Intial plans for my magazine

Price- £2.50

Frequency of publication- Monthly

Issue size ( number of pages) - 60

Regular content

• Fan Page
• Best live music
• Competion for gigs
• This weeks most listened to
• Most downloaded song on itunes
• Gig Guide
• Reviews
• News
• Interviews
• Rumours

Feature Articles

• King of leon back on tour
• Are alt-J following the footsteps of radiohead?
• Win jake bugg tickets
•  Bombay biycle club crack america
• Mumford and sons reviews on new album babel
• Whos sold the most albums this month?
• Free kasabian poster inside
• The killers announce more dates
• Interview with florance and the machine
• Are Cd's becoming a thing of the past?
• Foo Fighters rock leeds
• Liam gallagher is looking back in anger
• Radiohead announce world tour
• Take a look into Alex turners ipod
• Exculsive review on jake bugg supporting noel gallagher
• Empire of the sun announce new album
• MGMT split?
• The vaccines voted the favourtie act at leeds
• Red hot chilli peppers release 10 songs in 10 days
• Arctic monkeys wow audiances

Inital Ideas

The type of music magazine I am going to produce is an Indie magazine. The target audiance for my magazine is age 16 - 26 .

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What are the strength and weaknesses of both the product and your use of new media technologies

How did you use new media technologies in the construction of your media product

First of all I took photographs using a digital camera. I found this easy because I use digital camera in my spare time. I took many photos to use for my front cover, however I came to the conclusion of using a picture of a sixthform student standing in front of a vibrant background, for good mise-en-scene. I also took photos with a digital camera for my contents page. I then went on to use Photoshop to develop my front cover I found it relatively easy as I have used it before when doing my GCSE in media. The tools I used on photoshop were the 'typing tool'  which let me insert text and the 'image' tool which let me import photos. When editing my contents page I used Quark. I found this software much harder than any other program I have been challenged with so far. I had to resize my image and position it so that it would fit with my text. I used a presentation website called 'prezi'. This is a zooming presentation tool which makes the audience interact more with the work and, I felt, was very effective. I found this very hard to get used to at first, but now I feel more confident with it. I also used 'slideshare'. This is a website which allows users to upload microsoft presentation documents. I found this website very straight forward and simple to use.

Production of school magazine front cover and contents page

This is my final design I made some changes to my rough sketch. Such as the price and date was originally in the top right hand corner and on my final design I put it in the bottom left hand corner I did this because I wanted the tittle to be by itself. I also didn't include " do you want to be the smartest kid in school? " because I didn't think it was a good cover line. 

 

 

 

 

This is my final design of my contents page I only made one change compared to my rough sketch and that was adding the page number onto the images.

Photographs for school magazine

 

Here is a photo I used.

I didnt use this photo as its to close and isnt clear enough.

Here is the photo I used.

Here is a photo I used.

Here Is a photo i used.

Rough layout of contents page

Rough Layout of front cover

Planning Content

Planning Content

Plans for front cover

Plans for front cover

Title of school magazine 

•  SMART

Mise-en-scine

• Bold fonts
• Medium close up of image
• Plain background
• Simple  red colour scheme
• Coverlines

Coverlines

• Common room closed over catastrophy
• School gets scary for halloween
• 5 Revision tips
• School child geeks teacher
• Win 1000 iris
• School goes crazy for sports day
• Students trip to paris
• behind the scenes of peter pan
• Fresh new fruit machine