Friday 14 October 2011
Thursday 13 October 2011
Wednesday 12 October 2011
Kerrang Media Pack
http://magazines.bauermediaadvertising.com/magazines/detail/kerrang
The link above is a media package which will help me with my own music magazine, the link shows a selection of magazine images and front covers.
The link above is a media package which will help me with my own music magazine, the link shows a selection of magazine images and front covers.
Research in the market place.
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| Price- £2.20 Frequency of publication - monthly Issue size number of pages- 130 Regular content - gig reviews Feature articles- slipknot Positioning statement- 'none Web- metalhammer.co.uk |
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| Price- £3.99 Frequency of publication - monthly Issue size number of pages- 115 Regular content - gig reviews/ album reviews Feature articles- 150th Birthday Positioning statement- 'none Web- rocksound.tv. |
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| Price- £ 2.20 Frequency of publication - weekly Issue size number of pages- 63 Regular content - gig reviews/ album reviews Feature articles- enter shikari Positioning statement- 'life is loud' Web- http://www.kerrang.com/ |
Tuesday 11 October 2011
Initial Design
In todays lesson, we decided what our intial Design for our music magazines are going to look and include here is what i came up with...
- Price:£1.99
- Frequency of publication: weekly
- Average issue size: 70
- Regular Content:
- Gig reviews
- Introducing new acts
- Album reviews
- Latest news
- Inside the mind of
- Feature Articles :
- Bring me to the horizion on tour!
- Jared Leto speaks out...
- Win a meet and greet with Biffy Clyro!
- Madina Lake splitting up?
- The Best Rock band over the last 30 years!
Monday 10 October 2011
Evaluation
My front page follows the forms and conventions of a real magazine, using methods such as including a barcode, a main image , a mast head which was spread across the top of the page in bold text, i made sure that the eyes on my main image were not covered by any text to gain a captive audience. Also my contents page contains the codes and conventions of a real magazine by using methods such as i organised the page into coloums with headings and page numbers, i then added a few smaller images and kept the bold masthead which spread across the page.
Throughout my front page and my contents i kept the same colour scheme and font. However i have challenged these forms and conventions as i did not use a proper background as i was not very familiar with the software we were using.
For creating my front cover we used adobe photoshop, which was a easy software to use however for my contents page we used quark Xpress which i wasnt very confident with because i had only used it twice before so it was all new too me. So i decided to experiment a bit with the software to gain more knowledge .
I found that i was more confident on photoshop than i was on quark Xpress as i had used it many times before and knew exactly what tools to use for certain aspects of my magazine cover. My other strengths in terms of forms and conventions were i was able to follow most of them using my own ideas and designs to create a good school magazine cover. Although i was confident in my front cover i was not so confident with the designs of my contents page as the software i was using was challenging and diffcult to use.
Throughout my front page and my contents i kept the same colour scheme and font. However i have challenged these forms and conventions as i did not use a proper background as i was not very familiar with the software we were using.
For creating my front cover we used adobe photoshop, which was a easy software to use however for my contents page we used quark Xpress which i wasnt very confident with because i had only used it twice before so it was all new too me. So i decided to experiment a bit with the software to gain more knowledge .
I found that i was more confident on photoshop than i was on quark Xpress as i had used it many times before and knew exactly what tools to use for certain aspects of my magazine cover. My other strengths in terms of forms and conventions were i was able to follow most of them using my own ideas and designs to create a good school magazine cover. Although i was confident in my front cover i was not so confident with the designs of my contents page as the software i was using was challenging and diffcult to use.
Final images for school magazine
For our lesson task we had to create a version of our school magazine on photoshop and our contents page on quark express these screenshot images are a step by step guide to how i created my contents and cover for my school magazine...
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| After i created my background image and title i added extra images which are featured in the magazine and a barcode. |
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| Firstly i created my title and my main image which i took myself. |
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| This is my final outcome for my school magazine task. Once i completed my magazine task i then moved onto creating my contents page on quark below are the examples of my work being put together....  Firstly i picked my background colour and heading and split my page into two coloums.   |
School Magazine and Contents Page
In todays lesson our task was to create a school magazine of our choice , in a style of a music magazine, firstly i drew out my contents and magazine cover on paper to make sure it was correct and then created my magazine cover on adobe photoshop using my own images and created my contents on Quark express. Below are the outcomes of this task ...
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| My design for my cover and contents page. |
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| Adobe photoshop version of my magazine cover. |
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| Quark Express version of my magazine contents page. |
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