Photoshoot ideas

Production Diary - Week 5

In the last lesson, I begun to create name ideas and masthead designs. I did this by simply creating a spider diagram; featuring four different sectors of words to use for my name ideas for the magazine. These included acronyms, phrases, connotative and compound words. I chose around 35 name ideas - I liked the name inD and Unsigned as I feel as though they represent the magazine very well and are a key signified of what the magazine stands for. I'm still undecided on which name to use as I was to be 100% sure on the name and I feel as though I'm not quite there yet. After I had created name ideas, I went onto DaFont and ReFont to select fonts that I like to use for the masthead. I downloaded these fonts and transferred them onto InDesign where I created a long list of the fonts and compared which one I like most. Again, I'm still quite undecided as I want the masthead to be to the best of my ability as it is one of the most important factors of a magazine as it can make or break it. 

In the next lesson, I plan on possibly choosing my final name and masthead design so that I can effectively move on to the next task, and select shots of what images I would like to feature in my magazine to help influence me. 

Names and Masthead analysis

Production Diary Week 5

Mood board

Key concepts

My research into the key concepts of the indie genre and music magazines in general has helped to develop my understanding further and is extremely helpful for me to look back on for information surrounding all of the relevant topics for this course. I feel as though it is mandatory for my success in the course as research is key for everything and I now have a greater understanding of the genre and key concepts within the media, therefore my magazine will only benefit from this.

Preliminary video

I have captured videos of my preliminary magazine on CamStudio which has enabled me to, one by one, highlight each factor of the magazine and bring it onto the screen. I selected the region that I wanted to record on CamStudio and then selected each segment in each layer to make them pop up. Creating this preliminary video is effective and helpful to me because it allows me to be able to use more programmes and portray my magazine in a different way whilst indicating which order I made my magazine in.