Research and planning: My Front Cover So Far

My Front Cover So Far

So far I have put on my masthead in the font I earlier planned it to be and I have added the cover stories I have planned to use on the cover. Here is my magazine so far: 

Research and planning: My Plan For This Week 24/11/14

My Plan For This Week 24/11/14

This week I will aim to complete these posts/tasks:

• Model release forms
• Model head shots 
• Location recces 
• Risk assessment 
• Extra posts 

Research and planning: Serif Fonts

Serif Fonts

Serif 
The serif font is used for body texts, which is the main part of a printed text not including headlines, as they are considered easier to understand.



Sans Serif 
Its a readable font thats easy on the eye therefore you can read it easily. It is much clearer than serif therefore is used for mass text such as text within the article.

Research and planning: Double Page Spread Language

Double Page Spread Language

Even though two magazines can base a double page spread on the same thing (such as an interview), they can both be written and be laid out in completely different ways.

For example here is a interview spread from a pop magazine: 

This interview is surrounded by numerous bright colours such as pink, orange, blue and green. It is also put across to the reader in a fun way, obviously with a carrier bag of questions and small images for what type of question. More simpler sentences are used, some which are in speech bubbles/in a graphic to draw in teenagers and make the spread more exciting. Slang words such as 'OMG!' and 'LOL' will also be used in pop magazine articles, as stereotypically teenagers are the main people who use acronyms such as omg etc. Swearing would be prohibited from pop magazines as they can set an example for children and teenagers, and would get in a lot of trouble if they was setting a bad example. Different sections of the text are in different colours which will keep the market audiences attention. There is 3 different images on this page and lots of small graphics again to keep the market audiences focus.

And here is an example of a interview from an indie magazine: 

This image sticks to the typical colour scheme for indie magazines, which is black, white and red as the typical target audience is an older age than pop, therefor the colours are more of a strict and deep shade. Black white and red are also easy on the eye, as with pop magazines the colours have to be bright to draw in young children as they would be persuaded by bright colours and appearance more than the actual content of the article. Where as teenagers or young adults would be more persuaded by the content of the magazine than just what it looks like, as it is tailored towards individuals specific intrests where as pop is more global. The article is set out formally as the target audience is of a older age, the writing is in small columns, in black and white, whereas in pop magazines there are bright coloured writing, speech bubbles etc. The language is also directed to an older audience as there can be swearing and inappropriate language, which would not be acceptable for young individuals to watch. There is only 1 image on the page to not distract people from the text, also the image is big so that there isn't too much writing, as even though the target audience is older, it isn't that much older and the audience may be put off by 2 whole pages of writing.

Research and planning: My Double Page Spread

My Possible Double Page Spreads

In Roughcopy I could create my double page spread on numerous things, such as: 

• A news article, giving information of a recent story from the news, featuring something to do with an artist or a music venue etc. 
• A story, to do with an artist or fan stories, from gigs etc. 
• An interview, from an artist or an upcoming artist, possibly including there recent or upcoming tour. 

My double page spread will be on an interview. I will use this for my double page spread as the layout of an interview spread (formal but not overly formal) conveys my genre well as that is how my genre is and I will be able to show my genre well through that spread. 

Research and planning: Other Possible Double Page Spreads

Other Possible Double Page Spreads

In magazines there are different articles what could be on a double page spread. Things such as: 

• A news story. Here is an example of a news double page spread:
  

News spreads are formal looking. They have a simple font, so it is easy readable. Also with a few simple pictures so it does not draw away the attention from the information. 

• A interview. Here is an example of a interview double page spread:

Interview spreads are quite formal looking as they have a professional font, and not things such as bubble writing. But they do not look overly formal as they have more colour then a news spread and they have pictures. They usually just have one large picture on interview spreads and they also include a quote from the interview.

• A story. Here is an example of an story double page spread:
  
   

Double page spreads that are focused on a story are usually found in pop or television magazines and not in my genre (alternate). The spreads are usually a lot more colourful and have more pictures than other double page spread. 

