Planning my interview

Unfortunately I wasn't able to interview an actual recording artist so therefore I had to result in interviewing my sister. I made her pretend to be an upcoming music artist and tried to get her to answer the questions as truthfully and realistically as possible.

The type of questions I asked her was like :

- Introduce Yourself , incase some people may not have heard of you

- Who's your inspiration?

- What can we expect from your latest upcoming album?

- Have you met any other artists in the music industry?

After I asked her a couple more questions and wrote down her answers I then proceeded to type out the interview on a word document.

Rough Layout of my Interview Page

This is my rough layout sketch for my interview page, I want to put my artists picture on one whole side of the double page spread and then have my actual interview questions and answers on the other page. I also planned to have a few pull quotes in the middle of the left page and another pull quote near the artist's image.

Noting My Conventions

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Evaluating My Language Choices

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'Turnt UP' = My Magazine Name

After thoroughly going through my possible name choices I decided to go for 'Turnt UP'

The slang term 'Turnt UP' started in Los Angeles, California in late 2007 and has been used every since.

The Word 'Turnt UP' can have many meanings such as meaning on 'point' or 'on deck'; these also being slang terms.

'Turnt UP' also can mean being happy,excited, energetic, or having fun.

Basically, it also means when someone does something so unremarkably amazing that there's nothing left to say other then them turntin it up. You're either a natural turnt it or you're not. Sadly some people are natural turn it down's.. they can redeem themselves but it'll take a lot of practice and energy.

I decided to use this word or phrase as it can have numerous meanings and it is also a play on words as you can say 'Turn it up' but instead you can just shorten it down to 'Turnt UP'

As I have previously stated I would like my magazine to be simple, yet eye-catching and colourful, therefore that's the reason i chose the masthead to have six different colours that complemented each other so well.

I guess you could also say that the colours used are also my consistent colour pallet as these colours are often repeated throughout the magazine as they are part of my 'house style'

I decided to put the masthead behind an black background as the colours are bright and vibrant and stand out and reflect from it, whereas I don't think it would of given the same effect if being on an all white background.

These colours were also chosen because the name of the magazine is 'Turnt UP' and when automatically hearing the phrase you think 'Turn it up' which also refers to loud sounds etc.. so therefore the colours are loud and describing the masthead, magazine name all at the same time.

Brainstorming Magazine Names

Here I brainstormed possible names for my music magazine. It was really hard to choose one as I liked them all and they all had a good concept between each word.

So it took me quite long to think of a final name but eventually I chose one and was happy with the outcome of it.

Masthead Moodboard

Here Is a moodboard of different Music Magazine Mastheads. I put this together to give me inspiration into creating and designing my own magazine name [masthead).

Most of these mastheads are simple bold letters, with one or possibly two different colours. They are short yet catchy and most of them you can automatically tell which type of magazine they are from.