This is my first attempt at creating my contents page. After completing my research; i decided to go against the conventions of an indie magazine contents page. This is because i wanted to experiment and see which layout was most asthetically pleasing. ...

I chose to use this as my final front cover because it looked more asthetically pleasing and i found that it attracted the correct audience. I layed the page out conventional to most music magazines, this is because i didnt want to risk it not looking like a typical indie magazine. I chose the colour scheme as mainly black,grey and blue. This was because it was a calm tone and looked good when it was put together. But i also added some yellow to the page so that certain things were able to stand out and capture the readers attention. I chose the title to be "project indie"; this was so that it was easy to see who the magazine was aimed at and what it is about. Overall i think the cover of my magazine project is high quality and looking back on my preliminary project; i can see how much my skills and techniques have improved.

This image will be used for my main front cover image. This is because it is a good quality, semi-professional and portrays typical indie's. I had stuck to the rule that my main image has to be a medium close up, i wasnt sure whether this would work at first but after several shots i managed to get the lighting background, facial expressions and overall mood of the image to fit the genre.

Questionnaire:

1) Are you male or female?
2) What type of music do you listen to?
3) Why do you prefer this music?
4) If there are any, what type of new music would you like to try?
5) What attracts you to a magazine?
6) In a magazine, what makes a good contents page?
7) What do you like best about a magazines front cover?

I asked 20 people to fill in my questionnaire and these are the results that i got back:

1) female - 11
male - 9

2)RnB - 5
Indie - 9
Rock - 6

3)Enables me to express my emotions - 7
Sounds interesting - 6
I like the band/artist - 7

4)Classic - 3
Indie - 6
Pop - 5
Punk - 4
Metal - 2

5)The colour scheme - 4
The cover artists - 6
Promotions - 2
Layout - 5
Price - 3

6)Easy layout - 9
Only main articles - 3
Lots of pictures - 5
Messy layout - 3

7)Colour scheme - 7
Font - 4
Mise-en-scene - 2
Images - 5
Promotions - 2




Here are some of the names i thought of for my indie magazine:

• Domination
• Indie Traumatic
• Project:INDIE
• Silent!Space
• Distortion
• IndieGO

The name i decided to use is... Project:INDIE. This is because i thought it stood out and had originality. The title looks like it belongs to a music magazine and it clearly shows the audience that the magazine is based on indie music.