This document provides information about a case study that Liam Geary is doing for his BTEC Media course. It involves designing a magazine in Photoshop about electronic dance music. The summary discusses what magazines are, why people read them, the genre of EDM that Liam's magazine will focus on, competitors in that space, initial ideas and sketches for the cover and contents, and plans for photos to include on the cover using a green screen.

1. UNIT 21 – Case Study
LIAM GEARY
BTEC MEDIA

2. What is a magazine:
 Magazines may be referred to as press publications
because articles are often written by journalists, who
gather information from various sources and
synthesize it into their stories or reports.
 Although a journalist may specialize in a particular
type of reporting, journalists are not usually scholars.
The audience for articles in magazines is usually the
general public.
 Articles in magazines are often a good way to gain
an overview of your topic, but will seldom give full
information on where the author found the
information included. That is, a bibliography of
sources is generally not included.

3. Why read magazines:
 Reading magazines is normally a good use of
entertainment or public learning. Magazines are
designed as reading sources but over the years
they have changed dramatically in to
entertainment and gossip sources. The main
examples are:
 To Learn
 To be entertained

4. My Magazine:
 I will be designing a Magazine which will
include front/back cover and a selective
range of pages. I will design it in
Photoshop which is digital designing
software.
 The topic is Electronic Dance music and
contains both articles for entertainment
and learning attributes

5. Competitors:
 These three magazines are the biggest on the
market currently (2015). Their front covers include
a main image which stands outs from the rest.
 They also include the biggest and most featured
articles on the covers.

6. DESIGN:
House style:
The two fonts
and colours
they use. Not
too
confusing.
Masthead: Bold
title and eye
catching.
Left-side third: Left
side of the cover
showing the big
articles inside of the
magazine.
No strapline:
Slogan.
Price to
compact inside
the barcode
area.
Anchoring text, Info
out the picture and
why its there.
Airbrushed.

7. Initial Ideas:

8. Cover Sketch-up:

9. Contents Sketch-up:

10. Personnel:
 Steve Akoi & Barely Alive are the two
model which will be used in images. Due
to photographic problems I can not take
these pictures. Therefore I have been
given permission to use these in my
personal project by the artists them
selves. The front cover will be an image I
have taken.

11. Planning images:
 For my magazines front cover I will be
using a 600D. The image will have to be
cut out to make it easier I will be using a
green screen for the foreground.
 Once the image has been taking I will
import it in to Photoshop and remove the
green area. I will then be left with a cut
out which I can place on the front cover.