The document discusses ideas for images to use in a magazine cover and spreads focused on gothic metal bands. It suggests close-up images of lead singers with minimal backgrounds to draw attention to them. Images should portray the bands' styles through poses, clothing, and backgrounds that reflect their aggressive or seductive lyrics and dark, sinister styles. Fonts should also be small and focus attention on the powerful images.

1. Mood-board - Images

2. Cover Image Ideas The image for the front cover; a close up of the lead singer. With no background save the silvery grey. Drawing focus on the singer and not the area around her. All images are large, focused and are of the lead singers of each band. The image of the man (Bullet For My Valentine) taking a violent pose, is suggestive of the aggressive lyrics of his band’s music etc. However, the women, with close ups both are looking provocative, to entice the readers. The font surrounding the images is small and more focused on the power of the images.

3. Three Days Grace & Nightwish – Content Page Various artists Various styles of clothing (but appear from the same genre of music) Varying uses of lighting and the surroundings, dark and sinister/seductive to bright and ‘sunshine’.

4. Within Temptation/Nightwish For the double-page spread I’d try and use a format much like this image. Having the band posing in a nondescript area that reflects on the type of music they’re producing. (Gothic for Within Temptation). And get the models to wear the type of clothes that would also reflect on their band and the image they’re trying to create.

5. Double Page Spread Varying artists of a gothic genre. The basis of what I want my magazine to be about.

6. Mood-board Font

7. Masthead (First Half)

8. Masthead (Second Half)

9. Complete Masthead

10. Various Fonts Used inside