My Final Products

These are my final finished products for my magazine.

Third Draft

I have changed the contents page slightly from my second draft. I changed the main image in the middle and I also added a logo of a festival. I decided to add a logo to give the readers an idea of what kind of festivals will be on that page. I also changed the photograph in the middle as I thought the original one didn't represent my artist in the way that I wanted her to be represented. 

I have also slightly changed my double page spread by making the quote bigger so that it stands out more and I have also changed the way the interview in presented in the the drop cap is on a line on its own and all of the text followed below.

Evaluation Question Seven

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

In progression from the preliminary task to the full product I feel like I have learnt a lot such as how to edit photos effectively. One thing that I learnt was that the lighting is very important to make the image look its best. In my preliminary task I didn't know how to remove blemishes or edit photographs correctly but I feel that I learnt how to do this and how to do it so that it still looks very realistic. Another thing I didn't understand how to use correctly was levels, therefore this is why the photograph in the preliminary task was too dark. 

Evaluation Question Six

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation Question Five

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Question Four

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Question Three

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Question Two

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Question One

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Above are my finished magazine designs for my Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spread, and below I have put an example of Q magazines Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page spread in order to compare the layout styles I have used, that link with Q magazine.

Below is a Prezi that I created which shows the conventions that I have followed whilst making my music magazine:

 

Second Draft

Front Cover:

Contents Page:

Double Page Spread:

Contents page and double page spread guidelines

Contents page:

• Multiple images
• If just one image per page then do 2 or 3 contents pages
• Reflect your cover stories
• Largest image should be the cover star
• Not all contents is on the contents page
• Approx 60 pages - Weekly 
• Approx 140-180 pages - Monthly
• Divide contents into sections
• Page number - At least page 6 upwards
• Subscription offer
• Letter from the editor
• Magazine branding - Colour and logos

Double page spread:

• A3 Landscape - 300 DPI
• Page numbers
• Usually towards the end - Weekly - 40 upwards, Monthly - 80-90 upwards 
• Big letter at the beginning of the first paragraph - Dropped Cap
• Pull-out quote
• Columns - Photoshop for graphics, headlines and photos, Publisher - To place in the columns
• Columns - 6-12 words

Front Cover Draft

This is my completed front cover for my magazine. It is different to the other front cover and I have made the mast head bigger, I have also made the artists name bigger and put the feature story in capital letters so that I stands out more, I have also slanted the plug slightly and made it more compact and I think it looks much better this way.

Some other things I did  was retouching her face, enhancing her eyes, eyebrows and her lips. I managed to figure out how to do this by researching it on YouTube and the following tutorials are below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmgyRK6H5wk - This is the tutorial I used to touch up her face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ-mafxccuY - Even though this was a tutorial for lips, as well as using it for her lips I also used the same method for her eyebrows and eyes and I found it the most effective and best way.
I have used the pucker tool in Photoshop in order to make the nose slightly smaller, and i have also used the bloat tool to make the eyes slightly bigger as well.