Anaylsis of a music magazine

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Local News stand

This image is of a news stand at local news agent near where i live. This image consist both children’s magazines and adult’s magazines. The layout for a genre is completely different. For the children’s magazines the layout of magazines consist of a free  freebies as clearly shown on the image . This will draw the attract the attention of customer and buyers urge  them to buy it. Also for the children’s magazines they have used bright colours. The titles of the magazines are short and big so it’s easy to remember and read. The children’s magazines have also been put at the bottom so it’s easier for them to see and reach. For the adults magazines they have been placed higher so they can get a direct view of them these magazines look more sophisticated. The magazine has big and bold letters so it’s easy and eye catching. The magazines have got all the famous celebrities images on them. The magazines layout is in the left third this is where the left third of the magazine is shown. This is where the cover lines/taglines are places also the image is more towards the left side so its clear to see whom the magazines will be about.

Distributions 

Magazine distribution is a delivery to centers  The method works on what is know as "sale or return",which the distributor gives a set number of magazine to the store, the remaining magazines are returned to the distributor without any cost at all. It is a risk free and attracts prospect to the retailer, but consequences to this method can be very costly and waste a large amount of resources such as ecological  costs. online magazine subscriptions, or 'ezine' are cost effective, and doesn't require the cost of sale and return as well as being instantly available to the buyer. Other means of distribution is subscription via tablet devices such the Kindle Fire, or Apple product such as ipad, iphone or ipod touch, they allow access to exclusive apps New! OK! ELLE, Cosmopolitan.

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production schedule

Contents Page

School Magazine

 

School Magazine Evaulation

 One of my individual tasks was to create my own front cover and contents page for a college magazine. Once I had completed the task, I was able to analyse my strengths, weaknesses and what I need to improve on.

What went well?

I did well at the photography, arranging the magazine features on the front cover and research.I had taken this image using a Canon 600D.The photograph came out clear and I was pleased with how the photograph came out.  As part of my plan for the front cover I wanted to add an anchorage. An anchorage adds meaning. E.g. an image that relates to the texts. The text for my anchorage was “ Are you dressed for the job”

What I did well at - Researching

I did some research on what college magazines contain in their contents page and what they have on the front cover. As any other college magazine, they always have a photograph of the student as the front cover – the student is taken from a medium shot (from the waist up), the student looking towards the audience, smiling to give a warm feeling and appeal the audience. If the model isn’t looking to the camera /audience then there will normally be an anchorage to relate to the models actions.

What went well: Arranging the magazine features

I learnt to name and analyse magazine features, especially the main features included. In my magazine I included, an anchorage, barcode and teasers. I arranged the page so that the teasers are on the right hand side and the anchorage is on the left hand side near the image. I only had three sections on my front cover because I didn’t want to make the front over crowed with text. I had made the heading large so that it was easy for viewers for read and make the magazine stand out. I was able to use the space provided, I filled up the pages by adding large images, large text and giving the background a colour. I particular found that the contents page went well as the contents page was presentable. It has all the contents page requirements: subheadings, images and a bold title.

What do I need to improve on?

Completing the task I was able to recognise my weakness through the task. What I need to improve on the most is the placement of adverts. On the contents page, I was confused of where to place the advert – I found this a difficulty as I didn’t want the advert to overlapping anything. For me to avoid me overlapping anything I placed the advert in the middle of the page where there was gap, where it was easier to notice.

Key Points of development.

1.      It is important to have a target audience for your magazine as that it’s relevant to the audience. E.g. if you do a magazine targeted to women, you would do articles or pages about fashion (this is something that women like)

2.      It’s also required to do research on what appeals the audience; this makes it easier on how to grab the audience’s attention. It can be anything from freebies to competition that people may take part in

Fresher (school magazine construction)

Today i have stared doing my front cover for my school magazine

We over-viewed Photoshop within lesson today. Here are some useful commands i learned to assist me in creating my magazine cover.

• ·         H selects the hand tool which allows you to navigate around the document without moving anything. Holding the CTRL key allow you to zoom in with this tool, while Alt zooms out. This is particularly useful, as cover image need to be zoomed into, and allows an easier means to erase areas of the masthead from main image.
• ·         E selects the Eraser tool, which allows you to clear up content, essential in removing overlay masthead from main image.
• ·         X switches the fore and background colours scheme, along with a background colour, and a general conventional maximum of three.
• ·         [this command decreases the brush size, including tools such as the eraser, this allows access to more constrained areas with greater ease.
• ·         ] an inverse of the above
• ·         Ctrl – 0 fits the document on screen, this is useful to see the cover a whole quickly and efficiently, and as a means to take screenshots, as well as seeing how the product looks like.
• ·         Ctrl-Alt-Shift-N creates a new layer at the top of command area, magazine covers consist of many layer so this is very useful.
• ·         Ctrl-Z undoes the later command, a way to remove mistakes. Ctrl-Alt-Z  removes any commands prior.
• ·         Ctrl – T uses the Free Transform features features of Photoshop, which is often used to change the size for type or images as part of the cover, holding shift when dragging uses the constrain command, which evenly increase or decreases the size of the item, this keeps images and fonts looking professional.
• ·         F un hides the ruler fuction, this is useful for aligning things and creating margins

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