MEDIA AS

1. I have used a purple boarder for the
double spread due to the fact that it
suited the album I have created for the
subject presented. I have used quite an
elegant font which reflects the artist
perfectly and her Italian stage name
which means ‘’ Spring”.
I have also used a red box in which I have
added the extra information about the
album review. I have kept the box red so
that I maintained a balance with the
theme colours of the magazine which
are red, white and black.
I have been inspired to do an album
review in this way after I have done a
research on various magazines that have
presented album reviews inside their
magazine
I have also used
a real name of an
indie rock record
label. Due to
this, I also made
a research about
the record label
and the artist
whom they have
worked with in
order to include
some of their
names in my
article.
The photograph that I have selected is an
close up image/ mid-shot of my subjects
reaching out for the camera, I have
removed the original background ( green
screen) and then Photoshopped a more
colourful pastel colours background which
I tried to assort with the purple boarder at
the top of the page.
I have created a few star shapes and
photoshopped them next to the name
of the album and the artist’s name to
show the ratings that would encourage
readers to purchase the artist’s album.
Similarly to the other image, I
have selected this photograph
because I’ve removed the green
screen behind my subject and
then increased the brightness
and contrast of the image
I have included the page
numbers in the bottom
corners and have made
sure that they are bold
and distinguished from
the other information on
the bottom of the page. I
have been inspired by
other music magazines
such as NME to adapt
this technique.

2. I have selected the first image of this
set of images because it is very clear
and the vibrancy of colours of the
outfit and hair has been highlighted
by the flash used very well. This has
allowed me to do less editing on
Photoshop of increasing or
decreasing the contrast.
I have removed the green
screen and have selecting
the option of ‘’ select
inverse’’ on Photoshop and
then drag the image onto
the page of the double page
spread.
I didn’t choose the other
photographs due to the
fact that they were too
similar to the cover of the
magazine and I wanted to
maintain the balance of a
variety of different
pictures.

3. TEXT I have chosen to write the quote which is the title in
the Photoshop font called Kefa and have used Trajan
Pro for the quotation marks in order to make the
reader’s attention be drawn to that particular section
of the page and increase the boldness of the title and
level of importance of the title on the page which
could be seen in the boldness of the text.
The blue lines present on the page have been drawn
before hand in order to create the perfect space for
the text to be added in. I have made sure that there is
a certain distance between each column and also
between the very bottom of the page and the top.
I have began my process by writing the article about
my made up artist. I then pressed the option of
adding text on Photoshop and have clicked the page
and created an invisible box in which to add the text
in. This has made it easier when having to paste a
larger amount of text because all text would just
adapt to the size of the imaginary box instead of
pasting itself horizontally.
I have repeated the process for every column but
in this particular red box I have decided to use
white writing so that the reader could
differentiate the album review from the article
and also because the colour of the text contrasts
well with the red box.
I have chosen Arial text for all the text other than
the titles.

4. TEXT I felt inspired to do the bottom of the pages in this way after analysing the
double spread of NME magazine where the publishing date is included next to
the page numbers and also including the title of the magazine boldly printed
next to the date.
Presenting the information in this manner at
the bottom of the magazine allows the reader
to always be reminded of the date of when the
magazine was published and also a bold
reminder of the name of the magazine at every
point in the magazine making the name
imprinted in their brain.