Magazine Final Draft

Contact Sheet

Contact Sheet from osnapitsalina

This is the contact sheet for my final photoshoot. The majority of my images are close-ups and are in portrait rather than landscape as my main focus was to achieve a picture for my front cover. Both models, Megan and Karishma were to represent their genres to the best of their capability. For Karishma, a microphone, electric guitar and explicit hand gestures were used to apply to the genre rock. Whereas, Megan had unusual make-up, unique poses and looks to establish her genre electra-pop and to accompany her interesting lyrics and controversy that is supposedly following her in the media.

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note

Cecile Rose is officially the nicest most interesting singer in electra pop. Not only has she brightened up our days in the office with her utterly brilliant new album, Beating Hearts, but Cecile has very kindly gave up some of her downtime to recently record an exclusive four – track acoustic session for us to give away free to you with this month’s issue. In true rock’n roll spirit, she’s done a damn fine job, so don’t miss out on your chance to hear it!  Take the card that’s attached to the back of your copy of the mag and read the text underneath to find out how to download the free tracks. As if that wasn’t enough, she also invited us to her British penthouse – something she has never done before – for our interview (see page 42). She really is the singer that keeps on giving despite the rumours that has been said about her! Enjoy the tracks and the issue, and let me know what you think!

                                      

                                           
                                         

Model Release Form

Karishma and Megan both agreed to model for my magazine by signing the model release form.

Production Diary #10

I've mainly been working on the layout for my magazine and choosing the correct images for the pages. I have made a folder named 'FINAL PHOTOS' in my documents, where the images I have identified as suitable for my magazine are held. It's still a work in progress as I need to edit them. It's hard to choose the right image as I have numerous pictures that fits the purpose for my magazine. Therefore, to make my decision for the final photos easier, I have started editing some of the images on photoshop. Some may be the same image but with different filters or the shadow or brightness for that particular image is different, thus I can expand my options and see which one would fit better for my magazine. I insert the images I think are best for my magazine onto my layout and compare them with each other until I know which one looks better.

Other matters I have been doing, are making little adjustments to my layout such as changing the title font on my contents page which is now 'moon flower bold' rather than 'basic noodle titling' from Dafont.com. I have also started contributing cover lines on my front cover and inserting the barcode I customized myself on Dafont.com.

There is still a lot of work to do, I am planning to complete all of my work in the next few weeks.

Choosing The 'Right' Image For My Front Cover

I am still deciding on my image for my front cover, I have finalised these three images with the exception of one that is with a different filter. I want my front cover image to be unique and not the standard posey image you see on every magazine on the shelves. It has to represent the artist, thus the overall point for my magazine is to reveal the true identity of the artist and what never-to-be-told gossip they are witholding. I am leaning towards the fourth image where 'Megan' the model is  wearing a white dress, which connotes purity and innoncence - it puts forward the message that she has nothing to hide. I think the image looks raw but at the same time established, due to the make-up and the quality of the image. There are no shadows masking her face which indicates that she is ready to disclose all information with the consumers.

Equipment

Box Out and Cover Lines

Production Diary #9

I have mostly been making improvements to my front cover, contents page, article and double page spread on Adobe Indesign. I still have much work to do, the layout is complete - I just need to put the information and pictures into my magazine. I have chosen the image I want to use for my front cover, it is of the model I used 'Megan'. I am making improvements to the image by using Adobe Photoshop and brightening it, airbrushing and so on to give it that flawless effect. My contents page is almost complete. I have provided most of the information needed on the page apart from the editor's note. Once I have done that I will apply the images into the contents page.

Contents Page Ideas

Production Diary #8

I have recently been making improvements to my front cover draft, contents page draft and double page spread draft.I have written the article for my featured page which is titled 'Candyfloss Queen'/'Cecile Rose - why hollywood, fashion and record labels can't get enough of the London starlet's controversial behaviour' and I have also started writing the features and regulars on my contents page. The majority of the text is done, all I need to do is insert the images.

I have successfully completed my photoshoot which consists of 502 pictures, thus I thought taking a lot of pictures would provide me with a variety of good shots and it did. My photoshoot employed two models that I chose, their make-up and outfits supported the genres I wanted them to be which was electra-pop like Marina and The Diamonds and punk which is like Avril Lavigne. All I need to do now, is to choose the pictures I like the most, edit them on adobe photoshot and insert them into my layout which is on adobe indesign. However, for my double page spread I would like my models to be in a different destination rather than have the same old white background on every page. I was thinking for going for an urban or rural background, something that is different from the ordinairy. I want my overall images to be equisite with a sense of polish to them to make it look estabilished.

