Music Magazine Contents Photo Shoot

These are the photos that I had taken for my contents page. I knew which pose I wanted to have him in, so I only took 2 photos. These are the photos that I had taken.

The first one I was very happy with, and I wasn't going to take anymore, because this is the ideal photo for my contents page. It is light, and he is doing the right pose that I wanted.

 This is the second picture that I had taken. After I had taken this one, I then preferred this one over the other one. This is because his head is slightly tilted, which gives more space to put on the contents page.

This is the image after I edited it in fireworks. I had removed the background using the tolerance tool and the rubber tool. At first, when I put this image on to the contents page, it had a white border around it, so I then had to edit it again from scratch.

Music Magazine Cover Photo Shoot

Before I started to create my music magazine front cover, I had to take pictures of a student for the front cover.

This is the first image of the student I had taken. As soon as I viewed this photo, I wasn't pleased with it, as it doesn't have enough light on it. I had realised that the flash wasn't on the camera, so I quickly discarded this picture from going on my front cover. Also, I wanted to have one of his legs up on the wall, but you can not see his legs in this photo, as I had only taken it with the camera on landscape.

This is the second image I had taken of the student. For this image, I think that the problem is opposite of the previous one, that this image has too much light, as apposed to not enough light, as I had turned the flash on the camera on. Also, because I want to show his leg up on the wall, you still can not see it, as I had taken the image in landscape again. This is the pose that I wanted, as I wanted to make him look like a professional R&B artist. However, I would have wanted his hand in his pocket, instead of resting on his waist.

Again, with this photo, I didn't put the flash on it, so it appears to be too dark. It also doesn't show his legs, which is what I wanted in the photo, as I wanted him to have his leg up on the wall. For this reason, I decided not to use it, as I thought that images I had taken were better than this one.

This is the final image that I had taken in the photo shoot for the front cover of the magazine. In order to show his leg up on the wall, I decided to take it with the camera in portrait. The pose that he is in, in my opinion, is the perfect pose for how i wanted it. The way he is standing is how a typical professional R&B artist would be on the front cover of a magazine, being in a typical "cool" sort of stance. However, if you look closely at the image, the outside of it is quite blurry. This is because as I took the picture, I moved the camera slightly.

This is the final, manipulated image that was going on the cover of my magazine. I had taken all of the background out, leaving just the main image of the student. I did this by using the tolerance tool, highlighting the area that I did not want, and deleting it. However, for the little bits, such as inbetween the spikes in his hair, I had to go around the image manually, deleting little bits of the background that I did not want, until I was happy with my image. Overall, I am pleased with the final image of my front cover. If I could have, I would have got him to wear a hoody, with he hood over his head. This, stereotypically, is the look of the common R&B artist today, and this is how they usually look on the cover of a music magazine.

Music Magazine Double-Page Planning

These are the ideas that I had came up with for my double-page spread. Again, I divided the page up into 4, and drew 4 separate designs. The one I prefer the most is the one on the top right. This is because I think that this is the most effective, and most professional one.

These are the 4 ideas that I had came up with.

This is a bigger version of the one I prefer the most. Again, it is fairly faint because I drew it out in pencil. It goes along with my audience feedback, with having 3 columns for stories, and 2 images.

Music Magazine Contents Planning

This is how I planned out my contents page. I divided an A4 bit of paper up into 4 secions, and thought of 4 ideas of how I wanted it to look.

Out of these 4 contents ideas, I preferred the bottom right one out of all of them. Again, this is similar to to the lay out of my contents page mock-up for my preliminary task, but I think that this one is the most professional.

This is a bigger version of my ideas, and this is the one I prefer out of them all. The image is quite faint because I used pencil to draw them. If I was going to do it again, I would go around them in pen.

Music Magazine Cover Planning

After gathering all of the audience feedback, I then had to plan what my front cover would look like. I started by drawing ideas on paper. These are the ideas that I came up with.

Out of these four ideas, I think that I like the top left one the best. Even though this is similar to the Preliminary magazine cover, I think that it is the most effective, and most professional idea for a magazine cover. It goes along with the audience feedback, with the main image taking up the majority of the page, the cover lines going over the top of the image, and the masthead being in the centre, and the middle of the page. This is a rough drawing of what my magazine cover is going to look like.

