Wednesday 16 December 2009

Second Draft


I asked my teacher to tell me what I could do to improve my first draft and he told me that the models hair and shadow was obsecuring the cover line and that I should move her slightly to the right. Here is my second draft:

Monday 7 December 2009

My First Draft

Here is the first draft of my magazine cover:I then made this presentation to explain the differrences between my plan and my first draft:

Wednesday 2 December 2009

Planning my Front Cover

My next step was to plan my front cover. I knew that I wanted to call it "HEADBANG!" and use the font "REBOARD" with a black, white and red colour scheme. I also wanted to create a mock-fanzine feel to it, but I am still unsure of my band name. Here is my plan:As I am using images in my cover, I then planned a photo shoot:
Here are the results of my photoshoot:

Monday 30 November 2009

Fanzine Research

Whist analysing my two music magazines, I noticed that they used a mock fanzine style which I liked. I decided to do research on it as I would like to use this style for my magazine.

Wednesday 25 November 2009

Magazine Comparison

I then took the most recent copies of the two most popular magazines in my questionaire and anaylised and compared them to see which techniques they used I like and which common conventions they use:

Tuesday 24 November 2009

Mood Board

I created a mood board in photoshop of images that related to my chosen style of magazine:

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I then made this presentation to explain why I used some of my images:


Friday 20 November 2009

Questionnaire

I wanted to find out information about what the public looks for in a music magazine to help me with my own. I gave this questionnaire to 22 people:

I then put all my results into an Excel spreadsheet and created graphs based on them: Lastly, I put them in this presentation so I could analyse and come to a conclusion:



Music Magazine - Planning

Now that I had completed my School Magazine, it was time to move on to my main task, creating a music magazine. The first and most important thing to do was to plan my time effectivly to assure I could complete all my work to a good standard in the time availible. Below is my plan:

Thursday 5 November 2009

Monday 2 November 2009

Contents Page Plan

I have planned the next stage in my school magazine which is the table of contents. As I had included photo's in my plan I had to also plan my photoshoot:


Unfortunatly one of my locations was unavailble on the day of the shoot so I had to revert to a continugency plan. Instead of using the school plaque, I set up a new shot of my model, Sonia reading and looking out of a window.

Monday 12 October 2009

Tuesday 6 October 2009

Planning my Magazine Cover

Here is a slide show, containing the planning stages of my magazine cover.

Magazine Comparison

In order to have a better understanding of what is needed to make a school magazine. I took the two covers above and analysed them, looking at the techniques they used and how they were effective or not effective. I then chose elements I would like to use in my own cover.

Monday 5 October 2009

Practising Photoshop

In order to practise "colour filtering" on photoshop, I was asked to design a advert for a high street shop. I decided to use Topshop and as my model was wearing tartan, I though I would go for a punk look by adding the union jack. To do this, I created a new layer and drew the pattern with the paint tool. I then blurred it using "gaussian blur" and changed it to "soft light". I had to lower the opacity to make the main image clearer. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE.





I then practised using the "clone" tool. This is a useful tool as it means that I can remove aspects of the picture that I don't want and replace them with a realistic alternative. As you can see above, I have removed the next from the sign by replacing it with the original sign colour.







I practised editing people's faces to remove impurities and change hair and eye colour. To do this I took the above photo and first used the "Spot Healer" tool to remove obvious spots and marks on the models face. I then used the gaussian blur to make her face level and smooth. I rubbed the gaussian blur off around important features such as eyes, lips and earrings.

To change her eye colour, I made a new layer and added to spots of colour over her pupils. I made this layer "soft light" and lowered the opacity to make the colour more realistic and less bright. To change the hair colour, I changed the hue and saturation of the area.




NME Magazine


The first thing I did was to look at a popular magazine I was interested in and analyse how it effectivly used techniques to appeal to consumers. This will help me when I start to design my own publication and I can learn how to use the conventions of magazine.