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.

ideology in Rock

Rock

 

 

Most people assume rock as a dark and rebellious genre of music, and they'd be right to do so. but the majority of rock and heavier music is purely for the music, people don't listen to bands for what they look like, they listen to the music. But recently rock band have had to change their image, because nowadays it is what they look like too, which is a shame because they spend more time on an image than their music. Rock is considered dark and grungy, every now and then a new band comes along and steals the limelight for a brief minute and they have a perfect balance of swagger, style and good music. a band like Royal Blood, new to 2014. Enough swagger in interviews and style to catch an eye, and great dynamic music, also they bring something new being a two piece rock band.

if you talking a long time back into the rock bands it wasn't necessarily about style but just image and what image the produced for the listeners and also the music was good, so bands such as Metallica and Black Sabbath. although style does play a part I think you can tell the type of music they make by just hearing a band name or looking at what they're wearing or how they say things, you can almost decipher what music genre they make.

the music magazines covering the rock genre are often dark colours and have text that is often distorted.

 

 

 



 

School Magazine Front Cover.

School Magazine Front Cover.

mood board

for my magazine I had to create a mood board on things that would concern my magazine, because I want my magazine to be based purely on music, no stereotypes, just the music so making a mood board full of bands that I love the music of.

the 4 f's of magazine design.

The 4 F's of magazine design.

 

1. Format.

2. Function.

 

3. Frame.

4. Formula.

why i like Indie Rock magazines.

INDIE ROCK MAGAZINES

My style of magazine is going to be an indie rock magazine, the reason I've chose this is because I am a massive fan of the genre and multiple bands involved, everything from Arctic Monkeys to Foals, and from Phoenix to The Smiths. I love all kinds of indie Rock, alternative rock and anything with a good solid rhythm. One of the fore frontiers in the indie rock scene of magazines is NME, (New Musical Express) I love this magazine because its not about image with them, its purely about the music, And new music too. it keeps the reader up to date with news and good songs that all indie rock lovers will like. I think the main thing that keeps people coming back for more is the diversity of the music and how good the magazines are sometimes at predicting the next big bands, or even themselves making a band big by giving them lots of publicity. Arctic Monkeys were made huge by the NME by giving them multiple covers and overhyping them at the time, but for me it was a great move by the magazine as now they are one of the biggest bands in the world, NME have that recognition for giving them lots of publicity and making them the chart topping band that they are.               

NME made this cover back in 2005/2006 just after the release of the first album 'whatever people say I am, that's what im not.' the coversine's for this are based specifically on the man on the main cover (Alex Turner) and his band. with 'tour mayhem!' 'tabloid hysteria!' & 'supernova album sales!' and a huge Subheading 'ARCTIC MONKEYS' with yet another cover line reading 'On the run with the biggest band in Britain.' Making the reader want to know more about this new band that are sweeping the sales. Even to this day in 2014 NME are still supporting the 4 lads from Sheffield.