This is a bigger version of the previous drawing, it shows in more detail what I think my magazine front cover is going to look like.

Target Audience Research

This is the questionnaire in which I handed out to my class. I printed 15 questionnaires to get target audience research for my magazine front cover, contents and double-page spread. After I handed it out, I am going to show the results in the form of graphs, and then start creating my front cover, contents page and double-page spread while taking these into account. 

  

These are the results that I got after collecting in my questionnaire, from my target audience. From this, I will have an idea how my front cover, contents page and double-page spread will look like.

By receiving this result, I found out that 60% of people would like to have the image on the front cover take up the majority of the page. 

60% of people would like my magazine to have cover lines that go over the main image. This makes the magazine look more professional, as it is what the majority of magazines do nowadays.

More people thought that the masthead should go along the top, and in the centre of the magazine, than the top left, top right and along the side. This is also a common feature on magazines nowadays.

By asking the audience this question, I would find out whether they would like the name "Bass" for a music magazine. The majority of people thought that this was a good name, so I decided this was what my magazine was going to be called.

By looking at this, I see that I should only put 1 image on the contents page, as this is what the majority of people would like best.

By asking this question, I wanted to find out whether I should put the writing on the contents page in columns or not. The majority of people didn't think that they wanted columns on the contents page, so therefore I would not add columns to my contents page.

The majority of people would like the same style of font that is used on the front cover, to be used on the contents page. This would also make it more professional, and would create a house-style theme.

The majority of people would like to see 3 columns of writing on the double-page spread, meaning that there would be 3 columns of the interview. 



By reading this, it is obvious that the majority of people would like the see the same font that is on the front cover and contents page to be on the double-page spread.

This graph shows that nearly half of the people I asked thought that the orange, black, and blue colour is their favourite. This is the colour I will use for my magazine.

This shows that most of the people that I asked would like to see the colour scheme carry on through the front cover, contents page and double-page spread. This is a common characteristic of a magazine.

Music Magazine Double-Page Article Research

These are the music magazine articles that I had found for my research, and are the ones that I am going to analyse.

The thing that stands out the most on this double-page spread is the "Queen?" title, as it relates to the picture on the right. The fact that they have used a serif type font, it suggests that this magazine is quite exclusive. The blue of the question mark has came from the blue of her glasses, which is very effective, and is what most magazines do in their articles, or for any of their images. The main image is fairly unusual in the way that it is not in direct mode of address. Most magazines that feature images use a direct mode of address, making the person in the image look directly at the audience. In the middle of the text there is a quote, which again, is a fairly common characteristic in an article of a magazine.

This magazine article is unusual, in the way that the title is all different sizes. colour scheme is fairly dark, and doesn't have much colour in it at all, except the little bit under the title, which comes from the red of her top. She is in direct mode of address, which means that she is looking straight at the audience, which draws the audience in to buy the magazine, and read it. The writing is divided up in to four columns, which is also a common characteristic of a magazine. The writing goes over the centre of the page, which hides some of the writing, which could possibly make the audience misread the title. The font is also in a serif font, which suggests that the audience is fairly young compared to a magazine that uses a sans-serif type font.

This magazine double-page spread seems quite busy, like there is too much going on, which I don't want to do on my magazine double-page spread. the colour scheme is also quite busy, there are a lot of colours in this article, which suggests that the target audience is for a younger audience than the other articles I am analysing. The images also suggest this, by having fairly young kids in the top right, shows that the audience is fairly young. Also, because they are using a sans-serif type font, it shows that this article isn't necessarily directed at an older audience, and that it isn't as exclusive as the previous magazine that had a serif type font.

This image, as soon as you look at it, suggests that it is also from an exclusive magazine. This is because of the "got the love", and the fact that the D of the opening sentence is bigger than the rest of the text, and is also in a serif type font. There isn't much of a colour scheme on this article, apart from the red and white that she is sitting on, which may have came from the redness of her hair. As soon as you look at it, you get the impression that it is quite exclusive, due to the fonts, colours and font sizes.