Thursday, 25 February 2016
Evaluation Question Three
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
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:
Friday, 12 February 2016
Friday, 29 January 2016
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
Tuesday, 26 January 2016
Front Cover Draft
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| 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.    |
Friday, 18 December 2015
First Front Cover Draft
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| This is my favourite front cover idea. I liked the one where she is looking over her shoulder as well however I think that this represents the indie genre better than the other one which is why I have chosen this one. |
Front Cover Options
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| I choose to look at this photograph as the guitar represents music well and I thought the framing would be right. |
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| I chose this Photograph as I thought it was a similar style and framing to the mock up I did of Lana Del Rey. |
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| I choose this photograph as I wanted to show some variety in my images and I think I have done this by using this photograph. |
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| I choose this photograph as I think it was one of the better ones for a front cover that I choose and I thought the framing's were right. |
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| Again, I choose this photograph as the framing's were right and it was one of the best options for the front cover. |
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| I choose this photograph as I think that it is more edgy than some of the other images that I took and it is similar to the cover of Land Del Rey, of who my magazine is based around. |
These are all of the potential front covers for my magazine, I decided to do this so that could then choose the one that I think is the best.
Photographs For Magazine
These are before and after shots of the make-up and hair I did for the photo shoot.
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