2. At the start of my project I began to look into different music magazines. I compared
different magazines to see what was similar and what was different. I had to think
about why each magazine looked the way it did and how they made it appealing to
their target audience.
I then created a questionnaire that I then gave out to the people around college, as they
would be my target audience. I found that the majority of students where in to rock
music and preferred to use the internet than read. This would be a problem if I was
going to sell my magazine.
3. Using DaFont I looked at possible
fonts I would use for my logo. I
chose ‘The Rock’ as my title as it
was simple and sums up the content
of the magazine, rock music. I came
up with various style which I then
had to pick one from. At the start of
my search for a logo I was looking
for something rough and not to
formal. Once I found what I created
the logo that I wanted. I made this
in Illustrator, where I added a
guitar and microphone. Once I
started making the magazine I
found that because the logo was so
tall it wouldn’t fit at the top of the
page, so I started again and found a
plain logo which was more flexible
with what I was making.
4. When making my magazine cover I had to pick one of many photos from my photo shoot.
Once I had chosen my final image I made the image black and white as the photo wasn’t very
clear. This give it an old camera effect which I think works well as the front cover. After, I
copied the image and began to cut round the person using the magic wand tool, to get rid of
the un-wanted part of the image. I planned to put the logo behind the person but in-front of
the background. Once the background was finished I began to add cover lines and main
sells. I also added the date and issue number in the top right hand corner. Finally I added a
barcode in the bottom left hand corner.
5. For my contents page I did a similar method to my front cover. I started by
choosing two photos from the photos shoot and then I used the magic wand
tool to go round each photo. I then made them smaller and but them both in
in opposite corners. Once this was done I chose to make the background a
dark blue and add black rectangles where I would but text and titles. I
began to add text to the contents page keeping the house style of font. I
decided to layer the images in the contents so that the photos where behind
the text.
6. For my double page spread I decided to keep the same colour background and keep
the black rectangle behind the title. The font was also kept the same to keep to the
house style. I wrote the article in Microsoft Word and then copied and pasted it into
to the Photoshop document. I put the text into columns just like the magazines I
have looked into.
I decided that I would add three images to this double page spread, so I picked 3
photos and edited them all in the same way. I decided to use the patch work filter
which give it an old style coloured photo look. This also hid the problem with the
blur. Then I created a black box and layered it behind each photo so they would
stand out and it would give each photo a nice clean frame.
7. Strengths Weaknesses
• I have kept to
a house style
throughout
the magazine
• I took a good
amount of
photos so I
had many to
choose from
• The photos I have
taken were very
blurry, but I tried to
make up for it by
editing them
• I struggled to fit text
on to the double
page spread, so I
should think about
the orientation and
the amount of text
next time.
