This Week In media:Discussion

After my feedback and discussion in my Media class I decided to make slight changes to my front cover, contents page and double page spread.

The changes I’m going to make:

·         The layout of Front cover

·         Add front cover image to contents page

·         The image used on front cover

·         The layout of text on double page spread

LATEST UPDATE ON MUSIC MAGAZINE

My updated version of my music magazine front cover. The changes that I made was the gradient for the background. The reason for this was because I felt my previous background colour black wasn't really a colour that is normally used for a background for a music magazine. The other key areas that I decided to change was the outline stroke around the text, with a bolder black outline. My opinion on this is that it is better than what it was, I think it looks more like an magazine now than what it did. My feedback that I got from my teachers and class mates was that it's improved greatly over the course of the task and the recent change to the background makes the magazine look better,professional and makes it stand out. The use of celebrity endorsement of Pro Green makes the audience want to buy it as there a well known singer in my music industry, also it informs people that there will be a key feature of him inside the magazine so this might want people to go and buy the magazine. I tried and keep all the colours the same with the main colour being Red,Black and white.

The contents page was changed as a result of changes made to the front cover as I feel that the contents page should be matching the front cover so the audience can tell that they both come from the same magazine. So the the changes made was the background colour from black to a gradient of black and white. I decided thats the only thing I really needed to change because everything matches the colour scheme and plus  I thought that everything looked good on the contents page but the background which was recently changed.

This Week in Media:Closing on to the deadline

Updated Double Page Spread

Double Page Spread First Stage

 What is this?
This is my first stage of making my double page spread. I still think that I need to make improvements to it but I hope I can get feedback for this so I can make improvements that is needed before I present to the class on Wednesday.

What's going well so far?
The things that I think is going well so far is the use of 3 images that I took, I think this works well with the whole point of double page spread for an example with an image on jerome sitting on his stairs at home to say its an home interview. The other things that I think went well is the colours used as it connects to the theme of front and contents page, and lastly the fonts used works as well.

What's need to be improved?
I think I need to improve is the actual layout of the double page spread. The way I used the images and the way the texted is laid out.
The other things I think I could improve is the text font to make it more stand out and just generally make it look better.
My feedback told me that the background colour should be changed along with Front Cover and Contents page, I will try different backgrounds as a result and see what fits best to the magazine.

Stages:

• This is one of my first stages making my music magazine front cover. At first I had a plain white background. With a lot of spare space so I didnt felt it was working as its was firstly too plain and too boring and not very eye cathing. So the feedback I got was that to first feel up the space, change the colour/theme of the background and lastly make the images head smaller.
• The reason for this background is that the research that I carried out from the 'VIBE' magazine was that they normally go for a plain background around the main image.

Updated Version:

 

• Above, is my updated version of my music magazine front cover, after the feedback I was given and my own opinion on what should be improved I have updated it to this.
• The changes that was made was the colour of the background, from a light blue/white colour to a black background, the reason for this is because it makes all the writing/image on the front cover stand out and eye catching as well matches my colour theme.
• The other changes that I made from my other version of my magazsine cover is the way the text is used, I rotated and slighted the writing, the reason for this is because I was trying to make it more eye-catching and also based on my research most magazine have it in this style.

The front Cover Annotation

Above is my front cover being annotated, showing the key features that I have used on my front cover and the reason why I have used it and where the ideas came from. And also what most magazine have to have for an example Barcode and celebrity endorsement.

Front and Contents Page

This is my updated front cover for my magazine. I was using my feedback from my teachers and my fellow classmates to slightly make improvements. I thought that the previous magazine background was too plain and wasnt effective enough so I asked my teachers and some of my classmates to see what colours would go best without making big changes to the writing and the image or the masthead. So after trying different sorts of colours I decided for the time being to go with the colour black because its firstly different to any other magazine colour background so I think it would make it stand out from any other music magazines in a store. After feedback was given on the image which was that the person's head was too big, I got given help to make the head much smaller which I did and now I feel it works better and looks better than it did. I also change the colour of the writing as a result of the change of colour to the background. The last change I made the white glow around the masthead to make it stand out even more

As a result of the changes made to my front cover I had to change the contents page as well. The changes that I made to the contents page was the colour of the backgroud, like with the front cover the background was too plain so I changed the background colour to black so likewise the front cover, I did this because I wanted to stilll link the two. I also changed the the word 'Contents' to the same style as the masthead on the front cover. So after the changes that I mader to both I think it's looking better than what it did but I still think I could still makes even more changes to make it better so I hope next time I have Media Studies I can get more feedback.

