Final product

Front cover:





































Contents:









































Double Page Spread:




















Here is my final piece if you would like to see it a clearer, click on the image and it will open a bigger picture.

Out of Class work

Today I started and finished my double spread piece. I choose to keep the same bright colours from my previous pieces to contain that same house style. I kept with my original idea of interviewing fans and not a DJ as I believe dance lovers would be interested in fellow dance lover’s opinions. I am very happy with my double page spread and believe as I have struggled with the use of photoshop from the word go believe it is a much better piece then what I had imagined myself giving in when we began this project.

Lesson 14

In this lesson we again had use of a double lesson in a computer room, I choose to carry on working on my front cover and I completed it to what I believe was quite a high standard for my ability. And then moved on to working on my contents I wanted to keep the same house style but I hadn’t had chance to take my photo’s yet. So I was working and leaving empty spaces for where I planned to place my photographs. At the end of this lesson I had fulfilled my lesson objective I set myself of finishing my contents page and front cover (without pictures). I’m extremely happy with my progress using the programme photoshop as a week before this lesson I was seriously wondering how I was going to be able create a decent, realistic looking magazine.

Lesson 13

During today’s lesson we one again had access to a ICT suite, to begin to work on our final products. I went over my mock up plans for my dance magazine and began my uphill struggle against photo shop.

This is my mock up sketch what I have designed my music magazine to look like in the end:

<- FRONT COVER

<- CONTENTS PAGE

<- DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

I still had a blank page in front of me halfway through our double lesson as I was struggling with the techniques what were needed for success using photoshop. So I decided to look for some inspiration and browsed other dance magazines for ideas. When I had cooled down and just taken 10 minutes out to think I came back with many good ideas and had practically finished my front cover by the end of the lesson and was very pleased. The planning I had done did help once I had begun but at the start I struggled as I couldn’t complete tasks which I had imagined I could and was slightly disappointed.

Lesson 12

During this lesson we went over our plans from the previous lesson about our magazines and moved into greater detail on them. We thought about the text images contents and articles and what else we were going to entertain readers with.
I choose to just sketch up where I was going to place my images and story’s. I have researched dance magazines thoroughly and every page that I create will be thought through word for word and mage for image.
I choose to not follow in the steps of my peers as they were all doing interviews with top artists in the genre. But I choose to do a dance magazine and do an interview with raver’s who know the in’s and out’s of dance music and there artists.
The lesson again reminded me of the great thought and detail I will to need to put into my work to produce a successful piece of work.

Lesson 11

In this lesson we started to think about the content and layouts of our magazine, brainstorming anf noting down different ideas. This was quite challenging, as we had to think about the genre, title, captions and images that will need to be taken in order to make the magazine a success.Images, content, layout, font, style and colours are all needed to make a music magazine, and how we portray these is key to making an interaction with our audiences.There has to be a house style, in order to keep the readers attracted and in line with the magazine and how it is presenting its information. The magazine's have to be thought about with great detail, before the producing of the final product starts to take place.Here, we have learnt how important it is to think about every aspect in detail in order to produce a magazine which has a significant impact on its readers and will make them want to read it again.

Lesson 10

During this lesson we were given the chance to use a computer room which gave us the opportunity to create a power point presentation about a music magazine of our choice। The magazine which I chose to produce a presentation on was NME- New Musical Express which is an indie rock magazine this showed me how indie rock music was portrayed to its target audience and how they show the different varieties of bands in different manors। we had to show what genre the magazine was, how successful it was through circulation and reading figures as well its target audience and how it began and how it got to where it is today. I really enjoyed this lesson and thrived at the fact of having to find things out with a set time frame as we had to complete this in our double lesson. This is my presentation:

Lesson 9

During this lesson we were set the task of writing an exam style essay, under exam conditions. It was about magazines print and online versions and they targeted there specific audiences. This gave us chance to show what we had learned over the past few weeks. It gave us a chance to think about what were the different things the different types of magazine offered. I discovered the Hip Hop Weekly, offered a ridiculous amount more in there print version, and there online magazine offered little more than there front cover story on there print version. It was certainly the worst online version to a magazine I have ever seen. This surprised me as print versions have a much lower limit of things they are able to do compared to online versions.

This task created the chance for me to really thing about the differences between online and print versions of magazines it gave me valuable insight in how they attempt to keep the same house style through both versions.