Friday 16 December 2011
Double Page spread 1st draft
Contents Page 1st Draft
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Friday 18 November 2011
Thursday 17 November 2011
Monday 14 November 2011
Sell Lines
Sell Lines
These are some sell line ideas that I plan to use on my front cover. I have used some of my contents ideas as sell lines as well and they would naturally be similar becaus they are part of the same magazine. I had to re-upload this and my contents ideas because of an error when uploading the file to Scribd.
These are some sell line ideas that I plan to use on my front cover. I have used some of my contents ideas as sell lines as well and they would naturally be similar becaus they are part of the same magazine. I had to re-upload this and my contents ideas because of an error when uploading the file to Scribd.
Contents Ideas
Contents Ideas
These are my ideas for my contents page. In the contents I used bands that appealed to my target audience and that were in the metal genre. I featured bands such as; Iron Maiden, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica, lamb of God, Asking Alexandria and more.
These are my ideas for my contents page. In the contents I used bands that appealed to my target audience and that were in the metal genre. I featured bands such as; Iron Maiden, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica, lamb of God, Asking Alexandria and more.
Sunday 6 November 2011
Sunday 30 October 2011
Tuesday 18 October 2011
Monday 17 October 2011
Sunday 16 October 2011
Proposal
The Music Magazine (MM) I plan to make will mainly focus on the genre of Rock and Heavy Metal. I have chosen these genres because these are the genres that I am most interested in myself and I have a good knowledge of the whole scene of heavy metal and rock. I have read a lot of articles and interviews which also focus on this genre so I am confident I can create a Magazine which emulates this particular type of magazine. I want my magazine to cover all the current news about the currently famous bands. My magazine should also cover live reviews, album reviews, artist interviews and more.
In my magazine I plan to have a wide variety of content, I hope this will make the magazine noticeable. The main feature of each issue of my magazine would most likely be interviews of various bands or solo artists that have recently caught the attention of other media outlets. I also plan to report on music festivals such as Reading and Download. My magazine will also include current news about the Rock and Heavy Metal World.
Since my MM is based around the Heavy Metal genre, I want the style to look very rebellious and reckless. However, not reckless in the sense of production but more in the style e.g. cracked and damaged text for headings. The colours will be mostly black and grey which signifies the genre that the magazine covers. Black has connotations of evil, destruction, and power, which is generally how Metal bands like to be viewed as.
My target audience will be in the age group of 15 – 28 years old. I have chosen this particular age group because people of these ages tend to be the most passionate group about music and bands; this age group can also tend to be in a band which makes them further interested in MM. My audience will mainly be aimed at middle and working class as the type of linguistics used in my magazine will not be an incredibly high class way of writing but will be written in a well educated way.
Monday 10 October 2011
Sunday 2 October 2011
Sunday 18 September 2011
Preliminary Task
For my preliminary task, I had to create my own magazine for the school which would include news about the the school. I begun the task by drawing out my initial designs of my front cover and contents page on plain A4 paper. These are my initial sketches.
After I drew my sketches and scanned them in, I then had a photo shoot for my magazine and chose the best and most professional photos to use in my magazine. Here are the photos that I used.
After I had my photos I then started to make my front cover on
Adobe Photoshop. For the masthead of my magazine I used the text tool and placed it at the top of my cover, I used the 'Impact' font for my masthead and this font is much like the typical text used for magazines. I chose the name as Haydon Today as it is a news magazine for the school. I chose the colour scheme of blue and yellow as they are apparent in the school buildings and stag. I used the rectangle tool to create a blue rectangle below the masthead of the magazine, I then input the text 'Haydon Student Wins Spelling Bee', since this is the feature article of the magazine I made it more bold and eye catching than the other sell lines. Below the feature sell line on the left and right, I input two more sell lines using the text tool. I then put my front cover image onto photoshop by opening the photo and dragging it onto my front cover in photoshop. I then resized the image to fit around my masthead and sell lines. I duplicated the blue rectangle at the top of my page and place the duplicate at the bottom on the cover. I used the text tool to input text informing the reader of the competition and exam tips inside.
For my contents page I initially planned to stay with my colour scheme of blue and yellow, however because I had no background image, the yellow text I used didn't show up of the page very clearly so I had to change the colour yellow to black in order to make it visible. I used the text tool to create the word 'contents' at the top of my page. I kept that part of the contents page blue so it still fit with my original colour scheme. I created sub headings for the articles in my magazine, I split up the pages into; 'feature', 'news' and 'extra'. With the text tool I also created all the page listings. To make them visible, I changed them all to black. I input some images on my contents page by opening them and dragging them onto to the page. I resized them accordingly and placed appropriate page numbers on the two images. Using the shape tool I created a white rectangle and placed it behind one of my photos, I then put some drop shadow on the shape. This makes the picture pop a bit more and makes it a little less boring. By putting the drop shadow on the image, it created the look of the picture being on a Polaroid.
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After I drew my sketches and scanned them in, I then had a photo shoot for my magazine and chose the best and most professional photos to use in my magazine. Here are the photos that I used.
After I had my photos I then started to make my front cover on
Adobe Photoshop. For the masthead of my magazine I used the text tool and placed it at the top of my cover, I used the 'Impact' font for my masthead and this font is much like the typical text used for magazines. I chose the name as Haydon Today as it is a news magazine for the school. I chose the colour scheme of blue and yellow as they are apparent in the school buildings and stag. I used the rectangle tool to create a blue rectangle below the masthead of the magazine, I then input the text 'Haydon Student Wins Spelling Bee', since this is the feature article of the magazine I made it more bold and eye catching than the other sell lines. Below the feature sell line on the left and right, I input two more sell lines using the text tool. I then put my front cover image onto photoshop by opening the photo and dragging it onto my front cover in photoshop. I then resized the image to fit around my masthead and sell lines. I duplicated the blue rectangle at the top of my page and place the duplicate at the bottom on the cover. I used the text tool to input text informing the reader of the competition and exam tips inside.
For my contents page I initially planned to stay with my colour scheme of blue and yellow, however because I had no background image, the yellow text I used didn't show up of the page very clearly so I had to change the colour yellow to black in order to make it visible. I used the text tool to create the word 'contents' at the top of my page. I kept that part of the contents page blue so it still fit with my original colour scheme. I created sub headings for the articles in my magazine, I split up the pages into; 'feature', 'news' and 'extra'. With the text tool I also created all the page listings. To make them visible, I changed them all to black. I input some images on my contents page by opening them and dragging them onto to the page. I resized them accordingly and placed appropriate page numbers on the two images. Using the shape tool I created a white rectangle and placed it behind one of my photos, I then put some drop shadow on the shape. This makes the picture pop a bit more and makes it a little less boring. By putting the drop shadow on the image, it created the look of the picture being on a Polaroid.
This is a video of all the layers of my Preliminary task magazine being put on, this is to illustrate how I made the magazine and how it came together
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