Contents Page and Double-Page Spread: Construction

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Contents Page and Double-Page Spread: Photography

I took a lot of photos for my contents page and double-page spread because, because I wanted to use at least four shots over both of them: two for the spread, one for the background of the contents page, and one of my model for a feature shot. These were the photos that didn't make the cut for either page.

Front Cover: Construction

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Front Cover: Photography

I did my photoshoot this week in front of a grey sheet. I chose a simple guitar for mise-en-scene, as many film score composers choose one instrument to map out the first drafts of their songs with and move to larger orchestras later. I think that more audience members will be able to relate to a girl holding a guitar.

These two pictures had to be scrapped mostly because getting a best friend to be your model in a school project always spells disaster, as proven here by the inappropriate faces you see. They were also scrapped because the poses weren’t quite right—in the first, you can’t see the full guitar, and her hair is covering her eyes. I thought the second would be casual and interesting, but it holds no relation to the genre when she’s not using it properly. 

These were gotten rid of for the same reason, although the expression is much more acceptable. You can’t see the full guitar and the picture sends the wrong sort of message for my magazine. 

I finally settled on this picture, which has almost the full guitar in the shot as well as a nice smile and an accurate demonstration of how to play said guitar. The focus is perfect, there’s lots of space for a masthead, and I think it’ll be a great shot to use for my magazine cover.

Font Testing

Possibly the most important feature of a magazine cover is the masthead. It's what most audiences look at when they search for a magazine. My music magazine will be called 'SCORE', in relation to classical instruments and film score music, so it's important that I have a font that says traditional, but has the modern magazine twist.

These were the fonts I found.

For that all-important second opinion, I asked my sister (who also has experience in scored music) which font she thought was best for a music magazine based around film score. She suggested the first (which I'd been leaning towards originally), because it looked more regal with its bars.

With a bit of a recolouring to suit my magazine's theme, I ended up with this masthead: