2. Everything that I have researched and made I have posted onto my blog. To use
blogger I would log in and click on the ‘AS Media Studies blog. I then would
click onto the orange button with a pencil on it to create a new blog post.
All my posts were on one page so that I could edit or delete the posts that
needed altering.
3. To upload a file onto my blog I had to convert the to a
JPEG file, which turned the document into an image.
I would then click on the new post button on the
blogger website and click on upload file/files.
To upload a video I copied and pasted the link of a
song/video off YouTube and then the video would
compose onto my blog.
4. To create my masthead I went on the website
www.dafont.com to create the edgy font of writing that I
wanted my front cover to have as it is representative of
the alternative rock genre. .
I also decided to use this website to create
titles for my contents page and double
page spread. I chose to do this because it
stands out more on the page compared to
the main body of text.
5. I had never used Photoshop before so the whole making of
my magazine process I found difficult. First of all I had to
chose the setting of how I wanted my page and I used the
international A4 format. This meant that when I printed off
my magazine front cover it was the normal A4 size.
I started to create my magazine by following music magazine
conventions. First of all I took my images.
This is the blank
document that I
started off with.
6. To create my front cover I decreased the brightness of my image to make the text
stand out more on the page. I used the crop tool and the magic wand tool to
delete the white background away from the titles that I uploaded onto Photoshop.
To add a stroke around my words and images I got to chose how think I wanted it
to be and the colour. This was helpful because where my background image is
quite dark I could add a think white stroke onto a word/title to make it stand out
more. As you can see I have added a stroke onto my main feature story.
For the plug I placed a red circle on top of a white
circle to keep the consistency of having a white
stroke around the text. I had the verb ‘win’
foregrounded in capital letters and in yellow to
make it stand out on the page. This would help
attract my target audience as there was a chance to
win festival tickets. Also it was a good choice to use
yellow because I put the Leeds Reading logo onto
my front cover which happened to be red and
yellow.
7. The contents page I found the most difficult out of all three pages to create, this
was because I didn’t know what to post on it. To overcome this I did further
research into existing NME contents pages. On my contents page I uploaded
another image of Lauryn as she was my main feature story so she had to take up
the most room on the contents page as well. I followed the conventions of NME
and made a column where all the main feature stories from the front cover were
listed and had brief descriptions. I used the crop and the magic want tool to
delete the white pace behind the titles.
To fill in the white space on the page I added my google mock-ups and
my first draft of my front cover and resized them by using the scale
button and holding down the control button on the keyboard.
8. For my double page spread I used the feature story which was about Lauryn. For
my main body of text I created that on Microsoft Publisher to ensure that I had
the conventions of columns. I chose the international A3 paper on Photoshop on
settings so that when I print off my double page spread it actually looks like one. I
followed conventions for my double page spread and cut around an image of
Lauryn using the lasso tool. I created a giant ‘L’ to go underneath the main body
of text using the scale tool and the crop and magic wand tool. I also made a stand
first by getting the letter ‘L’ off dafont and adding it onto my main body of text
once I added that onto my double page spread. I did this by saving my Photoshop
document as a jpeg file and uploading it onto publisher to finally have created my
double page spread.
