2. Task 2: Idea Development and Planning U9 2.1
You could create a mood board of images related to your product. They could be inspirational or visually interesting.
Analyse what you have gathered.
Decide on content and think about how you will structure your piece – consider the conventions of your chosen
style/genre, think about the best methods to appeal to your audience.
Finally work out a production schedule for the project. Once you have a final proposal, begin to plan how you intend to
realise your project and what you will need to create/collect.
Planning will vary depending on if you are doing a web series, podcast or a fanzine.
Web-series: A script, storyboard, organisational docs and clearance forms for your contributors/sources.
Fanzine: Content outline, visual style, pagination, organisational documents.
Podcast: Script, organisational docs, clearance forms for your contributors/sources.
4. Mood board analysis/ visual style
My mood board is a collection of different styles and aesthetics from different alt cultures, I've tried to include pictures
showing all the different dress styles and the type of music associated with each people. Some similarities I'm seeing
across all of the pictures are, 1 they all have a similar colour pallet. The primary colours on my mood board are black,
white, red, pink and green. These colours are used universally across the different subcultures and all of them tend to
wear darker clothing or have something bright that stands out for example hair. Across all of the album covers again it is
a similar colour pallet with lots of blacks, whites and reds. This has shown me that for my fanzine I should probably use
this sort of colour pallet, primarily black and white with any information I want to stand out in red or green. I think since
these colour will compliment any images I use throughout my fanzine that this will be the best to go with. I can also use
this to my advantage and make a primarily black and white fanzine like most of the old punkzines used to be, and then
when I want to add colour I can just cut and stick or do something outside of the computer to add the colour. I've also
realised from my mood board research how many people I see in daily life that dress like each subculture, for example a
lot of people tend to have a grunge or punk style but you don’t see many people that dress goth or emo, this has made
me realise it will definitely be easier for me to get pictures of punks than of goths for my fanzine as I will have to search a
lot harder to find people that fit the definition. There is also a very distinct timeline in the different subgenres of alt
aswell with punk and grunge being quite a while back from the 70s to the 90s to the emo’s and scenes in the early 2000s
to now where we have eboys/girls. This makes it again more difficult to write about each subgenre in 2020 because
some just aren’t as relevant anymore and the music is less produced.
5. Content:
Different page for each subgenre : goth, punk, emo, grunge, metalheads, scene,
Festivals, Bloodstock, slamdunk, download,
interview
Music
Clothes, style, expensive and cheap
brands, good places to shop like
cities etc.
History
Less stereotypical alt
genres
Concerts
90s grunge bands
The meat puppets
Nirvana
superunknown
Interview with a
punk, why they
chose to be
punk, influences
etc
Best emo bands,
when they existed
and for how long for,
concert info or info
on how popular, lyric
analysis
6. Content outline
I think for the layout of my content I will start with 2 pages generally talking about being alternative in general and
a little introduction to each subgenre, a timeline where I show when each one was at its prime and some of the
core requirements. I will then move on to my next 2 pages 3-4 where I will talk about goths, their music taste their
political views and how they dress, I will show a list of different shops where you can buy goth clothing both
cheap and expensive and try get some pictures of goths myself to include here, I will also have a guide of the best
cities in the uk for goths in relation to shops, how many goths are there, any events etc. my next 2 pages 5-6
maybe even 7 will be about emos and will primarily talk about the music, I will talk about the most popular
albums from the era, the biggest bands and how they got popular, what makes music emo music and start
discussing some of the influencers as this was around the time YouTube, myspace and Tumblr where all getting
big, it was going from punks in crowds on the street to emos online in their own community. My next page or 2
will be about punks, specifically people who are still punk in 2020 even though it is the oldest of all the subgenres
I will talk about, I will do an interview with a modern day punk finding out why they are punk, what it means to
them, inspirations and how their life is different to most people. I will then do 1 page talking about the smaller
subgenres of alt for example cyber goths or scene kids, these are the subgenres more people don’t know about as
much and tend to not fit in with alternative stereotypes, usually dressing in lots of bright colours and tend to be
more happy erratic and different from regular people. To close out my fanzine I will do a page or 2 on grunge and
punk music that really stood out in time, for example nirvana and how big they became in a short amount of time.
After this I will have a fun segment talking about the wildest bands to see live and the live concerts that have the
stupidest/weirdest stuff happen at them.
7. Front coverination
After looking at a variety of front covers ive come to the conclusion I
like this style of front cover, quite simple with one centre image with a
opposite colour border with a title either in the top centre of coming
down one side, I also like the use of strips of information or contents
across the cover. i want to try and make a similar style cover to this but
I am going to do some slight changes to put my spin on it. For a start I
want my whole fanzine black and white including the colour but I am
going to cut and stick some letters on for the title, I will wither do
these all in red or cut letters out of different magazines etc to create a
patchwork title to my fanzine, I am also tempted to make the strips of
contents also stuck on in a different colour. I will use an image I have
taken for my central image and I want it to be more like the image on
the right, quite different and eye catching and just something that
really screams alternative or weird and different. Another feature I like
of the fanzine on the right is the symbol instead of the second A in
paradox. Since it is dead centre of the title it looks very professional
but really makes the title stand out and fits the style really well, I want
to do something similar with a letter in my title to give it its own edge
like this, this is the only fanzine I have seen that does this with its
lettering so it not very typical or mainstream to do.
You could create a mood board of images related to your product. They could be inspirational or visually interesting. Analyse what you have gathered.
Decide on content and think about how you will structure your piece – consider the conventions of your chosen style/genre, think about the best methods to appeal to your audience.
Planning will vary depending on if you are doing a web series, podcast or a fanzine.
Web-series: A script, storyboard, organisational docs and clearance forms for your contributors/sources.
Fanzine: Content outline, visual style, pagination, organisational documents.
Podcast: Script, organisational docs, clearance forms for your contributors/sources.