Photo Analysis

After taking photos on friday, I have assessed 6 of my photos to see which would be better for the front cover. This was my result.

Drafts of music magazine

These are the drafts of my Front cover and contents page. The reason that they are so bare and haven't got much detail on is because I am not a talented artist so I cannot make them look good so I made sure that it is still good to use and it will be understandable.

Photo Shoot Plan

To make my front cover as professional as I can make them, I will be taking a photo shoot to make sure that I get the best photo for my front cover. 

For my model, I will be using my friend, Shane Jackson, he will be having an elated as he will be doing this expression for the main topic, which is the college results. I will take one in the vale drama studio and one under a tree to symbolise the start of the growth into something special.

He will be wearing a Black tee and a grey hoodie. This is good as my colour scheme is yellow, blue, black and white.

To enhance his image, he will be having blusher applied and I will use brown eyeliner to help give the face a brighter look.

To make the picture even better and to also more appropriate, Shane will also be holding his results sheet to make it refer to the main topic.

Colour scheme

The colour scheme in which I would is of course yellow, blue, white and black. The college colours will be arranged in such a way on the front cover that the masthead colouring will be blue and the background colours will be a fade of black and white. The side text in which will denote the subjects or topics which will be included in the magazine. This will all be onto the background which will have a model student with a medium close-up photo.

Research and my updated ideas

After researching cover pages and contents pages, I have decided to have a front cover with two topics. The front cover will have the topics quite small so they don't draw attention away from the model on the front cover. The contents page will be of a minimalistic fashion with topics, page numbers and photos to give an understanding on the basic level. The colouring will be fixed to yellow, blue, black and white. This is because those are the colours of the college. I will upload my drafts to explain in a few days.

Researching magazines 2

After researching the cover pages of professional magazines, I started to research contents pages so that I cold gain ideas for my contents page. I found two examples in which have given me ideas and extra tips for my own.
This contents page is from an actual sixth form magazine made by the students. This i good as it gives an idea as to what other people my age like to have in  contents page.One point I can make on this is that images is good as it can give extra information on what the topic is in case people get confused. This idea I will use.

The below contents page is from another sixth form magazine in which the college has been nominated for multiple rewards for their magazines.

I like this one as it shows how a contents page doesn't always have to be big and flashy. I will take this into account and make it seem basic. I may also include some basic news on the same page. just to give a more minimalistic feel to it.

Researching magazines

To help me design my college magazine I have found 3 examples of past magazines with one being a professional college magazine. This is good as it gives me an insight as to what professionals use and how they lay the cover out.
The magazine below is important as it is a professional college magazine targeted at American college students. This is appropriate as it is giving me an insight to what subjects they would have on the front page. It is also the first magazine to ever have an African-American person on the front cover (1968).

 The magazine below is good as it is simple and doesn't give much away. This could be a selling point as people will pick it up and read whats inside. This could also be a negative as people aren't as likely to just pick up and read in this day and age. If the subject aren't on the front, people might just ignore it.

 This magazine is good as it is very bright and appealing. The apple logo with the Barbed wire shows how that technology is still quite new and the barbed wire symbolises the unknown territory we have not gone to yet. The placement of the subjects is quite good as it doesn't bring attention away from the rest of the magazine cover. I may take tis idea into account later on.

Fonts for Masthead

Today I decided to use 'College Times' for my Masthead, but I needed to use an interesting font with it.
I have put 12 fonts onto the word 'College Times' to see which was better... Here are my results!
After looking at these I think that I will use Hobo Std as the font for my Masthead.

Word Cloud

I was thinking of some words I could use in my college magazine and decided to do a word cloud!
Here it is:

Initial ideas to the magazines

Today I have been thinking about different ideas of how to start on the college magazine and the future music magazine I will be doing. I came with enough ideas and description that I converted it to a powerpoint! http://www.slideshare.net/Paddy1997/initial-ideas-in-as-media

Evaluation of survey

Earlier I posted a URL of a prezi showing my results. My presentation could be changed in many ways.
   For example, my questions were very open-ended leading to some irrelevant and offensive answers which had to be taken out. I can stop this from happening again by being more specific with my questions. I could even add fixed answers for people to choose from.
   Slang has been seen in my presentation in multiple places causing it to appear less professional. I can solve this issue by using formal language with my presentation.
   In some slides I have not explained the end result of that questions findings. This can cause people to get confused and not understand. I will solve this by giving an overview after every questions's results.
   If I keep to these points then this can make my presentations even better and give them a more professional touch to them.

Survey

On wednesday I did a survey to find the most popular choices of what people would like to see in a
college magazine. Over the past few days I found 9 different people and asked them to fill in the survey to give me ideas of what to use.
I then looked at all my results and presented the results in a prezi.
 Here is the prezi - http://prezi.com/ai-4-93c726l/intial-ideas-for-my-colllege-magazine/

The Brief

Print

Preliminary exercise: using DtP and an image manipulation program, produc the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.
Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style).
All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of four images per candidate