magazine mishap

whilst working on my work, my computer crashed deleting most of my work.
This set me back in my work, as i had to work faster to meet my dead line and start from the beginning.

In future, i will most definitley frequently save my work.

taking and editing of my images

I took my main image with a very blank background as i knew this would have a red background, and already planned to cut it out. Therefore i would have no need for an extragant back ground.

This is the picture before i editing it-

This is the picture after i edited it -

I made it brighter and then adjusted the contrast to higher. I then ajusted the colour balance to make it slightly blue, and appear colder.

I edited this image by making it brighter and adjusting the contrast so they would appear brighter.

I found the editing and photography enjoyable.
And felt the final result was successful.
Though, i still believe that it could have been made more successful given a more orginal background, and more pictures of people together.

choosing which photographs to use

These are some of the pictures i took -

I did not choose to use this picture, as although smoking suits the rock theme and rocker life style, as my target audience was 14 - 19 year olds, i did not want to make smoking look glamourus to younger children.

 This picture would have been too hard to edit due to small wires and objects around him. I also felt this picture was not as well taken as the others

I did not choose this picture for the same reason as the previous smoking picture.

In the end i choose not to use this picture, as it did not suit the rock theme.

I made sure to take a lot of pictures of each person, so when it came to choosing, i could simply choose which one came out best.

Photographs for my magazine

Taking the pictures for my magazine was far harder than i expected.

i planned for my main image to use three people. i found this very difficult.
I planned to use one girl, and two boys.
The girl i initally planned on using, was very busy and we rarely had frees together, so to get to a graveyard would prove very difficult. We found it hard to agree a date outside of school to meet, as we lived an hour apart.
The two boys i planned to use where not from this school and we found it hard to all meet at the same time.
Though, one of the boys i planned to use lived close, so i was able to photograph him.
I then had to change the main image on magazine, as it was too difficult to get three people together at the same time. I also had to change the backgroud of my image, as it was too far for us to travel, so i used a simplier approach of just a field, and coloured backgrounds.
Due to how hard it was trying to photograph three people, i then decided that i would use only one shots through my magazine, in order to make sure no more time was wasted on the hassle of gathering a group of people.
I still thought a group image would have looked more effective.

colour scheme

I choose to use red, white and black as the main colours on my magazine. The yellow would be used to draw attention to text.

 I orginally planned to use blue, white and black, but i felt the colours might make the magazine look too dull.

Planning my rock magazine

We then progessed to designing our magazine.
We were given a large page of A3, divided into four to design our magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread.
I used a Kerrang magazine to look at how i should construct my magazine, as i also planned to make a rock magazine, aimed at the same genre and target audience.
When planning, i had to decide on the colour, target audience, main image.

I planned to use red, black and white for my main colours. With yellow to make certain words stand out.

I planned to tagert the audience of 14 - 19 yearolds of both genders.

I planned my main image to be a medium shot of three people. One standing closer to the camera, and the other 2 standing two inchs behind them. The lighting will be dark, and the contrast will be high. I planned to edit the image with a blue tint, to make the image appear colder. I also planned the photograph to be taken in a grave yard, as this would fit the genre of the magazine.

Magazine analysis

For our first task we were made to analysis a magazine front cover, in order to know what and how our magazine should be constructed.



Colour -The main colour scheme is found on the front. Kerrang uses black, white and red. To make cover lines stand out, they use colours not part of the scheme, for instance green or yellow.

Language - the language is used consistantly throughout the magazine, This is to make certain that the whole front cover represents the magazine taget audience correctly, and that the informal laguage shown on the front will be a constance throughout the magazine. As to use informal language on the front and then formal language wirth in, would mislead the reader, as the writing on the front also helps to attract the audience. Specific words and phrases can be used to suit a theme or genre of music. For instance, rock/emo/goth may use alot of dark language, for example, 'death', 'black', 'gore'. As dark langauge would be associated with the certain genre, and the audience targetted.

Masthead -
The main title, should be distinguishable. For instace, Kerrang is reconisaby kerrang from the cracked writing font.

Main cover line - big and bright to attract attention. Main story.

Coverlines -  Smaller font than main coverline in order to not divert attention. Coverlines are made to standout through different colours and fonts.

Main image - The main image is the largest image, usually filling most of the page. (For instance, in the magazine Kerrang, above, it can be seen that the image takes up the majority of the page.) It is then usually is surrounded by a number of small images. This is used to draw the readers into the main image first, and then divert their attention to the images accomping it.

Left-third - Usually used for advertisment.The short coverlines in the left-third would help the advertisment as the they are what the reader would first take interest in, after the main image and masthead they would then read to see what is within the magazine.

Barcode and dateline -  The barcode is usually at the bottom corner, not to intfer with any text, and out of the way from anything important. the dateline contains the issues date and magazine cost.

Music magazine task

We were set a task to design and produce a music magazine, front page, contents page and double page spread.
we analysised magazine and learnt about them, so we would know how to contrust a magazine. and what key features it would need to look appealing and grab readers attention.

In our first lesson, i learnt about the importance of advertisment. For instance, you would not really advertise expensive elequent perfume in a rock magazine, as it would be too expensive for 14-25 year olds. It would be more apprioate to advertise rock albums or music related items, as it would more aimed at the reader, as as they are buying a rock magazine it can be assumed they enjoy rock music.