Even though they are rarely found here is a story double page spread from my genre:

Research and planning: My Plan For This Week 17/11/14

My Plan For This Week 17/11/14

This week I will aim to complete these posts/tasks:

• Complete any unfinished posts
• Look into possible double page spreads
• My double page spread
• Double page spread language
• Double page spread fonts

Research and planning: Mise-en-sene Associated With Indie

Mise-en-scene Associated With Indie

Props- 

Props used in indie magazines are often vintage, such as old cameras and stereo's. Other than this instruments are often used in images in indie magazines, for example an artist holding a guitar, also cigarettes often appear in indie magazines to give of an indie attitude/look. 

Sets/Decor- 

Sets associated with indie are either a blank background such as white or black, also places with graffiti or an old abandoned location. 

Makeup-
Indie make-up seen on magazine's are often natural, for example like this:

However some people in indie wear more eye make-up, such as eyeliner or eye-shadow, although most models in indie magazine's just wear natural make-up.

Costume- 
'Indie' has a very iconic style. I have previously done a full post about the style and costume of 'indie' and my model. For example casual indie style is skinny jeans, baggy shirts, baggy tee's, big jackets, vans, five panels etc. Whereas smart indie is skinny suit pants/jeans, shirt, bowtie/braces, bowl hat etc. 

Poses- 
There are 5 main poses used in indie magazines/the indie genre:

Dark:

For example, this pose has a stern face, with plenty of back in the picture and plays on achieving a dark/more gothic look. A dark look is also usually created when people are showing a triangle gesture with there hand, which is a gesture of illuminati, this can also create a dark image as people just look through the triangle with a stern/emotionless look.



       

                                                                                 
                                                                                  Cute:

This image uses a 'cute' pose, to make her look almost doll like and to play on and to achieve a 'cute' look. This could be achieved by having my models hands near her face so that it makes them look shy and unsure, as when people have there hands around there face it usually shows shyness and shows childlike features.






Fun:
This model has created a fun looking pose by doing a dance motion and an 'Ok' hand gesture. This creates a feeling that the model is having fun and doesn't care what others think, as long as there having a good time, therefor that portrays the 'indie' genre, of being an individual. A fun pose could also be created by having a group of friends laughing etc.


                                                                    Natural:

 A natural look is achieved by the model doing a blank and emotionless face, when a natural look is used it is usually used with a prop, gesture or something to make the image stand out as the face is just blank. A natural look can also be used to suggest the model is sad or stern looking.

Research and planning: Artists Associated With Indie

Artists Associated With Indie

Indie artists are all individual and can be very different types of artists. From research (such as my interviews and questionnaire's) here are a few popular indie artists:

Arctic Monkeys

The arctic monkeys are a band of 4. Bands are very popular in alternate/indie music, because live music and live bands are commonly related to indie/alternate music.

Arctic monkeys all have an indie look, with an indie style and indie attitude(such as smoking in magazine covers/photo-shoots, if this was in pop, that would not be acceptable).












Ellie Goulding

Ellie Goulding is partly a pop artists, acoustic artist and an indie artists. Even though she may appear in pop magazines as well, there is a difference in the type of image and story what would be used.

For example, in a pop magazine, there would be a smiley picture, with bright colours on and the story would be a positive story/what she has been unto and the good things she's been doing. Whereas in a indie magazine the image of her could be black+white and she probably wouldn't be smiling, also the story could be something about her misbehaving or a negative story, as indie magazines don't have to be careful with being a good influence to children.



Fall Out Boy 

Fall out boy are another indie band, as I mentioned bands are extremely popular in the indie/alternate genre. In this picture you can tell the band are indie/alternate and not pop as there faces are not smiley or cheesy and are neutral or a bit stern, also there style is indie (hats, baggy shirts, baggy tee).








