Planning images

I have inserted a few screenshots of my plans (which can be seen below) for the images I intend to capture for my front cover, contents page and double page spread. Note: this is only planning so I have something to refer to. I am sure during the photo-shoots, I will want to experiment with other combinations of shots (i.e. mid shots; different angles) to obtain a complete array of images to choose from in the end.

Draft layouts

To increase my knowledge even more of the codes and conventions used in the music industry, I have organized a presentation whereby I have explored different layouts of front covers, contents page and double page spreads. This task is useful because I will be able to identify the use of different features and its positioning, having looked at existing magazines and their perspective of composition of pages. So that at the post-production process, I will understand which feature is best and most suitable to place where.

Front Cover

Contents Page

1st DPS

2nd DPS

3rd DPS

Planning logo and house style

During the main task, at one point I knew I wanted my music magazine's name to be called 'Amplify' because it is short, not too bold as "KERRANG!" reinforcing the fact that it is will be an edgy magazine (to stand out from the other music magazines) but only to a point where it's still subtle and easy on the ears.

The image below showcases my final logo style of font and name. 

Font name: Velocity
Taken from: http://www.dafont.com/velocity.font?text=amplify&psize=l

Font style and size:I shall be experimenting with the font styles and sizes during the process of creating the documents but I know that I definitely won't be using fonts like 'Rage Italic'. Instead, I will opt for an appropriate, simple with straight cuts font style.

Colour scheme:I plan to use White On Red for my masthead as seen in magazines like NME, Q, and XXL. Black will be used for texts and grey for the background of the central image. These all make for a trendy-looking music magazine specifically because red is used contemporarily. 

Type of language which I will use:The type of language I will be using particularly within the double page spread: a colloquial (informal) language with a mixture of formal to further represent the audience of my publication to have a similar characteristic with the artist that will be featured throughout all the documents.

Criteria Grid

The objective is to now complete the criteria grid consisting of the features or more specifically, the terminologies (used in Media) which I will be looking to implement in my own magazine. Having looked at existing music magazines already, this grid will help me at the stage of planning the layouts and also the post-production process.

Below are the features which I intend to or possibly might include in my own magazine: