Content page

DPS

Music magazine analysis survey

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Call Sheet

Viola Doka
Photographer
Photo-shoot arrangement/ Call sheet

Date:
November 28

Time:
4:15

Location:
Leyton Sixth form College 

Client:
N/A

Photographer:
Dilan Ulusoy
Meryem Oz

Model(s):
Viola Doka
Dilan Ulusoy
Meryem Oz
Dilan Buz

Make-up:
Viola Doka

Hairstylist:
Viola Doka

Special instructions:
Bring the appropriate clothing for the photo-shoot, also go to the studio to prepare beforehand to make sure that everything is in place and working to eliminate delays. 

Timeline:
Models must arrive before 4:15 in order for them to get ready

Types of media used:
Nikon D40 SLR
Photoshop
InDesign

Concept:
The studio photographs are going to be used only for the front cover of the music magazine and for the regular items, such as posters. Therefore the images need to inspire confidence, especially as they are representing the magazine for a period of time. In order to attract the customers the models need to adapt to the look that make them stand out and emphasise that they want to be noticed and taken seriously for what they do.

Interview Questions

Interview Questions

Who’s your inspiration?

Who inspired you to do music?

What does music mean to you?

Do you think as a female singer you have competition?

What do you take seriously, that is involved with music?

What other things are you interested in besides music?

If you could describe your music with one word, what would that world be?

Do you think you’re a role model?

Who are featured in your album?

What gets you into your mood?

Content Page And Double Page Spread (DPS)

Music Magazine Front Cover

Magazine Proposal Audience Feedback

Magazine Proposal Audience Feedback

 

To prepare for my music magazine I had to produce a proposal to explain the ideas of my music magazine, I produced a Prezi which is done online and I included a few ideas of how my music magazines front cover, content page and double page spread (DPS) is going to look like and I also chose some fonts for my Masterhead. My magazine proposal had all my basic ideas of how my music magazine would look and what was going to be featured in the magazine. I have also asked for feedback on surveymoney.com which will help me to make adjustments to my final music magazine design. 

Some of the feedback I got was that my Masterhead was good however they suggested that I should design a font to make it stand out a bit more, they also pointed out that my colour scheme of black, red and white was a good choice because they do stand out. One other point they mentioned was that I need to make sure that the On Top of the Rest that is on top of the abbreviation of OTR needs to stand out a bit more as it seems lost within the OTR.

The audience also mentioned that my content page structure was good and it matched to context of the magazine however they felt that the content was too plain and it wasn’t detailed enough so therefore I need to consider changing the layout of my content page, I need to consider adding more pictures in different locations in order to show my photography skills and show that I have done enough planning to make sure my magazine comes out the way I planned.    

The double page spread layout was good and the colour scheme matched the magazine and they also thought that the OTR in the background would be a good idea as it is the abbreviation of the magazines name. For example the colours of the letters will be black and red (OTR) to make the magazine look different from the other magazines.

Overall the feedback was good but they mentioned a lot of things that need to be improved or changed which helped me think of new ideas in terms of layout and what I’m going to include in the magazine, It also gave me new ideas of where my location is going to be, for my double page spread I thought of going to the airport and taking a picture of my artist coming out of the airport which would represent the fact that it is a new artist.       

For my own personal feedback I could say that I agree with what most of my peers said and I will take into consideration to what they have said in order to improve my standard of the music magazine.                                                                                                                                                                                

Proposal Survey

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Magazine Newsstand

                                                         Magazine newsstand

Masterhead the masterheads are all at the top of the magazines

Colour scheme
the colours used most is black, red, white and blue

Genre They place the magazines in terms of genre E.g. films, music, soap, entertainment and education.

Main image the main image stands out in all magazines which attract the customers.

 

The magazines on this newsstand all look similar in terms of colour and the master-head, they are put in order of which ones people buy most and are most popular and according to what they think people would enjoy reading most. Personally I think they put the ones that stand out more and the colours that will attract the customer, including the content of the magazine and the main image of the magazine, however the newsstands are organised differently in other shops, they are organized in terms of genre, e.g. music, film, soap, entertainment, they do this so that it can be easier to find.

 

 

 

This magazine newsstand is organised differently to the one shown above, this one is also divided into sections which also makes it easier for people to choose their preferred magazine. Organising the magazines in this way is good because they make sure the ones that they put are eye catching for the audience, also they make sure that the masterhead stands out so that it is visible for the customers to see.

Music Magazine Proposal

Music Magazine Prezi on Prezi

College Magazine Evaluation

Student Magazine Evaluation

For my preliminary task we had to produce a college magazine which I found interesting and I enjoyed doing it because it gave me ideas on how to do my final magazine which is a music magazine. It also helped me practice Photoshop and InDesign more however I feel like I still need more practice on InDesign as I find it quite confusing while using it.

I gathered some feedback from my peers and their feedback really helped me, some of the feedback I got were positive as well as negative which can help me improve my work in the future. A feedback I got was that the front cover is eye catching and there isn’t too much writing, meaning it won’t bore the reader, making them want to read more inside the magazine. I found this as a positive feedback as I was aiming not to overload the front cover with information because I find that it does bore the reader and it gives them more information straight away without reading the magazine inside and I would rather people read the magazine inside. A negative comment that I got is that the content page was too plane and it should have had more pictures however the colours did match which was positive.

