magazine website

I made a website on wix.com for my magazine with music from soundcloud and youtube as well as stories that will interest people that buy my magazine, more competitions, a shop to buy merchandise, subscribe to the magazine and contact the editors of the magazine.

evaluation question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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evaluation question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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evaluation question 3 - what kind of media institution might distribute your product?

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evaluation question 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

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evaluation question 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

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evaluation question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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Evaluation question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

The top-left image is a final product of a perfume advert that i made as my preliminary task for media. The top-right image is my final front cover for a college magazine I made for media before starting on my music magazine. the bottom image shows how far I have come with Photoshop and magazine designing. In my music magazine I used fonts from websites such as fontspace and cooltext whereas in my college magazine I used only fonts that were available to use on Photoshop so it looks more plain than my music magazine.

my music magazine survey

at the top of the page on my blog I put a poll to see how often people bought music magazines. This was to see if i had made the right decision by making my magazine a weekly magazine. From the votes I can clearly see that wekkly was the most popular answer so it was the right choice to make.

Final: Front cover, Contents page and Double page spread

DPS

The inspiration for my "ALT LOVES" on my double page spread came from this article from NME. The article also inspired the layout of my double page spread as before seeing this, i was planning on having just one image on the right page that could be removed and used as an A4 poster for the audience. The strip down the right of the right page made me think to put a seperate item down the side of my page to look more realistic. Where the 'radar' sign is ion the NME page i was thinking of putting another pull quote because the image looks plain and a bit boring in that corner so i thought that a pull quote or another (smaller) image would liven up the page. I need to write more for the review on my double page spreadto fill the dark blue area. The main image for the NME DPS is a clever reprisentation of stereotypical teenagers because the band featured is called 'The Teenagers' which was a dificult task for me to replicate because my featured band is called The Shands so i just used what i thought was the best image that i had taken in my photo shoot in November/December.

Teacher feedback - contents page

This contents page is very good, It look very professional and I like the colours are very conventional as they  match your front cover. The pull quotes and competitions are very grabbing and would definitely appeal to your selected target audience.

My only criticism would be that there is a fair bit of space that is wasted in the section of what's going to be in your magazine. I would have made the text much bolder and grabbing for your audience so they are automatically pulled into reading what going to be in your magazine - this would also make them want to buy it if the stories were interesting.

Ben Naylor.

Peer assessment - contents page

The colors used are consistent and it carries a theme throughout the whole of the contents page, with the use of the colors red, black, and white. The images used look professional and are well placed around the contents page. The fonts used look good and again are consistently used, ensuring that none of the text looks out of place. To improve this you could maybe add more images, but apart from this it is a very professional looking contents page.

double page spread drafting

Possible fonts for my double page spread title

I tried using fonts on Publisher but I realised that most of the fonts available were very similar so I decided to used Fontspace.com to write 'The Shands' and these are the best six that I found.

Double page spread - 2nd draft

Final front cover

Double page spread - first draft

DPS

·         Export as PNG file to make background transparent

·         More pages – A3 (landscape)

·         Ruler – 21CM to split page

·         Columns

·         Insert picture – PNG – text wrap – edit wrap points

·         format (text tools) – drop cap

Peer assessment - Azra Tiric

In regards to your front cover consider;

- Cooltext.com to change the font name, more simplified.

-Change it navy

-Include more pictures

- editing the cover photo

too much of the same font can dull it, include variety, or print screen into PhotoShop and use magic wand tool and then select similar to add a wash, blue maybe? ( turn opacity down).

 

Hope this helps :)

Drawn draft of my front cover

before starting to take photos and edit together my magazine front cover i drew up a draft of what i wanted my cover to look like. I initially wanted to use a female model, that looked like Amy Winehouse and planned on using "NMR" as the title. After making my front cover i have changed both of these things as i used a male model and named my magazine "ALT".

contents page - further drafts

Front cover - re-draft

conventionally, long shots aren't used for the front cover images of music magazine however i thought that this looked a lot better than the drafts with mid shots. Kerrang! use long shots for their covers quite a lot too so it isn't completely alien. The guitar and new font for the mast head also helps to make my chosen genre more obvious than before.

Contents page - second draft

Contents page first draft

RMP Magazine

RMP magazine is a free, monthly, downloadable PDF file magazine for rock, metal and punk bands. I found out about RMP magazine when they followed me on twitter which is quite a popular way of starting companies and bands to gain recognition which i will take into consideration when it comes to promoting my magazine. 

http://www.rock-metal-punk.org/rmp-magazine

Masthead fonts

after receiving feedback on my initial front cover, i decided that i needed to change my masthead immediatley before carrying on making my contents page because i was planning on using the masthead design somewhere on my contents page. I looked through around 200 font designs on fontspace and decided that I liked these fonts the most.

 I tried 'NMR' which was my first idea for the title (but decided not to use it because it was too similar to 'NME') to see what it would look like and i think that 'ALT' looks better so i will still use ALT as my magazine title.

My final front cover

Self assessment

After reading through my peer feedback, i have seen that a recurring issue is that the image i used doesnt look like it is dor a music magazine. To fix this i will try to edit the image to make it look more like it is supposed to be part of a music magazine.

Peer Feedback

Joe Bryant

Your blog is really good and full of photos and vidoes rather than just broing text which is good. Everything you've uploaded you've explain why's it's good or not so good. Also you've used different types of things such as prezzies and you tube videos to explain how you want your magazine to look.

Your music magazine is good as the three colours work really well together however there are a few blank spaces where you could put in some more things to make your magazine look more lively. Also you could add a footer to include more conventions to your front cover. Also your masthead needs to be bigger and needs to stand out more.

Peer feedback

Louise Hudson
Your blog as a whole is really great but I've noticed that all of your drafts look incredibly similar and this shows lack of progress. Sounds harsh, but its true.

Apart from that, your drafts are great, I feel they need a little more differentiation to each other, this is achievable by changing fonts, using different images and rearranging the layout.

peer feedback

Thomas Powers your blog is well laid out and you have thought well about the positioning of things in it. Your front covers are well designed and you have thought well about ideas and changes. the only things I think may be wrong with your front cover is that you have not made many noticeable changes between all of your drafts.

Peer feedback

Sophie Griffiths This is a really good blog, filled with plenty of ideas to explore. The choice of your own videos which you have added help to enhance the predicaments of creating your final front cover. There are good slide-shows of prezi's for example, which create a more fun way of looking through the designs, which you made for your cover. The background of the blog on a whole, helps to stand out with the written writing. Strengths of the blog, are all really good, the colours are good, and you have followed the conventions really good too. Areas of development, i would say again your front cover image needs to look as if it is for a music magazine. Other than that it all is pretty good.

Peer Feed back: Sarah Vause

Overall assesment of blog: I like the way you have included a variation of different ways of presenting your work: slides, Youtube videos, prezi's etc. It makes your blog far more interesting. Strangths of front cover: I love the font types which have being usedand you haven't used too many colours which is good, following conventions. Areas of development for front cover: I think possibley your main image needs to look like it is for a music magazine. Also I think your masthead is looks a little oddly placed perhaps reposition it more towards the top left of the cover.