Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Mission Statement - Music Magazine

My music magazine will be based on the rock/garage genre. It will be designed in a way that is attractive but will stand out. For example, it will have contrasting colours in terms of brightness, it will be loose and informal but still sticking to the point. My target audience will be teens to early adults as that is generally the age for aspiring new bands, but that will not exclude 30+ if the age group has an interest in the topic.

It will contain information on bands ranging in the public eye, from bands who are new to the music scene or are still in early stages, to bands that have made a reasonable amount of success. They will range from locally to nationwide depending on the stories.

The role it will play in its readers lives will be a source of entertainment, inspiration and awareness for new bands.

AS Preliminary Task Evaluation PowerPoint

Q Magazine Mock Up - First Draft

This is my current progress with my mock up front cover of my chosen magazine. I had no problem designing it as the original was rather straightforward. The fonts were not challenging either as I was rather fortunate in finding similar ones to match.

The main image is in process of being edited to be placed on the cover and I also need to mimic the box in the bottom left after the image is added.

Chosen Mock Up Magazine

I am going to attempt to mock up this magazine cover. My reasons are firstly because it is simple and elegant and secondly because it is a good example to practice with for my music magazine cover.

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

School Magazine Contents Page - Final Draft

I have completed the page now and am rather satisfied with it. I have added 3 new images, and numbered all of them to the relevant pages.

Monday, 5 November 2012

School Magazine Contents Page - Second Draft

I have used InDesign to create my next draft of my contents page.

I am keeping a simple structure but yet I think is still effective and easy to read. Another picture of the main article is placed as the main image of the page and underneath there will be more pictures to present other interests and articles when completed.

As well as finishing the page, I will need to add a few minor things such as an arrow from the third article in the list to the corresponding picture, it will also give the magazine a less structured look, by breaking the boundaries between images and text. I will also add a question mark on the end of the sentence as it is a question.