Mood Board

The genre I have chosen for my magazine is alternative indie rock. I chose this genre, as it’s the type of music I listen to and I can therefor take a note of what I’d like to see in the magazine. When creating this mood board I took into consideration other existing magazines of a similar style to what I am hoping to achieve, by doing this I hoped to find inspiration and ideas for my own magazine layout and structure. The magazine I focused mainly on were KERRANG and NME as they are some of the more popular and most in demand magazines for this genre. When researching the genre in more depth I also began to realise that to create a suitable magazine for my target audience I needed to display articles and adverts that cater to them. Such things as fashion items like converse and vans, or music events like Leeds Fest and other gig dates. When looking at my mood board, the bands being featured all have one very distinctive style for their genre. Not only are they all wearing particularly dark clothes, they have also got quite serious/ angry expressions on their faces.  This helps the reader to understand the type of music being portrayed in the feature and create an impression of the bands straight away. Very rarely are the bands featured have any kind of bright colours to them, this allows the magazine to be expressive with their choices for background and masthead/cover line colours. As I looked closer into the expressions of the artist, you are able to notice that the majority of them are looking directly at the reader in an attempt to not only draw them to look closer at the magazine but also to display the style of the band and stand out from other magazines. As I create my magazine I will need to take all of these aspects and conventions used for a typical indie/rock magazine, to create my own realistic and professional looking magazine.