There is still much work in progress, nothing is completley finished in my magazine as I plan to make numerous improvements to make it exactly how I want it to be.

New Media

New Media from osnapitsalina

Promotional Methods

Article Draft

Cecile Rose

Primadonna Cecile Rose has alas dropped her bubble-gum music to the charts! The new kid on the block has shocked all with her distinguished electra-pop music and her effortlessly exquisite, unique style. The seventeen year old edgy, London diva reveals her current pandemonium as simply “typical” she goes on to say to us “why would I be surprised? Anyone who doesn’t appreciate my music is merely bonkers.” That’s not all; Poppy discloses all her latest antics and the crazy scandal that got her to where she is today. From nudity to drugs, is she brutally honest or attention seeking? We’ll let you be the judge.

Only surfaced recently to the eye of the public and Poppy has already had a whirlwind of controversial events lunging towards her. The English starlet with a French background grew up on the busy streets of London, in an expensive five storey flat overlooking Hyde Park. This may come across as shocking to some, as her provocative behaviour would not be expected from someone immensely posh. On this subject she laughs hysterically, “I’m just having fun! People need to chill and smoke a pipe!! Geeeeez.” Hmm, not sure if some people would agree to that Poppy. It was not all glory days for the wild singer, she exposes her life as travesty, thus she was merely invisible to her parents due to their heavy work schedules. She shares, “if it wasn’t for music, I don’t know how I would have coped.” This glimpse of her reality explains a lot about the issues surrounding her.

Who knew the iconic songs ‘Star Dazed, Heart Of Metal and Bubblegum Bitch’ were written on a bedroom floor by a wishful, aspiring star who was sometimes high…sharing her thoughts and feelings onto an ragged notebook that was constantly hidden in her pillowcase. “It was my diary” Poppy admits, “whenever I was overwhelmed by a particular feeling I scribbled down anything that came to mind, it didn’t matter if it didn’t make sense and it didn’t matter what state I was in as long as if it was written down I would feel happy.” She didn’t need a crew of people working on a song days on end to make a mega hit, this lyrical genius accomplished it all on her own. 

Her music soon got discovered by her ex-boyfriend ‘Scott’ who was 28 years old at the time and she was 16, “I showed him my music when I knew our relationship was getting serious” she confesses “he loved my songs and he begged me to let him play at his work which was a local radio station.” After much hesitation Poppy finally agreed to his pleading.

And that's when the superstar was born. 

Double Page Spread Draft

I have placed a big black rectangle where my image would be, this will take up a full page of my double page spread. On the right page is where the article will be. The title is 'CANDYFLOSS QUEEN' with two hearts around it which I think highlights the artist's genre, electra pop. It looks young and fun. The noun 'QUEEN' would emphasise the power and success the artist has over society and it would demand attention from the consumers as it gives a sense of royalty. I have decided the first few lines of the article to be vertical, and then continue in three different columns. I did this because I wanted it to look interesting rather than a plain block of text.

Contents Page Draft

I chose to put the words 'contents' in the middle of the double page spread in big, basic and bold text. I did this because I knew my target audience is of a large mass - it needs to be easy to read and to navigate. Although, the font may be simple I think that it contains a unique aspect of which looks of high quality. To emphasise the text I have put a line underneath the title. Moreover, the text that is on the page at the moment is placeholder text that flows into each coloumn,this makes it easy for me as once I have my final text I can copy and paste it immediately and the layout would not change. Also, I have put black rectangles and a circle to where my images will be placed, the images have a text wrap.

Production Diary #7

Today we began the layout for our magazines on adobe indesign. I have almost finished the layout for my contents page, the only matters left to do is applying the numbers, to direct the consumer to where they need to go in the magazine and I need to finish applying the subheadings. However, the layout is completely finished, thus once I have my images from my photo shoot and the actual text - I am finished with this page. I chose to put the words 'contents' in the middle of the double page spread in big, basic and bold text. I did this because I knew my target audience is of a large mass - it needs to be easy to read and to navigate. Although, the font may be simple I think that it contains a unique aspect of which looks of high quality. To emphasise the text I have put a line underneath the title. Moreover, the text that is on the page at the moment is placeholder text that flows into each coloumn,this makes it easy for me as once I have my final text I can copy and paste it immediately and the layout would not change. Also, I have put black rectangles and a circle to where my images will be placed, the images have a text wrap.