Linkin Park

Linkin Park are another band in indie and alternate music. Linkin parks logo appears on this picture (to the right of the text), the logo suggests they are an indie band as shapes are part of the mis-en-scence for indie and are very popular in clothing, logo's etc. You can also tell by there stern expression and the black/dark clothing.




Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran is an indie and a pop artist. This would probably be used in a indie magazine and not pop, as it has dark colours and not bright and it is not a cheesy smiling picture.
Ed sheeran is an acoustic artist, which other than bands, are very popular in indie and alternate music. 

Research and planning: My Publication Plan

Publication Plan

 

Publication plan from aliciasumner

Research and planning: My Positioning Statement

My Positioning Statement 

In my music magazine I will have a positioning statement which will appear on the front cover, placed under the masthead. I have chosen three different possible positioning statement:                    

• The alternative edge to music 
• Dare to Dream
• Keeping it real 

To decide which strap line to use I will use social media feedback, I used this as the target audience is teenagers/young adults and stereotypically they are who use social media most. For example if my target audience was an older generation I would not use social media to get feedback and would use an other way to ask people and get feedback.

Here is the question I asked about my positioning statement, via twitter:

 

Here are the replies I got:

 

 4 people chose the first option which was
'The alternate edge to music'

2 people chose the second option which was
'Dare to Dream'

4 people also chose the third option which was
'Keeping it real'

The positioning statement which I will use is the third one 'Keeping it real' as it portrays my genre but not as straight forward and simple as the first positioning statement.

'Keeping it real' portrays my genre because in other genre's such as pop, there is a certain appearance or look which suggests perfection, the typical long hair, tanned, typical look that the media (such as pop) portray as 'perfection'. Where as on the other hand, the indie genre put out that it's good to be different and you don't have to have that perfect look in which pop culture portray. And realistically not everybody can be like that, that is why my genre puts across realism and reality into media, that is why I chose that strapline.

 

Research and planning: My Plan For This Week 10/11/14

My Plan For This Week 10/11/14

My plan for this week is to complete the following:

• Decide a positioning statement
• Publication plan
• Social networking feedback
• Mise-on-scene associated with genre
• Artists associated with my genre
• DLSR test shots

Research and planning: Equipment And Software List

Equipment And Software List

To make my music magazine, other than props and costumes, I will also need specific equipment and software to be able to create my magazine. Here is a list of the equipment and software I will need: 

• An iMac 
• Apple mouse 
• Apple keyboard
• Photoshop 
• Indesign 
• Notepad and pen
• Lighting for taking pictures 
• Lighting screens to capture the natural light
• High quality camera
• Camera to USB cable 

Research and planning: Costume And Prop List

Costume And Prop List

Costume List 

My model is going to be wearing a style of casual alternative therefor, the costume will probably be 

• Skinny Jeans 
• Baggy tee/shirt 
• Bandana 
• Baggy jacket

Prop List 

I am not sure weather I will use a prop/props, but if I do it will either be 

• Guitar 
• Microphone 
• Old stereo 
• Mic stand 

I would use one of these so they would pot ray my genre of 'alternate/indie music'. 

Other than these I will need a old location or unusual or even abandoned, to shoot my photo's in therefor it is also portraying my genre and has an unusual or alternative look. 

Research and planning: Costume And Prop Research

Costume And Prop Research

As you have earlier seen in my collage, indie style has two different forms. Formal dress, which includes shirts, braces, bow ties, blazers etc. There is also informal dress which is less formal shirts, skinny jeans, vans, baggy jackets, denim jackets etc.
For girls formal is usually a smart blouse/alternative dress, and for less formal a cut tee/tee, shorts, tights, skirts, skinny jeans etc.
There is also a lot of headwear such as beanies, five pannes, bandanas etc.

My model will probably be wearing a shirt, skinny jeans and a bandana.
Maybe with a guitar to show that is is an indie music magazine. 

