Creating My Main Products

How I made my cover

Creating My Contents Page

How I made my DPS by Dirt94

Time Management- 24/3/13

I am in the process of creating my actual work now and i have succesfully used photoshop to create a mask for my work that will be used on all three of my main products which if you asked me at the start of the year to do i wouldnt have a clue as to what to do.

I am currently editing togethr my work and it is going pretty well hopefully the images taken with a very highlighted shade will put accross the theme i am trying to convey.

Photographs which ones used, which ones I haven't

 Double Page Spread Images- there was 3 images considered in the process of my DPS all where a very professional looking which is something that i wanted for my actual DPS as it gives you something different than the cover and the contents. The first image i actually liked but seeing as this is the DPS and i have already featured my model in a different style that has him looking away in my contents page making this shot not very good.

The next image i feel like he is looking far too arrogant for the theme that i want to convey, his pose is also very out of sync with what i want to do. His character is supposed to be mysterious and likes to keep to themselves not cocky.

This image was used in my final DPS as i felt like it was a very good image as it has everything i want for the page and more. I also really like his posture in this image as it really makes him look quite innocent.

Cover- These are the images considered for my cover. The first image you see is quite good, however i wanted my cover to be impactful and him not looking directly at the audience is what made me not like this photo.








This image is a lot  better than the previous image, the only problem with this image was the fact that it his head is a little slanted and i want something more central and something a lot more basic.







This image was the one used for the actual cover, i really liked his facial expression and the way he is just standing normally it gives the appearance that he is just an ordinary guy making him very relatable from the audiences perspective.

 Contents- These are the images that were all in contention in being my image on my contents page. The first picture i actually really like as he is standing pretty straight and it gives the impression that he serious, unfortunately i wanted the contents page image to be a lot more animated as it will differ from the cover.

I really liked tis image as well as he is a lot more animated than the previous image, the only thing stopping me from using this one however is i founda much better imag

 This final image is my favourite by far which is why it was my actual contents page image. it shows him in a very determined state that i really like.

 

 

Fonts with commentary

For my magazine i am going to use 3 different fonts that will help me stay with the overall theme of my work and make it a lot more in sync with all of the pages as they will all correlate with a similar font.

For my masthead and things like that i will be using the Slant font which is from the website dafont, it is a very cool and very suggestive for my genre.

I wanted something very generic ad pretty standard that would highlight key words from the cover which is why i will be using the Arial font as it will allow me to use the ordinary Arial font for important information and things like that but also it would let me use the Arial Black version to make it bolder in places if need be.

The final font that i will be using is Thyssen J which is also another dafont font, it is very stylish and gives my work an identity as well as reflects back to my overall  genre of electronic music.


So in conclusion I will be using the Arial font as it is edgy yet readable for most of my work including the text in the DPS as it is nice and chunky and very easy to read. I will also be using two other fonts from the dafont website to help me portray my theme.

Creating My Bands Logo

Artists Logo

Time Management- 20/3/2013

I have now taken all of my photographs needed for my work and am now in the process of creating my actual work which im actually excited for. I should hopefully have it completed pretty soon as i have created a couple of flat plans involving what i want o d and what my work will look like. I have also now created a draft of the article featured in the double page spread which saves me time later especially considering m trying to meet the deadlines for the work. I am a little bit more confident with Photoshop so my work should be pretty good.

Draft of Double Page Spread

Double Page Spread Draft

This is basically the draft for my double page spread i have seen this type of article before in other magazines such as NME,  it is basically just an introduction to the artist for the audience who maybe haven't heard of them before which features quotes by the artist but is packed full of information about them to give you a better insight.

Skeleton Boy is a new wave noise maker who keeps a certain level of mystery about himself all at the same time attracting a very big and positive fan base. Can the king of underground electronic music really be that good?

Skeleton Boy is new on the scene of electronic music, his catchy beats and soothing lyrics have been shuffling around many ravers iPod and has been played over 6 million times on YouTube and is still going strong. But how can someone with no record label and no from of advertising gain this kind of recognition.

"I like to think that my music represents something bigger than just your normal kind of electronic music, my music really speaks from the heart." This was the first thing we heard the Sunderland born DJ as he likes to keep to himself and not take part in any form of interview or promote his music like many others in the genre have. Not to mention the fact that he carry's his logo everywhere there's not one picture of him  that doesn't feature half of this mans face covered in some sort of white skeleton like outline that has had everyone wondering why. "The reason behind the lines is that i felt like just an ordinary guy, in my field you need to have something different that makes you stand out, Daft Punk has the various astronaut like Helmets, SBTRKT has his various tribal masks, the least i can do is show how they inspire me and continue the trend."

The song 'Fires Friendly' is now being called this decades next big summer anthem with all of the big electronic pioneers all endorsing this as being the culmination of the next big thing to hit electronic music since Daft Punk's Around the World. There is  no stopping this man from reaching the very top of electronic music and who is really going to stop dancing to complain about it.

 

Masthead Designs

For my masthead I want something traditional but something that also represents what the magazine is about, i had to go onto the dafont website which has a lot of various different fonts available for all kinds of different purposes. This where i managed to find a couple of different fonts that i thought would go well for my magazine. The title i finally decided on was TE which stands for Total Electronic which helps define the genre of the magazine a lot more.




This is the first font that i looked at and i at first really liked it but it is quite hard to understand the actual letters themselves so it ruined y opinion of it and i chose to loo for something else.



For this font i wanted to try something different but it just ended up looking like something you might see on an energy drink so i didn't really consider this font it was just something to experiment with.

For awhile this font was my final font as i really liked how space age it looked but i would eventually find another font that was a better as i felt this font was good it was just lacking something unique.


I eventually came across the Slant font which isn't too crazy and is actually pretty professional but with a nice edge too it just enough to convey he theme of my magazine which is ofcourse electronic music. This font also reminds me of the font used by a lot of artists that i like so that is an added bonus for the font itself.