Plan for my evaluation

final magazine improvement

Improved work

Feedback

Front cover, contents and DPS draft final

contents page so far...

This is my updated contents page and all i will have to do to finish this will be to add more pictures in the blank spaces.

finished music mag front cover

This is my finished front cover for my music magazine and to get to this stage I took on the advice from my teacher and added a few more cover lines and adjusted their sizes.

Work in progress for final magazine

I decided in this lesson on this picture for my front cover and started to add in the cover lines, masthead, slogan, date and issue No.

Photo Shoot

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Design pages for my magazine

My updated blink plan

proposal

Induction to photo studio

Media Photography

Black backdrop but there will be a white one.

For the front cover a white backdrop is recommended.

Be aware of cables on the floor.

When it comes for booking you book with your teacher in your free time.

Have your model about 5 to 6ft away from the back.

Bowen's lights will be used when doing our photoshoot and remember to turn the lights off.

F stop

ISO number need only 100 or 200

Shutter speed

M is for manual which gives you full control of the camera.

Switch the Bowen's light on to the top to turn it on.

You can turn the flash and brightness up and down.

You have a 3 pointing light set up.

The square things around the lights are called soft boxes.

The small light at the back is called the hair line light which separates the model from the backdrop.

Magazine newsstand

With the magazines at the bottom they arrange them in a way so you can see the masthead, if you always like to get the same magazine you will be able to recognise it from the masthead. Normally they also put the most popular and expensive magazines in the middle of the shelf where most people look.

My proposal from aaronwilliamsasmedia

first flat plan

Analyses of Logo

Masthead finished product

Working on my proposal

Task 6

Distribution of magazines

Distribution of magazines from aaronwilliamsasmedia

Ideas from my case studies

Ideas from my case studies

From my case study it made me realise that my contents page wasn't really up to a high standard as in my case studies the contents page were filled up with loads of pictures and writing and my contents page wasn't although it had a nice background picture of the LSC building.

Also from my front cover it should have more of a plain background as Billboard has a plain pink background which goes really well with the content of the magazine which was featuring Katy Perry.

Evaluation

Evaluation
In this self evaluation I will be explaining and judging my college magazine front cover and contents page, describing the different software I used as well as the tools within the software and the different features I applied which you would find in a normal magazine.
For the front cover of my college magazine I used Photoshop because this piece of software enables you to edit photos because my front cover had a cover star for the magazine so therefore I decided Photoshop was the best option to choose from. A disadvantage to my picture was that it was not very high quality which was feedback that I received from my teacher and in future to avoid this happening I will take pictures with a high quality camera instead of the one on my phone. Also on Photoshop I was able to use a rubber tool which made the masthead seem like it was in the background as the part of the letters that were covering to cover star I removed. This is to make the magazine seem more professional as popular magazines have part of the  masthead covered by the main star as most people would know the magazine without having to see the full masthead. However I wasn’t able to get the masthead perfect as when you are rubbing out part of the masthead it is hard to make it discrete. I used a flash/puff by using the shape tool, to make the content inside the flash/puff seem important and highlighted it out to the audience. I included a big trip to Dubai within this flash/puff as it is something people would be really interested and in most magazines the information  within the flash/puff is the highlight of the magazine and its everyday people get a opportunity to go to Dubai. A very important feature I included was cover lines which gives the reader an idea as to what was going to be inside the magazine. I had 3 cover lines on my front cover which were about: the college results, new equipment and updated times. I also kept the same font and style on most of my writing on the front cover so it doesn’t look like I’m over doing the page as it wouldn’t look tidy of clean if you had different fonts and sizes which was a good thing for me. Furthermore my front cover had a date and barcode. The date is there to show the customers that they are up to date with what they are reading and I have got my date in a small font so as not to distract people from the other more important information. The barcode is there so when people want the magazine it has its own unique code although it is a free sheet magazine.
Now my contents page has been seen by a person in my class and has commented on my work. ‘This doesn't look like a magazine contents page, use of columns would make it look way better at the moment it looks like a jumble sale. The pictures used are stretched and look like they have been taken from a poor resolution camera. Layout should follow a conventional cover which you have analysed and should stop trying to experiment with such necessary features of a contents page. Overall the context such as the writing is good and the display of page number, still using the three colour scheme from your front cover”. I do agree with some of this criticism as I didn’t realy know how to layout my contents page so i thought I would just do it in a random layout but this comment says otherwise so in future I will look out for things like an organised layout. For example I will use columns like this person suggested. Secondly just like the front cover my pictures are not a good quality which I should be using a proper camera when taking photos for a magazine, not only that but I should hold down the shift key as I reduce or increase the size of this picture so it doesn’t stretch and get out of shape. Now for my self I think I done well with keeping the same colour scheme in the contents as well as the front cover which this person did spot out which is positive but as you can see I had more negative criticism. Finally the thing I realy liked about my contents was mainly the background as it suits the magazine very well as it is a picture of the college building.

contents page for college mag

This is my finished version of my contents page.

Unfinished Contents page for college mag

This is my unfinished contents page which is obviously missing content due to the negative spaces.

finished front cover college mag

I used photoshop to create this front cover using a variety of tools, for example I used the rubber tool to help get rid of the title and make the star on the front cover stand out more...

Billboard analysis

Q mag analysis

Practice front cover for college Magazine

This is my unfinished practice cover of a college magazine which will give me an idea how to make a front cover on the actual magazine we will be creating in InDesign, however this practice was created on photoshop so i could edit things like the masthead and make it seem like it is in the background and makes the magazine seem popular.

College magazine analysis

Double page spread of Oasis article

Contents page for Q magazine

In class we discussed and analysed the contents page and its different conventions. There are many conventions in this contents page such as Flashes, various shot types, fonts and a variety of colour schemes which make this magazine more attractive over other magazines; this suggests that the target audience is perhaps for young adults with a taste for rock music.

Induction double page spread

Production schedule

magazine front cover analysis

Magazine Mock

This was the first task that we had started in my AS Media class. The task itself was to reproduce a double page spread of a magazine article we had been shown. the software I used was  InDesign, which is a software used by many magazine designers. The genre of this music magazine is R&B which we can clearly identify, because of factors such as the style the artist has tattoos etc.