Flat plan

Before creating the magazine I created flat plans for the front cover contents page and double page spreas I hand drew these images and then transfered them onto hear. Each flat polan describes what will go where upon each page and the layout and design of the page.

 

This is the image of the contents page that we designed for the magazine we will follow this as closely as we can when designing but alter it when we need to.

 

 

This is the image of the design for the double page spread there will be a large image in the background that spreads across the whole two pages and there willl be two large columns of text for the information to occupy we will also follow this as closely as possible but alter it when we need to.

 

 

This is another flat plan that we created we are going to use the front cover design for our real magazine as it is the best design we could come up with and it follows the conventions of magazines that are on the market today so it fits with the market needs and wants. 

 

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.

Second photo shoot

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.