First Stage: Contents Page

This is my contents page for my music magazine. The colours that I used are the same colour scheme for my front cover, as I wanted to link the two pages together so people will know its from the same magazine. I decided to use the same person as I did for the front cover, I did this because I wanted to tell the audience that the this issue is mainly based on this singer(Jerome) and says the key feature is him. I also used smaller images around the main image, the images are celebrities but one which is the image I took. The celebrities used are link to my type of music genre so the audience will know its all linked together. I will trying to make the contents page slightly different to the research that I carried out, so I decided to use four images as sort of film strip to make the contents page less boring and different. I also made an own section on the main feature of the magazine, this was going into more detail from what the front cover was telling you about the main feature.

What do I think went well?

I think the things that went well was the colours that I used, the reason being that It links to my front cover well, I know this because from my previous tasks where I had to make a magazine, the feedback that I was given was that I linked the front cover and contenets page well, so I transfered what I did from that task to this task so that helped me to make this better. I also personally like the layout of the magazine because its basic but yet affective to what I want it to show.

First Stage Music Magazine:Front Cover

This is my first try on making my music magazine, as you can see by my research I tried to link it but also trying to make my own version of other music magazines. The things that I used that was similar to the research is the masthead, where the gradient of black and red was used. Also the image of the person's head overlapping the masthead.

Things I need to Improve:

The things I think I need to improve is the images head where I think it too big, so my aim is to either make the person head smaller and edit the image, or I could use another image that I picked. My other aim is to make the quality of the magazine better, I hope to do this by keeping using In-Design and try to improve my skills which then I hope to make my magazine better.

Things That I think gone well:

The things that I think I have done well on is the mastehead and how it is displayed on the magazine, I also think the use of celebrity indorsment with the use of Pro Green has helped my magazine and also links it to what other proffesional music magazine uses.

What I hope to add and improve:

The things I hope to improve on in the lead up to the deadline is the image itself with the size of the person's head, I hope to get assisted by Mr Wallace for that. I also hope to make the background better, the reason for this is that I think the current background colour white is too plain for my music magazine, As a result of this I hope to explore all different options and hope to get advice from my fellow class mates and my teacher.

Masthead Ideas

Here is all the different type of mastheads ideas for my music magazine. I used all different type of colours,fonts,sizes and background colour, the reason for this was to try and get a better idea of what sort of mastehead I wanted and also what background I wanted. After doing all this different type of fonts and also with my research I done on similar music magazine, I decided to use a plain white background behind the text.

Final Masthead:

I decided to go with this masthead because I liked the gradient on the lettering as I think it still stands out and looks good. I think the colours red and black goes well with my type of music and layout of magazine, same with the style of the writing. I also decided to go with this because it's very similar to the research that I carried out. I look on the 'VIBE' layout and one magazine had the same mastehead.

This Week in Media

Monday 30th January 2012

This lesson we was working with Mr Wallace trying to discover what our target audience was and what our music genre was. We done this because it will help us to start designing our front cover layout but most importantly for this lesson what type of font our title will be.

I also was looking at what colours would be the best fit to each other and also the colours that would fit best to the kind of music magazine that I was doing.

Wednesday 1st February 2012

In this lesson, I was looking at any areas in my media work that I need to improve on or even update on for an example my blog and start hand drawing my front cover for my magazine. I also hope to in this lesson helped my fellow class mate Mikey Daly do his photo's for his music magazine.

My Goals for this Lesson:
My goals for this lesson was to update my work as much as I could,so I'm organised so I could just focus on making my magazine. My other goal was to help Mikey with his photo's for his magazine but was unable to do this as we both lost track of time doing our work, however we will start taking photo's in friday's media lesson