Feedback from class

Although I thought my magazine was at the point of completion there are some points which I need to add to ensure a professional look and make sure I get the best marks available

1. Add a price tag to front cover
2. Add page number to content page
3. Add an editor’s section which can be found in almost every type of magazine into my content page
4. Add columns to the double page spread as I cannot have the text positioned how it has been before
5. Add a subscription section to the content page
6. Add some more original ideas that make your magazine stand out from the others

Double page spread final piece

To make my double page spread more interesting I added 2 images of Zack Slasher to the magazine, the Super-smiler still remains as my main image and it has not changed positions, but I have also added an outward gaze mid shot to the lower left-hand section of the page, although this meant that I had to rearrange the text but that was easily done to fit the location of the image. Finally I added the name of the Rock star above the main image to fill in the remaining white space and also to clearly identify the artist.

Next stages for double page spread

The next steps I took towards making my double page spread was making the background and putting the text in.

The text was put to the left of the screen away from the main image in my double page, I changed the background image to something of the same colour scheme I'm using but instead I used a slightly different pattern to make it more interesting than having the same repeated background. I still feel that I need to make the double page a little more interesting as it seems just a little to basic right now.

start of double page

The basic design of any magazine interview is like follows with this image. there is usually a caption from part of the interview displayed, with the main part of the caption in bold to draw the audience's attention, the interview questions are then displayed to the space in which the image is not placed, in this case the image takes up the whole left hand side of the screen, questions and answers are then displayed in different colours.




I took this into account when I started my double page spread and put in a quote of part of the interview I already made, I highlighted the main part of the quote "Rock is my life" and put it in the type of text that was used for my masthead on my front cover, my picture I used is then of my Rockstar Zack Slasher giving an super-smiler to give a confused rock look and challenge the reader.

steps to the final pieces



  

The first problem I had with my magazine was the background, I felt it was to plain and not very appealing to any type of customer who would look at the magazine to buy, I felt I needed to stick to my colour scheme yet introduce something just to give the magazine the extra edge it needed., an idea of a simple pattern in the background fitted this idea perfectly as it made the magazine look a little more interesting and professional.

The second problem I had with my magazine was a on-going problem that I have had during my whole time making the magazine and that was the quality of the image, the whole image would give my magazine a rough amateur look which was a big problem for me, I then upgraded the image to a 10.1 MP quality image with the shot still being a mid-shot with it being more of a chocolate box image as the head is slightly turned, although I challenged this type of convention for my rock magazine as my band member is not doing an all-important smile but just simply a gaze as I did not think a typical cheesy smile was appropriate for my magazine.

when I put both these things into my magazine this was the result I got, I also felt the need to make the earpieces a bit larger with the text inside it larger as well, I did this to fill in the white space that I had between the masthead and banner on top and the subheadings bellow, I then made the purple outline more clear on the mid-shot to emphasise his importance on the front cover as well as to make him stand out on the background.

Also for my content page I have added the background in to give it the same effect as my front cover, I have then moved my stars I had along the top and bottom of the content pages banners and information. the last step I took was changing the main content page image to something that related to The front cover, I simply put Zack Slasher against a slightly different pattered background with the same colour scheme and image to relate to my main headline.

The transformation of the content page

This is my content page in its final stages, I have added more picture frames to fill in the white space that was still present in one of the corners, I have added stars in the lower left hand corner of the page to symbolise the title of my magazine, the information of the context is displayed clearly on the left hand side of the screen with the date even included.

I have also decided to change the subheading music with a punch to someone with more of an bigger impact, I thought of The Voice Of Music as it means this magazine can be globally known and therefore sell better.

rockstar magazine

This is where my magazine is so far I have Completely turned around the front cover to make it look like a more official magazine, I have added ear pieces and sell lines to help with the look, I used celebrity endorsement to push my magazine as well with blink 182 being in the sell lines as well as there logo being displayed so it is eye catching to people.

with the content page I started I wanted to make it clear to the audience of what would be in the magazine, so I added the images in the frames to the page and I am going to add all the information in the red left hand box.

So far with the magazine...

This is the stage at where my magazine is in the making, there are still several issues which I need to tackle.

•  The quality of the Photo
• The bar code and the price don't look correct
•  need to fill in whitespace
• need to add more photos such as the one next to the word plus

4 examples

Here are a few examples of my magazine masthead which I decided to call RockStar as it is sort effective and is easy to identify as a Rock magazine, I decided the best colour to use was red, although with the 2nd title I could not get the colour in red which is a shame as It was my favourite out of the 4 I experimented with, if there is a way I can turn the colour red it would be most likely that I would use this as the masthead.

so far so good

For my media magazine I took several photo's of my friend wearing a rockish style of clothing, this was the best picture out of all of them although I am not completely satisfied as the quality of the image is not that good and I feel as if I can get a better pose out of the picture.