Final Front Cover

Final Content Page

Final Double Page Spread

Question One

Question Two

Question Three

Question Four

Question Five

Question Six

Question Six contiuned

To start my front cover I created a rectangle to cover the page which made a light blue using the fill tool

Dragging this image on top of the rectangle was the next step, I had I make sure it covered the full page and stayed in the middle.

I then used the two pink rectangles for my skyline and footer.

I added all the text using the text tool and I change the colour using the fill tool. 

I then added images 

Here I have added  a rectangle around the masthead, twitter, facebook, Instagram logos, barcoade, date, website, plug and price.

I have developed my front cover my changing the fronts, moving things round to make it look more compact and I have added more images from behind the scenes, which I have added a broader to make it more colourful. This is my final Product.

Question Seven

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

From creating my music magazine I have learnt lots of things such as:

• Pop magazine codes and conventions
• The main feature story should stand out from everything on the page
• That it is best to have three or four colours and for a pop magazine they should be bright and stand out
• To keep a house style
• How to make a Double Page Spread

I have developed many skills as well whilst making my music magazine such as:

• My skills on photoshop. I have developed my knowledge on how to do certain things and different shortcuts to do these things.
• Cutting the backgrounds out of images
• Adding borders
• Adding shapes
• Adding text

If I was to do my college magazine again I would change most things about it, I would change:
Front Cover:

• The Picture, I feel like if I got a picture of two students it would of made the front cover look more friendly.
• I would of changed the main feature story to something which gets the readers more involved.
• The colours, you can't see the blue, the green blends with the grass and the read isn't clear.
• I would of added a skyline, I looks like a poster
• I would of spread the feature stories out
• I would get rid of the circle around the plug.

Content Page:

• I would change the images and make sure they are images which feature on the front cover.
• I would change the layout completely as I think it doesn't look professional and it doesn't follow codes and conventions
• I would change the colours as it isn't very clear
• I would make sure all the images are the same size

I found it helpful doing a preliminary task because when I started my music magazine I had a better understanding of what I was doing and what I needed to do to improve it. It also gave me a idea of what grade boundary I was working under.

In order to develop my music magazine I developed the understanding of what a pop magazine should look like here is what I found:

• The mast head will always stand out
• The main feature story must link to the main image
• The main image should be someone in a band or an artist who is popular and plays pop music
• Pop magazine are mainly aimed towards girls. I thought about this when choosing my colour scheme and my main image model
• The colours should be bright and stand out

Behind the scenes

content page

Front Cover Drafts

This is my first front cover I need to change the image to improve this.

Here is my second front cover draft.

Here is my third front front cover draft.

Here is my four front cover draft.

 

Second shoot

This is my second shoot, I feel this shoot is a lot better than the first; the lighting I used were a lot better, the colour of the costume were a lot better and the poses I used were a lot better. I feel like these images will help me create a better magazine.

Front cover print screens

First Shoot for front cover

This is the first photo shoot I took for my front cover I have used one of these images for my front cover however I am going to change it because the camera I used wasn't the best also my lighting wasn't that good. Some of the pose my model did didn't work for my front cover; when I take another I will use a different camera, arrange the lights differently, change her outfit and change her pose.













I told my modal to stand like this because my original feature story was about her tour being candled because of a pregnancy however I changed this idea because of my target audience and I realised that young girls wouldn't want to know about celebrities being pregnant therefore it would be inappropriate. The lighting in this photo is also really bad.













I picked this dress because I thought it was elegant however I have decided it isn't bright enough there for when I do my shoot again I will change the outfit to something brighter.

Test shots

This a contact sheet of all of my test shots below you will see the best examples for the following shots.

• Medium close up
• Close up
• Long shot
• Two shot
• Example of bad lighting
• Example of good lighting 
• Example of a badly framed image

This image has an example of a badly framed image,
to make the product look good the image should be central
and now have half excess space and part of the models arm
chopped off. 

This image is an example of a bad lighting; there is shadow in the
background and the model looks washed out this is because the light
is too close to her face.

This image is a close up because all you can see is
her head. This wouldn't look good on a magazine front
cover because there would be the writing would cover her
face taking the focus off the main artist.

this is an example of good lighting the artist doesn't look washed
out and there isn't much of a shadow. I think I could of improve
this image by making sure there wasn't a shadow in them at all
but this was the best example of good lighting in the images I
have taken.

This is a good example of a long shot. I like this image
and would think about using a shot like this for my
final images because it shows the artists costume off
clearly also there is enough room to put stories around the
edges and plugs, extra images ect.

This is an example of good lighting there isn't much of  a shadow
and they artist's face looks really good. It isn't the best but it is
the best out of  my images.

This is an example of a two shot. I could of framed
it better and if I did frame it better this image certain
shot would be good for my magazine.

Focus group

Focus Group

Why is audience research important?

Audience research is important because we find out what the people who are buying the magazine want and helps me what content in my magazine such as certain images and the way I use text. I also need to know what style to make my magazine so it is key to my magazine.

How will it help when creating my magazine?

This will make it easier to make my magazine and help I sell easy.

My Questions

1. Would you buy a pop magazine and why?
2. What five artists come in mind when I say ‘pop music?’
3. What price do you think is suitable for teenagers, 13 to 16?
4. What things would make you look at the magazine and make you want to buy it?
5. How often would you buy this type of magazine?
6. Which name out of these ten would you choose and why?
7. Which colour schemes do you think is the best for a pop magazine and why?
8. Do you agree that students would be more likely to buy this magazine and why?
9. Name two prices or competitions I could include which would be appeling for students
10.  Would you buy this magazine and why? 

During the focus group I will show the group a list of the colour scheme and all the names.

      

      The focus group was very useful because it helped me choose certain things to add to my magazine. It helped me decide what colour scheme to use, how often the magazine will be published, how much it will be, what celebrities top use, what prices to use and what target audience to aim for. I didn't expect half the group to say they would buy it monthly I would buy a magazine like this weekly. I generally found the group mainly said the same thing for example they all agreed that it should be sold at about two pound they also agreed that students would buy this type of magazine more than adults. By doing this focus group and other research it has changed my mind about my name of the magazine. I have decided to use a name with the word ‘pop’ in so POP, pop tunes, pop hits or iPop; I think I am going to use iPop as my name on my magazine because gives a clear understanding of the genre also it links with itunes which shows links the internet and modern technology because of this I will show how you can access the magazine on line. 

Demographics