Furthermore, my draft for my double page spread is complete. I have placed a big black rectangle where my image would be, this will take up a full page of my double page spread. On the right page is where the article will be. The title is 'CANDYFLOSS QUEEN' with two hearts around it which I think highlights the artist's genre, electra pop. It looks young and fun. The noun 'QUEEN' would emphasise the power and success the artist has over society and it would demand attention from the consumers as it gives a sense of royalty. I have decided the first few lines of the article to be vertical, and then continue in three different columns. I did this because I wanted it to look interesting rather than a plain block of text.

I still need to make a draft for my front cover, another double page spread and to make slight adjustments to my contents page and double page spread. Hopefully, this would be finished in the new few lessons and I would have my photographs by then.

Photo Shoot Ideas

These images portray how I want my magazine to be represented to the audience, hence it will reveal what type of magazine it is at first glance. In this case, I have provided images of high quality. The couture does not look cheap, this will make my magazine look expensive and successful that it can retain these established props and costumes.

I wanted the costumes to be unique and original but in a sophisticated sense. It has to be different from other magazines with their stereotypical representations of artists, e.g. a rapper has to have a snapback hat with a gold chain around their neck. However, I do want the artists on my magazine to sustain some matters that would differentiate them from other genres but the difference that my magazine would have to a typical music magazine is that my props and costumes would fully uncover the artist to who they really are on their personality mixed with their genre of music rather than just basing their 'look' on the genre. This would allow the readers to see there is more to what meets the eye of the artist which would interest them in reading the magazine, thus they know they would be reading something exclusive and they would be gaining the full exposure of the artists.

Some of the props provided - CD, headphones, tape, a radio and a mic, are all related to music which is crucial as the audience should be reminded that 'Dynamic' is a music magazine-  it's not all about gossip and fashion.

Production Diary #6

This week I have focused on preparing for my magazine 'Dynamic'. The preparation I have done are researching different fonts for my masthead, masthead names, examining other magazines to gain an insight of how my magazine should be, a mood board and lastly I have come up with a few colour schemes that varies depending on the main image.

I wanted to present my mood board in an interesting way rather than various images stuck together in one place. I thought a good way to get the message across of how my audience will be would be by using a programme called ‘powtoon’. I thought this programme was extremely useful. It was my first time using it and it was incredibly straightforward and simple to use. It provided a lot of interesting effects for the video.

I still have a lot of planning to do and there are still matters for my magazine I have not concluded on, like the font I will contribute for my masthead - although, I have varied the font I want to use to three fonts. Also, I need to plan how the photo shoot for my magazine will be. I will do this by looking at other magazines such as Rolling Stones, Billboard, NME and Q (all multi-genre) and view how the images are represented within the magazine.

Colour

My colour scheme would depend on the colours contributed in the main image provided; I would identify the colours in the image and see what other colours would coordinate well with it.

In my colour schemes, the colour I have consistently used is black which is a monochrome, gender neutral colour which associates with power, formality and mystery. This is important as my magazine needs to appeal to both females and males aged 13-35. Therefore, the colour black would be in my magazines considerably.

I matched the first colour scheme with image 1 to create a mysterious sense with the dark colours. This highlights that there's more to the story than meets the eye of the artist 'Carrie Underwood'. The magazine would entail a full exposure of her, meeting the readers’ needs. Also, the dark colours would make the magazine look sophisticated and elegant which would provide the illusion that my magazine is successful and established to the consumer.

The second colour scheme with image 2 consists of the colours black, red, blue and yellow. The artist, Leighton Meester, is American thus the colours are linking the image and the artist together allowing an American theme. Also, most of her songs are patriotic and country. This would attract a large mass of an American audience; this is beneficial as magazines are most successful in America. 

The third colour scheme with the third image provides colours of royalty - gold, black, purple and white. This reinforces the idea of Kanye West’s high status in the music industry and demands the consumers to notice the magazine. 

