Target Audience evaluations and opinions of my Music Magazine Double Page Spread

Created with Padlet

http://padlet.com/wall/mk9ms8l3wj

I have created this wall to get any extra feedback or opinions from my target audience on what they think of my final T10T magazine double page spread.

Target Audience evaluations and opinions of my Music Magazine Contents Page

Created with Padlet

http://padlet.com/wall/zz12kqifbh

I have created this wall to get any extra feedback or opinions from my target audience on what they think of my final T10T magazine contents page.

Target Audience evaluations and opinions of my Music Magazine FRONT COVER

Created with Padlet

http://padlet.com/wall/johnsfrontcover

I have created this wall to get any extra feedback or opinions from my target audience on what they think of my final T10T magazine front cover. 

Evaluation

Finalmediaeval2 from johnwood94

Final Double Page Spread

This is now my final version on my double page spread, it is still similar to my other versions of it but I now feel that this is the most professional looking version.

Final Contents Page

This is now my final version on my contents page, after going through my other versions I have now put this final version together as I feel that it looks best in this way.

I took inspiration from this NME magazine but still using my colour scheme, of the blue, black and greys. I have made it similar with having my main heading at the top then all of the news down the right hand side of the page. I have put a 'Chart List' down the side of the left hand side of the page as I though this would be very effective due to it being a 'Charts' music magazine. I also got the idea of adding the 'subscribe' to this magazine box at this bottom as it makes it seem more realistic.  

FINAL FRONT COVER

This is now my final front cover, after evaluating the rest of my front covers I have made my final piece. The reason I have done it in this way is because I believe it looks most professional in this way and when I have asked my friends what they think is best I have gone and used their tips and I have now produced this.
As you can see the front covers are both very similar, I have used the blue, grey, black and white theme as I think It looks really good. I have listed names of artists down the side of the page just like this vibe front cover but I have made mine much bigger so that it stands out more to give it more of a professional look to it.

Contents Page

Here is my first draft of my contents page, i did not edit any photos for this contents page as i felt that the images i had taken using my camera looked fine as they were. I have added a list of the top songs of that month on the page as i am doing a 'chart music' magazine and thought this would be very suitable.

Here is my second draft of my contents, i did not many many changes to it, but what i did was i asked my fellow class mates what they thought and they said to me that i should put page numbers on the pictures to tell people where i can find these images in the rest of the magazine, i thought this was a great idea so i went and produced this.

Contents Page Mock Up

Here is shown my contents page 'mock up'. As shown below my mock up is another contents page magazine, i was inspired by looking at this and i am going to try and create my magazine to be very similar to this.

Double Page Spread first Draft

Double Page Spread Photo Edits

For this image I used photo shop to edit it. I used the polygon lasso tool and highlighted the background of the image, I then used the gradient tool to change the colour of the background to white faded into blue.

Double Page Spread Mock Up

Front Cover of Magazine

This is my first design of my front cover. I have used the blue, white and black colour scheme as I feel it looks very good when they are all used together. I created this front cover by using photo shop. I first of all created my main image and background then started putting everything else on top it them. I created the text by using cool text, i looked through a variety of texts and believe these where the best ones for my magazine.

This is my second draft of my front cover. I felt that the stars next to the main heading on the page were slightly tacky and did not look that good so i got rid of them completely off the page. I then made the bar code smaller to make it look more professional. I also made the MAST HEAD bigger to make it stand out more from the rest of the page as i believe it also looks better.

Front Cover Mock Up

Photo Edits

This is the image I will be using for my front cover, to edit this image I used the program photo shop. The first thing I did was crop it using the 'crop tool' this was to just generally make the image look better. I then used the polygon lasso to highlight the person in the image, after that i changed the images adjustments to black and white which is very simple. I then did the same for the background, but instead making it black and white I edited the image by using the colour balance tool and changed it to a blue background. to finish it off i made the image brighter to give the person a shine on there face as I think it makes them look better.

Mast head ideas for magazine

The following masthead i designed where created using www.cooltext.com where i looked through each text design and picked my two favourite which i felt would go best with my magazine.

I decided to go with the bottom design as i felt it was the most necessary for my magazine, it is bold and which and on a blue background it will stand out very well compared to the rest of the magazine front cover.

Photo Shoot Images

These are the following images i took for my magazine front cover, double page spread and contents page. I will be editing these images trying to see which ones look best for each page of my magazine.

Photo Shoot Planning for my magazine

I have planned to do my photography shoo for my chart music magazine on the 3rd of April. I have will be using my friend to take photos of her for my front cover which will be taking on a plain wall at my house. This took a while asi had to try taking the photo in all different angles trying to find the best shot for my magazine. I then took another friend of mine to a bridge overlooking the country side trying to get an image with a great view behind her. This went very well as it only took to shots to get the best possible image. Last of all i got more of my friends to come to my house so i can take photos of them generally just messing around so i could catch them in action and also to give it an unplanned effect to the photo. I have been inspired by vibe magazine, i have looked through its magazines and it has helped me to decide what type of shots i want for my magazine.

Contents Page analysis

 The reason i have chosen to analyse this magazine contents page is because i am going to try and design mine so that it is very similar. I will be trying to make my chosen image stand out compared to the rest of the page as shown on this contents and all have my contents text similar but using a different colour scheme.

Double Page Spread Analysis

I have chosen to analyse these to double page spreads as i was mine to be similar, as shown in the second image it has the main images covering all of the first page then a small article on the right hand side, this is the type of look i will be trying to achieve when creating my magazine.

Magazine front pages analysis

I have chosen to analyse these to magazines as the main image on them both covers most of the page, this is the type of thing  i will be trying to achieve when creating my magazine front cover. I will be taking a close up of a person for the front cover then editing to my chosen them.

Name ideas for my magazine

The type of things I thought of when trying to find a name for my chart music magazine were:

sound

music

charts

tunes

top 10

beat

loud

With all of these words I came up with possible magazine names as shown below:

TOPMusic

T10T

TUNE

The final name i decided to call my magazine was 'T10T' which stands for 'Top 10 Tunes'. I chose this name as I think it is very simple yet clever to call a chart music magazine.