Research and planning: Final Production Schedule

Production Schedule

I have already posted a production schedule for week one but I have completed the final production schedule, it is from Monday 20th October until Sunday 18th January. I have wrote down the tasks I need to complete between now and then and I have shown when I want the task to be done by by highlighting the box's yellow, on the date I will complete the task's by. 

Research and planning: Double Page Spread Analysis

Double Page Spread Analysis

The double page spread mirrors the British indie/alternate theme of red, black and white. This is shown in the clothes she is wearing, the writing and the background. This layout also conveys that it is an indie/alternate magazine as it is more formal than a pop magazine, which is filled with bright colours and usually speech bubbles etc. But the layout is less formal than a factual magazine. The image shows what the writing is saying, as hit says 'I'm just honest' which suggests she is true to herself and wont let anybody else change her. You can tell this in the image as a typical thing for a girl in a magazine is a dress. where she is wearing a shirt. This shows that she is going against stereotypes and just wants to be able to be herself. This also link in with the genre as the 'indie' genre is also about being individual and wearing and doing what you want to, and not caring about what others think. Lily's face in this picture also represents the genre as you can tell it is not pop (all smiley and cheesy) but it is not a factual magazine as she is still posing. The layout is formal and easy understandable, and is very orginised. There is a heading, subheading and image on this double page spread which there will also be on my double page spread.

Research and planning: Double Page Spread Analysis Worksheet

Double Page Spread Analysis Worksheet

In our lesson we completed this worksheet so we know what to analyse when analysing a double page spread. We analysed a double page spread of the internet and did it all together so we learnt what we needed to include when doing my analysis for the double page spread. This is the worksheet:

Research and planning: Contents Page Draft

Contents Page Draft

Here is my contents page draft for my music magazine:

Research and planning: Contents Page Analysis

Contents Page Analysis

This contents page follows the common 3 
colour rule for alternate magazines, which is black, white and red. It also is easy simply understood and easy readable, which is very similar the alternate front covers I earlier reviewed. You can tell that the target audience for this magazine is young adults, ranging from 16 to anywhere in the persons 20's. If I had to be specific I would say 16 to 25. I can tell this because the magazine seems formal, but not overly formal (the type of magazine's that older people may read). This is because it is neutral colours, and not bright pink/blue etc, what a magazine for a younger audience may use to draw in individuals attention. But it isn't too plain so that it doesn't seem like a magazine a older person may read to be informed about factual information, such as sifi/technology magazines etc. You can tell that this magazine is a indie/alternate magazine as it is very informative about music, and even though it is a contents page it still has plenty of information on, all of it including music. The picture also conveys that it is a alternate magazine as it is a picture of a band and has a grunge/undercurrent to the picture, which suggests alternate, for example a pop magazine would not have a picture of a band what has a grunge undercurrent to the picture. The contents page has a picture, list of the contents/stories in the magazine and a bold heading. My contents page for my magazine will include all of these things.

Research and planning: Front Cover Final Draft

Front Cover Final Draft

Through research I have found out what my masthead, shot type and cover stories should be. I found out, through research, how exactly my front cover should be. Here are the decisions:
Image/shot type: Mid shot
Masthead: 'Roughcopy' in Engravers MT or  Orator std
Cover stories:
'Win tickets to the arctic monkeys sold out tour'
'Exclusive interview with ……'
'Top 10 new song releases shown inside'
'Upcoming tours/Upcoming artists to look out for'
'Fall out boy's tour dates released here'

Now I have that information I can do a final draft in detail to see exactly what my magazine front cover will look like. Here is a image of my final draft: 

The background will be an image, The masthead in black. The writing will be red/black/white and the models clothing will be sticking to my colour scheme of red white and black.

Research and planning: Deciding My Masthead

Deciding My Masthead 

To decide my final masthead I put this post on twitter to help me decide which final masthead to use:

Here are the replies and feedback I got: 

I had no votes for the first masthead, which means I will definitely not use it. I got 7 votes for the second masthead which was in font 'Engravers MT' and the third masthead got 3 votes, which was in 'Orator std'. I will most likely use the second masthead as thats what is the most popular, but I will try both the second and the third when creating my magazine to see which font goes with the design of my magazine etc. 

