2. Contact Sheet
I shot my images at the Bugged Out festival which
hosted lots of live DJ’s inside a range of different
rooms. Due to the nature of the event I did not have
to take any form of lighting myself; the strobe lights
and lasers gave me the perfect effect to generate
images. As my magazine is a house music/clubbing
magazine I wanted to generate images that were
familiar to the demographic audience which is why I
tried to include clubbing scenes and DJs. I had to
take into consideration that the image needed to be
portrait and the colours on the image would have to
work well with the overall theme of my magazine.
I wanted to include some branding in the image
whether it was the festival brand or a certain DJ as
this would appeal to the target audience.
3. Making the Front Cover
This is the original image that I chose to use
for my front cover. I chose this image mainly
due to the contrast between the purple and
al other colours, I would also use this purple
colour for the theme of my magazine. There
is a lot going in in this composition; the
crowd can be seen dancing, the DJ is in shot
and the depth of field focuses on the
Bugged Out text that can be seen in front of
the decks. The lighting and colour meant
that I would not have to do much editing to
the image although it was slightly squarer
than I had hoped meaning it would need to
be re-shaped.
4. Mast Head Design
When designing my mast head I had to consider the colour
scheme, how easy the font was to read and whether it would
appeal to my target audience. I began by deciding on a colour
scheme; I chose to use blue for the mast head as it stands out
and looks good with the bright purple of the main image. Next I
had to choose a font, initially I was planning on using a small
logo I the top left corner that included the magazine name but I
later decided to use fill the top of the front cover with just the
magazine name; FADER, I chose this name as it relates to DJ’ing
and I also wanted to use a word with the letter E in it as I
planned to have the E backwards which is seen a lot in DJ names
and clubbing brands. Once I decide that I would use just text I
spent a lot of time trying out different fonts and sizes, this is
when I had the idea to add a thin border to the text. I decided
on this font as it is easy to read and slightly matches the font
that says ‘BUGGED OUT WEEKENDER’. Once I chose my final
mast head I decide to put both the E and the R backwards to
relate to DJ’ing again with the word reverse. I also added a slight
blue glow around the text that blended in well with the purple
on my front cover image.
5. Once I had chosen which image I would use for my
front cover as well as the mast head that I would be
using I had to put the 2 together along with some
small sub-headings; I chose to use the same colour
font as my mast head for the sub headings with just
the main heading in the purple colour to make it
stand out the most. I then added a custom barcode
to the bottom right hand corner of the magazine as
this is the conventional place to find one. I added
the majority of sub-headings to the left hand side as
this is the direction of which the human eye reads, I
added 2 headings to the right hand side in order to
balance the content over the front cover.
My main heading ‘BUGGED OUT WEEKENDER’ is
written in a different font and colour to make it
stand out from the other headings, the font used is
much more interesting than the other text on the
page.
