Mood board

My original mood board of ideas for the music magazine.

My original mood board of ideas for the magazine, seemed to focus not enough on music. I paged through lots of different types of magazines- music, food, travel and fashion magazines- and tore out and cut out images that inspired me to create a music magazine. The music type i am focussing on is 'pop', so i kept chose the image of the girl on the left and the image of the girl with the straw hat smiling. The daisy, pink flag and pink guitar, as well as the sequins on the page kept it 'girly' and 'pop' like. However it only had three items that related to music; a microphone and two guitars.The small amount Iconography i used is not enough as it only gave small clues that this mood board is for a music magazine, i think i need an image that presents music more clearly. The images of a modern and old city, did not fit in with the idea of music but related more to the modern women in the world- which the magazine is targeted at- as more people are travelling and being more independant. The heading 'hot this season' normally relates to fashion, but i was hoping to use it to present music in that way. The strapline 'The monthly treat for busy, stylsih women' attracted me as it made clear who the audience was, and by including the word 'treat', it attracted the target audience and makes them feel more valued. The heading of 'Sugar and Spice' also caught my attention, as it refers to the stereo type of 'girly girls', which will attract the target audience as they feel that it refers to them individually. As they can be sweet but also a bit wild and have fun- which is what i want my target audience to be like.        

 I was also thinking of making my music magazine focus on world music, but decided that i did not know enough about it and did not like that type of music as much as i know and enjoy pop music. The fun, colourful images inspired me to continue looking for images that related to music more.

I decided to create a better version of this mood board by adding more images that related to music and improve it overall to let people know what my music magazine will be like.