Finalising Music Magazine Font

Today I looked at fonts on a website called dafont.com and picked the following, Bebas, Gill Sans MT and Neou.

Planning for my Front Cover Photograph

I have been planning for my Front Cover Photograph; I took into consideration the Location, When it was going to take place, Who was going to be there, Camera Angle, Costume (Clothes), Resources needed and props. Here is the plan I that i created:

• Artist - Lewis Wilde
• Date & Time - Saturday 1st December at 1.00pm
• Location - Archway looking at Liver birds & Echo Arena & school hall
• Costumes - Suit
• Props - Sunglasses, Microphone, Piano
• Resources needed - Camera
• Camera Angle - Medium Close Up (Could be further back though)

I have also took a draft shot of my front cover photograph (I also edited it to give a better example):

Removing Backgrounds In photoshop

Today I removed a Photographs background using a Photo-Editing Software (Photoshop).
Here is evidence of me removing the background of the photograph:

I used the following tools; magic wand, rubber and blur to get to this stage with the photograph.

Common Conventions in a Music magazine.

I researched common conventions that are found in a music magazine and here is what I found:

Locations

Today I have been looking at Locations in Liverpool on Google because I am going there soon to try and focus on a location in liverpool and maybe use it to the best advantage (Culture or to represent where the magazine has been set).


Here are some of the Images I found:

If I use a location from Liverpool i will probably be using the Echo Arena or A location were the Liver birds are in sight. The Liver birds would be used to show where the magazine is set whereas the Echo arena could be used just to show that it is a music magazine.

Image for Pre-Liminary Contents Page

Deciding which Image to use for my Contents Page (Pre-Liminary)

I have been thinking about how I am going to be laying out my contents page and I have decided to but an Image in the background.

Here are some Images that I have been looking at:

I am deciding whether to use these, I am most likely to use the first image for the contents page because the student can be edited to be looking at the contents page. I am also most likely to use another image from here for my double spread probably the image with the other student.