Research and planning: Deciding Cover Stories

Deciding Cover Stories

When doing my questionairres people said they would like to hear about new songs, new releases, news, stories, gossip, interviews, new artists, upcoming artists, tour news and gig dates in my magazine, therefor these will be my cover stories:

'Win tickets to the arctic monkeys sold out tour' 
I have decided this cover story as when doing research over 50% of people said they would like to see or hear about arctic monkeys in the magazine.

'Exclusive interview with ……'  
As over 50% of people said they wanted my main story to be a interview, this is what I will use as my main story and a cover story.

'Top 10 new song releases shown inside'
This is where people could find out about new songs/new releases.

'Upcoming tours/Upcoming artists to look out for' 
As there was numerous people say they would like to hear about upcoming tours+artists to look out for, this is how I will show that.

'Fall out boy's tour dates released here' 
This is something exclusive that will draw people to the magazine, as they would be newly released which means nobody else would see them and would be an exclusive.

Here are the stories what I will use on the contents page but not go into detail about:

Win tickets to the arctic monkeys sold out tour
Exclusive interview with ….
Top 10 new song releases
Upcoming tours and artists to look out for 
Fall out boy's tour dates release
Will historic musical '…..' be demolished? 
Social shocks 

Research and planning: Deciding Shot Type For Cover

Deciding Shot Type For Cover 

I am not sure what shot type I will use for my front cover yet but as most people who did the questionnaire said it should be a mid shot I will use that for my draft and will most likely use a mid shot for my magazine front cover. A mid shot is from the waist up, like this: 

 

Research and planning: Shot Type Research

Shot Type Research

Research and planning: Production Schedule Week 7

Production Schedule Week 7

I have started my production schedule for completing my music magazine. The schedule is from Monday 20th October until Sunday 18th January. I have highlighted box's for over the coming week of what I want to be completed by the end of next week. By then I want my production schedule, voice thread analysis, social networking feedback, camera shots sheet uploaded, decided a photo, decided cover stories, a final draft of my front cover and a contents page analysis and draft on my blog.

Research and planning: Music Magazine Interviews

Music Magazine Interviews

Research and planning: Interview Questions

Interview Questions

The interview questions I will ask are: 

1. Do you think RoughCopy is a good name for an indie magazine? If you do, why?
2. What type of cover stories or stories would you like to see in the magazine?
3. What three colours remind you of an indie or alternate magazine?
4. What artists in alternate music do you like?
5. Do you think my magazine should have a slogan, if so, do you have any ideas what it could be?
6. Do you think my main magazine story, should be an interview, news or a story?

Research and planning: Target Audience Presentation

My target audience.pptm from aliciasumner

Research and planning: Questionnaire Results Analysed

Questionnaire Results Analysed

I found out from my questionnaire results that: 

• People like Roughcopy as my masthead for my alternate/indie magazine 
• The thing people most would like to see in my magazine is new songs/releases 
• People would also like to see News/stories, Gossip, Interview, New artists/Upcoming artists and New tours/Gig dates included in my magazine. 
• The three colours that remind people most of an alternate magazine and the three colours I am most likely to use are black, white and red. 
• Over 50% of the questionnaires said they would like to see or hear about Arctic Monkeys in my magazine. 
• People would also like to see artists such as Ellie Goulding, Stereophonics, Ed Sheeran, Linkin Park, The Script and Fall Out Boy. 
• The majority of people think my cover should have a male on and not a female. 
• 50% of the questionnaires said I should have a slogan and 50% did not. 
• Over 75% of the questionnaires said my main magazine story should be an interview. 
• People thought the photo on my front cover should either be a medium close-up, mid shot, long shot or mid-long shot. 

