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T O C W I T H C O M M E N T A R Y

This is my contents page for my magazine and overall I am pleased with it. I particularly like how it has a consistent colour scheme throughout the page which I created by using the eyedropper in Photoshop to pick out colours from the image and filling the squares in the my scanned in drawing with those colours. I also think that the page is recognisably from my magazine and has a layout and design that fits with the covers and my double page spread. I think its a really unconventional contents page due to the fact that a lot of the typical conventions for a music magazine are missing, such as  an editors note or the fact that there is only one main image whereas most contents pages that I looked at from existing music magazines such as NME and Kerrang had multiple images from different scenarios and of different people. My image also doesn't have a model and doesn't feature a particular artist or band or person which is really unusual, but I think because the image relates to an article in the magazine that is also listed on the contents page, it isn't a completely random choice of image and it does relate to travel and touring etc. I think the strong title 'contents' is really effective as it is simple and quick to read and straight to the point, and when researching and analysing other existing contents pages from music magazines, I noticed that a bold and large title is a typical convention that you would find on a contents page. I think the font I used (Bebas Neue) helps to make the title bold and eye catching and I like how it looks with the letters slightly spaced out. I think that the way I have listed the main featured articles is really unique and is a layout that is more likely to be used in a more independent, high end magazine such as Dazed and Confused or Tank Magazine.  Also, because there is a lot of white space on the page this instantly makes the page seem quite simplistic and minimalistic making it very unconventional and not at all like any other music magazine, which is what I wanted to initially do and I think I have achieved. 

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JEAN SHRIMPTON IN NEW YORK CITY 1962 BY DAVID BAILEY

 

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D P S W I T H C O M M E N T A R Y

This is my double page spread article featuring one of my cover stars Miles Copeland and I think that overall this DPS is extremely unconventional, breaking and challenging typical music magazine conventions. For example, there are no slugs to explain what is actually in these two pages and there is no sort of introduction to the article or any background information as to who the actual artist is. This means that the type of people reading the magazine and this particular article must be in tune with new music and must be aware of music and a wide variety of both well known and up and coming artists and bands. My DPS is also quite unconventional in that it has multiple images instead of one large scale image which a lot of the music magazines I researched, such as NME and Kerrang, had on their contents pages. I think by having my text in such square/rectangle format boxes it has given the page quite a neat and linear, structured layout which I think is effective in making it look quite on trend and high end and relates well to the simplistic approach covers that I have created for the magazine. I really like my double page spread and I think that although it is unconventional when compared to other music magazines already in the magazine market, this makes it a lot more exciting to readers as they don't know what to expect each issue and the pages will be visually appealing making the magazine worth its high end price tag and making it a magazine that people will buy as an indulgence, similar to magazines such as Tank Magazine or I-D.

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D P S I N S P I R A T I O N - SOL LEWITT

SOL LEWITT

Whilst in the Metropolitan museum of art in NY I saw this piece by Sol LeWitt, an american artist linked to various movements including minimalism. I really like the grid format and the diamond-like shape and I think that, as it came out very effectively in my photos, that it could be a good format to display multiple images on my double page spread. 

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