Inspiration for my music magazine - Constructing a mood board

When searching for ideas that would aid to inspire me in the construction and planning stages of my magazine product, I conducted a heavy array of background research into professional written music productions as t gain some insight and understanding of how they structure their layouts (for example the composition of the colour scheme, images, text) and the use of important magazine conventions that are typical of gaining the desired public appeal (through the employment of mastheads, pull quotes. kickers) As I learn mostly visually, to understand these strategies more effectively I composed several mood boards on the internet and app based social media site 'Pinterest', all of which related back to the tasks I had to create - a front cover, contents page and double page spread. Gaining access to the mood boards can be achieved in the links below.


For a quick pathway to the board revolving around the front cover of the magazine click on the hyperlink presented underneath

http://gb.pinterest.com/aimeecorner/music-magazine-front-covers-used-for-inspiration-f/


To engage with the mood board detailing information I found regarding contents pages of music magazines please select the hyperlink beneath this text

http://gb.pinterest.com/aimeecorner/music-magazine-contents-pages-for-inspiration/


Finally the remaining Pinterest board is accessible by the link I have displayed below

http://gb.pinterest.com/aimeecorner/music-magazine-double-page-spreads/

Through this task I have enabled to increase my knowledge over the typical style that is seen reoccurring throughout music based magazines, I can identify the key areas I am to focus upon to interest my audience (for example it perceives kickers in the double page spread offer an excellent method of distributing more information to the audience, therefore it would be in my best interest to use a tactic along those lines) Vitally I have mentally noted that all magazines appear to keep to the same conventions which I believe would be most beneficial for me to comply with as I don't want to be too unconventional in the sense that I would disengage my audiences interest.