How To Take A Good Picture

Have the correct costume and Mise-en-Scene to reinforce your genre
Direct mode of address the audience. Standing in a non-normal way
The good lighting, to give a professional look.
Frame image as a medium/long shot, get their full/main body features (to be able to fit in other feature stories and don't cut body features off by accident)
Make the masthead suit the Mise-en-Scene

Google Mock Up- Double Page Spread

To construct my double page spread, again I needed both Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft. The finished product in on Publisher this time, 

Google Mock Up- Contents Page

For my contents page, I used both Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Publisher.

This is what I needed to do on Publisher.

Front Cover- Google Mock Up

This is my Google mock up of my front cover. I used Photoshop to do this and have explained each process. 

This is my finished mock up. I have done my best to include as many conventions of magazines as I could.
Language- I have used the colours white, black. dark red, yellow and grey. White is used in the text because the dominant colours are quite dark, white shows up quite well. Same idea with the use of yellow. I have also used yellow for the plug as well because yellow is an eye catching colour, it immediately shows my audience the opportunity to enter a competition and possibly win, it makes the magazine interactive. I have used grey for the background because connotations of grey include calmness and composure which is suitable for my genre of alternative rock because it isn't as crazy and energetic other rock sub-genres such as heavy metal and screamo. Alternative rock can be energetic but it seems more contained and controlled. I have used dark red because a lot of alternative rock bands perform songs about love and lust so I thought it would be quite suitable for the magazine in terms of genre and how my magazine looks. I have used black because it is commonly associated with rock bands in terms of fashion as you can see in the images of Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Linkin Park, All Time Low, Black Veil Brides and Evanescence, they all have black items of clothing and it represents mystery and elegeance. It could also represent the subject of the songs they sing and music videos because they cover quite dark and mysterious topics such as violence, drugs, sex and ambitions.
Ideology-
Institution- I constructed this magazine using the assistance of Photoshop. The images I found on Google Images so they are from different institutions.
Audience- The target audience of my magazine is teenagers to about 24 year olds because I have done researched other music magazines of the similar genre and took their statistics into consideration. The fashion style of Fall Out Boy could be relatable to my target audience because the majority of the people of in the age range are either students, part-time workers or both so there isn't a lot of income, therefore the fashion style of Fall Out Boy in this image is good as it is simple and looks good.
Representation-  

I took this image of Fall Out Boy from maguzz.com. Using Photoshop, I deleted the white background, using the 'magic wand tool', the 'polygonal lasso tool (to delete the little sections I don't need with more ease)the delete key,  so I could place them on a grey background (I created a rectangle, and placed it portrait on an A4 Photoshop file).

I came up with the masthead 'Night Light' because I was thinking of words and concepts associated with rock and I thought of 'night' because a lot of concerts and gigs take place at night and light because the concerts take place at night, a lot of lights are used so I put the words together and came up with 'Night Light'. Also you give children 'night lights' to help them sleep at night, alternative rock was made famous around the 90s and 'Rock and Roll' and heavy metal was became popular in the 50s and 60s and the difference in years between alternative rock and rock and roll/heavy metal is what I would think of as an appropriate age to be a parent so I consider alternative rock to be the child of  Rock and Roll.

Google Mock Ups (Completed)

Album Work

Paramore
The album work for Paramore varies in style.

The album work for the album titled 'Paramore' includes Hayley Williams, Taylor York and Jeremy Davies covered in neon paint. We immediately know that Hayley is the lead singer because she stands out the most due to the colour of her hair and blue denim jacket whereas taylor and Jeremy are wearing black and blend into the black background. The use of neon paint blacks up the stereotype. The use of neon paint backs up the stereotype of a messy rock star's life style.

The album work for the album 'Brand New Eyes' is quite interesting because the main image is the butterfly which has its wings seperated from the body. There is something quite cryptic about it but I'm not sure. It could have some relevence to the music from the album. The songs I like from the album include 'Ignorance', 'Brick By Boring Brick', 'Careful', 'The Only Exception' and 'Playing God'. Alternatively, it could have some links to the band around the time the album was produced.

The album work for the album 'Riot!' is quite artistic because the cover is covered in the word 'RIOT!' in a sort of graffiti style. I think this is appropriate because a riot is illegally disturbing the peace in an area with acts of crime such as violence and vandalism and graffiti is often seen as crime when not done in a designated area for graffiti, so it brings a sense of rebellion which reflects the persona of a rock star.

Avenged Sevenfold
The album 'Nightmare' is named after the song, of the same name, the features in the album.

The artwork for the album is quite gothic and dark which reflects their genre of heavy metal and suits the name 'Nightmare'.

The image takes place at night. There is a child clinging to their teddy in a bed with bed posts made of what looks like bones, surrounded by bushes with dead leaves, a gravestone behind and a figure looking over the child which could represent the Grim Reaper/Angel Of Death.

This album is also quite artistic because it looks as though it has been painted.





As something extra, I could design some album covers for the band that features on my front cover.

Possible Magazine Name Ideas

1. Rage
2. Night Vibes
3. Night Light
4. After Dark
5. Dysfunctional
6. Night Cry
7. Scream
8. Rebel
9. Trash
10. Night Shade

A lot of the names I have come up with include the word "Night" or related to "night". This is because a lot of rock concerts take place late at night.
I came up with "Rage", "Scream" and "Rebel" because these words are related to rock performances, particularly screamo and heavy metal where the bands' high energy performances involve "screaming" and death growling as if they were in a fit of "rage" about taboo subjects would could be seen as "rebellious".
I came up with "Dysfunctional" and "Trash" because they relate to the bands'/artists' image. Many bands have a distinct image which makes them stand out from the rest and to do this come up with some very "dysfunctional" and unconventional looking styles in fashion which is the reason for the name "Dysfunctional" and many rock bands are stereotyped for having a messy lifestyle which is why I came up with the name "Trash".