Blog 8

The second magazine i analiysed was 'rolling stone' a rock music magazine, targeted at both males and females, between the ages of 13-25, of whom I would say are underachievers, heonists and post-modernists. I think the cover appeals to the target audience in a variety of different ways. The masterhead is bright read which appeals to the audience and also which connotes a lack of sophistication and modernity, and makes the magazine seem less intimidating. The eroded effect of the font connotes danger and suggests that the music that Rolling stone is promoting is quite bright but sinister. The monocrome colour scheme with the occasional break up of red connotes a sense of death, danger and rebelliation of which would appeal to the lower class target audience. There is an establishing shot image of different famous people such as actor and band players. The man on the top left is holding a guitar, this obviously shows that he is a guitar player in maybe a band. This connotes rebelliation, to rock music.

Blog 7

The first magazine i am goin to be anilising is 'MixMag' which focuses soley upon dance music. i would say that the target audience is females between the ages of 18-25. The cover appeals to this demographic and psychographic view because it uses bright colours which connote fun, and wildness. The woman on the cover of the magazine is waering a pink and white bathing suite and she looks like she is having a good time. It draws the reader in because they will associate with provactive clothing, which means they'll want to dress like this in order to be 'true' to their chosen genre of music. The sans serif font shows a lack of sophistication, which would appeal to the audience .

blog 6

I started my double page spread for my final piece by adding colours to the background. I decided to use pink and white as the same as the front page and these colours are used all through the magazine. I decided to put the title on the left hand side of the page behind a blue background to make the title stand out more. I then decided to add to add a blue star in the right hand corner as i have used this star all throught the magazine.

I thought that the page would be quite plain so i looked through the pictures in the clip art and added some arrows the arranged then around the page to take up some of the emty space. I changed the colours of the arrows to white and pink. The interview was to the whole group but i was unsure how to lay out the questions and answers. I looked through the different types of text boxes and was stuck between picking a circular text box or a square one. In the end i decided to use the circular text boxes because i would be able to fit more text boxes on the page so i could fit more questions and answers on the page. I the looked at other magazines douple page spreads with intervoews simular to my double page spread and i noticed that alot of then had 'Exclusive Interview' on it which means that the interview on the page can only be found in this magazine and not anywhere else. I put Exclusive Interview underneath my heading in the colour purple so it links with the other colours on he page and put it in a small box to make it stand out that little bit more. I had a few problems with putting the pictures on the page because i couldn't get the pictures in the right place where they could be clearly seen and not blocking anything else on the page. I over came this problem by rearranging the text boxes on the page so i could fit the pictures into the places that would look good and like an original magazine that you would find in a shop.

blog 5

In the lesson today i began my contents page for my magazine. I used the colour pink for this page because it is aimed at females. I used a font off the same website that i used for my magazine cover on dafont.com. To influence the reader to have a look what is on offer in the magazine I used another font off the website and put the phrase 'what's Inside'.
To show the readers what is on the cover I pasted a picture of the front cover of the magazine on the contents page so i could compare my pages to the front cover.
To show which pages were used on the front cover i used a puff which says 'On the Cover' so the readers dont get confused when they are looking for a certain story to read.
For the colour of the text I used yellow because its stand out very well and clearly against the colour of the background which is pink.
To make the pages link to the teasers on the front cover i made up stories that will match the teaser well.
Just to add a bit of effect I added a star in the right top corner which is the same as on the front cover.

blog 4

in my lesson today i started my music magazine. first of all i uploaded a picture of my friend Fiona. i edited the picture by taking the background out and i made the contrast of the picture lighter. I thought because it is a music magazine i looked in a thesaurus for other words which represent music and i decided to use the word harmony. I used a website called dafont.com and used a font from there and because i was aiming the magazine to be for females i filled the font with the colour pink. To make it look like a real magazine i added various headings about stories that are contained in the magazine. for those headings i used a few colours like pink, yellow and blue which work well with the layout of the page. I put Icons on the page such as stars to make the theme for girls and a bar code to make the magazine seem more real. When i thought i had finished i looked at the text and the font of the text on the front page and it looked childish and boring so i decided to use the shadow tool on the program serif page plus which i was using and gave the text a little shadow, this gave my music magazine cover its last finishing touches.

blog 3

Today I started my mock up for my contents page for my school magazine. I decide i wanted to keep the same kind of layout as the front cover to keep the magazine simple and not to complex. I thought i would add a letter in the top right hand corner to make the pupils read into the depth of the editor of the magazine. I placed two pictures on the page of a pile of books to comprehend with the story about what is on offer at break times, and a picture of an A+ to also comprehend with the story about the children of the school getting great GCSE results.

blog 2

Today I started my preliminary exercise on my school magazine cover. To start off with I had to decide what colour i would like for my background which works well with other colours and is a suitable colour for both male and female pupils.
I decided to use the colour blue and parts of the background green because the two colours contrast well together and they are suitable for males and females.
During this lesson i also took picture of pupils and i chose one picture to edit in paint shop pro to use for my front cover. I used the chosen picture because the girl in the photograph was wearing blue and the background is blue i thought it worked well and kept with the colour scheme.
I edited my chosen picture and then pasted it onto my magazine cover.
I then looked at a couple of different types of magazine covers so i could get an idea of how to layout the front cover.
I decided i would use different fonts to make the magazine cover look more colourful. I added titles to make the magazine cover to make it look like it has been brought from a shop and i added graphics like a bar code to make it look life like and i also put the price and exclusive which is a buzz word which means that the story is only covered in this magazine.