This document describes the design choices made for various pages in a music magazine mock-up project. For the front cover, posed shots were used from high angles to create intense expressions. The contents page features landscape shots from various angles to connect subjects. Fonts and colors were selected to match photos. Columns and block formatting were used to structure information clearly.

3. Front Cover
 The photograph is a mid shot, taken from an high angle. The subject is looking
directly into the camera with a confrontation gaze. What I did to challenge
the shoot, is to make the person in the picture have her chin slightly pulled
towards her neck so it would create a more intense look as well as her eyes
are looking slightly upwards and directly at us with a powerful but mysterious
expression. That the picture is taken from an high angle also makes the subject
look 3D. Contents page
 The picture on the top left side is taken from an very low angle
emphasizing the bad-boy impression.
 The bottom left picture is taken from a tilted eye level angle where the
subject is located slightly more to the left but is challenging his position
in the photo by leaning forward. The bend in his body is changing
where the water strip “hits” his body.
 The top middle image is taken from an high angle, centring the people
in the picture more together even if their not standing side by side.
Another thing connecting them is that there is no complete separation
between the to subjects.
 The photo in middle on the bottom is again with slightly a high angle.
This will give the reader an idea that even if she is the editor, she is still
equal to her readers as well as showing that her readers also have a
say about the magazine.
 The top right picture is monochromatic, it is an mid shot, taken from an
eye level angle. The subject is located in the middle of the image and
a road going though the photo in the background.
 The bottom right picture is a long shot of landscape with a man
centred in the middle. He is bowing is head to the see, so he looks
headless.

4. Double page spread
 I wanted my dps to be similar to the NME –
where a photo of the subject is using the whole
left side. Therefore I needed the subject in my
pictures to use a wide space so she would be
able to fill the left page as much as possible.

5.  I have challenged the conventions in my
mise-en-scene by having all the shots for
the contents page taken outside and
with landscape in them, which is quite
unusual for a music magazine. As well as
all the photos are posed – non is taken
live which also is unusual. E.g. from
concerts and live performances.

6.  For my front cover I have used typical slogans for the
cover lines such as exclusive, “Must have albums” and
festival reviews. And in the under text of these cover
lines I have tried to create excitement by using rhyme
and by having alliteration.

7.  On my contents page I have used a lot
of metaphors to describe the picture.
 I have tried to use words like; glory,
sensational, funfunfun to create
excitement for the reader.

8.  The headline for my dps, “que sera sera” is a Spanish
saying that means whatever will be, will be. I though
that when my audience saw the headline they would
want to know what it means and what then the text is
about.
 To create interest for the reader the article starts with a
short index of what you will find out by reading further.
As well as I made the text more exciting to read by not
writing directly the meaning. Instead for writing
“everybody in America loves her” I have written about
her having “America at her feet”.
 I have also added some quotes where one is
located besides a picture of her lips as if she
was saying the quote, and the other over her
head as if she was thinking it.

9.  The fonts on the front cover is mainly the same as the two cover lines
have the same font on the headline and on the under text. For the
mast head I used a very simple font and placed the letters close so
it would be like the magazines logo as well as mast head. Like Q’s
and I.D’s logo.
 I have used around 11 fonts for my contents page. This is because I
have tried to match each fonts cover line and under text to each of
the image, to create a reflection from the picture to the text.
 The mast head for my dps article is in a bold helvetica in a big size
making it easy to see. The article has the same arial font going
though it – the index is made in a bold arial and the
first letter from the main article is written with Blackmoor
LET which is elevate the alliteration to the index.

10.  For my front cover and second dps I have used a lot
of natural colours which is quite unusual for music
magazines. But for my contents page and first dps I
have used colour like black, white and red which is
more usual colours for a music magazine.
 As my magazine is an Indie pop/rock magazine, I
would use a mix of the colour that I associate with
Indie.

11.  Though out all my pages I have a dominant use
of columns – which is very common in all
magazines but is more likely to be better
structured in magazines like Q.
 The columns are especially
emphasized on contents page,
because of the black lines
separating the different columns.