Magazine design progress

This is the progress I have made when designing this cover as I had to use photoshop to remove the background and used the rubber and magic wanted tool to make sure that it looked as plain as possible so the image at the front would stand out. I tries to make the masthead cover the top of the page and made  the font much larger so that it instantly gave an impression on the audience. I have found it difficult to  find a way to place the sell lines in the correct position.Also , I know I have to reduce the amount of sell lines and make the remaining ones bigger.

I have also started work on the contents page as I tried to make similarities between this and the cover by using similar text . I tried to make it easy to navigate to a specific article that someone would want to read. To improve I will have to add the minimum of five images for my contents page and create one large image that stands our.I chose my fonts by using the website Dafont but struggled to find a way to position and write my text to the right scale and style that would suit the indie genre.

Magazine development

 

This is the front cover of my magazine that I am creating. To improve I have to obviously add the centre image and alter the masthead and other aspects of the magazine to complete the piece. I intended to get the general template and layout correct before I added the images, simply because structure is very important to a successful product.

As you can see , I have tried to add sell lines to make the design resemble typical; magazines and I made the masthead bold and in italics so it sticks out to the audience.

What I gained from viewing other work

What have I learned from looking at last years students work?

I have learnt how to position the sell lines or text in an effective way and gained ideas on how I want to represent or crete a suitable identity for it. I think this exercise inspired me to target the audience by using appropriate images and articles.Importantly looking a these examples made me aware of the mark ranges , and compare with how my own stands up.

How will I apply this to my own work?

I think that I could change my magazines set up and hopefully appear more original so it gains the attention from the younger Audience I am targeting.I have seen how the genre of music heavily influences what is included throughout a cover , contents page and double page spread.Its easy to see the difference in an low grade and a high grade here and I can now clearly see the work I have to do to achieve the better mark bands.


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Looking at past students work-Powtoon

Research into existing logos

This logo is successful because it is simple and memorable. The white letter contrasts against the red background to make this masthead standout against other contemporaries.

This econd logo is also strong as its capitals are bolder and larger in scale when compared to the rest of the cover.Overall, I prefer the Q logo as it is more concise and easy to remember for the audience.

This logo is smooth and slick , and this style is not as bold as NME or Q as its dance genre is considered more youthful. The font seems to have similarities to a DJ set , so the audience know what to expect instantly.

This logo seems to have  rough and battered effect which instantly lets us know that this is magazine covers extreme music. It seems to be a heavy metal magazine due to this effect. 

Album cover design

When I was making my double page spread , I tries to avoid hang blank space.I thought it would be a good idea to design an album cover for the artist I was interviewing , so I made this on Adobe Photoshop. I tried to design the cover with a futuristic and unique look.The shape tool helped me to create the robot in the centre and I used the text tool along the bottom.

Questionnaire results videos

These are my video footage of when I used my survey to find out about how I could make my video successful:

What I found out from the video footage:

I found out that most of the audience had not been to a festival , but would like to , so maybe I could arrange to have a competition to win some. As for genres , Indie was popular , which is helpful as this is what I have chosen for my own. It didn't seem that the audience was keen on the idea of music magazines and didm not buy them on a regular basis.

Colour scheme

I like this colour scheme and have chosen it because it is the typical colours of a magazine such as Q or NME  that I have took my inspiration on.It think that it looks mature and this resembles the music that is displayed inside the magazine as the black/grey allows the magazine to create a sepia effect which I like the style of and think that it gives it an old fashioned feature.