Finished Music Magazine Double Page Spread

Finished Music Magazine Contents Page

Finished Music Magazine Front Cover

Iconic magazine image and commentary

For our iconic magazine image we decided to use Bill Clinton Former President of the United states of America because he is seen as a man of authority and this picture represents that by the way he is sitting with 

his arms on his knees makes him look powerful. We re-created this image by taking a picture of are teacher 

sitting at a chair in the same stance as Bill Clinton, we then used Photoshop to crop the photo using the magic wand tool and selecting all around the person, we then changed the background to a blue colour to make the person stand out more, the only thing we could not re-create was the title of the background on the magazine because we did not have enough experience in Photoshop to do this but everything else was a success.

School magazine

This was the first contents page we made for the school magazine as you can see it is very simplistic because their is lack of colour which is necessary in making your magazine stand out to the reader and also the fonts used are very basic however everything is very clear it just needs more added to it  to make it look visually better.

As you can see in this re-edit of are previous contents page we have made some simple yet effective changes to make it more appealing to the reader by editing the fonts to make them stand out by increasing the size and also colour scheme as well has improved because we now have a nice green background which is actually quite a soft colour to the human eye because it is associated with things like nature, we also added two pictures to the contents page because the reader will usually notice the pictures first because they are more interesting then text and finally we added a yellow star in the top right corner because this is the last thing the reader sees because they turn the page and the yellow really makes it stand out from everything else, the pupil of the week is similar to what a music magazine might do when they advertise a competition.


















For the front cover of our school magazine we used a mid shot of the expressive arts building, this gives the reader an idea of the location we are in and also as clues to what else is might be featured in the magazine, it always important to have a big picture for the front cover of the magazine because this is what readers see first and it is key to having a good magazine, it also important to make sure the picture is relevant to what your magazine is about for example if you had a rock magazine you most likely have a band head lining the front cover and could also feature props such as instruments. The picture we have used as you can see below is very clear because we have taken it outside and fits well with the title because of the green on the grass and trees it goes well together because they are eye friendly colours.

Audience research for music magazine

 

1.) The target market are rock fans that like too be kept updated and entertained, but also readers that like too receive a broad range of knowledge in the form of pictures and text.

2) The style of music is generally Rock with few other genres included in the music at all, this particular magazine focuses mainly on rock and single particular bands or big events or sometimes both in each issue.

3) Famous bands featured in this issue include, Green Day and also Weezer those bands are featured in this issue but every issue it is someone different.

4) Images on the front cover are bold and stand out, most of the images are close ups of certain people to interest and catch the reader’s attention.

5)  Fonts used on the front cover are bold and stand out in contrast with the colour used the text is intended too be clear and eye catching for the reader as the simple yet bold colours are definitive.

6) The layout of the front cover is generally the same as other big magazines in the form that the main article and main interesting thing is displayed bigger than the rest in the centre of the front with bolder and bigger text also with a picture that is bigger than the rest, whilst the other things contained within the magazine are spread around the cover but have no real presence due too the fact they are smaller than the main feature.

Photoshop experiment

In this image we tried to create the mood of having no piracy anymore by taking a picture of a CCTV camera which are placed all over the world watching are every movement, the government states that cameras are put in place for are protection but many people Today are still questioning whether they are an invasion of are privacy so that the government can keep an eye on all of us, in creating this we used big black font to make it stand out but did not use a bright colour font because it did not suit the mood of the image of what we were aiming for.

The mood  we are trying to show through the picture is serious, we used the words one nation because it refers to everyone not a minority of people so therefore would have a bigger impact on the reader, in terms of editing in Photoshop we made the image negative to make the camera in the center stand out because that is are primary focus in this image, in getting rid of colour you instantly change the mood because it becomes more depressing because the reader has only the image itself  to look at.