Week Eleven - Diary Entry

This week I created my article draft for my music magazine which will be placed in my double page spread. When writing my music magazine I had to think of creative and suitable questions to ask my music artist so my article was interesting and entriguing for my reader. Additionally, in my article I included the actions of the artist e.g. when they laugh this to make the reader feel like they are there with music artist being interviewed.

Article Draft

This is the article draft that I will use on my double page spread. The article draft includes an interview with the artist from the front cover; in the interview I made sure the questions asked linked in to the sell lines I used on my front cover, this is so it made a continuous link for the reader.

Double Page Spread Draft

The last draft that I had to complete was my double page spread. Like the others I created this draft on a piece of paper.

Week Ten - Diary

Week Ten


This week I created the drafts for my front cover, contents page, and double page spread. I created all these on a piece of paper and recorded some of them. By creating drafts, allowed me to get an idea of where I want certain aspects of my magazine to be e.g. On my front cover it allowed me to get some idea of where I want to position my sell lines etc.


While creating my front cover magazine draft I named the band, 'Laura and The Wombats' however, I later found out that the name 'Wombats' was already a band. Therefore, I changed the name to Laura and The Fix, which I thought was a suitable name for the genre of my magazine.

Front Cover Draft

I drew my front cover design on a plain piece of paper; this allowed me to get a rough idea of what my magazine front cover will look like. While drawing this I recorded it on a camera, this is to prove I created the draft.


Final Outcome:                                        

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Contents Draft

Similar to my front cover draft, I created my contents draft on a plain piece of paper again allowing me to get a rough idea of what I want my final contents page to look like - once more I recorded this on the camera. 

Final Outcome:

Video:

Week Nine - Video Diary

Week Nine

Mise en Scene - Photo shoot

Below is an analysis of the mise en scene within my photshoot. Within this powerpoint I dicuss why I chose the clothing and make up for my model and how this represented and reflected the genre of indie rock and my target audience. I also discuss how the clothing links into my readers style so this is another way of relating to my readers.

Sell Lines and Contents Ideas

Now that I am going to being to create my magazine I have come up with a variety of Sell lines (for my front cover) and Contents ideas (contents page) that I could possibly use in my music magazine. When creating these I remember to make keep the genre of Indie/Rock in mind e.g. Using bands that relate to this category (Coldplay, Florence and the Machine) etc, as I want to relate to my readers as much as possible to maximize the number of people that will read my magazine.

Schedule

So I can be more organised when completing my coursework; below shows a schedule that I have created illustrating all the tasks that I need to complete until I create my final magazine. The creation of the schedule will also enable me to quickly view tasks the I need to complete.

Week Eight - Video Diary

Week Eight

Time Lapse

During my studio photo shoot I set up a camera at the back with a timer attached. This allowed the camera to take a picture every 10 seconds while I continued with my photo shoot. I then gathered all the images and put them into Adobe Premiere and created a time lapse; by creating a time lapse proves that I did take the photos that I will use in my magazine.

Contact Sheet

I have now finished my photo shoot; the shoot included photographs that were taken in a studio and the second half of my photo shoot was taken outside. Below I have presented all the photos I took on that day in the form of a contact sheet.

Model Release Form

In this industry, when you conduct a photo shoot you must get a model release form which includes the model signing the form which gives you permission to use the photographs you take of them in your magazine. Below I have scanned in the model release form I got my model to sign - I now how the rights to use these photographs in my magazine.

Week 7 - Diary

Diary Entry - Week Seven


This week I focused on creating some masthead designs that I could possibly use in my magazine. I created these designs in Adobe Photoshop and recorded some examples with a recording program called Cam Studio. 


In my designs I took my colour scheme of black, red, white, and grey into consideration; therefore, in my designs I included a range of these colours. I also explored the different effects I could possibly use in Photoshop this included; bevel emboss, inner shadow, outer shadow, drop shadow etc.


In addition, I also took the fonts I could use into consideration; I wanted to make my magazine more unique and interesting so I opted out of using the basic fonts such as 'Arial' and 'Calibri', instead I went for fonts such as 'Broadway'.

Masthead Designs

This week I have been coming up with potential design ideas for my Masthead - I used Adobe Photoshop to create this and below are videos of the process of these designs. In Photoshop I explored the different effects it provides e.g. bevel boss, drop shadow etc and the different colours fonts, continually keeping the indie rock theme in mind.



Here are some videos of how some of my ideas were created:

Colour Connotations - 2

To continue with my colour choice I created a second PowerPoint/mood board including a variety of images that are the colour of either Red, White, Black, and White (the main colours I have chosen for my magazine) - this will give me some inspiration into the type of style people in the indie/rock genre will look for as a result this will allow me to relate my magazine to my reader. On the mood board I included a variety of clothes and accessories this will be useful when it comes to my photo shoot as it will help me when choosing the clothing for my chosen model.