Photos for music magazine.

Here are the photos for my music magazine. These are my photos that I have taken at gigs that I have attended. I chosen photos of bands live because I think that they capture a band in their element, which is when they are at they best. Also most people want to see their favourite bands live, and this is what the magazine can offer - pictures favourite band playing live.

I.T sketch of music magazine

Here is a quick sketch of my music magazine.

Font ideas.

Now I chosen the name of my magazine I needed to chose the font for the masthead. For this I researched the internet and magazines. I particularly looked at the website www.urbanfonts.com and went to the distorted section for ideas.
Here are the results:

After much deliberation I chose the font 'Aenima' which is the fifth one down on the left.

Names for the music magazine.

So after I have brainstormed my 'things to consider' (which I haven't put on my blog due to not scanning it before I handed in my scrapbook) I needed to come up with a name for my magazine so I put my iPod on shuffle and took inspiration from songs and lyrics.
Here are my ideas:

After much deliberation, I decided to use the name "Crank it up!".

I chose because it can appeal to the target audience who are people who listen to rock music and typicallyrock music is depicted as being played loudly and the phrase 'crank it up' is often used, so I thought it fitted perfectly.

College Magazine Finished!

 This is my finished College Magazine:

This is my final Draft of my college magazine, I created the pages in Mircosoft Publisher.

I didnt want to target one type of student with my magazine so I aimed to make it as varied as possible with the topics and the design, so that it could appeal to everyone. Such as for the fashion conscious student, there is a section of fashion and for the student whos looking towards the future, there is sections of getting a job and finances. I made it into a 'money special' as students are often known in society as having no money, and so I believe this would appeal to the students, as a way of helping them with their money so they could know how to handle their finances.

For the front cover I chose a photo which shows the model smiling and studying, I chose the picture where the model is smiling because it lifts the mood of the magazine so that it is not depressing and sad. The clothes and hair of the model also plays a part in theimage I wanted the magazine to portray, for example I wanted the magazine to be modern which is shown through the model wearing up to date clothes, and 'cool' vibrant hair, this makes a bright contrastiong picture which would surely attract the attention of the audience.

The colour scheme of the magazine is bright colour designed to appeal to both gender, I designed the front so that the writing stood out and did not contrast with the picture however, in doing so I may have made the magazine look more feminine than I intended. So to avoid this in the contents page I picked a colour for each gender and then a colour believed to be unisex.

The font I have chosen for the masthead is Arial MT bold, which is a clear, but fun font due to the font not looking sharp an formal. The cover lines are Arial Bold so they are clear to read are bold. The inside is written in Bradley Hand ITC which makes it look as though someone has written by hand, so it gives an informal feel, along with the editorial board, which is written informally, almost like the editor is friends with the reader, it is made to look inviting.

Overall i am happy with the look of the magazine.    



Contents page photos

I have taken photos for the topics I am putting in my college magazine and I have tried to make them so they represent the topics on  the page as closely as possible.



Sorry some of the pictures are the wrong way round I scanned them in worng.

Front Cover Photos Ideas.

These are the photos I took for my cover photo. The photos are of my cousin and his girlfriend studying at their house, although my cousin was not keen for his picture to be taken.

 

This is my photo to use for the front cover of the college magazine, this is becaus efirst of it has a smiling mid-shot of a student studying and secondly it is not blurred like some of the others.