rearranging my front cover

After looking at my magazine again, i have decided that i want to rearrange the layout of the front page. When i previously designed my front cover, i decided that i was not going to stick to the normal conventions of a music magazine, arranged the text on the front cover across the bottom of the page, as opposed to down the left hand side. Having looked back, i can see that my magazine would look better, if i had stuck to the conventions, so i am going to rearrange the front cover. 

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I have also been looking at some more tutorials in Photoshop, to design the layout, background for my second double page spread. Here are some examples of ones that i have found, that i am interested in trying out:

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-manipulation/dazzling-dance-photo-manipulation.html

Another one that caught my eye was this one:

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-effects/urban-ink-photo-effect.html

I chose a photo of Poppy and tried out this tutorial on it. Below is the image from the example from the tutorial, and below that are screen grabs of me making my version and the final image.

I have written another article to go in my magazine. I have decided to do this article in a slightly different format to my interview, which is what my other article was. The article is called "10 things you didn't know about Poppy". After finding and article in the October 2009 edition of Q magazine named "200 things you didn't know about the Beatles". The article from Q is slightly different, as it is mainly things you didn't know about the whole band, as opposed to just one person. I have chosen my "things that you didn't know" to be things mainly about Poppy's childhood.

Below is a list of the things i am going to put on the page:

1. Grew up with 4 dogs, 7 chickens, 2 horses, and a cow on a farm in surrey.

2. Spent her entire childhood watching Grease at least 3 times a week.

3. Once thought it was fashionable to wear a bright yellow bomber jacket.

4. Still has a poster of Michael Jackson in her bedroom at home.

5. Still finds it difficult to tell the time on an analogue clock.

6. As a child, Her ambition was to work in a bakery.

7. Her initial contact with fame was being a model for local magazines, and gradually being spotted for bigger and more popular fashion magazines.

8. Most memorable moment before the age of 10 was meeting the spice girls, at the age of 8, at a christmas shopping event in london.

9. She met her current boyfriend, Jack Hughes, at school at the age of 15.

10. Her Favourite colour is blue, as it reminds of childhood holidays to Florida, and the colour of the sea there.

to do list

hi jaz ok so below is the criteria

There is proficient research into similar products and a potential target audience.

Print: In order to achieve this you need to analyse at least 15 music magazines bearing in mind we are creating just the front cover, contents and a double page spread so just focus on these when you analyse them. Focus on what you think looks good/ bad and why. Either scan in the magazine pages or find them online.Target audience is evident in the selection of the genre of music magazine you will be making, and a limited look at the origins of the magazines and then upload this to your blog.

• There is proficient organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props.

Print:In order to achieve this you need to look at the conventions associated with each section you need to design, for example the front cover is usually shot in a studio, so with this in mind you should use the studio and your main actor/actress pretending to be the lead singer of a group or band can be photographed, so shooting in the studio in front of the green screen is a must, intial shots of this type need to take place with maybe a contact sheet being generated and uploaded to your blog. I would like to see 6-7 location shots and uploaded with an analysis about why you have selected it. Add in the costumes and props as a list.

• There is proficient work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding

Print: in order to achieve this you need to complete 4-5 drafts of your music magazine pages for example, 4 versions of your front cover at various stages of completion use screen grabs and scanned in sketches, culminating in a final design which shows a process of development, this applies to the contents page and the double page spread. Grid references need to be completed and posts need to be created to support your planning film.

• Time management is good.In order to achieve this all deadlines have been met.

• There is proficient use of digital technology or ICT in the presentation. In order to achieve this level you have made a minimum of 60 posts the level of written work is good and you have checked your spelling and grama, however this is not important enough to lose marks, but it would still be advisable to read through your posts.

Evaluation

EVALUATION CRITERIA
Candidates will evaluate their work electronically. This MUST contain an element of audience feedback and may be either integrated with the presentation of the research and planning material or may be presented separately. Where candidates have worked in a group, the evaluation may be presented individually or collectively but the teacher must allocate a mark according the contribution/level of understanding demonstrated by the individual candidate.

The questions that must be addressed in the evaluation are:
1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2.How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3.What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4.Who would be the audience for your media product?
5.How did you attract/address your audience?
6.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7.Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Level 4 16–20 marks
Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production.
Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes.
Excellent understanding of their development from preliminary to full task.
Excellent ability to communicate.
Excellent skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation

After spending long time deciding on a name for my magazine, I have decided to call it VOLUME. I have been looking through fonts to see which one i think is most suitable to use as my masthead. Here are examples of fonts that i am considering.

I have spent the past few weeks, preparing for the construction of my music magazine. After focusing on TV dramas for a while, I held my Photoshoot on the 9th February, I have selected suitable photos that i can use in my magazine, and have started to edit them. I have also found lots of photoshop tutorials on the internet, which are quite fun to do, and look rally professional. I have had a go at trying to do some, and i think that i will use one or maybe more in my magazine. My favourite one so far:

I think i am going to use this as a background for my double page spread. I found the tutorial for this at: http://www.photoshopstar.com/graphics/making-funny-disco-style-background/