Research and planning: Results of questionnaire

Research and planning: My Questionnaire

My Questionnaire

To find out what people would like to see in my magazine I made a questionnaire and gave it out to 10 people. The questions I asked in the questionnaire were- 

 1-  Do you think ‘Roughcopy’ is a good masthead for an indie magazine? If not then what masthead would you prefer?

2-  What type of cover stories/stories would you like to see in the magazine?

3-  What 3 colours would remind you of an alternative/indie magazine?

4-  What artists/bands would you like to see in the magazine?

5-  Do you think my front cover should have a female or male on?

6-  Do you think my magazine should have a slogan? If so do you have any ideas?

7-  Do you think my main magazine story should be an interview, news or a story?

8- What shot type would you like to see on the cover? 

Research and planning: Masthead Designs

Masthead Designs

Now I have my final masthead decided I have started to play around with fonts for my final masthead on my music magazine. Here are three of the fonts I used: 

My favourite masthead and the one I will most probably use is the last one, as it sticks to my theme(alternate) and as I found when creating my masthead collage, most mastheads for indie magazines are in this style and easy to read. 

Research and planning: My Masthead

My Masthead

To make a final decision of what masthead I will use I wrote up a tally chart and asked different people which masthead they preferred. I had a choice of 4 mastheads which were Undone, Blankcopy, Roughcopy and Shadow.
Here is my tally chart:

 

Blankcopy had 2 votes, shadow had 1 vote, rough copy had 8 votes and undone had 6 votes.

Therefor my masthead for my alternate magazine will be Roughcopy.

Research and planning: Front Cover First Draft

Front Cover Draft

I have only done a simple draft with not a lot of detail, until I decide the photo, coverstory, masthead etc. Then I will draw a final draft of my Magazine Front Cover. Here is the first draft of my front cover:

Research and planning: Voicethread Front Cover Analysis

Voicethread Front Cover Analysis

I have tried to record in my voicethread analysis numerous times, but it will not work or show the comments I said. Instead I wrote some notes of what I said and I will put my voicethread up once I have had help of my tutor.
- stuck to common alternate 3 colour room, red black and white.
- Image, black cloths, matches colour scheme.
- Informative about music(persifically bands and alternate artists) shows that it is a alternate magazine
- Alternate magazine, target audience young adults, matches this because more formal than pop magazine, less than factual magazine.
- Alternate artists mentioned, matches genre
- Headings to draw in readers (exclusive's)
- Quote, draws attention, makes people wanna read more

Research and planning: Masthead Ideas

Masthead Ideas 

To create my Masthead I did a mindmap on paper with all my ideas what I could possibly use for my masthead. I came up with my ideas in different ways such as getting ins parathion from programs and some just off the top of my head.

When I finished my mindmap I circled my four favourite masthead ideas. 

To decide my final masthead idea I will ask people around college and friends to see which they think would suit a music magazine and the genre best. 

Research and planning: Masthead Collage

Indie Masthead Collage

Before drafting my magazine I also decided to do a collage of different mastheads from indie magazines, therefore I would have an idea of which font/text would match my magazine genre. Here is a collage of Indie magazine mastheads: 

Whilst creating this collage I discovered that there was an on going theme with the text and was often black, white or red. I also realized that the text's were not complicated, but were simple block texts and was all easy to understand. 

Research and planning: Indie Collage

Indie Collage

Before starting to design my magazine I did a Indie Collage for inspiration and to see if there is any ongoing themes, what I could include in my magazine, here is my collage: 

After making my collage I realized there are a lot of symbols such as crosses, triangles etc. I also realized there are props used in pictures what are usually vintage such as old camera's or stereos and also guitars and instruments, finally I realized that there is a autumn theme to many indie things, with leaves and outdoors etc. I will try to include as many of these into my magazine as possible to make sure it matches the genre magazine I am trying to create.

