Step And Repeat (Video)

In this video, I outline the technique of Step and Repeat, which allows a Photoshop user to automatically repeat a certain action in order to create patterns.

Audience Profile--Fakebook

Made with: Fakebook and Photoshop.

This is what a typical member of my target audience may have on their Facebook page.
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ЯEFLECT Magazine—Design

Album Design

Title: Where My Armour Ends
Artist: In Step

Tracklist:

1. Skin
2. Our City
3. Backwards (Pt. I)
4. Backwards (Pt. II)
5. Empty Horizons (feat. Sam Tsui)
6. Shades Of Grey
7. Hurricane
8. Bring Me The Night
9. Shadows
10. No Way
11. Out Of Time
12. C'mon
13. DKLA (Acoustic Cover)

I chose to call the album Where My Armour Ends, because a lot of alternative albums have metaphysical names such as Beneath The Skin, Come Alive and Make A Shadow.

The duo's name is IN STEP, because the two of them are in tune with each other and play music as part of one whole unit.

The album design may include the tracklist faded across the cover.

Questionnaire

A questionnaire was conducted to gather data on the target audience's expectations of an indie music magazine, and whether they matched up with mine.

Music Magazine Pitch—ЯEFLECT

Existing Indie Album Covers

Badlands (Halsey)

BADLANDS uses a colourised style, which is a little posterised. The BADLANDS text is covering her eyes, which could symbolise how the audience is listening to her description of the 'badlands'--everything wrong with society--through her eyes. The obscuring of the eyes could also represent that she is nobody in comparison to the atrocities of the badlands and that she can't do anything about it.

Room 93 (Halsey)

ROOM 93 uses a similar colourised style, using cyan and magenta. The image is small, like looking through a window. It could symbolise Halsey inviting the audience into her world. Her name is prominent on the cover, and the colours are inverted when the text obscures the window to create contrast. The cover is slightly distorted.

I Of The Storm (Of Monsters And Men)

This cover is made up of a simple logo on a textured background. The logo is a sharp eye, representing the idea of the 'eye of the storm' referenced in the title. The group's name isn't used on the cover--only the stylised acronym.