Research and Planning - Surve Responses

These are the response to the survey I promoted on my social medias. I asked these questions in order to get a response from a variety of people, so I understand what magazines people like and what they would expect from the genre I am using.

Research and Planning - Double Page Spread and Contents Page Analyse

These are pictures I analysed a music magazine's front cover and another music magazine's contents page. I did this to gain ideas and to show i understand the different features. It allowed me to see how other big companies layout these pages and understand the different features on them, which I have labelled myself.

Research and Planning - Shot LIst

Research and Planning - Production Risk Assessment

Research and Planning - Shooting Schedule

Research and Planning - Location Recce

Research and Planning - Model Release Form: Carlos

Research and Planning - Model Release Form: Mo Toure

Research and Planning - Schedule Plan

This is a simple plan I have devised which I will try to stick to in order to produce my magazine, and ensure evrything is complete with plenty o time left. This will help deduce any possible stress.

Research and Planning - Costume and Props List

Costumes

Carlos:

• Hi tops trainers
• Jeans
• Jumper/hoodie

Mo:

• Dark t-shirt
• Jacket: blue, red or black

Research and Planning - Software and Equipment

This is an equipment list I have for all the things I'll be using for my music magazine and its production

• Photoshop
• Canon Camera
• DaFont (or any other source for fonts)
• MAC

Research and Planning - Music Magazine Double Page Spread Analysis: Hip-Hop

Jay-Z is wearing dark glasses to hide his eyes, which implies he is a powerful artist and doesn't need to make eye conact with poeple due to his power. On the right side of the page, where the tet is, a huge red 'J' is in the centre of the page. The huge 'J' is just another supporting peice of evidence to show his power. And as I hvae said in my previous blogs, power and superiorioty is important in hip-hop music; it is talked a lot about in the music. This is how I can tell it is hip-hop.
Then the fact there is a lot of used of the colours red, black and white is another way I can tell it is a hip-hop magazine.

Research and Planning - Music Magazine Contents Page Analysis: Hip-Hop

The model on this page is wearing lots of gold chains as it is a clear reference to money and fashion, which is, again, a bit importance in hip-hop. The colour red is making another appearance in this page as it is really meaningful in hip-hop.
The page actually makes the featured artit really prominent as it is suggesting his superiority in this usic genre. And with him wearing no top, and the tattoos on his body, it implieshe, and hiphop, are connected to street crime/gangs.

Research and Planning - Music Magazine Front Cover Analysis: Hip-Hop

This magazine represents hip-hop in many different ways and it can be seen through it's different features and the featured artists. For example, the model has gold teeth, which gold is very popular in hip-hop music as it is linked to money. His face appears big and powerful on the fornt cover as hip-hop artistrap about how important power is, and often refer to themselves as powerful.
Another reference to money can be seen in the name 'A$AP' too.
The colour red is a large representation too and is seen a lot in the hip-hop community, which goes back to the gang wars in America: Crips vs. Bloods.
The cover lines also includeother hip-hop artists referring as too who will be appearing on the magazine.

Research and Planning - Shot type examples: Music Magazines

These are a examples of some different shot types which I may use. These examples are popular on music magazines. There is vary of different shot types to show my understanding of them.

Research and Planning - Final Design Sketches

These are my final designs I have drew which I want to implement onto Phtotshop. I have changed a few things from my initial sketches, such as the placement of the quote on the doublepage spread.
Any colour added is there only to represent where some of the colour will be shown. I have only highlighted the key areas for colour, such as the yellow box around the text onthe contents age. The idea of this was to show the font will be that colour.

Research and Plannning - Initial Sketches

 These are my initial sketches of my music magazine. I drew thee as a sketch to put down my idea. My final design could bea lot different from these, or even the same.

Research and Planning - Strengths and Weaknesses of my College Magazine

Research and Planning - Evaluation of College Magazine

College Magazine Completed

My actual magazine was improved via the input from the questions I had asked my target audience. I was able to see what was needed, which was more cover lines and a bit more colour.

Overall, in terms of the colours used I was quite happy. I stuck with the '3 colour rule' by using blue, red and white. though, in the form of an explosion I was able to add more colours to help m front cover stand out and seem more attractive. The actual explosion itself helped my plug stand out more too.

My main image is good too as it promotes a happy life on campus with the student's bright smile. The student badge is clear and visible too to ensure that the potential audience know it's a college magazine.

There is a nice amount of space on the right where I positioned the cover lines, without the image intruding. The switch between colours from each cover story title is unique too and it improves any dullness and shows college is fun and exciting, yet not manic.

Research and Planning - College Contents Page

This is my contents page. I used the word 'TEXT' to show that's where I would write about things on the final product.

Research and Planning - College Magazine Completed

After listening to the comments made on my interviews, I added additional cover stories and more colour in the form of the explosion. The explosion and its colour highlighted the plug. It brings more diversity to the cover itself.

Research and Planning - Video Interviews - Links to YouTube

Video Interview 1

Video Interview 2

Video Interview 3

These are the links to my YouTube videos I uploaded of the interviews I produced with my peers. I asked them each 5 set questions about my magazine and the genre my magazine is based around, which is Hip-Hop.

Research and Planning - College Magazine Progress 3

I change colours of the text and added a raffle plug for people to win free textbooks.

Research and Planning - Interview Questions

1. What type of cover lines would you expect to see on a college magazine?

2. Does my Masthead look right for a college magazine?

3. What things do you like about my magazine?

4. What things do you NOT like about my magazine?

5. What things would you change on my magazine?

Research and Planning - Book Photos

These are the outages of the books I pictured for my Magazine front cover.

Research and Planning - Magazine Progress 2

In my second lesson I added a picture of a college student, a background, barcode with date and cover lines.

Research and Planning - College Magazine Progress 1

This is how for I got on my magazine in my first lesson. I have produced the masthead, selling line and a plug.

Research and Planning - Magazine Front Cover Layout

This is the layout I followed when designing y front cover in Photoshop.

Research and Planning - Podcast

I created a podcast of myself showing my blog off. I simply talk about what I have been up to recently with it.

Video link

Research and Planning - Main Image Photos (College Magazine) Drafts

These are my main image outages I was thinking of using.

Research and Planning - College Magazine Drawing

This is the drawing I made of what I wontedly college magazine to look like.