did on Q magazine because i knew I included many images of Q's front covers on it) and got a good idea what I wanted to include which was one big image that was applied as the background and text around the top bottom and sides wit the image being the central idea. This meant I had to have a very good image which stood out.