Indie/Rock mood board

The Bands

The Automatic

Franz Ferdinand

The Killers

Bands like the ones shown are indie/rock, alternative/punk rock bands. They are popular among the indie/rock fans, and I will use images close to what they have developed of my own band. There styles are all similar, they where shirts, trouser (not jeans), and waist coats/jackets. The Killers can be seen in suits, this is more attractive to the older audience for the magazine, compared to The Automatic who are wearing smart jeans, and cardigan sweaters and they attract the younger audience. Franz Ferdinand are however wearing a variety, they will attract people of all ages

The posesThe poses that indie/rock puts across is fun. The left image shows a female and male having fun, they are linked in arms, and is completely unlike something you would see in a metal/rock magazine, where they will be dead serious.

The bottom right image to shows a group of people having fun. They manage it with the most simplest of objects, a bench. The magazine also shows that band having fun, pulling faces and making a scene. Something similar to that of a punk group, but not to the extreme where like Paramour, they graffiti “riot” everywhere.

None of the people in these pictures are “old”, the age seems to range from late teens to early 20’s.

Font The font used for indie/rock is quite bold and plain. The Franz Ferdinand font is, bold and white on black. The Killers is the same, yet uses a slightly different style of poker dots to layout each character. The colours are black on white which helps to stand out and make the dots easier to place together to make the words. The font on the magazine is slightly different, for the band name, the font may be bold, but it doesn’t hold together and seem as plain as the other two. It is made clearer though by the colouring, red white and yellow, these colours make the words stand out more off the page, and keep the indie/rock appeal. The rest of the font on the magazine remains, normal bold and plain. Keeping the indie/rock look, and helping to give a different appeal to the main image on the magazine.

Mastheads

My Sketch

These are my two ideas for the front cover of my music mag. I am still unsure yet as too which one I will be using, but am at the moment favoring the one on the right.

This is my sketch of a double page spread. I made this using the front cover that at the moment, I am more likely to use. But if I was to change my mind and use the other cover, the layout would stay the same for the double page spread, but the image and colours would change according to the band.

Photo shoot ideas

My pictures that I will be taking will be landscape and portrait. For my front cover of my favored magazine, I would use a landscape picture of three of the band members holding the fourth. This will be best suit for landscape as it would be easier to fit them into the picture and the image itself doesn’t fill the whole page making this useful. My other images for the double page spread and the other front cover will be portrait. This is because of the way that they fill the page and are positioned on them as well.

The models will need to fit my genre of music in some way otherwise the whole indie rock idea wont fit. They also need to look either like they are having lots of fun, or are angry.