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Question 1

I wanted to make my magazine, so that it was under the stereotype of rock, but also to be different, and something that was original that you don't see in other magazines. Similarities are that the colors are intense and eye catching and this is what I wanted to create. The photos in these magazines, for front covers are mostly mid shots or close up. I chose to use a mid shot as it meant I could incorporate the guitar as a prop. The photos on these magazines are also quite dull and grungy, to add to the rock effect, so I did this by editing my photos to look dirty and dark instead of bright, this also meant that my text would stand out more. 
Differences are that I wanted my magazine to be dramatic. I was mainly comparing my magazine to Classic Rock the magazine, and they have subtle fonts, whereas I wanted them to be dramatic, and in association with rock, they needed to be almost angry. I chose to have unusual backdrops, that are eye catching and you are absorbed into it. 
I have found that my magazine is not similar to any other magazine I looked and therefore I have achieved the style and originality I wanted to create.

Final Magazine

Photo editing

With this photo, I straightened it, and also enhanced the colours, and turned that background black and white. I wanted the back ground to be black and white, as I thought that it would stand out more, and because the wall and guitar was the same colour, by removing the coloring from the wall, it meant that the guitar stood out more 

 With this image, I wanted the background to look dingy and dark. Firstly to make Olli look more eye-catching, but also because it fir with my genre. I also cut it down because i needed it to be portrait, but also because the other items in the room where distracting, and took off the focus off Olli.

 Again, with this photo, I wanted to remove distracting objects, and wanted to have the speakers, editing area etc visible. I made this image look darker and wanted to not make it not look so bright and colorful.  I also made on of the posters darker, as I wanted to put on text on top of this, as it would separate the main story from the others, but I wanted it also fit in with the continuity of that wall. By darkening the edges, it meant that the writing stood out more, and looked more intense.

 I saved these over the original images. But i edited these images to be dramatic and also quite mysterious. They where only small images, but I thought that they needed to be edited to a high quality for the best finish. They also needed to attract detail to the story they are advertising. The images where grainy, so I couldn't use them for my main images.

Development of Magazine

Band Logo Design

I wanted to create a band logo that was relevant. My band is called "The Lone Wolves". I wanted to do something original and eye caching. So I created a logo, and then started playing around with the look of it, like the different kinds of moons, and colour.  I chose the second one as I thought it was the most dramatic, but not over powering

My old designs and ideas that I changed

Plumtree

Hannah, there is a great sense of continuity on your work and you really carry your theme forward. Have you got ideas for the contents page to help fill in some of the blank spaces?

development of magazine

prezi planning

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Questionaire

Music Industry Questionnaire				Question answers
1	What gender are you?	Male		5
		Female		5
2	What age category are you in?	1-13		1
		13-21		4
		21-30		1
		30-40
		40-50		1
		50-60		3
		60-70
		70+
3	Are you currently subscribed to any music magazines?	Yes		6
		No		4
4	What music do you enjoy listening to?	Pop		3
		R&B		2
		Rap		1
		Rock		3
		Classical
		Opera
		Metal		1
		Dance
		Other….
5	Do you like keeping updated on the music industry?	Yes		8
		No		2
6	Do you enjoy reading about artists personal lives, or
	just the music aspect of it?	Personal lives		1
		Just music aspect		3
		Both		7
7	How much would you averagely spend on a music
	magazine?			Averaged between
				£2.00 and £5.50
	Hannah McGann

Plumtree

Hannah, look a the use of space on the music magazine front cover and how there is very little blank space. What can you learn from this if you compare it to your own front cover?

Contents and double page

Front cover analysis

Evaluation of Preliminary task

Did you plan your magazine? If not, what have you learnt about the importance about planning and research?

I knew roughly what I was going to do for this task, but didn’t have an actual plan. This meant that I spent a lot of time changing things and trying to make everything look better, where a plan would of mean that I would of don’t the job a lot quicker.

What technology did you use to complete the task and how did you use it?

I used serif-pageplusx9. This made it very easy to create my front cover and contents. I was able to easy add text, boarders, photos and logos and arrange them to exactly how I wanted them. I used PhotoPlusx8 to edit my photo, which was easy to use, and meant that I could make the photo look good enough quality to be in the front of my magazine. I removed the background of my picture, and changed the contrast and brightness, and also made the photo black and white.

Did you encounter and difficulties? If so, what where they and how did you overcome them?

It was quite hard to get a good finish on the photo, as I didn’t want the edge to be so sharp that it looked fake, but I also had to keep the shape of her face, so that it looked real.

How successful was your magazine? Please identify what worked well an in hindsight, what would you improve/do differently?

I was overall quite happy with my magazine front cover, and it worked out better that I thought it would. I made all the colours coordinated with the Edgbarrow logo, which didn’t look too bad, and the photo

How successful was your magazine? Please identify what worked well, and with hindsight, what would you improve/do differently?

I quite liked the colour scheme and the name of my magazine, as I thought that the black, white, red and green. I think that because they were the same colour as the school logo, it worked quite well. I liked the name as well as I think it worked quite well.

What have you learnt from completing this task? Looking ahead, how will this learning be significant when completing the rest of your foundation coursework, do you think?

I have learnt a good way to set up my magazine now, and have an appreciation of too much, too little, the style and that all the features of the magazine (such as text, colour, logo, photo) are all relevant to make a high standard looking magazine 

Preliminary Task Magazine