Music Magazine - Final Product

Front Page

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

Lesson 23 - Music Magazine Details

My music magazine will be called "vibe". I have chosen this because of the link/connotations with the word "music" and it sounds like something new and vibrant. My magazine will cost £2.99. The audience of my music magazine will be both male & female aged from 16+ in category C1DE in society. They will be interested in popular music and also new technology. Technology will play a big part of their life.   I have chosen to have a background colour of light blue on the front cover and a white background for the contents page and double page spread.

Next I would like to talk about who would publish my music magazine. The publishing company whom I would like to publish my magazine will be IPC. This is because they have more of a share in the market with women and men. I think that my music magazine will fit in the place in the IPC market. IPC's offers a range of media products and I think my music magazine will offer something new to people in the market; making the market more diverse.

Lesson 22 - Music Magazine Images (Before & After)

Over the past couple of weeks I have been in the process of creating my music magazine consisting of my front cover, contents page and double page spread. In this post I will be taking you through the images that I have used on my music magazine in which I have changed. I will be showing a before and after screenshot of the images.

This is one image that I have used on my music magazine. This is the image before I have modified it.

This is the image after the modifications. As you can see I have cropped the image so that the person within the image is the main focus.

 This is another image that I have used on my music magazine. This is the before screenshot.

As you can see I have made the image smaller so that I was able to have it on my contents page. I have increased the saturation on this image so that it sticks out on my contents page.

 This is a third image that I have used on my music magazine. This is the before screenshot

This after screenshot. I have used the lasso tool in Photoshop to cut around the image and used a feather rating of 20 so that around the outside of the image there is a bright light/glow. This then makes the image stand out and means the audience will be immediately drawn to the image.

This is a 4th image that I have used on my music magazine double page spread. This is the before aftershot.

This is the image after the modifications. As you can see I have cropped the image and have also increased the saturation of the image so that the image is more of a professional standard and to also emphasise how popular the artist is.

This is the last image that I have on my music magazine. This is the before screenshot.

This is the image after the modifications. As you can see I have again used the lasso tool to cut the image out to be left with the head of the person. I have done this because I wanted the audience to be drawn to this image and so that the interview is being spoken by the artist when they are reading.



Lesson 22 - Analysis Of 3 Contents Pages

In today’s lesson I analysed 3 music magazine contents pages. The magazines I analysed were Kerrang - weekly, Mixmag- Monthly , Q - Monthly. I first had to analyse shared conventions between the three music magazines. On all three of the music magazines I found that large images were used in order tot grab the readers attention and grasp them into reading the magazine. I also found that throughout the music magazines the contents were spilt into different groups such as regulars, new features etc. This makes it easier for the audience to find what they want to read in the magazine. In all three magazines the numbers of the pages were placed next to the text. I did find that bold font was used a lot on the contents pages. This bold font was used on the title and masthead to make it stand out. What i did find is that all three of the magazines had the contents in column form to make it much easier to read and so that it is presented well.

The obvious facts I noticed about the three magazines is that there is only a editors note on the Kerrang weekly magazine. I also noticed that there is always a use of a large image on the contents page making it stand out to the audience. Again all three of the magazines have used bold font along with no numerical order of contents.

What i noticed that I hadn't noticed before are the use of many images on the contents page. I found that on all of the magazines that there were more images that I expected. I have also noticed that on all three of the contents pages there is always one main image that the audience will be drawn to, to stand out amongst the rest of the contents page. Lastly, what I didn’t expect was that there was only an editor’s note on the weekly music magazines.

This research has made me think more about the design and the conventions that i will be using on my contents page. This research has made me think that i need to include more images on my contents page so that it gives it that professional finish and a more of an interesting design. I will also like to include a large image on the contents page so that the audience are immediately drawn to it. Lastly, I will be using bolder font on the contents page to make the text easier to read and keep with the house style.

Lesson 21 - Creating Music Magazine

In today's lesson I started to create the front page of my music magazine. I started by inserting a background colour with an image that I have taken for the front page. I have inserted my masthead, selling line, date line and inducement on my front cover. I will next finish off the front cover and start to get to work on my contents and double page spread. I will be uploading images that I have edited shortly.

Lesson 20 - Images of Mock Up Front Cover

Front Page - A3

Front Page - A4

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

As you can see these are the outlined drawings of the 1st mock up of my magazine. The magazine will be called Vibe and will be focusing on the genre of Pop/Rock. The Magazine will be a monthly magazine costing £2.99 because I liked how the monthly magazines I analysed went into far more depth than the weekly magazines. The magazine will be aimed at people who are aged 16 and over of both genders. It will be aimed at people in group D and E which are people who are unemployed or at the lower end of the spectrum in work terms. I’m sure that when it comes to designing my magazine on Photoshop some of the features will have to change to adjust to Photoshop’s available features.