Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Images used on front cover

This image was captured using a camera in a classroom at marlwood school the image was inspired by the cover of on the right, we liked the way that the background was plain with a figure as the main peice of the cover as it looked proffesional and the information fits in well around the outside without detracting from the picture. We decided to get our artist to hold his guitar as he was uncomfortable stairing at the camera lense while a flash went off. I am plaesed with how this image turned out as it looks very proffesional there is minimal shadow apart from the shadow we added in editing and it links well with the colour scheme of the wrighting to go ontop.

Thursday, 31 January 2013

Images from photo shoot











 







 


 

 


 




Plan for photo shoot

This is the plan for my music magazine photshoot:

  • When: I will take the pictures on the 31st of January
  • Location: My photos will be taken at marlwood school in the music department as it is a music magazine and the music department contains white wash walls which will be a good neatral background to take the pictures against.
  • Who of: My photos will be of George stroud a pupil of Marlwood school who will be in a music lesson so I will take the photos while he is playing and using his instruments to make the image more natural and realistic.
  • I will present the original images on this blog and when I have edited the images that I feal are best I will also post these on here next to the originals to see how they have progressed after being edited.

Survey results





These are the results from the survey that I created. From these results I have noticed that music magazines are not as widely read as I thought. most people feal that the music magazines on the market today cater for there specific taste in music well. I have also noticed that most people have a wide range of music taste so I will try and not to be bias upon what genre of music I include in my magazine, I will also make sure that i include information on the various chosen topics in question 5 where possible.

Creating my Survey

I have created a survey to find what my audience like the most and feal should be included in music magazines. I used the website survey monkey and sent the link of my survey to a number of friends through social networking sites to gain a wide range of answers from a wider audience. I hope to gain from this information that i would not be able to find myself such as audience opinions and conventions upon how an audience reads a magazine.

Sunday, 27 January 2013

Testing fonts for front cover

We both decided that it would be a good idea to test our title in different fonts as the font used can cause the writing to subliminally mean something else. We typed our title "music matters" into word changing the font for each one to fonts we have previously seen used and fonts that we both like. Our favourites are Broadway, Ar essence, Cooper black and ar julian so we will further test these to select the one or two that will be used in the final piece.