Mood Board - inspirations and ideas

Musicians



Genres

• Rock - Muse, Linkin Park, Kids in Glass Houses, The Killers, Nickelback, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, 30 Seconds to Mars


• Pop - Justin Beiber, Lady Gaga, Wonderland, Bruno Mars, Kylie Minogue, Duffy, Beyonce


• Dance - Manian, Basshunter, Roll Deep, Eddy Wata


• R'n'B - Rhianna, Chris Brown, Neyo, Jason Derulo, Taio Cruz, Eminem, Timberland

Conventional Camerawork

Front cover and main articles

• long shot of the artist


• no real background scenery on the front cover


• sometimes a lot more background in main articles


• close ups


• tilted angles


• generally straight shots


• some shot at a low angle

Other articles

• mainly close ups


• cropped images


• images similar to 'match on action'

Magazine Titles

Existing

• Kerrang


• NME


• Q


• Rolling Stones

New Ideas

• CentralRock - simple


• Brazen - different


• Quasar - star like object: showing the stars

Fonts

Conventional

• arial
• franklin gothic book
• lucida sans
• tahoma

Unconventional

• bradley hand ITC
• candy buzz BTN
• smarty pants BTN
• weathered SF