Diary Entry week Nine

This week was my final week for making changes to my peice for the deadline on thursday at 5pm, i added a sticker image on the front which highglighted a free item i felt this would draw readers to by the magazine due to it being something free. I also had to change the colour of some of the text on my front cover as some was hiden by the brightness of the photo. On my contents page i totally changed the photo and i feel this one works better and fills the part nicely. Finally i changed the background colour of my photo on my double page spread to make it stand out better and edited better to make sure it wasn't orange or too dark.

Diary Entry Week Eight

I re took my photos for my magazine, it was quite hard as i wanted to get different backgrounds, however when taking the photos the sun was either too bright making the image not stand out at all or the wind was blowing too much. So since my pictures were unsuccessful i kept the image on my double page spread however i re edited it to make it look less dark and orange. However one of my images went right and the brightness was good for what i wanted it to be like on my front page as it made me text stand out just how i wanted it too

Diary entry week Seven

I received feedback from my class which helped me decide what i needed to change and they also told me what they liked about my peice. This was good and helped alot as everyone looks at something differently. From this is i decided the image on my front cover was too dull and made my text not stand out so i chose to definatly retake this photograph as i wanted to keep my colour scheme

FRONT COVER FINAL

FINAL CONTENTS PAGE

FINAL DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

Feedback

For the front cover the feedback I was given about my front cover, it was brought to my attention that my front cover strap line was too big- so I plan to decrease the size of the black strap band and make it not take up too much room. For my rough cut it has been highlighted that I didn’t have a price, issue number and date on my front cover. So I am going to include this when I change my front cover as these are all typical code and conventions that need to be on a front cover.

It was stated that my name of my magazine and the font chosen for ‘exclusive’ was successful so I don’t plan to change either of these when doing my final front cover.

However it was said that my photo shown on my front cover was attention grabbing and the colour scheme was good. But one thing I plan to change is the picture and make it brighter because someone stated that some of my writing was hard to read, but I feel that if I was too change my photo and make it brighter then the text would stand out more as I do not want to change my colour scheme as I feel all the colours work well together.

For my contents page the feedback I was given was that the background of my photo was unprofessional I agree with this and I am going to retake the photo and make sure the white sheet is not seen, I still plan to have a plain background which is already on the back of my contents page but I am going to cut the model out using photo shop so it doesn’t look so unprofessional I am also going to make sure that the image is not too dark and you can see it more clearly. Finally I am going to check my font sizes to make sure they are all the same as somebody wrote that they looked as if they varied so I am going to change it so they don’t contrast.

Things that were successful on my contents page were the layout as it was said to be ‘strong’ and that the text was clear so I am not going to change either of these. However I am going to change it slightly to make the page more interesting by getting a better image for the page instead of something so simple.   

For my double page spread feedback I forgot to put the page numbers on which is a typical code and convention so I am going to make sure that this is put on. It was also said that my image was too dark with an orange tone and there were shiny patches on my model, so when I re take my photos I am going to make sure I don’t edit it to make it look as dark and make sure I edit all shiny patches to make it look professional. Also it was said that the introduction could be in a larger font so it stands out more so I am going to take on board this to and change it to a larger font so you can see it more clearly against the columns of writing. Finally I am going to include a picture caption as this is what normally what is shown on the photo in a music magazine.

However it was said that my layout and font was good for the artist’s name, and that the pose and mis en scene was successful for my photograph so I do not plan to change either of these things. But to break up the columns of writing on my double page spread I am going to include purple lines. 

Photograph Planning Grid

ROUGH CUTS DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

ROUGH CUT CONTENTS PAGE

ROUGH CUTS

Diary entry week six

After handing in my rough cuts i decided i would re take the photos i had used so i could vary in location, mis en scene and the actual camera angle. All photos had no particular background so by doing this it would vary the scene of the photograph and also change the lighting. I am also going to going to decide on a different photo for my contents as i feel this one didn't work as well as i wanted it too.

Diary Entry Five

I decided against the idea of using 'The Saturdays' for the cover and double page spread because i thought having 5 people on the front cover would be too much and i thought it would look much more effective if it was just focused on one person. So i decided to base my music magazine on 'Kesha', i have also decided to change the colour scheme and base my magazine on 'Vibe'. This was more to my style and i could vary the colours i wanted to use as they use different colours every week. So i chose to use purple as this colour was subtle and was not too girly like pink would look.

I took photos of Melissa modeling being 'Kesha' i googled photos of her to decide on what pose and mis en scene she needed to have:  

Diary entry four

From doing my market research i now know exactly what i want to take forward to my magazine, i am going to create a magazine for teenagers who are interested in mainstream/chart music. I chose to do this because it appeals to a wider range of audience instead of just sticking to one pecific genre. I am going to focus my magazine on girl band 'The saturdays' as i think they would be appealing on a front cover for my type of magazine and the photos would look good. The colour scheme i am going to do is Red and black as my style model is Q