Friday, 23 April 2010
Friday, 26 March 2010
moodboard
I had difficulty making my front cover, so I made a mood board collage of typical rock magazine front covers, so i could see their conventions.
completed.
this was my finished double page spread, but I wasnt too happy with it so i made a couple of very small changes
this is the final completed version of my double page spread.
Thursday, 25 March 2010
evaluation
Media Evaluation
Courtney Rayner
Word count: 1,354
For my coursework I had to produce a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a music magazine. The magazine had to include images that I took myself with a digital camera and edited myself in Adobe Photoshop. I produced the majority of the magazine in Photoshop and Microsoft Publisher.I planned my magazine to be a typical music magazine, similar to Kerrang!, Rolling Stone and Q magazines. I planned my target audience to be about 60% male, (although with features aimed at both sexes) aged around 16-25 and interested in the general rock music scene. I wanted my magazine to cost around £2.50 so that I knew that my readership would generally be from middle income households, considering that it would be a weekly magazine. I decided that my front cover would be similar to the typical rock magazines I had studied, with a large masthead and a main image of one band or artist, and dark colours to give it a grungy feel. I planned to have both my front cover and contents page quite cluttered, and full of big, bold, block lettering to give the impression that the magazine was packed full of exciting things. I wanted the double page spread to be slightly less busy but still have a big impact, with key quotes from the interview scattered around the page, which would make the audience more interested to take time and read it.
After the initial planning stage I shot the photos for my magazine. I used a teenage girl, who was portray a young woman and because the interview story was about her breakdown, I made her pose vulnerably and upset. I also took photos of her holding a white mask to go along with my sub heading quote from the interview "I'm tired of hiding behind a mask" I took photos of her with her back to me, looking over her shoulder to symbolise her still looking back into the past, and I took mid-shot photos of her on her knees so that I was at a high angle and this would enhance the feel of vulnerability. I took about 6 or 7 photos for my magazine, I didn't feel that I needed any more because I was very happy with the ones I took. After I had taken the photos, I moved onto the next stage of planning and made several mock ups of my pieces in Microsoft Publisher, deciding how I would go about putting them together. I also made mood boards of things that might be in a rock magazine, such as guitars, audiences at gigs and tattooed rock stars.
After I had finished planning and researching, I moved on to creating the front cover for my magazine. I decided to call it 'MELO' because melophobia is the fear of music and I liked the sense of irony. I used a font from the website 'cool-fonts.com' because I didn't think I could find a pre-installed one with the look I wanted, which was very big, bold and messy. I used the magic wand and polygonal lasso tools in Adobe Photoshop to get rid of everything but the model, giving my photo a white background so that the image would stand out a lot more on my front cover. I put a list of popular bands on the right hand side, giving my readership the idea that there was a lot of features including these bands inside my magazine. I added ‘AND MORE!’ at the bottom of the list to show that there is plenty more interesting features inside my magazine. I used a large masthead stating 'JESSICA COMEBACK EXCLUSIVE’. I used block capitals and a screaming headline to grab audiences attention. I also used the word 'EXCLUSIVE', because people are automatically attracted to the idea that the magazine gets every feature first. I filled up the space left on the front page with tellers, and a skyline, with the I put the barcode at the bottom of the page, but the price at the top, which is unusual for the type of magazine that I was stereotypically aiming for, but I believed that it looked more effective where it was, because it would be too cluttered and unprofessional where it was. I put a competition on my front cover, advertising that you could ‘win Download 2010 tickets’ because I know that the idea of competitions and free things entices people, and the Download Festival is very a popular event for the target audience I was aiming to sell to. My front cover was in messy, block capitals and looked authentic compared to stereotypical rock magazine front covers so I had achieved my aim.I found the contents page the easiest part of the coursework. I used Microsoft Publisher to create it, and made a thick black border around the edge of the page to make it look more professional. I had four pictures in a square shape on the left side of the page and an editors note underneath it. I used the Garamond font in all of my writing, except for my signature, the words 'Editor In Chief' for the editors note, 'Exclusives this week' and the masthead 'CONTENTS PAGE' at the top. For these fonts I used the website 'cool-fonts.com' again, because I could choose from a larger array of fonts, and I could get the messy, grungy fonts that I wanted. I put the 'Melo Magazine' logo at the bottom of the page as I have seen this as a footnote in a lot of the magazines that I researched. I categorised my list of contents under bold subheadings like ‘features’ and ‘every week’ that I had seen directly from Kerrang! Magazine, and I thought looked effective as it is organised and therefore makes easier reading for the audience. I used a real photograph of an artist at a gig to make my page look more authentic.
