The document discusses the creation of a magazine focused on rock music. It describes how the author studied other magazines for inspiration on layout and content. A survey of late teens and young adults informed the target audience of rock music fans. Photos were taken to convey the rock theme. The author learned new skills in Photoshop, especially the lasso tool, and how to make the magazine seem professional by studying other music publications.

2. After studying other well-established magazines, it gave me inspirations for the creation and
production of my magazine
This contents page for Q
magazine gave me
The layout of my inspirations for my
magazine front cover magazine. It gave me
resembles this Q ideas on what to include
magazine front cover. I in my magazine actual
placed the name of the contents of the contents
magazine right at the top page. It showed me the
of the page with a picture information that I needed
of the main person to include in the
featured in the magazine magazine.
at the centre of the It also gave me ideas on
magazine. I also go the the layout of it. I got the
idea of having the inspiration of where to
barcode on the front page place the different aspects
on the right side from this of the contents page. For
magazine. example having the
features on the left hand
side.

3. My magazine represents people in their late teenage years and young adults who are
into rock music.
The reason for this is because before the production process of my magazine, I
conducted a social survey in the form of a questionnaire where most of the respondents
were of that age range. Therefore my magazine is directed at them and it includes what
they look for in a music magazine.
The magazine would be aimed at people who like to go to rock festivals and such rock
festivals like Reading festival would be an appropriate event where we can establish the
magazine and sell it there as well.

4. The media institution that might distribute my magazine would be Music-
Mags as they are a well-established distribution company that specialises
in publishing music magazines.

5. The target audience of my
magazine would be young
people who are into rock
music. This is because the
music genre that the
magazine is built up upon is
Rock music.
Another reason for the
targeted audience to be
young people is because the
investigation behind the
creation of the magazine
was done through young
people. (The magazine).

6. Colours used:
Through the uses of a range of colours that are in conjunction to the theme of the magazine helps to
attracts the audiences. use of colours. The colours I used in the magazine are as follows:
Pictures used:
For the front page picture, we organised a photo-shoot with a set of
elements that would help make the rock vibe that we were trying to convey
be more transparent. This included having our model dressed up like a
female rock star. We got inspirations from looking at current female rock
artists. We also used a guitar as a prop to add the little bit of Rock &Roll
vibe that the photo-shoot needed.
Our inspiration for the photo-shoot; Taylor Pictures from the magazine photo-shoot.
Momsen- (Female rock artists)

7. The main aspects through the process of the
construction of my magazine that I have leant a lot
from is through the Photoshop software. Prior to
the construction of my magazine this software was
alien to me. I did not know how to used most (if not
all) of the devises/ tools at my disposal on this
particular software.
Through the course if making my magazine I have
learnt the in’s and out’s of the software. I have also
been able to develop my understanding of how the
software works.
A devise known as the lasso tool on Photoshop is
one the key aspects of the new skills that I have
learnt/developed through the construction of my
magazine. It is a tool that allow you to cut out
sections of a picture. However due to the
temperamental nature of the tool, I struggled a bit at
the start, but through a lot of practice I managed to

8. I have learnt a lot from the transition of the
preliminary task to my final piece. I was able to use
the evaluation of my preliminary task to assess what
I needed to improve on to make my final piece a
success. I have progressed in my knowledge of
Photoshop. I developed the skills of using the lasso
tool when cutting out sections of a picture.
I learnt how to make my magazine seem more
professional by studying more music magazines
such as Q, Vibe and NME. This gave me
inspirations on how to develop my final magazine.