Draft Drawings, Flat Plans and Shot Lists

On the side there is a few drafts of a front cover and and a contents page.

This is the draft version of my double page spread.






Flat Plan

This is the flat plan for the front cover of my magazine. The title 'Underground' is a the top of the page but behind the main image of the artist. The title will have a font which will look as if the words were shaking; this would relate to the actual London underground where everything sounds as if its shaking when the train comes. Along the sides there will be cover lines, and on top of the main image there will be the name of the artist and a caption under it. A bar code and a QR code will be placed at the bottom as well as the price of the magazine and which issue it will be.

This is the flat plan for my contents page. The layout sort of goes against the conventional layout of a magazine, as instead of their being a list of words showing what pages the articles are on, there's polaroid pictures with captions under showing which page the article is one and what the picture is about. In the middle it will say 'Contents' page, which will be written in a non-traditional way. I got this idea from the Vibe Magazine.
In the middle, there will also be the editors letter.

This is my double page spread. Along the top of the pages there will be photographs of the main artist. Under this their will be the actual article with a quote in the middle of it. On the right hand side of the double page spread, there will be a larger long shot image of the artist, and a tiny box which would the artists upcoming events and shows.



Shot List
The types of shots that will be featured in the magazine are close ups, long shots and mid shots. On the contents page there will also be some extreme close ups and establishing shots. Below is a samll shot list, of the types of shots that I will be taking.

I plan to let the artist wear his own clothes but specifically jeans, a hoody and some trainers, so that his target market can relate to him. I want his hoodie to be brightly coloured as his target audience normally wear bright colours too - These colours will also form the colour scheme for my magazine. I got this idea from some music videos that my target market would have probably watched - This is an example of one music video that my target market would be familiar with. In this video the artists Chris Brown and Big Sean are either wearing hightops (trainers), and jeans. Their tops vary from jean jackets to hoodies and jumpers. This is the type of clothing that my target market would also wear, so it is important that the person on  my front cover wears the same types of clothes, as it would attract the right audience to the magazine.

I also plan to take the pictures around Vinceness Estate, the estate where me and my main main artist live, so that people will know what he came from and how much his life has and will change when he becomes more and more famous. My artist is a rapper, and most rappers rap about where they used to live (which is mainly estates), and how their lives have changed since they got famous and started earning money.

I plan to take pictures near and above brick walls, near gates and some in the middle of the road. I got this idea from other famous Underground artists and their pictures; these artists include Rita Ora and Tinie Tempah.

Even mainstream artists such as Chris Brown and Busta Rhymes take photoshoots near brick walls, which is why I think its important to implement a brick wall somewhere in my magazine.