Examples

Here are just a few examples of some contents and double page spreads.These are going to give a rough idea on how i am going to creat my contents and double page spread, and also act as a rough guideline.

Pictures

Hopefully in a few days i will have started taking pictures for my main task, which is to produce a music magazine.
All pictures MUST be and WILL be my own pictures, taken by myself.
I am also going to upload some examples of double page spreads and contents page so i can use them as rough guidelines.

general blogging and update

Just an update on my ideas regarding the main task for this year's media project.I am still in the process of sorting out the people i am using for my pictures and arranging a day to take the picture, after this i will upload them to the blog. So i will hopefully start snapping away with the camera soon.
Another aspect of the task is the front cover. I want my cover to be in some ways similiar to the covers i found on the internet, as I found these covers the most attracting out of the ones that came up. Well thats it for now. Goodbye :)

Evaluation of preliminary task

A bit late but here is my eveluation for my preliminary exericise. For this we had to answer seven question regarding the final cover for our college magazine.
Here is a brief evaluation

I think my preliminary project follows the basic format of how a college magazine cover would look realistically, as the picture’s aim is to reflect the purpose of the magazine. The picture used for the front cover establishes a group of typical teenagers looking studious, with the picture being the cover and background for the magazine. I think the picture used for the cover would be a picture represented for a college magazine cover.

I attracted and addressed my audience by using the picture I thought best reflected the college atmosphere and environment, and also the one that stood out and had more appeal. The picture used features the students (Rachael and Vicky) portraying happy and hard working the students, giving the impression that they are happy to be at college, creating the general idea that the college is a happy and hard working atmosphere.

My target audience for the magazine would be students and staff of the college, and also parents and school pupils, who may consider the option of going to college. The price for the magazine was low and to some extent probably as accurate as a price for a college magazine would be in real life.

During my first draft of the cover, I noticed some aspects that I could alter in order for the magazine to look more professional and stand out. For instance, due to the background of the picture, it made the top sub-heading difficult to read, therefore by changing the style and making the text bolder and bigger, it made it easier to read. Also there was a lot of space below the title, so by moving the price number from the top right corner to underneath the issue number, I changed the size of the title, before stretching it to fill the remaining space left.

I think from this task I have gained some knowledge and grasp on how to use Desktop Publisher, which will be the basic guideline when I come to do my music magazine.

Research on Music Magazines

Here are some magazine covers and how i would like mine to look. In the pictures the picture also serves as the covers background, which like my college magazine, is how i am going to do the front cover for my music magazine. Also the writing on the front cover is either at the side of picture, avoiding going across the image, whereas on the other front covers the writing is below the image, giving it some style and class.

Plans for Music Magazine (Main Task)

Now i have started to get down some ideas of how i want my music magazine to look and also what it would feature inside. these include:
Medium Close up.
Contents Page.
Interviews.
Images (must be Own pictures).
Double page spread.
Background layout- Colours (Vibrants, colours that stand out)
Texture.
Title of the magazine.
Number issue.
Front cover of the magazine.
Issue Number.
Price.

Update!! and final cover!!!

By now i will have hopefully finished my preliminary exercise and have produced my front cover by friday, with an evaluation as well.
Finally after making alterations to the first draft of the magazine, this is how my college magazine will look. I decided to make the writing inside the top sub-heading bigger and bolder and used a different style of font so it would be easier to read. I also stretched the title ot fill up the remaining space and moved the price beneath the issue number so there could be more space for the title to be stretched.
Here it is!!

2nd Version of College Magazine!!

This is a 2nd version of the cover for my magazine, with alterations.
I decided to move the title of my magazine to the right side of the magazine and enlarged it so it filled out the space below.I also moved the price of the magazine from the right top corner to underdeath the issue number, to allow me to fill out the rest of the space. The top sub-heading is also bigger and in a different style to the rest of the sub headings, as the background made it difficult to read it, whereas the other two were easy to read.