Q Magazine. The pose represents the genre of music as the magazine is aimed at an older audience, so the pose is sophisticated and simple, rather than a crazy young teenager.
Art Rocker Article. The colours the models are wearing represent the audience of the music magazine as they are bright and colourful this means that the magazine may be aimed at a young teenager audience as they would be attracted to the bright colours.
NME Contents Page Colour scheme is used with the text as well as pull out boxes.
*** I had scanned in these images but they have been deleted, I will replace this post with the proper images when I can get them. These images were taken by me but aren't of a high quality, Also on the scanned images you can see my writing clearer***
In this music video, the first thing you see are women dancing in a club scene, they are dressed in tiny outfits and their dancing is provocative.
Then we see the band members reach the club, they arrive on motorbikes which makes them look powerful as well as their outfits which are dark and frightening.
They intimidate the other men in the club, this makes them look like they have power and authority.
In the lyrics, they say they want a 'toy' meaning a woman they can 'play' with, this objectifies women as small and powerless as it is the men who look after them and are in control.
The women are dancing specifically for the men's attention.
50 cent - Candy Shop
When he arrives at the building the first thing we notice is his expensive car and designer trainers, this shows us that he has a lot of money, and that his designer taste shows his identity and personality
There are women everywhere in the building, like 50 cent is attracting them, this shows he is a womaniser.
Women are in tiny costumes, very revealing, because there are so many of them it is offensive to women as they dont all dress that way.
This is the flat plan design for the cover and contents page of my college magazine. I decided to design my flat plan on paint as I think it looks neater and is clearer to read then if it was hand drawn. Each box shows a certain area of that page, I have also added brief notes inside of these to show you what detail I will add to that area.
This is the mood board for my CD cover, the genre of my CD was soul/singer song writer. Most of my images on the mood board are black and white as this was the theme for my CD. The picture of Adele is to show that she was the influence for my CD and her style of music was the genre I wanted for my own CD. I added a broken heart as I thought that this was a main topic soul writers may sing about. I also included musical notes as the core music is a major part of gentle soul especially as some artists only use their voice and one chosen instrument for their songs. I also wrote Singer Song Writer and Soul in the font from Photoshop that I wanted to use for my CD
Pre production planning and research from RosaRMedia
For this task I evaluated 3 different artists CD covers, this has helped me developing my ideas when designing my own CD cover as I now know what looks good on front covers and what sells.
I have evaluated different text styles and images and I now have a deeper understanding of how the appearance of different CD covers are suitable for the genre of music.
These are a range of different magazine covers and contents pages that I like. I found all these on Google images.
Both of these are from different NME Contents pages, I like how they include a lot of pictures so you are drawn to the image you like most.
Vogue contents page - I like the mixture of images as it makes it look like a collage and more arty. I also like that it is clear to find the page or article you are looking for as it is set up clearly.
Glamour Magazine front cover- This cover is very colourful and bold. I like the use of a range of different fonts and how the colours relate to the image and the time of year the magazine was sold.
Grunge Magazine front cover - I really like how the background of this magazine looks like it has been water coloured as this gives it an artistic feel. The colours are simple yet eye catching and I think that the whole magazine looks very professional
Two Vogue contents pages - The name of the magazine is clearly stated rather than 'contents', again I think it gives this magazine a more professional look, it also clearly wants you to remember the name of the magazine so you can buy it again. I like the high quality images which help with the professional look.
Wire front cover - I like the minimalistic feel to this cover, the simple font and little writing draw your attention to the main image which is situated on a black background to help it stand out. The image itself looks like a work of art and is so intriguing that it grabs your attention.