My double page spread was probably the most difficult one to do personally, because I hadn't done anything like it before. I made the double page spread on Microsoft Publisher and only used Adobe Photoshop to edit the images. First I wrote the interview that I was going to present, and then I edited two of the photos that I had taken previously, and put one on each page. I placed the text around the photos in column style that I had seen typically in most magazines, and placed key quotes from the interview next to the photos in large bold font. I got the font from my masthead in cool-fonts.com and made it so big that the masthead quote took up two lines at the top of the page. When writing the interview, I made sure that I made it sound as true to life as I had read in magazines, using the correct terminology and things like (pause) and (starts to cry) which gives the reader an insight into what's happening in the actual interview. I put page numbers in the corner of each page to make it look more professional.
By making this magazine I have learnt that planning is essential to a project like this and research makes your finished result a lot more authentic and correctly detailed. The preliminary task gave me a general idea of how to go about making a magazine and gave me experience in using programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Publisher.
My magazine had a basic monotone colour scheme with an occasional splash of colour which I think was ideal to attract my target audience of 16-25 years olds who like rock music. I think my magazine would be distributed with an institution like Bauer Media which specialises in magazines. I used my blog to keep a record of my progress and research so I could come back to it when I needed to. I think I managed to reach my aims of attracting my target audience and achieving the ideas I had in my head at the beginning of the planning stage back in November 08.
Courtney Rayner
Word count: 1,354
For my coursework I had to produce a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a music magazine. The magazine had to include images that I took myself with a digital camera and edited myself in Adobe Photoshop. I produced the majority of the magazine in Photoshop and Microsoft Publisher.I planned my magazine to be a typical music magazine, similar to Kerrang!, Rolling Stone and Q magazines. I planned my target audience to be about 60% male, (although with features aimed at both sexes) aged around 16-25 and interested in the general rock music scene. I wanted my magazine to cost around £2.50 so that I knew that my readership would generally be from middle income households, considering that it would be a weekly magazine. I decided that my front cover would be similar to the typical rock magazines I had studied, with a large masthead and a main image of one band or artist, and dark colours to give it a grungy feel. I planned to have both my front cover and contents page quite cluttered, and full of big, bold, block lettering to give the impression that the magazine was packed full of exciting things. I wanted the double page spread to be slightly less busy but still have a big impact, with key quotes from the interview scattered around the page, which would make the audience more interested to take time and read it.
After the initial planning stage I shot the photos for my magazine. I used a teenage girl, who was portray a young woman and because the interview story was about her breakdown, I made her pose vulnerably and upset. I also took photos of her holding a white mask to go along with my sub heading quote from the interview "I'm tired of hiding behind a mask" I took photos of her with her back to me, looking over her shoulder to symbolise her still looking back into the past, and I took mid-shot photos of her on her knees so that I was at a high angle and this would enhance the feel of vulnerability. I took about 6 or 7 photos for my magazine, I didn't feel that I needed any more because I was very happy with the ones I took. After I had taken the photos, I moved onto the next stage of planning and made several mock ups of my pieces in Microsoft Publisher, deciding how I would go about putting them together. I also made mood boards of things that might be in a rock magazine, such as guitars, audiences at gigs and tattooed rock stars.
