Magazine Photo Ideas

Front Cover - The front cover image will be a head and shoulder eye level image, Subject will be looking directly at the audience and will look serious and slightly mysterious. Hair not covering face. Hair is red to make the image less dull against the black or white background.  

Other - 

•  Full portrait photo of stood up person, white or black background. Same preferences as first option
• Person using decks or synth equipment, from behind or side angle, lights obscuring photograph
• More casual image of person laughing, smiling, messing around in general, messy room or woodland. 
• a hideaway or spying style image of person with objects in foreground

Person will be wearing ripped or regular skinny jeans, a pattern t-shirt or vest, a pattern headband, all bright colours to give a individual look.

My Magazine Titles

Ideas:

• Rank - to be ranked, but also linking to a dirty or grimey feel
• Septic - a fixative, to cure modern or generic music
• Sceptic - sceptical of pop and generic music
• Hideaway - a hideaway from life, hideaway from generic pop music
• Shelter - similair to hideaway, a shelter from modern music
• Basic Space - one sided magazine, basic views
• Transmission - transmission relates to transmiting soundwaves, transmiting information

The final choice for my magazine name is 'Transmission'
I have chosen this because of how it relates to a electric style of music

Existing Magazine Names

NME - New Musical Express, magazine being so well established that it could reduce its name to just initials and still be recognized
Kerrang - Guitar related term
Artrocker - shows obviousley that it is about music but also includes lifestyle and art
Mens Health
GQ - Gentlemens quarterly, a more sophisticated magazine for older men and is released 4 times a week
OK - Abreviated term in capital letters, atracts modern generation of people
Look - implys looking closer into the magazine
Top of the pops - implys the best music in a popular music range
Q - it answers questions hence Q, you are queing up to buy it
Country Living
Auto Trader
Horse and Hound
Miz - The impression of youth and rebellion, replacing the word miss to have a 'z'
Red
Elle - french conotations making it seem sophisticated, also elle is a feminine word matching it to a womans magazine
Marie Claire - again french conotations making it seem sophisitcated
Grazia
Loud and Quiet - interviews and reviews, also different forms of music between mellow and harder
Good Housekeeping
FHM - For Him Magazine, one of the first magazines aimed only at men
Big Cheese - modern phrase, meaning modern music, the bigger rock bands in new range
Good Food 
Nuts - outragous, connotations of sex and sexual parts obviously for men
Rolling Stone

Denotative And Connotative Analysis of Artrocker Magazine

Denotative

The title of the magazine is written in a bright dominant red, it is at a slant with the main ‘A’ in the Artrocker logo. The image is of a 3 person band took from a low angle with a large skyscraper narrowly behind them. The title of the band is in a large bold red font, it is attached to the line of the banister they are leaning on. At the top of the page there are 5 words describing basically what the magazine is about in a small basic white font. The website is mentioned below the main title of the magazine in a small red font, there is a small slanted writing of ‘free mp3’s inside’ it is above the title of the magazine. There are 5 other features of the magazine mentioned on the right of the cover, they are in a white serif font with a transparent black background.  There is 6 more features at the bottom of the cover in a smaller white serif font. The barcode, price, date and issue are small at the bottom right corner of the screen. 

Connotative

The Artrocker font is rugged and scratched to imply individuality and originality. The bright red is there to attract attention as it is a dominant colour. The title of the main featured band is larger than the title of the actual magazine because the magazine is meant for people who are really interested in music and should be more interested by the band than they should be by the magazine name. The hair of the laid figure of the band is covering his eyes implying his shyness but his individuality from other people. The text colour is sampled from the middle member of the bands jacket, it is taken from that because it is the most dominant colour in the photo.  The sky scraper is in the photo because it is symbolising that the band is aiming for bigger and better things.