Front Cover with adjustments completed.

I decided to take my magazine a slightly different direction with a christmas style to it and going more away from the gold more towards the burgundy to give the feel of a much more medieval style. 

Screen shots.

I decided to create a Christmas edition because we were in December when I started this magazine, I am currently experimenting with fonts and colour (Brand Identity) after putting my background image on the magazine using Nikon D3100 and InDesign. I am doing this to make sure I can see the writing from where you would stand if you were looking at it on a shelf whilst keeping with my chosen colour scheme.







At this point I inserted a drop cap to keep with the medieval style as this is the kind of genre I imagine to connote Classical and Orchestral music. I have started to come up with cover lines that suit the style I am after. I have decided to put a puff on my magazine as in real life this would be likely to entice the reader to buy it, I have used a black background oval shape behind the puff's text to make it stand out more. This puff is imperative as it starts with the word Win which is a verb; this is direct address as it speaks directly to the reader.   



For this stage of my magazine I have made the drop cap smaller as I didn’t want it to stand out quite as much as it did, I decided to put a nice grand colour of silver behind the splash to bring out the burgundy and gold making it easier on the eye. I have decided to take out is in the splash to make the phrase a minor sentence making it more immediate and direct, this is a hyperbole.

  




I have come up with more cover lines and deciding on colours again to fit within my Christmas theme and medieval theme. I have also chosen to change the cover line about David Lawrence into a rhetorical question by adding will at the beginning and taking out the s in return “Will David Lawrence return to the west end?” this is an interrogative,  this is a question that forms an immediate response. 



 This stage of the magazine I have inserted a slogan and used the drop cap method again as I am quite fond of this as it creates a much more formal image. I have chosen to use the colour gold with a black outline to correspond with the grandness of the silver on the image. I have noticed that the words “fields” is spelt wrong and this sentence is a declarative (Simple statement.)

 



I have used www.defonts.com to download the barcode font which I have used in the bottom right hand corner, I have overlapped it over the smaller image. The barcode takes nothing away from the image. This is an obvious place to look if you were scanning the magazine at a checkout.



Photo Ideas.

Possible photo scenes:

Hampton Court and Gardens.

Glouster Docks.

Mortimer Forest.

CleeHill. 

 Medieval  Theme  image - taken at Hampton Court.

Outfit theme:

Smart but casual?

Vintage?

Ideas... 

Stick my background image with some of my brand identity colours.

Burgundy, Blue, Silver, Gold, Black and white shades will also be used.

Possible ideas?

Autumn leaves.

Violin player.

Guitarists around campfire.

Inspiration ideas – Safe and sound music video.

What I consider Smart but Casual.

Hobbits dress idea (I do not own this picture.)

Vintage (I do not Own this picture.)

Love Story Taylor Swift medieval themed dress (I do not own this picture.)

Vintage ( I do not own this picture.)

Background image is good also the way she is postured
and outfit she is wearing ( I do not own this image.)

Leather Belt.

 Black Suit Trousers.

White T
 not creased :D 

Bow tie Possibly?

Black suit Jacket.

Inspiration ideas – The Hobbit, Lord of the rings, Taylor Swift.

Possible Candidates for photo shoot

Jamie Townsend – Male college student.

David Lawrence – Male Opera Singer/ West-end star.

Charley Price – Female College Student. 

Flat plans.

Mock-ups Contents, DPS and Front Cover.

I am pleased with this cover, having used ideas from another classical magazine which interested me.
I have kept the calm layout but decided to incorporate more colours in order to catch the eye of a younger audience.

My DPS will have a background image which will bleed onto the next page.
This page will look more appealing when images are added to fill in the space.

I am pleased with the way my front cover turned out, though I shall use an image rather than a solid cover as my background. I will look into using different fonts to relate to my chosen genre. 

Giraffe - Ting

I LIKE THIS FONT THE MOST, HOWEVER I DONT THINK THAT THIS FONT FITS MY SUB GENRE AS IT IS MORE STEAM PUNKY.

I HAVE PICKED ALL OF THESE FONTS DUE TO THE FORMALITY OF THEM AS THEY FIT NICELY WITH MY ORCHESTRAL, OPERATIC, CLASSICAL THEME.

I HAVE CHOSEN COLORS I THINK RELATE TO MEDIEVAL AND MY BRAND IDENTITY AS I THINK THESE CONNOTE THE CHOSEN SUB GENRE.

Style Sheet.

I have chosen this colour scheme as  it  reflects the colour of the instruments and historical grandness.