Friday, 21 November 2014

Rough Magazine Ideas

Rough Magazine Ideas.
 
 
For my magazine name I had to stick to one genre, indie rock/alternative. obviously it gives me room to branch out due to an expanding genre of alternative music, anything from the heavier side of indie rock to the feel good summery side of the genre. and everything in-between. as I said in the last post, NAM is the name of my music mag. All of the main images were sourced of Google/Bing. but the text I had to put in myself. both magazines are just rough covers and are missing vital things, such as date's and barcodes. however these magazines are just rough quick little throw together to give me an image of the ideal magazine id like to create at the end, once I have sourced my own photos I can start working on my mag. to create these magazine front covers I used Microsoft Publisher, because it quick, easy and gives a professional look to my magazine without having to know the ins and outs of every dimension and having to create different layers, and this is the simplest way for me to create a sharp magazine and for me to create my ideal front cover.  with my magazine I have aimed it towards a sort of NME look with bold contrasting colours working together to create an eye catching style to the cover.
                                       

 


Indie Magazine Name ideas.

Magazine Name Ideas.


Coming up with a name for my magazine had to be the hardest decision, I had a rough idea that my magazine was to be based on the rolling stone of magazines NME (New Musical Express), so I decided to go for an abbreviated name also. NAM (New Alternative Music) was the name I settled for, with a simplistic logo. Usually there is no background square, I just needed a colour to show that around the outside of the text is an outline of white to give a contrast to the black. To give myself an idea of how id like my magazine to look I did two rough cover's of artists that Id expect to categorise within my genre.