DPS chosen photo

From my photo shoot I have decided to go with this photo to be the main photo and main focus for my DPS. This photo is based upon a David Bowie pose from a magazine I have done an analysis on. I feel this photo is one I can use to incorporate the codes and conventions and is a strong image to use. It is probably also my favourite out of the collection I took for the DPS. This however is not how I will use it in my magaizne, I will need to do some editing to the colour and photo itself to make it suitable for my magazine.

DPS photo shoot

 These are some of the photos that I took for my DPS, these are some of the photos that I have considered using and these are before edit. I will post which photo I have chosen for it.

Meeting model for Front cover and DPS

Today I met my model (Dillon), who will be the main feature of both my Front cover and double page spread. I first approached Dillon a few days prior to today as I thought he would work well and would fit the codes and conventions on an artist in my type of magazine and I was happy with the choice and he was happy to take part. Today we spoke about what we were going to do and what I wanted from the shoot. I showed him the front cover and DPS I was looking the emulate. Here is what else we discussed.

Where : School photography studio
When : 23 March 11:30
Dress code : Black jeans, white t shirt and black jacket/coat. necklace optional.

Front cover update 1

This is currently my Music Magazine Front Cover and as you can see it is pretty much bare, I am in the process of getting the photos and then it will progress from there. Now the change of logo was something I was not sure of especially with the other meeting the conventions so well. However since I wanted to redesign my magazine all together I felt it necessary to change the name and I feel this design and positioning actually works quite well. As of yet I am unsure about the colour of my background or even my title itself so this could very much change and I would not be surprised if it does. The font used for my name is Atlantic Cruise which is one of the three I picked out from my previous post and one of the ones I was most fond of. This is the base of it, so there will definitely be improvements from this point on.

Media Fonts

For my magazine I will use different fonts for  different aspects of my magazine. I went on DaFont to find and select fonts that I may use for magazine and here are some fonts I selected that may work well for my magazine. American Captain is the font used for my old logo which I put on a previous post. It reminds me of a NME styled logo. However I am currently using Atlantic Cruise for my logo at this current moment which is what I probably prefer. I would not use all of these fonts as I feel that would not fit the codes and conventions of a music magazine but there are certainly a few ones usually so I would look to include probably 3. Currently the 3 that I would  use at this moment would be Atlantic Cruise, Bellerose and Dolce Vita Heavy as I prefer those 3 too the rest. However my opinion could change but I will try and use these 3 until then.

DPS update 1

Here we have my new base for what will be my Double Page Spread. There is no current content on it currently as I am in the process of getting photo and will then move on from then but this is a brief insight as to where I hope to put everything.
Now the left hand side will be filled up with an image which will take up that full space and will be the only image on the page and should dominate the page hopefully as I will try and make that the main focus. At the moment my current thought is too have the DPS in black and white but this is a recent idea that I have had so hopefully the photos will be able to match with this idea and if not then I have other ideas in how to change it.
The to right is where I will have a stand out caption/s or maybe even put the heading, as what I put in this space I am not to sure but it will be filled with text. I want whatever to go in this space to be attention grabbing and too stand out on the page, I think I will do this by making the text significantly bigger than any of the other text on this page.
Now the bottom right is already an improvement from my rough cut as I only included two columns of text on that where as I have included 3 which fits the conventions of the magazines that I have previously researched. I will also probably change the size of my font depending on the type of information I use or the size of the text in the box above.

I can already see significance improvements on this page compared to my rough cut as I will I fit more of the codes and conventions setting it out with this plan, and now all I need is the content and then I can start to improve this page further.

My new inspiration

The new magazine I have found and will try to base my magazine around in MOJO. It is within the genre of Indie Rock and I feel it is an image I will find more familiar and enjoy to make. This is a complete change to the likes of NME but this could work very well for my magazine and overall project.