Questionaire

In this lesson I created a questionnaire about contents pages.

Codes and Conventions of a double page spread

Image

• There is always a central image of who the people are that are being interviewed. 
• The place of the picture can vary. They are normally on the left hand side of the artical but occasionally can be on the left or bleeding the image across a couple of pages.

Text

• The text colours match the image also the magazine wants it took look oragnised and weel written.
• Want to intice the target audience and stand out.
• The text is an informal mode of adress. This is because formal is boring and the magazine wants to connect with the reader who will want to relax when reading it.
• The font size is size 11
• Also there is the same theme throughout the article

Page

• On each page there is a page number with the name of the magazine 
• the website address.
• The artists name is always highlighted and big to stand out. 

Headline

• The headline is bold and stands out.
• short and snappy
• Has crealt of the writer and photographer
• underneath there is a stand first above the article

Layout

• The article has 3/4 main colums
• drop qoutes

Analysing Contents page

In this lesson I used Prezi.com to make a analysis a contents page
Click the link below to watch:

Contents on Prezi

Magazine Analysis

Inital plans for my magazine

In this lesson after I analysised magazine front covers, I was told to make plans for my magazine:
These are my plans:

• Price - £2.50
• Freduency of publication - once of week
• Average issure size - 48 pages
• Ragular content - Gig dates, reviews and new songs
• Feature articles - Interviews with bands

Examples of Rock magazines

Kerrang:

This is my first example of a rock magainze i want to use.

This is the link for the website for Kerrang:

http://www.kerrang.com/

And this is the link for the picture that I got off the kerrang website:http://www.kerrang.com/blog/newissue/

This is my first example of a magazine:

Kerrang publishes 51 issues each year

Kerrang releases a new magazine every 7 days.

The price is around £2.20

It has regular content and feature articles of bands interviews

My second magazine I used to look at for the code and conventions was Rock sound.

This is also the type of magazine I want to create, in the same genre as Kerrang.

This is the link for their website for their magazine:

http://www.rocksound.tv/

and this is the link for the picture I got of an example magazine off their website:http://www.rocksound.tv/magazine/article/issue-140-october-10

This magazine is issue 140 on the 10th October.

The price of this magazine is £4.80 

My third magazine choice is 'NME'

The link for their website is:

http://www.nme.com/

This is also the link for the magazine front cover I choose:

http://www.nme.com/magazine

NME comes out every Wednesday

It costs £2.30

The regular and featured articles it is about Klaxons meeting God via drugs, Bombay Bicycle Club unsuccessfully busking in Ibiza, Jack White's war on the internet, Arcade Fire's financial woes, Liam Gallagher revealing his Beady Eye.

MAIN TASK - Initial ideas

This lesson I was told I now have to think of the genre and target audience for my magazine that I want. 
The genre of music magazine that I want to do is rock.
My target audience will be from the ages of 15 - 30. It will be targeted mostly for British teenagers and for both boys and girls. 

Evaluation

I am pleased with certain aspects of my magazine front cover and contents page. My magazine follows the conventions of a real magazine. I did this by looking at magazines that were well known before I did mine. Looking at the code and conventions of magazine’s that I would need to include on mine. Such as a bar code, price of the magazine, issue date, headlines etc. I also looked at the codes and conventions for a contents page. This gave me an idea of what I wanted my magazine to look like.

The media technologies I used to create this new media were learning to use Photoshop and QuarkXPress. Also I became more familiar using the cameras and what types of shots I needed for a conventional magazine. The shot I used was a medium close up, so you could see the top part of the girl and it was close and clear. This was because I had to enlarge it so it fit the magazine. 

My strengths of using the new media was I learnt it rather quickly and enjoyed editing my magazine, so I would teach myself some effects, which helped the outcome of my magazine. Also I think that I handled the camera shots well, as I had planned my magazine and knew what type of shot I wanted (medium close up) and the pose and type of girl (in school uniform) I wanted. I had never used QuarkXPress before, so that was completely new. However I enjoyed learning how to use QuarkXPress and after I had had an introduction I came to grips with it. 

My weaknesses for using the new media, was that I think I could have done better on my magazine if I had known more about the software I was using. However after I got used to it and experimented, it did help the outcome. But I would have liked longer to use the new media so I could have learnt more and made it even better. Also I think that when I used to cropping tools, I could have cropped her hair better as I think it looks a bit messy. However as I have not used Photoshop for a while everything seemed new again, so I had to start from the beginning. I feel that if I had more time to do my front cover and contents page it would have been a lot better. But I did spend a lot of my spare time correcting my magazine and I am overall happy with the my front cover and contents page.

Contents Page

In this lesson I learnt how to edit on QuarkXpress passport.
I then used this to make my contents page.

Magazine front cover

After 3 lessons I have completed my magazine
These are the steps I took to get my end result.

Editing my magazine

Now I had taken my pictures for my front cover and contents page, I know had to edit them to create my magazine.
These are the steps I took to create my magazine:

This is when I added my picture

I used the tool 'lasso' to cut the image out

I clicked the mouse with the plus sign on, to move my image onto the background

I used ctrl + t to resize my image onto my background to make it fit better

Here I used the blur tool to make her skin more even.

                                         

Here I changed the background using gradiant so it changed from purple to pink

I inserted an image of a barcode and cut it out, then dragged it onto the main image of the magazine

Here I inserted the mast head saying 'FAB' in an eye catching vibrant green, so it stands out

Image for my magazine and contents page

In this lesson I was told I needed to take a photograph for my magazine.
I had already made a draft of what I wanted it to look like so now all I had to do was find a picture that was similar or better than the draft I had drew.
I found a girl and gave her a folder like the one in my draft.

Also I got pictures for my contents page.