I was given the brief to create a mood-board then a tour poster based on the psychedelic rock genre.

Through my research and creating my mood-board i discovered that psychedelic rock has conventions, if bright colors like purple and pink and blue. The fonts are considered of a ‘groovy nature’ and intertwine with the other stuff on the page almost like a drug trip which is obviously intentional for the genre. Their images in the cover sometimes include people but always include cool drawings, shapes etc.

looking forward

This will help me when creating my magazine cover as I know I have to do lots of research into all the aspects of a magazine such as the audience and what they will like, does it go with the genre? What do the people that read  this magazine do etc.  This will help to create a high standard, well thought out and effective magazine appropriate for that audience.

I have looked at MES and analysed a tour poster and its colours, fonts, costume and the body language and facial expressions of the cover star.

• As you can see from my denotations, the muted colours of blue and grey give a calm relaxed feel. I now know the important to think about the font, colours and body language etc displayed on the front in order to convey the correct narrative.
• For example ed feels very relatable and normal. This is due to the font he’s used which looks handwritten and also gives connotations of relaxation.

Our aims from this task was to recreate the layout using in design and remind our selves of the main design features of  a magazine such as master head, front cover star, pugs, plugs etc. We completed this tsk to improve our in design skills. Below is the real version and above is my recreation. I had lots of fun recreating this magazine cover and experimenting with in design. I had to make decisions about the color of cover lines master heads etc. To see if they writing would go with the photo while still trying to recreate it. I had to find the perfect text for the date and issue as each word or number was different.

I feel that I was good at making executive decisions as my photo was different from the original, I was also good at spacing and the sizing of things such as pugs and the writing however I found finding the right or similar text to be difficult. For the plug I had to do a special underline tool to get as close as possible to the real image.upon reflection I know I need to become better with sizing ad fonts for example the front cover line start ‘MIA’ the M is too low and doesn’t match the original. I found that just getting used to using in design itself to be the hardest part, for example finding where all the tools where and what tool does what, however upon reflection my understanding has grown tremendously which is sure to help me when creating my own magazine.

These are 3 in-design videos that will help me in the futre.

I can now tell different story’s with a camera. For example using MES and the camera itself I can create a narrative and meaning.

You can create emotion and impact with the way you hold the camera and the subject themselves I learned all the different angles, framing and technical techniques on the camera as well as composition and distance and how they all combine and intertwine to create and tell a story.

As well as these things the camera itself as its always the main story teller for example  a high angle looking down on someone May represent there loss of power or vulnerability. or like in some of our photos, we have bars these could reprint feeling entrapped or sad. I also used the rule of three in some photos as the human eye likes to see things in three.

This approach and knowledge of story telling through MES and the camera will help me in the future with my music magazine and video as i will be able to take interesting photos and convey my story effectively