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PRELIMINARY TASK : Using DTP and an image manipulation programme produce the front page of a new school/college magazine featuring the student in a medium close-up plus some appropiately laid out text and a masthead. Additonally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.

MAIN TASK : The front page, Contents and Double page spread of a new Music Magazine

Evaluation Questions 1-3

Evaluation Question 4

When researching what the audience would be for my magazine I decided to do an ideal reader to show the type of audience that will be buying my magazine on Prezi and I also took some screenshots of my ideal reader on a useful website called Yougov

Above is a screenshot of my ideal reader profile and this has helped me see the diffent things my target audience is interested in and does.

Evaluation Question 5

This short Animoto shows things I did to my magazine in order to attract an audience to my magazine.

Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 7

Final Cover page

This is my final piece for my cover page of my music magazine, I feel that I have improved a lot from my preliminary task to now and I have worked hard on this .

Final Contents Page

After reading through my feedback I decided to make a few changes to my contents and I am very happy with my work for this final piece.

Final Double page Spread

This is my final piece of my Double page Spread for my music magazine and I very happy with it. When looking back on my feedback I was aware that all my feedback for this piece was positive and no changes were stated.

Useful websites that helped me make my Magazine

There were a number of useful websites that helped me make my magazine as real as possible and helped with small and big aspects.  

this website helped me with my chosen photos as I used it to put nice filters on them to make them stand out more.

 

Another useful website I used was called myfonts.com and I used this for my masthead and slogan on my front cover

However I edited my masthead a little on photo shop to make it more eyecatching 

 

 

 

Making a Puff

This is the construction of the puff that is on my magazine cover page

Making my magazine logo

Below is the construction of my magazines logo. It is placed at the top right hand corner of my magazine and I did it on Photoshop. 

 

Firstly I selected the circle tool and made a circle.

I then chose a textile for the circle to make it look more appealing.

after choosing  textile I selected a tool which allowed me to look at a number of different shapes and I chose two music notes. I placed them in the middle as they represent the music for the magazine. I then went to the text tool and types in the magazines name and slogon and changed the slogon red as it links to the colour scheme.  

Making a skyline and barcode

This is a screenshot of the website I used to personalise my barcode to my music magazines name

 

  

This is my Construction work for my magazines Skyline that I did on Photoshop

First I selected the rectangle tool and made a long rectangle like a skyline template.
I then selected the colour I wanted it to be and then typed what the skyline message was.
after that I cropped around the text and finished up with a thinner rectangle than before but in fact was just the right size for the magazine.

Feedback of 2nd drafts

This is the feedback I received from my peers on my second drafts of my cover page, contents pages and double page spreads. This helped me to decide on what changes to make and what was attracting my target audience.

Construction of 2nd draft Cover, Contents and DPS

Second draft of my Cover, Contents and Double page spread

                  These are my second drafts of my music magazine Cover page, Contents page and DPS

First draft of DPS

First draft of my music magazine contents page

First draft feedback

My classmates gave me feedback on my first cover page with the girl band and after reading these comments I decided I was going to change my artist to a solo singer.I was happy with how much feedback I had gained from my target audience and I am going to take this information into account with the rest of my progress throughout my magazine. 

Music Magazine Construction- Front cover first draft

This is my first draft for my front cover, although this photo does not match any of the photos I shared on Padlet to be my front cover, I decided that a solo artist would be a better choice rather than a band, my second draft will be including my solo artist but I will be featuring the band in my contents pages and in my cover lines. This is my first draft with the band as my main artists. I was not happy with this draft as I realised I had to take a better look a my flatplans and my images, that's why I decided to change my images completely.

Video of my ideas for my photos and cover page

Above is a video of me stating what artist I am going to feature on my front cover and what else I will be featuring in my magazine.

My Chosen photos- Music magazine construction

Music magazine Construction- Facebook

I decided to share my Padlet on Facebook and Twitter so I could receive a range of different answers from my target audience.

Music Magazine Construction-Padlet-My photos

I decided to share my favourite photos for each section and receive feedback on them so I could see what the audience wanted to see within the magazine. I used Padlet which is a new software to me and I found it very useful for not only me but for my audience to give me feedback.

Created with Padlet

My Music Magazine Contents Page Inspirations

My Music Magazine Front Cover Inspirations and Possible Poses for my photographs

Photoshoot Plans

I made a photo shoot plan for my Cover and Contents pages and also my Double Page Spread as I will be able to refer back to these when I'm taking my photos.



Cover Page Plan:

Contents Page Plan:

Double Page Spread Plan:

Music magazine planning- Flatplans

Here I have created flatplans for my magazine as makes it easier when constucting it and gives me an idea of how I want my magazine layout to look like. I have done a flatplan for my Cover page, Contents page and Double page spread. I have also drawn another set of flatplans to get a better understanding of what I want my cover page contents page and double page spread to look like. This also helped me when coming to the design process of my logo.