Music Magazine double page spread and contents page mood boards

I have looked at some examples of music magazine double page spreads and contents pages. I collated some examples that I liked into mood boards. I couldn't find many examples that I really loved. I find most contents pages very crowded and too busy and most double page spreads have the picture on one page and the text on the other which doesn't really show any creativity.

Music Magazine Front cover mood boards

I created two mood boards to try and decide what genre music magazine I want to create. I created one for rock and one for country style magazins. Some of the exapmples of country magazine aren't

actual country magazine they are just in the style of country magazines.

I am now more drawn towards the rock style magazine as I feel I know that genre better than the country style, so I am going to create a questionaire to see the audience and conventions or a rock magazine.









I also found some general magazine covers I like so I can base my cover on the layout, colours, font style etc.  I like the drama the simplicity of the 'Sheer' magazine. I like the pastle pinks of the three 'Billboard' magazines.

Mood boards

Click the link to see a collection of my mood boards for my 90s grunge music magazine.
http://animoto.com/play/21IdLRzt6w2iSxnn99KeKQ

Fonts mood board

I have created a mood board for the type of text I would like for both my title and my tag line on my front cover as well as the text on my double page. At the moment I am thinking to have 'Old book' as a title on my front page and double page spread and 'From the woods' as a tagline font and the title font on my contents page.

Backgrounds mood board

I found some backgrounds and textures I would like to use on my music magazine for the texture over top of images, the boaders to images as well as backgrounds. I like the idea of putting a texture over an image to make it look more interesting and having a floral print behind some inages to make them stand out and look more interesting as well as continuing the grunge theme.

Styling mood board

After deciding on what genre I want for my magazine I then continued to make some mood boards to decide the type of styling I wanted for my model. I created a 90's grunge board as well as a hipster rock boards.

I liked  the 90's grunge look more so I created a hair and make up board as well . I will choose a variety of different clothes, hair and makeup styles to use in the photoshoot so I have a variety of photos to choose from when I begin adding in the photos for my music magazine.

Poses mood boards

I created some mood boards to see what poses I wanted to do. I created a mood board for womens poses and a mood board for mens poses.

I then decided that I would be able to show much more variety of camera angles and shots if I had a woman as my main model for my front cover and double page spread as I would b able to do lots of different backgrounds as well. So I then went on to create some more mood boards for some different poses for women to help me plan  what sort of pose and image I wanted where on my magazine, but also to ensure I get a wide range of shots so I have a choice what images I use when it comes down to putting the magazine together. I got these poses out of other fashion magazines so I could see what type of poses are commonly used.