Another positive feedback I received is that the colour of the magazine is nice and its eye catching, which would influence teenagers to read it as it is also based on education, they also said that the layout of the magazine was good and it was laid out in a way that it look organised, this comment made me realise that the way a magazine is laid out is very important to the readers as it draws attention to the main content of the magazine. A negative feedback I received was that if the min image was giving the audience eye contact it might have drawn more attention to the readers because giving readers eye contact makes the reader more engaged in the magazine.

All of the feedback I got from my peers was helpful as that I could use some of the positive ones in the other magazines I produce in the future and the negative feedback I could improve on to make my magazine look more attractive. However they didn’t give me as much feedback on the content page as I feel that the content page was less attractive because it was fairly plane and the attention was mostly drawn to the front cover, which is a disadvantage to my student magazine as they should equally be as attractive and eye catching, this could be an improvement on future magazines.

During the process of making my college magazines the things that went well was taking pictures and asking other people in the college which would be the best image to use as a front cover of a college magazine, I asked other people because the magazine is for them to read and they know what people like to see on a front cover of a magazine. The main image of my magazine was based in the library as I believed it was the best place in the college to show that students go to the library and revise to achieve the highest grades possible. Also the use of Photoshop went well, it was the first time that I was using Photoshop and it was simple to use; however there are still improvements that need to be made in using Photoshop. As my front cover had limited writing I didn’t use the Photoshop techniques on that and this may outcome as a disadvantage in the future because I may struggle with it.

I find it quite difficult to understand how InDesign works and how to use it to make my magazine content page as good as my front cover and this is why I think my content page isn’t as good as I had hoped it to be, I planned my content page but when it came to doing it on InDesign it came out totally different, so I think InDesign is my main let down in making magazines and this is the area that I need most improvement on, however it wasn’t too bad and it went well according to what I produced knowing that I find it difficult to use.

What I need improving on? I need to improve the use of InDesign and other elements of Photoshop, as I didn’t use all of its other elements however with on-going practice it will become much easier and I find using Photoshop easier than InDesign therefore my main focus is learning how to use InDesign so that the work I produce is all at one level. Another think I need improving on is my timing as I happen to fall behind without knowing it and this affects the quality of work that I produce.

There are three main points for developing when producing the main task which is to produce a music magazine. These points are that I need to keep up in terms of timing, use my feedback as guidance to improve on the magazines and also I need to make sure I know how to use InDesign as that is where the content and double page spread will be produced, this is to make sure that my work is done to the best of my ability and that my work looks the same throughout.

 

College magazine Content Page

College Magazine front Cover

College magazine planning

Planning

The front cover is outside the college where someone is walking towards the college looking like a professional student.  The magazine is going to include the colleges pass rate and what facilities the college has and what the college is mostly good at, I will also include a quote which represents the college.

LSC NEWS

Content   The colleges history                                     Pg1 The college achieved a 98% pass rate      Pg3 The colleges facilities                                   Pg5 What the students think about the     college                                                             Pg7 The environment of the college                Pg8 What students think about the teachers and their subjects                       Pg10 What the residents nearby think about our college and students               Pg12

Analysis of music magazines

From the first glance of this front cover it grabs my attention as there is a red, white and black colour scheme, these shows very strongly as the main image model is also representing the colour scheme by wearing black and red lipstick. This magazine has dark colours which show that it is not a pop magazine. Also Cheryl has gone for a more rebel pose to ensure she portrays the genre of this particular music magazine.

For this magazine the target audience is rock fans because artists that are in this magazine such as ‘the white stripes’ are artists of rock & roll, ages between teens and late 25’s. Q magazine is a mainstream magazine. 

Music magazine case study

this is my production schedule (unfinished) on the process of being finished

Viola Doka

PRODUCTION TITLE ………………….

PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

Wk. 1	Mon 24th September	Tues 25th September	Weds 26th September	Thurs 27th September	Fri 28th September	Sat 39th September	Sun 30th October
	Start production schedule		Complete production schedule
Wk. 2	Mon 1st October	Tues 2nd October	Weds 3rd October	Thurs 4th October	Fri 5th October	Sat 6th October	Sun 7th October
Wk. 3	Mon 8th October	Tues 9th October	Weds 10th October	Thurs 11th October	Fri 12th October	Sat 13th October	Sun 14th October
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Wk. 5	Mon 22nd October	Tues 23rd October	Weds 24th October	Thurs 25th October	Fri 26th October	Sat 27th October	Sun 28th October
Wk. 6	Mon 29th October	Tues 30th October	Weds 31st October	Thurs 1st November	Fri 2nd November	Sat 3rd November	Sun 4th November
Wk. 7	Mon 5th November	Tues 6th November	Weds 7th November	Thurs 8th November	Fri 9th November	Sat 10th November	Sun 11th November
Wk. 8	Mon 12th November	Tues 13th November	Weds 14th November	Thurs 15th November	Fri 16th November	Sat 17th November	Sun 18th November
Wk. 9	Mon 19th November	Tues 20th November	Weds 21st November	Thurs 22nd November	Fri 23rd November	Sat 24th November	Sun 25th November
Wk. 10	Mon 26th November	Tues 27th November	Weds 28th November	Thurs 29th November	Fri 30th November	Sat 1st December	Sun 2nd December
Wk.11	Mon 3rd December	Tues 4th December	Weds 5th December	Thurs 6th December	Fri 7th December	Sat 8th December	Sun 9th December
Wk. 12	Mon 10th December	Tues 11th December	Weds 12th December	Thurs 13th December	Fri 14th December	Sat 15th December	Sun 16th December
Wk. 13	Mon 17th December	Tues 18th December	Weds 19th December	Thurs 20th December	Fri 21st December	Sat 22nd December	Sun 23rd December