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.