At the start of this course I was
discovering a music lost to me for sometime and I was thrilled that I
was the only person to have pursued this genre and that is New
Romanticism, but to a slightly more broad idea, New Wave, a powerful
genre that was not as political as Punk it was simple with an even
simpler message, do what you have to do, and look damn fine doing it,
they were very materialistic and more caring about there appearance
than any other part of them. I decided to pursue this even more and
decided that to keep the articles linking to the music and the media
in general, lots of information about fashion and technology, both of
which are very popular in this world
While I was making this I had many
different ideas for the front cover of the magazine, there was many
different phases in its creation, in the beginning it was a simple
white cover and silver writing with a gloss effect, as an idea to
keep everything in a nice simple and polished feel, with a calming
font, but I decided for this powerful and upbeat market I decided for
a more upbeat stark red background with white and red font, this gave
me a great contrast in colours and made it look very appealing on the
eyes and the colour palate is a very easy one to read and does not
discriminate against colour-blindness on the font.
The contents page remained pretty much
the same for the entire planning process, simply use a few pictures
along the side of the contents displaying the feature article and
list everything that you will possibly see in the magazine as most
readers now don't want to be bombarded by an overcomplicated
magazine, they want things to be nice and simple and straight to the
point.
The feature article was originally not
going to be with a band member but actually with their agent, giving
us the inside scoop on one of his old bands while promoting his
current band, but in the end I decided against it as it seemed like
it could be far too much hassle when I could just as easily write
about the band and it would likely look better at the end of it.
The images I wanted them to look more
real. Not shot in a studio, I wanted to get out there with my models
and shoot pictures with real people not with other models, that would
spoil the idea that New Wave was for everyone and it would provide a
domino effect of someone noticing themselves in my magazine, telling
their friends and so and and so forth until a large amount of people
have bought the magazine simply through word of mouth, boosting the
sales of the magazine and the popularity of the genre.
