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.

Research and Planning - College Magazine Example

This is a college magazine, aimed at college students and undergraduates in America. I know this because of a few reasons: the title which literally reads 'COLLEGE'; the main image portraying a man who is of a similar looking age to a college students, with him holding books for studying. The cover lines a referring to college life, such as 'MAKE MONEY ON CAMPUS'.

Research and Planning - InDesign Tutorial/ FIlm review

I used InDesign to produce this review article of Avengers: Age of Ultron. I imported a review for the Empire website and found an image from the web. I added a title and changed the colour of the background. I also added columns and margins to prevent the lines from touching the edge of the page ; this is so if any problems occur in printing, it won't affect the text.

The reason for me using this software is because I will be producing my college contents page on there.

Research and Planning - Font Mastheads

These are 3 different fonts for 3 different magazines of different genres: pop music, film and heavy metal. I found these fonts on the website 'DaFont'.

Research and PLanning - Medium Cluse Up Examples

 These are just a selection of medium close I have taken, with their purpose to show my understanding of them.

Research and Planning - Magazine Labelling

I am simply labeling a music magazine for its features to show my understanding.

Research and Planning - Magazine Examples

Research and PLanning - Film Psoter

 This is the film poster from The Wolverine, with Hugh Jackson. There is also a LEGO head on a white background below.
I used Photoshop to cut out the head from its background and placed it over Hugh Jackson's head. I used the 'magic wand' tool to do this, which drew a boarder around the head to allow me to delete the background.