Mood Board

Masthead Designs

All of the above are my masthead designs. The fonts I have applied are from 'dafont.com', I thought this site was useful as it contains a variety of different fonts to choose from. In particular, I was looking for a font that would support my multi-genre magazine. I wanted it to have an original aspect that would make it separate from all the other magazines. However, at the same time I wanted it to be basic - I didn't want it to be complicated as my magazine is multi-genre which means the target audience would apply to a large majority (females/males 13-35) compared to other magazines. It has to be simple so it would have a high appeal to all types of people as the music is varied and based on the charts.
Based on this, I have come to the conclusion to choose the first font (BebasNeue) or the last font (Arual).

Existing Names And Mastheads

Production Diary #5

This lesson we had to brainstorm masthead ideas for our music magazines. I contributed a variety of numerous masthead names in my brainstorm that suited my genre (chart magazine). I wanted it to be simple but bold, something related to music and that people would remember. From 'MC' which is an acronym and stands for 'Music Central'to 'Tune Into Radioactive', 'Electra-Heart' and 'Fire Starter' which are phrases and 'Dynamic' which is a connotive musical term that means how loud or quiet the sound is.

I came up with 28 names that could be contributed for my magazine - however, at the moment I am thinking of using 'Dynamic'. I think it is effective in terms of it being related to music, it's simple, bold and doesn't apply to a particular target audience which chart magazines are supposed to do.

I then went on a site named 'dafont.com' which provides a variety of different fonts to choose from. I looked at the basic fonts and chose eight from the variety. Afterwards, I pasted it onto photoshop to see which one I would like the most visually.

So far I am still deciding but I have narrowed it down to three particular fonts.

Masthead Name Ideas

I chose these names as they all relate to my multi-genre music magazine and it would be effective in terms of appealing to my target audience. I wanted to choose names that are different from the ordinairy, I didn't want it to be basic but to have an original sense, thus I want my magazine to be different from the others already out there in the market. I came up with all these names to provide me with an idea of what I could choose from. In the end, I have settled on the name 'Dynamic'. I think it is effective because it is a musical term meaning how loud or quite the sound is. Also, it would appeal to my target audience who is females/males 13-35. I needed the name to have a a large appeal, it couldn't be biased as my target audience is large.

Phrases:
-Tune Into Radioactive
-Fire Starter

Connotative:
-Beat
-Shout
-Riot
-Noise
-Hymn
-Aura
-Electra
-Dynamic
-Tune
-Fusion
-Beat
-Commotion
-Light
-Splurge
-Flash
-Edge
-Pulse
-Drive
-Harmony

Compound:
-Electra-Heart
-Lightweight
-Radioactive

Acronyms:
-B.E.A.T
-M Central/M.C

Audience Data

Music Genres

Key concepts of music magazines

Proposal Feedback

Sophie's feedback via SMS:

Production Diary #4

On the 30th September 2013, we were given the opportunity to update our blogs and finish or improve work in this unit.

Firstly, I had to ask a peer to read my music magazine proposal and give me feedback to how I can improve and what I did well in the content. Geeta wrote my proposal feedback on microsoft word, to receive this information she saved it on her USB stick which then allowed me to open it on my computer. I thought a good way to post the content on my blog would be through voki. It would be different and interesting rather than the ordinary text that consumes most of my page.

Afterwards, I realised my survey was still incomplete, thus I had to add more questions. I got a few peers to fill out my survey to see what kind of music magazines they appreciate and what they expect from my future music magazine. The results were successful in terms of it meeting my expectations, it was how I wanted my magazine to set out to be.

Nonetheless, there is still work leftover for me to catch up on, for example  my survey results need to be displayed on a powerpoint so I can visually see the standards of how my magazine needs to be. Also, I need to improve my proposal based on the feedback I had gained.

Survey - Music Magazine

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This survey allows the audience to have an input of what direction I should take my magazine 'Dynamic'. The questions I have asked are quantive, to grant me to collect data/statistics to view the overall conclusions of what the audience thinks. Also, the type of questions contributed are a mixture of comments and multiple choice - a variety to cover all aspects and to let the reader go in depth detail.

Production Diary #3

On the 24th September we had started our research for our music magazine. We had to investigate who our magazines would be targeted at and write a profile about the typical reader.

As my magazine 'Dynamic' is similar to Rolling Stone and Billboard I researched their target audience. It allowed me to have an insight of who my magazine would be targeted at. After consuming this information, I created a mood board of all the matters my audience would like such as - Dr Dre headphones, a guitar, concert tickets and various bands/singers from numerous different genres.

