Bass Control magazine cover

How I created the Bass Control magazine cover

Screenshots on how I created the cover of Bass Control from Maneet Singh

Above is how I created my Magazine Cover, it includes what shot I chose, cover layout, photograph manipulation, fonts and decisions, magazine deconstruction, front cover linked to research and front cover target audience.
I created this file as a powerpoint and had to upload it as a movie in order to get this on my blog, now all I have to do is gather even more feedback.

Cover Page Gaussian Blur

This is how I applied the blur to the cover page I did it to increase readability as stated above.

R&B Genre Cover Breakdown

Above I have broken down and analysed a R&B magazine cover in order to see how this will help me produce a cover, using this as inspiration, plus criticality is good for me, the more critically I analyse this in depth the more I can look into my own magazine cover in depth and understand.

Genre Magazine In Depth

Prop Significance.

Artist Profile

Test Shots

These are the test shots that I have taken in search for my magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread which I believe met the conventions of the R&B genre. Above are my artist's which will be on the front cover, contents and double page spread of my magazine. This test shot includes mid shots and medium close ups for me to determine which looks best on my magazine. These test shots also include the actual shots that I will be using for my final product.

Shot, Prop and Location List.

Above you can see the list of shots that I will be taking on my magazine and also how all the props and locations will interact on how I will take photographs for my magazine and at what quality.

Bass control test fonts

Above you can see the top four fonts I have tested as possible options as my bass control cover page masthead.

DPS Final Flat Plan

Contents Page Final Flat Plan

Front Cover Final Flat Plan

Draft Flat Plan with Feedback

Cover Page

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

Feedback

Marwa Sayed: I like the clear layout on the cover and the colours used which are black, white, blue and red. I also like how the colour of the masthead matches the shirt of the artist.
Although you specified the colours you will use, it would be better if you actually used them in the flatplan so it could give me a more vivid image of your contents page. The editor's image on the contents page is scintillating and unique as this is the first time I have seen this used in a students magazine.
I also like the layout of your double page spread especially the text on the right and the fact file next to the close up on the left, this intrigues the audience of the magazine to read more. Overall, well done on layout and use of images. Even better if you used the colours on your flatplans and fonts to make it more clear.

Paula Graham: I like the layout of your magazine, I have a clear indication of your wonderful colour scheme. You have made it clear where everything has to be. You also have annotated whatever you have put on your flat plans however I believe your masthead is too small and needs to be centralised in extreme fashion. Your contents page looks fairly detailed with a lot of numbers this is also looks informative. Your double page spread has a lot of images I believe if you can merge them all in to one or two images your magazine will be a huge success. I also like the locations of where your text is being placed on these three pages of your magazine.

Dawn Gallant: I believe that the top section of your cover page is slightly blank this can be resolved. The masthead is slightly small, I believe that the magazine name and colour scheme fits in with the genre of R&B. You have the angle of gaze and a midshot present which is good. There is too much writing and looks very cluttered, the colours to be used are good on your contents page however this was only described on the top of the page and not actually shown. I think that the titles are quite nice. The placement of text on your double page spread is quite brilliant yet I think you can improve on the amount of images there are on your double page spread, from 5 lovely images try and cut it down to about 2-3.

Visual Moodboard for R&B

R&B Visual Magazine Moodboard

Above I have created a visual moodboard with use of animoto, this is a site on web2.0 which allows me to create a short video showing a brief one word summery for each magazine cover in this genre. The words which was used in this clip shows the what I believe the genre of R&B is about in a few short words.

Example of music from the R&B genre.