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Teacher Feedback
What do you like about my project at this stage?

• Clear and consistent style - black/white/grey effect
• Images on contents page
• Quote design on DPS

What could be improved?

• Manufactured/blasphemy on FC - is it clear to the reader what this is about?
• Blurry FC image of H.Williams
• Wording on bar code too big
• Cutting out of H.Williams/blurry image on contents
• Lighting on photographs of albums

Student Feedback
Front Cover Positives:

• Image is good and style of mag name
• Nice choice for title
• Good photos
• Layout is really good

Front Cover Improvements:

• Images at the bottom aren't clear
• Don't like the blue possibly use red?
• Change of background might work better
• Text might look better embossed
• Hayley Williams on front page looks a bit out of place

Contents Page Positives:

• Consistent colours
• Images are good
• Image - lovely - original
• Very clear house style
• Love how you listed the contents
• Variety of texts fits in genre well

Contents Page Improvements:

• Page numbers are bitty
• Blurry main photograph
• Could use the colour red on the contents page? as its been used on front cover and DPS
• Images of albums look cut off

Double Page Spread Positives:

• Generally really good
• Love the image and fonts
• Well layed out DPS
• Background works well and it fits the house style

Double Page Spread Improvements:

• Hard to see text against red
• I don't like the red and yellow paint covers the writing and makes it hard to read
• Writing could be in three columns
• Make the text more clear larger?
• Theres a lot of empty space
• Make the "Paramore Will" a bit bigger

On my double page spread the red and yellow was not meant to be there. The file didn't work when i tried to open it so when we finally got it working it was in a non editable format and for some reason had added the colours. On the real version this wont be on there.

Front Cover Draft

Contents Page Draft

Double Page Spread Draft

Diary Entry

 

Diary Entry Week 4

Music Magazine

I have finished the first draft of my magazine and have gained feedback on it. I will be uploading this to my blog. I looked over the feedback and have started writing notes on how things could be improved. I have decided to retake my picture as it has been said on my feedback that my front cover picture and my contents page picture are noticeably blurry. I feel I may change my ideas for pictures as it has been said that she should show a lot more attitude in the pictures as she gives on that persona in real life. I will incorporate this into my new pictures. I have also noticed that I have made careless errors on my draft as I have made several spelling and punctuation mistakes which I will change.

Diary Entry

Diary Entry Week 3

Music Magazine

I am in the process of completing the first draft of my magazine. I have taken my final pictures and inserted them onto the front page and contents page. I felt that using white for the majority of my magazine might not have worked, but I have incorporated some designs that are fitting the topic I am writing my article on onto the space and it looks good. I have changed around my contents page and it looks more like the genre I am portraying. I have also added a new colour and exchanged blue for dark grey as it fits the genre better. I have written my article for the double page spread and I had a look at others that had been written in my style model to help me with my own and I am happy with what I have written and feel it works well for the piece.  Overall I am happy with my first draft and feel it has come together well and all I have to do now is add the finishing touches such as the barcode.

Diary Entry

Diary Entry Week 2

Music Magazine

I have now taken my pictures and I have filtered through the ones I need. I have restarted my designs that I had created on the computer as they did not look very professional. I have started to insert the pictures and they work well and I feel I have chosen the write style model to work with. I chose a model that looked similar to the artist I was using for the front cover and styled her to look more like her. The images work well but some are blurry which I will have to alter. I feel I am in the process of creating something I can be proud of and I am altering things quite regularly but the elements are starting to come together.

Diary Entry

Diary Entry Week 1

Music Magazine

After planning my magazine I have started to design it. I have started to design the front cover after making my initial designs. I have been looking at my initial designs and have been using them as a guide for my first draft. I have also started to design my contents page and double page spread making the bare skeleton of each ready to insert my pictures later on in the week which I have planned. I have tried to incorporate the colour blue in my initial designs as I feel it is different and unique to this genre (rock) but I’m not quite sure whether it will work with the overall layout.

Photo Planning Sheet

Initial Designs - Double Page Spread

Initial Designs - Contents Page

Initial Designs - Front Cover

Audience Analysis

Questionnaire Results:	Highlighted= Most Popular Answer
What do you like to read about in magazines?
Music	6
Films /Films reviews	3
News	5
Celebrities	5
Clothes	1
New Artists	5
Sport	3
Interviews	5
Festivals	1
What genre of music do you like?
Rock	8
Indie	6
Pop Punk	3
Alternative	10
The Charts	1
Reggae	1
R+B	1
What do you like about your favourite magazine?
Colour Scheme	9
Images	6
Edgy	2
Eye Catching	3
Informative	1
Interviews/Reviews	7
Font style	1
New Artists/Albums	1
Layout	1
What grabs you attention when you look at a magazine cover?
Images	13
Headings	10
Sub Headings	3
Colour Scheme	6
Font	2
Artists	1
What colour scheme do you prefer?
Red, White and Black	3
Blue, White and Black	1
Blue and White	2
Red and White	4
Pink and White	1
Black and White	3
Black and Red	2
Grey, White and Red	1
Gold , Red and White	1
Bright	1
Do you prefer a lot of information on the front cover or not?
Yes	4
No	16
What makes you buy a magazine?
Front Cover	5
Headings	2
Artists	14
Genre	1
Images	1
Would you prefer a lot of information about the magazine included on the contents page or not?
Yes	13
No	7
Do you have any musical role models?
Yes	16
No	4
Would you buy a magazine if they were on the cover?
Yes	16
No	4
Do you like interviews to be included in the magazine of bands etc?
Yes	20
No	0
Do you like to read about new, up and coming artists?
Yes	20
No	0
How would you like the contents page to be laid out? Blocky or image dominated?
Blocky	11
Image Dominated	9
Would you prefer the font of the title to be bold?
Yes	19
No	1
What colour would prefer the font to be?
Red	6
White	7
Black	7
Do you like question and answer articles?
Yes	16
No	4
Do you like to read reviews of albums and singles?
Yes	19
No	1
Do you prefer the whole of the front cover to be dominated by an image?
Yes	14
No	6
How do you prefer a double page spread to be laid out? Image over both pages or on one?
Over Both	11
On One	9