After I had finished planning and researching, I moved on to creating the front cover for my magazine. I decided to call it 'MELO' because melophobia is the fear of music and I liked the sense of irony. I used a font from the website 'cool-fonts.com' because I didn't think I could find a pre-installed one with the look I wanted, which was very big, bold and messy. I used the magic wand and polygonal lasso tools in Adobe Photoshop to get rid of everything but the model, giving my photo a white background so that the image would stand out a lot more on my front cover. I put a list of popular bands on the right hand side, giving my readership the idea that there was a lot of features including these bands inside my magazine. I added ‘AND MORE!’ at the bottom of the list to show that there is plenty more interesting features inside my magazine. I used a large masthead stating 'JESSICA COMEBACK EXCLUSIVE’. I used block capitals and a screaming headline to grab audiences attention. I also used the word 'EXCLUSIVE', because people are automatically attracted to the idea that the magazine gets every feature first. I filled up the space left on the front page with tellers, and a skyline, with the I put the barcode at the bottom of the page, but the price at the top, which is unusual for the type of magazine that I was stereotypically aiming for, but I believed that it looked more effective where it was, because it would be too cluttered and unprofessional where it was. I put a competition on my front cover, advertising that you could ‘win Download 2010 tickets’ because I know that the idea of competitions and free things entices people, and the Download Festival is very a popular event for the target audience I was aiming to sell to. My front cover was in messy, block capitals and looked authentic compared to stereotypical rock magazine front covers so I had achieved my aim.I found the contents page the easiest part of the coursework. I used Microsoft Publisher to create it, and made a thick black border around the edge of the page to make it look more professional. I had four pictures in a square shape on the left side of the page and an editors note underneath it. I used the Garamond font in all of my writing, except for my signature, the words 'Editor In Chief' for the editors note, 'Exclusives this week' and the masthead 'CONTENTS PAGE' at the top. For these fonts I used the website 'cool-fonts.com' again, because I could choose from a larger array of fonts, and I could get the messy, grungy fonts that I wanted. I put the 'Melo Magazine' logo at the bottom of the page as I have seen this as a footnote in a lot of the magazines that I researched. I categorised my list of contents under bold subheadings like ‘features’ and ‘every week’ that I had seen directly from Kerrang! Magazine, and I thought looked effective as it is organised and therefore makes easier reading for the audience. I used a real photograph of an artist at a gig to make my page look more authentic.
My double page spread was probably the most difficult one to do personally, because I hadn't done anything like it before. I made the double page spread on Microsoft Publisher and only used Adobe Photoshop to edit the images. First I wrote the interview that I was going to present, and then I edited two of the photos that I had taken previously, and put one on each page. I placed the text around the photos in column style that I had seen typically in most magazines, and placed key quotes from the interview next to the photos in large bold font. I got the font from my masthead in cool-fonts.com and made it so big that the masthead quote took up two lines at the top of the page. When writing the interview, I made sure that I made it sound as true to life as I had read in magazines, using the correct terminology and things like (pause) and (starts to cry) which gives the reader an insight into what's happening in the actual interview. I put page numbers in the corner of each page to make it look more professional.
By making this magazine I have learnt that planning is essential to a project like this and research makes your finished result a lot more authentic and correctly detailed. The preliminary task gave me a general idea of how to go about making a magazine and gave me experience in using programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Publisher.
My magazine had a basic monotone colour scheme with an occasional splash of colour which I think was ideal to attract my target audience of 16-25 years olds who like rock music. I think my magazine would be distributed with an institution like Bauer Media which specialises in magazines. I used my blog to keep a record of my progress and research so I could come back to it when I needed to. I think I managed to reach my aims of attracting my target audience and achieving the ideas I had in my head at the beginning of the planning stage back in November 08.
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Friday, 11 December 2009
my logo.
like kerrang!, I used harsh black fonts, and chose the name melo, as a shortened verison of the word melophobia, which is the fear of music.
Monday, 7 December 2009
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