feedback on my draft front cover (unfinished)

-good thext and info
-could do with filling in the spaces

-like the background
-fill the spaces more

-cool background
-needs to be finished

-background needs work

this is a quick idea of the layout of my double page spread

This is an existing reader profile for NME readers, it is highly detailed with many figures relating to what kind of people read the magazine. This reader profile shows the breakdown of the type of people who buy the magazine, this will help decide what kind of articles, features, artists and adverts will be put into the magazine and how effective they will be on the reading audience. The figures on the reader profile are exact and cover a wide range of things including very important aspects of who buys the magazines like the percentage of which gender buys it where a whole 69% of readers are Male. This will real help the publishers of the magazine advertise to the larger male audience and also include articles that are more written in a style familiar and common to males, but also importantly not forgetting to include things that females would enjoy as this would be counterproductive. One thing that this reader profile does lack is artists and what kind of artists the readers listen to and enjoy which is a main factor in the readers of the magazine however this could be unimportant as the magazine has its own genre already in place, and the readers choose the magazine due to its genre. However it could help by deciding what kind of prizes can be won because the magazine can pick a large audience to aim them at. Overall I think that this reader profile is very effective with its dense amount of sums and clear target audiences that will really help the magazine publishers decide what they would put in the magazine.                                                                                          

This was another test shot we did for a group photo for this we put the camera on a tri-pod to make the image stable and it payed of because the clarity in the picture is very good the lighting is ok but because the spot lights shine from the sides there is shadow from one another over the models.

MY TEST SHOTS

 

 

this was a test shot i got, for this i used normal lights on the roof but they gave a poor look to the picture and it shaded parts of the model.

this was a low angle shot with standard roof lights ageain but it made the picture realy dark with no detail.

but with the spot lights in this in the right positions shining from infront of the model the picture even with more of a low angle then the last one, you can see the model much clearer.

these are the test shots i will get to help decide how i am going to take my final pictures.

my initial ideas for the layout of the magazine i will make (front cover on the left, contents page on the right)

This is a breakdown of what feedback we recived from our focus groups. With this and research of existing magazines similar to mines price and freequency. most being priced from, £2.50 to aound £4, i have decided my magazine will be priced at £3.20 because it would be a higher end magazine but within an accesible price. Also my magazine will be a once monthly magazine because of the kind of big celebrities i would want in this magazine due to there audience appeal, also i will be able to focuse on a whole new chart rather then every week where the music charts will bearly change in such a short time.

one of our focus group interviews

this is a reader profile. the sort of things i think my viewers would like/buy/do.

my front cover analysis

my contents page analysis






this is my double page spread analysis

Here i have analysed a 'vibe' magazine because it is the sort of magazine i would be basing mine on in style and genre.

music mag genre on Prezi

Main task (Music Magazine): the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. - All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate, minimum of FOUR images.

College magazine evaluation

I will be evaluating my Media Studies project of producing a college magazine front cover and mock up contents page.

I produced my college magazine on a programme called Photoshop and by taking pictures. When I started on my college magazine project I first did some research into the industry by looking on Google at college magazines and also magazines of all kinds to work out some trends in the style. I then started to make mood boards and mock ups using pictures from the internet and I then reviewed what I liked best and the kind of style I wanted to use in my actual magazine and which ones will be practical to make myself.  

To get my desired picture I had to choose the person I wanted and then I had to decide the sort of clothes I would want for him to wear then I decided I would take my picture on a plane background so it would be easy to cut the image out, the only problem with doing it on a green background was that the green leaked on to the models skin and made the edge of the picture look green which was hard to get rid of, it took careful erasing to get rid of it.

My target audience for my college magazine would be college students from the ages of   16-21 years old specifically. The style of the magazine helps appeal to that kind of audience for example the style of clothes the model wears and the age and look of the model himself also the style of the writing for example “tips and tricks on pre-term organisation” this appeals to my audience by talking about college relevant terms. Also the simplicity helps appeal to the reader of most ages and intelligence.

My magazine would be sold inside the college which will attract the right kind of audience to my magazine to start with but then also the style of the front cover using positive colours and fonts such as green and blue plus some neutral style fonts, also the cheap price of the magazine will be affordable for any of the college students to buy.

My product is represented in a light hearted way that would be accessible to any of the students in a college, the use of bright neutral colours help to portray it in a positive manor.

my contents page mock-up

my original pictures

my finished college magazine

this is my mood board

This is an idea of mine and what i could do with my own images.

A quick mock up i made of the sort of magazine i could do maby with focus on the new look of the 2012 student.

1. extreme close up: close up on face area usualy.
2. close up: shot on the shoulders and face.
3. medium shot: belly button to top of the head.
4. long shot: legs to head or full body shot.

This is some of the magazine covers that have inspired my desighn, they follow the conventions and look very profesional. They all have a similar type of masthead, main image and cover lines which i coulod follow in making my magazine.

magazine conventions

Preliminary Exercise Brief:

Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/collage magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriatley laid-out text and a masthead. Additionaly you musrt produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.