LO1 P2 Sample materials

Sample images of the style i'm aiming for


These are the type of masthead designs and front cover I'm trying to aim for. In metal magazines, they put a lot of detail into the masthead or put a lot of detail on the person that will be on the front cover. The details will go from having cracks and scratches on the masthead to being full on 3D with fancy signs on it. My masthead will be 3D and have a lot of detail on it. For one detail there will be a sword piercing through the letter A being a reference to a game that the music artist worked in.

Masthead Designing Process

Before designing the Magazine, I have first made a mock-up of how I would see the design. In the mock-up, everything is susseptable to change and it can be seen with the different screenshots.

Here are the base ideas I have for making the design of the masthead:
The aim for the looks of the magazine is to look dark and menacing, so the choice of colors will be mostly dark and branch more towards the red color.
There will be two different color schemes that I will be using which would depend on what I'm using it for, and they are:

Background Color

Text and Title Color

The font that will be used across the entirety of the magazine will be the Doom Font. It has mechanical shaped letters with most edges of the letters being sharp. Another thing that would make it stand out across other magazines is the fact that the first and last letter of a word have the sharpest of edges(This can be seen in masthead design ideas).

The positioning of the text will most of the time be on the left side with some adverts attached at the bottom, while the images and little bubbles will be set on the right side. This is so that the reader has an easy time ready for what they are looking for or for what they are reading about. Making the reader distracted from the text only puts a bad image on the magazine company.

Mock-up

Here is the mock-up of how the Masthead would look like.

Pre-Production Schedule

In this section, I have made a Mind Map and a Mood Board to bring down the idea of the magazine.

Mind Map:

Mood board:



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