In this shoot I went to castle cornet to capture some great images of my model, I used mise en scene and costume design to try and create my psychedelic rock star.

Here are my top 3 photos.

I think out of all my photos I took this is my favourite, its mainly just because of the really interesting canted angle I took and the stairs look really odd. I also like how moody the photo looks, as it’s to do with the contrast between the colors of the stairs, my model and the walls, against the color of the grey sky in the background.

In this image I really like the composition with Max standing behind Anya and having blended one of my light drawing images on top of this image makes it look really cool and Psychedelic.

However I like this photo for a completely different reason as its bright and impactful due to the blue sky and the lighting of the image. I think I did a really good job on the composition as to get my model in the frame of the circle was a really good idea. As I was approaching this location with the circle in the fence I immediately thought to take this photo. My model also looks really cool and like rock star with the guitar balancing behind his head.

Here I have made a collage of different types of contents pages this is so a can get a rough idea of what my magazine will look like and where I can start on creating my own. Having inspiration from professional magazines is going to help me especially when trying to get the right layout and find the right text size and the correct fonts. A thing that i’ve noticed about all these contents pages is that they all have the main cover star the biggest on the page and have the mastheads quite large and then have the cover lines quite small. Another thing I have noticed is that having a model appropriate to the genre of the magazine conveys more information to the reader about the product. For example the man with the black hat holding chains immediately suggests to the viewer the magazine as being hip hop or rap.

Here I have drawn 4 layouts of  a contents page, I have done this to give me a rough idea of what layout I might like to use in my magazine.

My 5 catchy headlines

• Interview with the man himself
• A chance to win jimmy hendrixe’s guitar
• Introducing new upcoming artists
• A blast from the past
• Coming to a city near you!

If I use these catchy headlines I will be able to attract my target audience and make my magazine stand out from the rest.

As you can see I have made a product meeting agenda on my first shoot for my music magazine.  Things i have on the sheet are who my model is what he will wear, his props, the equipment the location of the shoot and the date and time. Having this sheet is helpful because I can now use this information to make the best shoot possible to attract my target audience.

Here are 5 mastheads I have made for my magazine in Adobe In design. I have made a masthead and used the right conventional text for my genre of psychedelic rock. I have used AIDA in my work by making my font bold and big so it stands out and is attractive. But I have also made it look colorful and interesting so it appeals to the audience and so that I can sell my brand. The font I will use for my magazine is the pink and black one as I think it resembles My genre more than the others.

Now that I have made my mast head I can then put it into my music magazine.

Please click on picture to see full mood board

Here is a mood board showing some psychedelic rock posters and art work that I have found on the internet. I have made this Mood board by using a website called Pinterest. To create this mood board I searched up psychedelic rock posters, magazines, album covers and art. I have made sure that all the information displayed is relevant to the genre and can relate to the audience, this is crucial as I want the audience to read my detonates and get the right connotations from my mood board. The reason for making a mood board is so that I can get a feeling of which colours and fonts I will use when making my own psychedelic rock magazine. It is also helpful to have a page of inspirational pictures to look back on when making my magazine. My inspirational artists are people such as Pink Floyd as their album cover is very good as they have used good fonts, trippy imagery and very outstanding colours to illustrate their music.

As you can see, this is a colour pallet for the genre of psychedelic rock music. What I have done is extracted the colours out of my Mood Board, this then gives me an understanding of which colours I will need to use in my magazine.

Here are some page layouts that I can refer to for my music magazine.

This is a good example of a font that I can use in my music magazine.

This is a star image of a very famous musician of the genre of psychedelic rock. As you can see there are two sides to his life one is very ordinary and the other being extra ordinary. By analysing some album art and photos of Kevin, it will help me with my music magazine. This is because I understand how the media works and they make him look ordinary or extra ordinary.

Here you can see I have picked out what makes a good photo, this is for my photo shoot for my music magazine.

Here is the plan for the photo shoot.

My Magazine name is Radar and focuses on the genre of Psychedelic Rock. I have chosen this name “Radar” as it comes across as exciting and attractive. I am a very big fan of Psychedelic Rock and two of my favourite bands are within this genre, so I thought I would choose this one as I am very familiar. As you can see here is a word cloud which shows the words that describe my new brand of magazine. The magazine will be informative and show personal identity to the reader, the unique selling point will be the colours and the imagery of the magazine. The magazine will provide social interaction and entertainment for the audience making it a great selling point.

Mission STATEMENT

It is all about the expressive art of psychedelic rock music; it’s wacky, crazy and very trippy.  We want you, our readers to be part of our psychedelic world.  We will be bringing you the latest and greatest bands  such as the recent music of Crocodile Pool, as well as exploring upcoming world tours and new releases. We want the world to embrace these new and exciting bands and boost their  streams on platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music. Our magazine believes that every band big or small should be reviewed.