Font Styles

Here are different examples of fonts that I have chosen that I think will work well for different elements and furniture for my magazine.

Colour Palettes

I have looked and arranged 3 different colour palettes which I could use for the house style of my magazine. I have decided to use colour palettes 3 as it develops the existing house styles in existing magazines, but the oranges in the palette challenge conventional styles from the current media products in the existing market.

Magazine Title Questionaire

Photography: The Darkness

On the 7th March I went to The Darkness gig at Hammersmith Apollo London, The Darkness are a Glam Rock band. Their support band was called Ginger Wildheart which were a Rock Band. The three first images are of the support band, the lead singer had a Fender Telecaster which is a guitar usually represented with the Indie genre. Therefore one of the images of Ginger Wildheart would work well in my magazine. As The Darkness still fit within the Rock genre I could still use some of the images in my magazine. The photographs didnt turn out that great becasue indside the venue you aren't allowed to take in SLR cameras so I had to use the camera on my phone instead. Also because of being in a pushing crowd of people it was hard to keep the camera still so quite a few of the images came out blurry. For the images that came out clear I will consider editing them and maybe useing them in my magazine.

Institution

The institution which my magazine would be created by would be a magazine publisher and distributor. I have based my music magazine around the Indie rock genre. This would be the music target audience I would be aiming my magazine at. Some elements and iconography from other typical music magazines could be inappropriate for a certain institution as they may publish magazines that have a completely different genre, for example fashion magazines. Because it is based on indie rock and it has a certain look and key iconography about it. This is shown in the way they dress and the musical instruments they use. For example if I used stereotypes from a Pop genre magazine it would not fit in with the style chosen for my magazine. Such as in my chosen genre of music magazine it would be inappropriate to add stories or cover lines with articles including artists or bands from another music genre such as Rap or Pop. It would be unrelated to the fact it were an Indie rock magazine. If there were any unrelated topics in the magazine it may lose the audience it was originally targeted at, and they may complain. So everything created has to be appropriate towards the indie rock style. This is what consists of the indie rock music magazine being the published within a certain institution, you have to plan and produce consistently within that genre. Include the correct topics and articles, and create a well designed magazine to attract the target audience within the institution that it was distributed by.

Here are some examples of different magazine institutions:
IPC Media and Bauer Media are the UK's and world's leading media publishers as distributors. these are the types of institutions that would own my magazine as these consumers already own a few music magazines currently.

Audience

Here is a Slide Share presentation I made to show the audeince for the Indie Rock genre.

Audience from hayleycrone

Representation of Indie Rock

Here I have created a mood board using Internet found images from Google, this represents the style of clothing and the ways in that Indie Rock is represented in the music industry. I also created a Prezi presentation about the representation of Indie Rock (bellow the image).