Questionnaire

Mood Boards

This is my mood board, I've noticed that most of the colors used are quite dark and I will use this colour theme in my magazine. I also included the rock style in this mood board which will help me decide what I would like my main image to be wearing. The style is quite dark, mostly black, and most wear either skinnies or black leggings. There is also a lot of leather being worn in the rock style and theres usually studs on jackets, shoes and bags. In this mood board I had included some fonts as well and found out that most are distorted and edgy. This will be really important in my magazine as choice in fonts are a really important part of a magazine, especially on the front cover for example the masthead as it would make it easy for my target audience to link the magazine to rock music and draws them in.

Prelim Tasks

I've started my Prelim tasks today!

Cover page

 I've taken loads of pictures around college to put on the pages. My favourite photo was the human pyramid which I used for the main image on the front page. I thought it made a good front page as it shows a bond between the students and attracts readers in. The original photo I thought was a bit dark so I messed around of curves to try and fix it, this created a good, happy atmosphere in the photo. The positioning of the photo also attracts the readers attention as its been placed where your eyes first fall on the page so its the first thing you look at, and as its a unique, fun photo it would make the readers want to find out more about what is going on.
The second thing I did to this page was make the masthead, I positioned it at the top of the page because this will be the second place the target audience will look at. Its important they notice the masthead as I made sure the name went straight to the point so the readers will know this is a college magazine. I make this in black so it stand out.
Thirdly I added the subheadings, I made sure these included the best stories/sections of the magazine so the readers would want to read on. I thought the font I chose suited the 'college' theme very well because it looks like its been handwritten as it a student wrote it on themselves.
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Contents Page
For the contents page I make the layout simple so its easy to read. This is effective for this page as it shows the main sections and makes it quick for the readers to find specific things they might want to read. The use of photos help break it up and makes the page look more interesting. I added the page numbers on the bottom corners of each photo, this makes the page look more professional as loads of magazines use this technique. I also thought the choice of photos were very good as they showed a mixture of during there lessons and in their free time.  

Prelim photo shoot!

Preliminary Photo Shoot!

For my preliminary photo shoot I wanted to take pictures of students having fun so it would create a good atmosphere, this would influence the readers to read the magazine as they would want to know what makes the college like this. I wanted to make the lighting bright to empathise this idea of a good happy atmosphere, so I had to edit some photos in Photoshop in order to do this.  My favourite photo I took was the human pyramid.  I thought this was a perfect example of what I was hoping to achieve, it showed students having fun, implied team work and a good strong bond between the pupils, this is why I choose this photo to be on the front cover page. For the contents page I wanted pictures of students either in the classroom, doing actives or around the college so the readers will know straight away the sort of things the college has to offer. 

Photoshop Lesson!

Skills I learnt with using Photoshop:

• I learnt how to use layers in my work. Like locking layers such as the background so they wont move or change when you edit another part of your page.
• I learnt how to type and how to change the font, colour and size
• I learnt how to remove the background using the quick selection tool and how to refine the edge to make it look more professional. I also learnt how I can replace it with a fill colour.
• I learnt how to edit my photo lighting by using curves. I found this way effective as you can change different sections of the photo without it changing the whole thing.
• Also I got taught how to change the colour tone of photos

Preliminary Task Introduction and Ideas

For our preliminary task we were asked to create a front cover, and contents page for a college magazine. The magazine will appeal to teenagers, so I will make sure that the cover page looks fun and interesting to grab teenagers attention. To do this I will choose a fun photo that will make them want to read on. I will call the magazine college weekly, I chose this as its simple to remember and gets straight to the point. On the contents page I want it set out so its easy to read with relevant photos. 

Introduction and Aims

Introduction and Aims!

For my magazine I plan to focus on rock music, as this is the genre I know most about i've grown up with it and i'm constantly listen to it. I've been analyzing Kerrang magazine a lot and will use it as inspiration as the magazine im planning to make will be simular. 

Im planning on making my target audience age range from 16-24 years as most of the bands i'll be focusing on will be fairly new bands and therefore may not appeal to the older generation. The language i'll be using is quite informal and chatty engaging the readers. The magazines aimed at both genders because both genders listen to the music im focusing on, the color scheme for my magazine will be based on the type of music in this case it would be mostly dark. This magazines going to be aimed at all ethnicities as anyone can listen to the music and focused on and therefore can read my magazine. My socio economic would be C2-DE