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  Planning and sketching 1) Plan the content and cover lines for your front cover: Title (must be NEW original mainstream music magazine you have invented): Slogan: Cover image:  Main cover story/main flash:  Additional cover lines: Additional two smaller cover images:  Font style / colour scheme, additional design aspects: 2) Plan the  images  you will use for the front cover - use the elements of mise-en-scene (CLAMPS). One main image and two smaller images required to meet the minimum content in the brief. 3)  Plan the  content  for your inside page feature: Subject of feature:  Headline:  Subheading:  Main image:  Smaller images (need minimum of four across the three pages)  Font style / colour scheme, additional design aspects:  4) Write the 400 word interview feature you will use for the inside page spread. This must be 100% original and written by you. It may help to use a Q&A approach to thi...

1) Find at least five  music magazine front covers  (either current or former magazines as many have stopped their print editions) aimed at a similar target audience to your project (mainstream music audience) and research music magazine key conventions. For each one, pick out  one design idea, convention  or  image/text style  that you could use in your own print work - close up - bright colour scheme - centred photo 2) Find at least  five double-page spread features  from music magazines on Google images. How are they designed? How are text and images displayed? What design tricks can you borrow from your examples? The images take a significant amount of one side of the page, whether its is left aligned, right aligned, or centred. The double page spread of Eminem has 3 main colours - red white and black. The background of the page is also black which fits well with Eminem skin tone. 3)  Find at least five magazine contents pages...

For this music magazine, I will create an engaging and thematically rich print campaign that captures the essence of Elina artistic persona. The campaign will align with her signature aesthetic, while incorporating key elements of language and media representation to appeal to her diverse fan base. Elina is known for her unique visual identity, often blending dark, surreal, and ethereal elements with high fashion and streetwear influences. My magazine will reflect this by using a combination of high contrast, ambient lighting, and bold, unconventional compositions. The visuals will draw inspiration from their music videos and album covers, incorporating cool-toned colour palettes (blues, blacks, and greens) and high-saturation accents to create a sense of emotional depth and mystery. Typography will play a crucial role in reinforcing Elinas  brand identity. She will use distorted, hand-drawn, or squiggle-style lettering to reflect her unconventional approach to music and art. Text ...

 

  Statement of Intent for “Wildflower” Music Video In the music video for Billie Eilish's song "Wildflower," themes of transformation, self-discovery, and resiliency are explored. Motivated by the vivid imagery in the lyrics, the film attempts to tell a story that juxtaposes the untamed, erratic beauty of nature with the inner journey of a young woman negotiating feelings of vulnerability, loneliness, and ultimately empowerment. By contrasting periods of gloom with bursts of vivid, wild colour and light, the idea is to evoke the character's emotional development through visually rich and symbolic surroundings. The film begins in a small, dark room that serves as a metaphor for the protagonist's sense of imprisonment and internal conflict. The modest colour scheme here, which includes blue and grey tones, reflects her depressed and lonely mood. This mood is matched by Billie's quiet, almost whispery vocal tones in the song's opening, which create a solemn a...