Audience feedback. Q.5

5. Which technical skills in Photoshop/InDesign could be improved?

Audience feedback. Q.4

4. What could be improved in the music magazine?

Audience feedback. Q.3

3. Which element or elements of the magazine do you  like?

Audience feedback. Q.2

2. How are the models represented throughout the magazine?

·         Is their any stereo-types?

·         Is their a range of different ethnicities

·         Male/ female?

·         Is it for young people?

·         Are fans of particular music portray in a certain way?

Audience feedback. Q.1

1. Who are the target audience?

·         Lifestyle

·         Age

·         Gender

·         Social class

·         Hobbies

·         Musical genre

Music magazine: front cover, contents page and double page spread.

Location photography

I decided to take some outside location pictures to include in my magazine. One is of other new upcoming artist and the other is mannequins  representing the winter fashion advertised in my magazine.

Photography: In the studio with my model

This photo was taken for the front cover of the magazine, I wanted to make my upcoming artist look into the camera so it would be as if she is loooking straight at the audience (viewers). I might not use this picture because she doesnt look happy in this photo. The whole point of the main image is to attract the audience, therefore she has to look welcoming and attractive.



I would be using this picture for my front cover as the main image. I think this picture looks professional because she is looking directly into the camera even though she is in a pose. also, she is smiling at the camera which is welcoming and would get the target audience to buy the magazine. In researching music magazines, I realised that the celebrities always look as if they are rich or have power so I choose the costume to be a fur coat. The effect the camera and lighting made on the white back drop inhances the picture quality.




I started taking pictures for my double page spread, my idea was to have many different pictures of the celebrity in different positions (poses). i think my model looked nice in this picture but the white drop back ground ruined the quality of the picture. In the making of the magazine I would crop my model in photoshop. 

This is a sample of what my pictures would look like if I crop out the creases that are being shown on the white back drop in the photography when edited in Photoshop.

 

Production schedule

Masthead: Improved

I changed my masthead font, style and colour for my front cover of the music magazine because it didnt go with my theme, and my peers said that it didnt go with my main image on my magazine. The masthead that was used before was to masculine and more or a grime genre magazine than a Hip-Hop magazine, the main image was really professional and high quality but the masthead in bubble writting made it look cheap which is not worth the amount of money my target audience would be paying. Also, looking back at my Hip-Hop magazine research this wasn't a coventional thing.

Plan: Front cover

I started to plan what I would put on my front cover of my magazine when I start designing it because it would make thing easy for my aslo I ask my peers if i have good ideas for my cover lines

Double page spread

Contents page

Front cover

Photoshoot Ideas: for my music magazine

I did research about what poses my model can do for my magazine when I am ready to do my photoshoot. I have a range of ideas but I just chose to show a few ideas so far. This is a range of ideas for my contents and double page spread.

Ideas for my music magazine

These are the magazine idea's I found relating to Hip-Hop magazines. I found ideas for a front cover, Contents page and a Double page spread. I would be using this research to help me make my magazine look realistic.