Blog Post 9

I've finished the project in its entirety:

Blog Post 8

I have completed both the title page and table of contents.

I think this matches the idea I'm trying to represent and appeals to groups of people I believe are interested in this.

Blog Post 7

I've gotten a lot of work done on my magazine, and decided upon the name for it: Sun Music. I think it fits pretty well since I'm focusing on local music from South Florida. The design and color palette I've chosen for it is fitting as well, which is deep orange, black and white. Next time I'm going to have a finished product for the title page and table of contents.

Blog Post 6

I'm beginning to schedule when I will be getting images for the double-page spread. Essentially, my mix of photos will be personal photos I already possess and have taken myself, as well as photos from upcoming gigs.

Fortunately for me, many of the bands on my list (Deep Seas, Castafellas, The Hey Fellows) have upcoming gigs, such as The Hey Fellows' Rosco EP Release Party on April 1st. For the meantime, I'll be using photos from shows I've already been to, like this:

(photos from Castafellas' performance at Walk in the Park at Markham Park)

Blog Post 5

I'd like to next discuss what I've decided to write the main article of my magazine about. The choice I made to decide what subjects I'd be doing for the article is based on what I'd like to see in a local music magazine.

I've decided that the subject of my magazine will be local bands that I try to actively support, based on how much I enjoy the work of the musicians and how much I respect them. But because I don't want to make it about artists people know extremely well, that means I will not be highlighting Isaiah's band Vincent Mango. Instead, I will be documenting the following bands and artists:

• Wallace
• Deep Seas
• Frog Zapper
• Castafellas
• The Hey Fellows
• Natsuki
• Nico Raimont

Blog Post 4

This time I am focusing on the images within my magazine. Personally, although I think everybody likes to make themselves look good by saying they read magazines purely for the content of the articles themselves. Obviously, this isn't true. There's a sort-of catharsis when it comes to sitting down and looking at a magazine's pictures for a solid hour. And I can very confidently say that I really enjoy looking at the images in guitar magazines. Looking at and appreciating the artistry and natural look of musical instruments, and I want to recreate that in my magazine.

This image from Guitarist magazine is very beautiful and I'd like to be able to document gear from artists like this:

Blog Post 3

This time, I've looked into the way that a double-page spread is structured in music magazines. The way a music magazine structures its double-page spread, unsurprisingly, contains very little information, and the story itself continues on proceeding pages. The double page-spread is typically the main story or headline in a magazine release.

Here are a few different Rolling Stone double page spread (be warned: the uninspiredness of this is palpable):

It's a little off-putting to see how similarly they are structured, but this gives me a decent idea of what I can do with this, and what I can deviate from. Personally, I find the amount of sameness of this structure to be a bit claustrophobic, and I'm going to be using a similar style to that of a guitar magazine, where the artist is highlighted in a photograph, but the focus is on the interview or article itself.

These are a couple of examples of how I'd rather build my double-page spread:

This way of structuring the article gives a lot more focus on the actual article or interview itself, and it gives me a better feeling of integrity, rather than judging the publishers and authors for being uninspired and sparse on information.