3 Looks for the Front Cover Artist

Mise-en-scène plays an extremely important part in magazine design, the artist in the main image needs to reflect the genre well in order to attract the target audience. I have created moodboards of general clothing worn by male and female EDM/house artists and then drawn up 3 looks each from the information I gathered in the moodboards.

Male Artists

Drawing up 3 outfits for male artists was fairly simple. There was a recurring theme of t-shirts, often tight-fitting v-necks, sometimes with prints but usually just plain black or white. Generally, black jackets or cardigans are worn over the top and trousers are nearly always jeans with trainer-type shoes. Main colours tended to be black, white and grey with the occasional bright colour such as a near-fluorescent green or blue.

For the first look, I chose a white v-neck t-shirt that was tight-fitting, along with a simple black jacket, jeans and nike trainers. For the second, I swapped out the white t-shirt for a black v-neck instead. I picked a pair of baggy grey jeans and black trainers, as well as a black snapback. Lastly for 'look 3', I found two t-shirts that were bright in colour and paired it with a black leather jacket, dark blue jeans and Converse trainers. 

Female Artists

Drawing up outfits for female artists proved to be extremely difficult as there doesn't seem to be a general theme with their costumes. Upon researching outfits which female fans of EDM music wear, there was definitely a recurring theme of tutu skirts, bras, leg-warmers and shorts all in neon fluorescent colours. However, this isn't necessarily reflected in the outfits seen worn by female fans in music and festival videos, and so is more likely a generalisation of club culture. For that reason, I instead focused my outfit research on female DJs and produced the above moodboard. Although there isn't a recurring theme with their outfits, they are all more suitable for a magazine cover and in my opinion, reflect the genre better.

Out of all the outfits in the moodboard, I personally liked those worn by Audrey Napoleon best (the artist with black hair and a block fringe, first image has a blue tint and the second image she is wearing a pink-purple skirt). These outfits in particular are very contemporary and modern-looking, which reflects the genre well as EDM and house are very new genres of music. I am hoping to achieve this similar contemporary look in the final images for my magazine.

Along with costumes for females, I looked for make-up ideas which were fairly versatile and could be manipulated to work with any outfit. The following video I found to be the best one as the eye make-up is fairly natural and the lip colour could be changed to suit any colour of costume