The document provides feedback questions for a student magazine project asking about target audience, design choices, lessons learned using Adobe Photoshop and InDesign, and areas for improvement. It also includes examples of the student's magazine cover, contents page, and double page spread and asks how they link together and achieve the goals of drawing in the reader.

3.  How did you think about target
audience?
 How did awareness of that audience
impact upon your visual design and
choice of language?
 What key points did you learn about
Adobe Photoshop and InDesign in
constructing your artefacts?

4.  College Cover  College Contents

5.  What would you do differently next time?
 What kind of feedback did you get that
might influence you?
 What aspects of your understanding of
Adobe Photoshop & InDesign do you
need to improve?

6.  Genre is Indie Music.
 and my chosen title is NMM because
my magazines aim is to bring New
Music Monthly to young music loving
individuals.

7.  Model 1 Model 2  Model 3 Model 4

8.  I learnt from these 4 models that  I learnt from these 4 models that
indie magazines tend to have the cover lines can variety of sizes
both one main image as well as for example NME main cover line
groups of people, how ever they is a larger size to the other cover
tend to just have one main image lines. I also learnt that these
and not lots of other supporting magazines used a varied amount
images. I also learnt that all indie over cover lines from 6 to 3 cover
magazines have edgy and lines. The fonts uses also were very
creative lay outs which vary and different from modern sans serif
they do not follow the normal fonts to more traditional serif fonts.
magazine conventions. However
they all follow the convention of
have the mast head at the top of
the page, a few cover lines, one
main cover line and optional
elements such as skylines how
ever this allows the magazines to
be organised and identifiable as
magazines and not leaflets for
example.

9.  Target Audience: 15-20year olds.
 Frequency: Monthly issues.
 Cover price:£1.75
 Publisher: IPC
 Unique Selling Point: Bringing you New
Music Every Month.

10.  Front cover  Here is my magazine I have used a neutral colour
scheme consisting of shades of black and white
with red and blue accents. I have uses a skyline as
a way to include another cover story. My mast
head is placed to the left of my front page the
Font I used was downloaded from DaFonts.com
and is called Vision Division. The image I used I
altered and layered behind all the text including
the masthead. My cover lines as place to the left
of the page and the font used was called Cerbro
Autodestuctivo and was also from DaFonts.com. I
layered block colour circles onto of the main
cover line to add some originality. I also have
block colour rectangles being the main cover
lines but I altered the transparency. I then
constructed the rest of the cover lines by
following the same steps as the mast head. The
font I used for the other cover lines was called
Dlyodastuff. I then add a bar code the price of
the magazine which I rotated 90 degrees. I lastly
constructed the album review above the
barcode I did this by layering text on top of a
block coloured circle.

12.  Raw 1  Final 1
 To get from my raw photo to my final photo I first flip the photo
horizontally then I changed the colour to Black and white. I did this by
right clicking then transform then selecting flip horizontally (in
Photoshop). The reason I flip the picture was so the main cover lines and
supporting cover lines were more visible as on of the models clothing
was darker which would have made the white text more visible. I also
flipped the photo so the majority of the Mast head was not obstructed. I
change the colour of the photo because I wanted a neutral
background as a posed to the raw background of the original photo. I
did this by clicking ALT+SHIFT+CTRL+B (in Photoshop).

13.  Raw 2  Final 2
 As I took this photo in natural daylight I did not edit the appearance
of this photo.

14.  Raw 3  Final 3
 I altered my raw photo by changing the saturation I did this by
selecting image at the top of the screen and then adjusting the
levels. The reason I did this was because the raw photo was dull and
needed brightening up.

15.  Raw 4  Final 4
 As I took this photo in natural daylight I did not edit the appearance
of this photo.

18. Contents Page
 For my contents page the main features are
 images which I have uses in stead of lots of text
however I have used text which I centre to the
right of the page. To contrast the back ground
colour white and the photo background black
alter the colour of the text depending on the
position. I have used a mixture of fonts which I
download from Dafonts.com the reason was to
add variety and not have simplistic contents
page.

19.  My contents page links back to my font cover by following the same colour
scheme of black white and red. However I have used a range of colours for
the page number so it is easy for the reader to pick out the article which
most interest them. As well as this I have linked the too pages by using the
same models in similar positioning's to emphasis this is the main article and
will be part of my double page spread. I also have uses similar modern and
urban fonts which have also been used on the from cover. The images I have
used all have a theme of indie style which is my chosen genre.
I have used the
same colour
scheme and the
images
highlight the
same article.

20.  How have you made the reader want to read on?
 By adding a balanced of images and text I intents to cater for more visual individuals as well as this I
have also used a variety of colours for the page numbers this is to ensure readers can easily pick out
the most interesting article . As well as this I have used eye catching and interesting images that tie in
with my theme of indie music which will encourage readers to read on.
 What are the links between images and words?
 The main link between the images and the word is my magazine aim to give informative interview with popular
indie artist buy showing picture of alternative indie artist and in the text area stating who the artist the readers
can see the purpose for the mages.
 What determines the dominant stories?
 The dominant stories are identifiable by the pictures used which have the
page numbers attached to the I feel this makes the dominate stories more
evident to the readers.
 How have you gone about ordering the
information on the page?
 The information is orders by chronological numerical older which is easer to
read rather than unordered page numbers.

21.  The main image on my contents page is of the interviewee of my double
page spread, by having this on my front page and contents I hope that my
readers will acknowledge this and look forward to reading this article. As well
as this above to the main article in the text area I have “EXCLUSIVE” in red
next to the story line and page number, by having this here I hope to draw
attention to my main story.

23. I feel this double page was works because the lay out
is simple how ever the use of transparent images and
the wave lengths which over lap the images give an
original feel as well as conveying an Indie music
theme. The large title is attractive and the font and
colour are bold and the chosen title encourages the
reader to read on. As the reader of this magazine will
be young the balance of text to image Is right. The
article its self is short yet informative. Overall I feel this
is a successful and originally designed double page
spread.

25.  My double page spread works by following the
main aspect of the double page I feel was
successful by using a simplistic layout and colour
scheme. I the font I used was modern font to
ensure the text did not look washed out I altered
the colour of the interviewer and the interviewee
my aim was to ensure the reader could easily read
article. The image I used I keep simple by not
adding any effects this was because the natural
sun light allow the image to have a bright look. I
add pull quote to break up the text and also to
engage readers. The title I made bigger and italics
so it stood out from the other text.

26.  By sticking to a colour scheme all through out my magazine page I feel they
all link together and carry the same theme and style. The images I used are
all taken at the same time so the same feel is carried through out the 3
component. All images have an indie feel to them which is my genre I feel all
my main images are original and I moves away form the glossy magazine
images because indie music and cultures challenge these ideas and
subject. As well as this I made sure all components in each page from fonts
to pictures to content had a modern feel which tied in well with my genre.
The all
highlight
the same
article
through
image. The all share the same colour scheme.

27.  Cover Page  Key modifications
from feedback

28.  Cover Page  Key modifications
from feedback

29.  Double spread

31.  You can find my blog here:
(URL)
And
You can find my evaluation with responses to the 7
questions here:
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