Movement Completed

Moderator, my name is Sam Harvey, my centre number is 16829 and my candidate number is 8216. My media coursework and magazine is now complete, I hope you enjoy marking my coursework.

Double Page Spread

This is my completed double page spread. I kept up the use of my housestyle and tried keeping the double page quite simple because looking at other rock magazines this is what they tend to do. I made the image sepia because it helps the text to stabd out better.

Before and after, the process of making my cover

Thus is the original image and this is what it looked like I after I was done. It took me a while to decide on the font for the title of my magazine, and I didn't like any of the ones on photoshop because they didn't look like they belonged on a rock magazine. Eventually I went on http://www.picnik.com/ (which has now closed)  which is an image editing website, and chose a font from there. I typed in MOVEMENT and saved it as an image then put it on my magazine cover. I used the stroke affect to get the dark outline around the text. Jake's arm overlaps the Movement text but the rest of his body is behind the other text. To do this I had to use the Magnetic Lassoo tool and cut Jake's arm to make it a seperate layer. I then moved this layer higher than the MOVEMENT layer.

The rest of the font I used was mostly Impact, which I think is quite affective as it stands out well. I used the same colour as I used for the MOVEMENT font to create a house style, but to stop my magazine from being boring I used a gradient affect on it. I made the Currawongs logo by cropping out a Currawong and using a stroke from the inside of it to make it all black. I cut the eye out seperately and put it over the top of the bird. The font I used for THE CURRAWONGS is also from http://www.picnik.com/  and I pasted it over a blue rectangle.

Pictures I used.

I chose Jake Millie and Robert to be the band in my magazine. I chose them because I thought they looked as though they would appeal to my target audience due to their hairstyles and clothing. I took a lot of photos but I only used two of them. This was one of the ones I chose because it contrasts with the other one which is less serious. I used this image for my double page spread and basically added text around the image.

Plan for front cover

This is the plan that I made for my front cover before we started doing anything on photoshop. I think planning helped in terms of where to place things, and thinks such as where the barcode is, the title of the magazine and the band logo are still roughly in the same places. but my completed front cover looks a lot different from my original plan.

prezi evaluation

http://prezi.com/ojyeqajq5kan/magazine-evaluation/ this is my evaluation of Movement.

Contents for school magazine

This is my contents page I found recently for my school magazine that I made back in February. As you can tell I wasn't at all good at photoshop and tried to keep things basic.

This is my completed contents page. This is where I developed my house style of red text on black background. The main feature for this page is The Valaitis Brothers. I had to change the contents page a few times because it didn't look right, and everything's been moved around at least twice. I wanted it to look quite simplistic because I think it's more effective and stands out better that way.The colour scheme was inspired a bit by Q Magazine. I thought that red black and white stood out well and made it look more interesting. I also thought that it fit in well with being in a rock magazine. Q Magazine's contents pages are also quite simplistic, and I thought that also appealed to a rock magazine. 

 

Front cover

This is my completed front cover. I went back and changed the house style and made it more simple because it didn't look right before, I had too many colours and different fonts. Original colours that I had on the front were: Red, yellow, black, and white. It was recommended that we only used two or three, so I went back and changed that. With the exception of the band's logo, I only used red and black.

This new house style of the red on black began when I was making my contents page. I started to use that as my house style, and when I went back and looked at my front cover, I realised they didn't look like the same magazine, so I changed the house style of the front cover. The reason I used red on black is because I think it stands out, and it also lets the read know that the magazine is a rock magazine. The font I used is called Impact, and I used this font for most of the text. I think Impact stands out really well and looks good on a magazine.

I only used one image on the front of my cover because I noticed when looking at "Kerrang!" magazine that they tended to use one main big image (occassionally with a small one at the side) and then just had lots of text around it. I chose the image I used because my target audience is quite young, and I think it would appeal to a lot of young teens to have a fun and outgoing looking band on the front of their magazine.

I began designing logos for my magazine. Upon asking people's opinion, I think I'll use the one at the bottom but in red.

Due to technical difficulties with my pictures (Millie isn't in D:) I have started writing the text that is going to go into my magazine. Here is the Question and Answer which I have started doing, I am also going to rethink the name of my magazine and the fictional band's names.

St Marks Cover

This is the cover to the St Marks magazine that I made in class. I wasn't in Friday so I will have to catch up and finish the contents page in my free time. I will also upload all of the photos we took and used.

Nature magazine

This is my nature magazine cover, it wouldn't let me upload it in school so I had to use a phone to upload it, hence the not so brilliant quality.

Prezi Work

http://prezi.com/s-voaj7mnytv/looking-at-the-contents-page/ my prezi/homework

Last lesson

Last lesson we learnt how a magazine front cover is laid out and why it is laid out the way it is. Looking through magazines gives me an idea of the kind of things I need to include on my front cover, how the font is relevant to the contents of the magazine and the language is also relevant to this and the readers.

Magazines tend to use big, striking font and massive images that are relevant to the contents to attract the reader. By just looking at the font and pictures of the magazines it is easy to understand what type of music the magazine is about.

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