Research and planning: Indie Magazine Analysis

Indie Magazine Analysis

The target audience for this magazine is not for younger people as there is swearing on the front cover and this would not be appropriate for children to read. The type of people who would read this magazine would probably be young adults and people who listen or are interested in indie/alternative music. The magazine suggests it is a indie magazine as the make up is not 'casual' make up what you would see people wearing everyday and is different and not the 'norm'. Also there is a lot of bands/indie artists mentioned which shows that this is a indie magazine, as if it was a pop magazine pop artists would be shown/mentioned on the cover.  

The image suggests that the model is vulnerable as there is a heading saying "I feel so alone", she is also covering her face which may suggest she is on the edge about something and finally she is wearing no clothes which means she is bare. In contrast to this the image also suggests she is strong as she is making direct and intense eye contact and has red hair which is seen as 'fiery red'. Therfor this picture is intriguing as it sends different messages and will draw in the readers or viewers attention. There are no props actually used in this image but things are used to make the image and cover stand out, such as blue eye shadow is used to match the blue in the cover stories, dark nails are used to convey her strength and slight darkness and finally her vibe rent red hair to bring colour to the cover and match the red of the 'Q' section in the top right corner. 

Research and planning: Evaluation

College Magazine Evaluation

To produce material appropriate for the target audience and task I made sure that it was suitable for students to read, as that was my target audience. To do this I made sure my magazine had a picture of a student, therefor they would know that students are also the target audience. I made sure I used the correct font size's such as the masthead being a lot larger than just the cover stories, I did this correctly and think that all my text's were in the correct proportion to each other and the magazine. The only thing I would have improved about my font's was on the contents page change the list of the page's to a smaller size, and change the font as I don't seem it seems very professional. I would also like to add more cover stories to my front cover as I feel that it looks blank. 

To show my understanding of conventions of layout and page design I stuck to the three colour rule and made sure I put my photo and cover stories in the correct place. I did this by putting the photo in the centre as I wanted to show that the magazine was organised, so it would suggest that the college is also. I didn't stick to the three colour rule on my front cover as I only used yellow and blue whereas my plan was to use yellow, pink and blue as they are the colours used on the college logo, although there is a lot of brown on the cover so that may be classed as an extra colour. On my contents page I did stick to the three colour rule and used yellow, pink and blue on my contents page. 

I used ICT appropriately for the task set by using both photoshop and in design so I could show my skills on two programs, before creating my magazine I also did extra tasks so I got used to the software and could use it to the best of my ability when actually completing the task. I also appropriately integrated illustration and text by using the same colours and same text on both the front cover and contents page so it was obvious that my front cover and contents page was from the same magazine. 

I made sure I shot a variety of material for my front cover, so that if anything went wrong or I didn't like the picture or something small about the picture there was many I could use for a backup. I also uploaded the ones I wasn't over keen on or ones that I didn't shoot properly to say why I did not choose to use them. 

I manipulated and edited photographs so that they would be appropriate to the context for presentation, I manipulated the background image of the college to make it brighter. I didn't manipulate or edit the photographs as much as I should have as I should have cropped the photograph down as my model to make it into a more medium close-up than a mid shot. 

Research and planning: College Magazine Contents Page

College Magazine Contents Page

Here is my contents page, just as I was finishing it on InDesign:

Here is my completed College Magazine contents page, which I created on InDesign:

Research and planning: My College Magazine, Front Cover

 My College Magazine Front Cover

Here is my completed front cover that I created in Photoshop:

Research and planning: My Magazine So Far

My Magazine So Far



So far I have added and edited the background and added the picture. 

Research and planning: Taking The Medium Close-up

Taking The Medium Close-up



I went out to take pictures for the main image on the front cover, I used a cannon camera, a ..... and a note book as a prop as it is a college magazine and I wanted people to know that my model was a student.

Here are the pictures I took

 I didn't want to use these pictures as they look too obvious and I wanted my picture to look more casual so I decided to go out and take a few more..

 Here is my final picture what I have decided to use as I think it looks casual and i like the lighting of the photo: