Researching and designing mastheads

The first thing I done was made a brainstorm of different names for my magazine and I came up with this. I also thought about what would appeal to my audience and making sure it is related to the music magazine genre. 

LIVE,

MICMARE,

UNDERGROUND,

THE STREETS

,BASE,

BOOTH,

A.K.A.#

The outcome was CHECK 123 which is also like a slogan for when people test the microphone so I made it related to that. After finalising my choice of name I then thought about the design of the masthead. The first thing I knew I wanted was a microphone because it is related to check 123 so I searched on Google looking for the microphone and came across an animated picture. I also thought about what type of font i want so I went on to the dafont website and looked for graffiti because in my genre it’s the type of thing that goes on in my genre it being UK grime/rap.

This was my first idea trying to make the microphone look parted with the font I put both the images and the font on the paint document which mended it together. I also cropped so this is where you can see the number three cropped. i decided to crop the three because it emphasises the cut on three.   

This is my final image and my masthead which i kept the theme of the microphone but this type added an hand where i got the image off goggle i also kept the font which is graffiti of the da font website i made it black and white because i preferred it hat way also ink is around the check 123 emphasis a term of the artist spraying on the microphone i also think it looks original as in the way its presented very authentic and has uniqueness and coolness about it. 

This is my ideas on creating a masthead I started off thinking about what to put around it and drawing it out on a musical note line  with numbers coming from the bottom I thought about putting it on a music line due to so the audience know its about music. I last tried to do different types of shapes within the check 123

This is my neat peace of my rough design of the master head I first thought about a cheque and writing a music not with one to three in I also thought about where to put the check 123 either the top of the bottom then I thought about putting the name of the masthead their with a hand and a microphone hanging down form the title.