What to do now

After looking at other rock amgazine I had a rough idea of what i wanted the front page and content page to look like so i started to draw it out. i satrted with a simple idea then had to make a lot of changes because the layout was going to be very hard to design i also so search different types of font so i could use for the title and the text but would fit for the magazine. then started to choose what colours iam going to use i choose red, black and white as it related to rock and is easy to work from.

when i finshed that i started to take photos i know what pictures i was going to take by using differnet camera angles and taking them from different locations but with limited resources i had to take the photos from my room i asked my friend if i could use him as the model  i made him wear black and wore paint face to help give the image of him be a rock star i took around 10 to 15 pictures although a lot of them i coundnt be able to use.

Kerrang magazine cover, content page and double page spread

Kerrang is a rock magazine it provides you with all the latest news, bands and music. what Kerrang do so well is they grab the audience attention the most noteable method they use is making the text big so it easy for the reader to see it and show them what they want. They also use a mixture of photograph as it helps draw the audience in and gives you small information about the story.

The content page also uses the same theme lots of photo and text this helps the audience show what can be found at each page and make it easy for them to track a certain story.

On one of the pages they give an exclusive interview with the street fighters again they use a photo of the band and put the text around it they use a very simple layout but made very effectve as they only red, black and white making the text easy to read but stand out from the background

Research: 10/11^th December to end of term

1.    Collect some evidence of current music magazines: NME, Kerrang, Q

2.    Analyse how they construct meaning for their audience – Front page, contents, double page spreads

3.    Establish a set of rules (codes and conventions they use) / guide to creating a effective music magazine – for each page

4.    Keep a record of your research

Planning: Xmas holidays, for presentation to class 9^th January 2012

5.    Decide what type of music magazine you are going to design – what is the purpose of your magazine?

6.    Decide who is the audience (who is it aimed at?) – this will affect your design

7.    Draft sketch what you want on your front cover: colour, images, title, text, etc. – explain why (follow your rules)

8.    Draft ideal contents

9.    Photograph appropriate images for each page: stage a band / artist – consider locations, costume, props, makeup

10. Draft interview for double page spread – consider language used appropriate to genre and audience

11. Keep a record of your planning

Production: January 2012, for presentation 4/2/12

12.  Create your products using In Design

13. Record – as a diary / blog how you went about completing the task; discuss problems you encountered and how you dealt with them

14. Use an online production site to post your work and collect feedback

content page

last week lesson i started the content page for the school magazine i carried on the theme of the magazine by using the same style and colours, i thought this look good as it linked to front page. the only problem i had was deciding how i wanted the content page to look like but after looking at other magazine content page it gave me a rough idea. after two weeks of using indesign i feel that i have a got alot better using the program and feel more comfortable

school magazine cover

last week in media we created a school magazine cover. we had to create it in indesign as i have not used the program before i struggled at first but then soon got the hang of it, however it did not end up as i thought. the biggest problem was getting the picture in to frame as it was to big and looked stretched, i then started to add text this was also a problem because it had to be the right colour, size, and style.  

nintendo magazine cover

1.Nintendo is a gaming magazine it has been around for 5 years it first magazine was published 16 feburary 2006 and over the 5 years they have published 64 issues. official  nintendo magazine was created by furture pic they also create different magzine such as films, photography and technology.

2.the purpose of the magazine is to provide information about latest rumers, upcoming games, screenshot and reviews.

3.the magazine is aimed at people who play games and who are a fan of nintendo and it is also aimed at kids

4.The front cover makes the nintendo logo big and uses the colour white to stand out to appel to kids and a subtitle "skys the limit" linking to the pictue of zelda telling the targer audience what the magazine provides. at the top of the magazine it has a banner "offical nintendo magazine" and it also has text about other games.  

5.the content page shows what is provided in the magazine and what is on each page and helps split it up to help the audeince to find what tey are looking for. it also provide background information about the magazine sucah as who it was written by and other people that were involve with the magazine

6.the values of the magazine is telling you what games you should get and giving you information about the game before it is realised such as cheats, walkthrough and secret.

7.yes as it shows you what you want to see and what you would expexct from this magazine as the front cover appeals to anyone plays video games.

8.I have learnt making the magazine cover look simple works as this appeals to kids and show you everything you

9.this helps me so i can refer back to this when i need help and give me a guide to examine a magazine cover