Music Magazine Planning

After Researching music magazines, me and my partner drew up a spider diagram for our planning towards our music magazine. Within this brainstorm there is our house style, colour scheme which would be appropiate for our target audience and we also included what possible features we would include. We have stated out target audience and what type of music we are including.

Music magazine research

Music magazine research

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Final Magazine Draft

This is our final magazine draft. We have only made one change which is changing the picture from a medium close up, to a medium shot. We felt a medium shot was better because as the main article is science related, the bunsen burner should be fully featured in the picture but in the second draft, some of the bunsen was cut out. Even though it is not a medium close up, it still had a personal and readable feeling towards it. We feel this magazine is successfully produced using DTP and it appeals to people as it has the same look as a school magazine rather than a gossip or music magazine. It is not too cluttered with images or text, we made sure that our school magazine has a tidy look to it and it is clear to anaylse what it is. We felt the change of text colour from black to white was a good choice to make, as it stands out more and it is placed on top of a coloured background.

Second Magazine Draft

Our second draft of our magazine features our Masthead in a black colour as shown in our first draft. But in our first draft we used black writing for our features and other headlines, but we decided to make it white as we thought it was too matchy if all of the font was to be black so we picked white as the text is situated on a colour background so white would stand out more and it is also outlined with a black shadow. We have also added our own original pictures to the 'Media Trip Photos'.

Feedback about first draft of school magazine

Feedback about first draft of school magazine

When producing our first draft of our magazine, we passed it around the class and asked for feedback. This powerpoint includes our feedback andc this will help us develop on to make the front cover overal successful.

First draft of the school front cover

By using the cover sketch, we used it as a guidline to produce a draft of our Front cover. We used an image we originally took with the concept presented in the sketch (science related). We didn't want a clash of too many colour as more than 3 colours can look messy or cluttered. We wanted the Masthead to stand out so we decided to lay it on top of a light green rectangle block. We also used sea green for the price label as the black text would also stand out on that text. We used the black text for the featuring stories and we wanted it to match the font of the masthead. We still need to take our original pictures for the 'Media Trip Photo's' at the bottom of the cover. We did templates of where the photos would go. To make the front cover we used DTP to produce it all. As this is our 1st draft, we still need to do some improvements and adjustments.

Sketch of possible magazine cover and contents page

For our front cover, me and my partner put ideas together and drew a draft of what we would like the cover to look like. We decided to put a science story and picture on the front cover as our school is a specialist science college. We also would have school trip photos at the bottom so the magazine cover isn't just about science. We want the magazine cover to target our audience (11-18 years) so we want the masthead to be Big and Bold but not boring, we want it to appeal the the target audience. Other story lines will be included on the front and will feature a story which attracts atleast every year. For example, Sixth form style fix story for sixth form, or year 7&8 clubs for year 7 and 8. The text will be approiate and so will the images. This draft will help myself and my partner to design the front cover.