Final Front Cover

 

This is my final front cover, as you can see I changed the cover image to one with a microphone to get across the fact it is a music magazine rather than a fashion magazine, and I altered the colour scheme also. 

I am happy with the result, and I am glad that I listen to the advice given, and changed the necessary features.

Final Contents Page

 

When I made this page, I wanted the background to be slightly different to the rest, so I could have a bit of variety with the backgrounds.

I chose a few different fonts that went well with each other also to give variety, and keep people interested. The important words are in bold or in a different font, like the word "Summer" for instance, as summer is something people love, and a lot of gigs and festivals are in the summer, so this would have an effect with my younger target audience, and would therefore be eyecatching.

I chose to add some other images as well as the main one, so that people could really get the feel of the genre with the lights and the crowd.

I like the main image, as my model is in a different position to the double page spread and front cover, which keeps the reader interested, and makes it look less repetitive.

I also added an online address at the bottom of the page, so that people can view the magazine online.

The images at the top of the page are royalty free images, and this is a link to the regulations regarding the images: http://www.sxc.hu/txt/license.html

Final Double Page Spread

 

This is the finished version of my double page spread, I made sure I carried on the house style with the colours blue, pink, black and yellow.

I wanted the image to be quite bold and although it is 1/3 of the page, it still isn't over shadowed by the text, as her foot makes the image extend to the next page.

I like the image for this, it is how I wanted it to look, and this page went all how I wanted it to go, without me having to adapt much to meet my audience needs.

Evaluation Question 7

Evaluation Question 7

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Evaluation Question 6

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Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience? on Prezi

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 3

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Evaluation Question 2

The word Representation means how something is re-presented to people. The real definition is this: The description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way or as being of a certain nature.


My media product represents certain groups partly through the use of the colours and fonts featured throughout. I have not limited the colour scheme to pinks/purples which would stereotypically represent feminine groups, however I have used both pinks, blues and bright yellow, which are colours that would possibly represent a younger market (because of the vibrancy) of both males and females.


The particular fonts used help to symbolize dance music, and groups of people that go to clubs or listen to this particular type of music, because of the edgy and bold style of the lettering.

Another thing I have used in my magazine to represent different social groups is the artist featured in my magazine.
She is a young female singer who groups of young people would be able to relate to. She fits into the target audience for my magazine, which is the main group of people she helps to represent.
She also helps to represent young people as she is not an artist that is like Lady Gaga for instance, who wears very unusual different outfits, Loreena Steele however is featured wearing clothes you would see a normal 17 year old or so wearing.

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation question 1

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Music event

Recently, my school put on a house music competition, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to take some photos for my magazine.
I took some photos, however there were many problems meaning I couldn't use the photos for my magazine.
Firstly, the majority of the images were blurry or dark, as I wasn't able to use the flash (In case it distracted performers)
Secondly, I couldn't find my genre of music. There were a lot of bands or groups of people singing, and the bands had guitars and drums which would not connote dance/electropop music.

Double Page Spread

Spotify and Napster

Spotify and Napster are online music streaming services. Anyone can listen to songs from a huge library of music for free. This means a lot of people will be able to listen to music when they might not have been able to before.
Napster was initially released in 1999, and Spotify was founded in 2006. These are both relatively new in the scheme of things, and have created a whole new way of listening to music.
There are advertisements and customers can pay to remove them, but if they are happy to keep them on the page, then the whole service costs them nothing, which could be quite controversial in the music industry, as it reduces the amount of people who would have in the past, paid money for the songs they wanted to listen to, meaning a cut in artists sales and money made.

As well as playing individual songs, these services go a step further, and show you what else you might want to listen to, other similar artists, and pre-made radio stations. This could be good for the music industry, as it is promoting other artists that you may not have considered before, meaning they get more fans, and more people going to their gigs, or buying merchandise and so on.

Record Labels

Screen recording

This is a screen recording I have done to show some alterations on my magazine. I am using quicktime to record it, and I am showing me editing text on photoshop.
I am arranging the text on the contents page to make it look how I want it.

Contents Page

This is my contents page, I have used the running colour scheme of the pink, blue and white.
I wanted to add a bit of variation with the grey background, which I made by using the colour replacement tool and the burn tool.
I have used a variety of fonts and sizes to make it look more interesting.
I need to add one or two photos to the top right hand corner, these will be musically related to make it look like a music magazine and less like a fashion magazine.
I have tried to used a different sort of picture for each section of the magazine to give a bit of variation.
Overall I am quite happy with the look of this page, and with a few extra additions it will be how I want it to look.

Front Cover

This is my front cover, it is almost how I want it, however I need to make it look more like a music magazine.
It is improved from my first draft, however I still need to add something to make it better.
I chose pink white and blue for my colours, this is because they were voted the favourites on my questionnaire.
I have used a dance related font for my masthead, and I have made it stand out more than other texts on my page.
I edited the colours on the main image, by making them tie into my colour scheme, for example I changed the colour of her eyes, to make them more vibrant, and match the masthead.
I have used a variety of fonts, so that it looks more interesting, and I have tried to use relevant coverlines, and lures too.

Peer Assessment Evaluation

I recently finished a rough copy of my front cover, and then showed it to my class. 

People gave me their opinions and criticisms...

Good points:

-Background image

-Layout is good, and the title stands out

-Colour scheme

I spent a lot of time trying to get a good cover image, I did the photo shoot about three times, the first time, the costumes weren't relevant, the second time, the images were not varied enough, I needed to change the look of each photo (costume, position etc)

The third time was the best, for the cover image, I did a close up of my model, and gave her a bold lip colour, which I could change for my contents page, and double page spread.

I chose the colours for my front cover that rated best in my questionnaire, this is probably why it was picked as a good point, as they are my target audience, it is what they wanted to see.

Bad points:

-Make genre more obvious, and make it less like a fashion magazine

-Cover lines

-Colour of title (Change to blue)

One of the points picked out was that my magazine didn't look like a music magazine, instead it looked like a fashion magazine. To change this I needed to add more of a music element, possibly with the cover lines, or the font.

Also, to tie in all the colours I needed to make my title blue, and I needed to play around with the sizes of the fonts, to make sure the title was the only thing that stands out.

I have made all these amendments, and my magazine is starting to look more like a dance/electropop magazine, the only thing I need to do now is to change the cover lines slightly.

Video Diary - Introduction

This is an introduction to my music magazine Synth. I'll explain about my ideas and progress with my front cover which I have been working on.
It is a brief overview of my magazine so far.