 Afterwards, I did a overall summary of who my target audience will be, then I created a typical user profile of one of my readers 'Debbie' and what her interests would be and so on. Also, I predicted the facts and statistics of my target audience e.g. ABC1 75%.

Target Audience - Dynamic

Front Cover Analysis

Front Cover Analysis (Music Magazines)

Double Page Spread Analysis

Double Page Spread Analysis (Music Magazines)

Contents Page Analysis

Contents Page Analysis (Music Magazines)

Preliminary Task Videos

Preliminary Task Evaluation

I think that the house colours contributed in the magazine are consistent throughout the pages. They are blue, yellow, black and white – the same colours contributed in the Haydon school logo. The colour scheme is simple and does not clash with each other. The objective of the magazine was for it to appeal to everyone’s taste as the school magazine would reach out to all years from a range of social classes.

That is why the masthead is black, simple and bold – it has to be easily readable for the target audience. The font is Arial and in a regular size and the title fonts are of a bigger size, it is easily readable for the readers.

The images provided are reinforced with their titles to make it clear to what they are. The images clearly represent the different cover lines on the front cover and the contents page. For example, the cover line ‘Haydon in the rubble’ is aligned by the image of literally, Haydon in the rubble with tractors surrounding the area of the ruined site. The picture and the cover line are made as interesting as possible for it to capture the reader’s attention in a basic format for the reader to clearly identify the different aspects of what the magazine has to offer.

The layout is basic, you can clearly recognize where everything is. The titles are associated with the images, the main image on the front cover is not overshadowed by sell lines and images – it is visible. The layout is straightforward.

However, I would say that the qualities of the images are not up to high standard due to the fact that I used my phone to snap the pictures for the magazine. If I had used a professional camera, the images would be of high quality. Also, I should have used editing softwares such as Adobe Photoshop for the images to look better.

Preliminary Task

Proposal

Proposal 'Dynamic'

Production Diary #2

A few days ago, I had finally completed my preliminary task. It was easy to do, but I constantly made re-adjustments to my front cover and contents page until I was ultimately satisfied with it. These adjustments included - changing the font colour, repositioning the layout and so on.

In the end, I named my magazine 'Haydon Heat' as I thought the alliteration was effective. I entailed three features 'Haydon In The Rubble', 'Canteen Makeover' and 'Litter Crisis'. I contributed images that related with the features. All of this was done on a programme called Adobe Indesign.

After that, I collected contents pages, double page spreads and front covers from music magazines, as we are now moving onto making our own music magazine. I analysed the contents pages from billboard magazine and Q, the double page spreads from smash hits and front covers from Billboard and Q magazine. This allowed me to have an insight on how to prepare my music magazine and what techniques I could use to make my magazine effective.

I have decided to make my music magazine multi-genre like Rolling Stone, Billboard, NME and  Q. I thought this was a good opportunity as there aren't that many multi-genre magazines. My magazine would be called 'Dynamic' - it relates to music, hence it's musical definition is how high or low the sound is. Also, I thought the name was neutral as it's not aiming to a particular audience - it would appeal to the majority of everyone just like I want my overall magazine to be.

Production Diary #1

On 10th September 2013, we had to start our preliminary task. Our preliminary task was to make a school magazine featuring all sorts of current affairs happening in the school - we were allowed to make it up as long as if they were related to the pictures that would be contained in the magazine.

Firstly, we had to collect our images - we walked around the school taking pictures of various matters. I took pictures of the new food and new refurbishing of the school canteen. I thought of the headline 'Canteen Makeover' for my magazine.

Furthermore, at this time - the school was building a new gym - the gym was nowhere near finished and it looked like an explosion happened right in front of me. I took a few pictures of the scene, I thought of some good headlines like 'Science Test Went Wrong' or 'Haydon In The Rubble'.

I couldn't think of any more images to take - thus I took pictures of random aspects such as the school field, classrooms etc. We were walking down the corridor and it looked slightly spooky, I took a picture of it and thought about a feature of Haydon School being haunted.

We then transferred the images from our phones to the computer by school email. The application we used for our magazine was Adobe In Design - it was our first time using it but it was easy to figure out how to work it.

I started on my title first, I used font from 'dafont.com' (Bebas). It was black, simple and straightforward. Then I found the Haydon logo from the internet - I saved it and imported it onto my front cover and placed it next to the title. 

I still have some work to do but I will hopefully have it finished by tomorrow.

Preliminary Task: Design Ideas