Feature Article - Interview question ideas.

Artists

Magazine Cover examples

I chose to use these images as examples because they have similar house styles to me. They all have either a plain or black and white image as their main image with a bright contrasting color in their main text or Masthead. 

Text Choice

Photoshoot ideas

Name.

House style - Colours.

I have chosen these for colors for my magazine because i think they contrast each other well. I have also chosen them because most of my photography within the magazine will be black and white so these colors i think will compliment well with this. I have chosen to use pastels because i think they are light and simple which coincides with my chosen music genre. But i also have the darker Maroon and Crimson to contradict which overall suits with my house style of Individuality.

Final Masthead choice.

Initial draft of name designs.

I chose these three draft ideas initially because i thought they were all very bold but different. The first one is very large and will stand out on the cover of my magazine. It has no color so therefore will stand out against my colorful background. In the end i didn't choose it because i thought it did not conform to my style so it wasn't as simplistic as i would like it. The last of the three i liked because i thought it was simple and original . I liked the way that you had to interpret what the word was which already has the reader thinking of what the magazine is going to be like. But overall i didn't like because although i'm looking for simple it still had to stand out on my page and i felt like this one wouldn't. In the end i chose the middle option because it was simple yet bold. Plain but it still had color, and it didn't show the exact word unless you took time to look at it. My magazine is hoping to already be successful so the name "wire" shouldn't need to  be displayed directly such as magazines as NME for example. Overall i think it should be very effective.