Complete magazine

Incomplete magazine

Contents page (incomplete)

Today i started on my contents page. This is what i have came up with so far. I'm keeping everything on the left page, i might just change the font but thats all.  However, i believe i will be changing the colours and maybe even the pictures on the page on the right.  

Incomplete main cover

Today i played around with the colours to see which ones went well together. And from this i have decided to go with more blues as it will go with the refreshing theme. I have also saturated the image.

DPS (incomplete)

Front cover (incomplete)

Today, i was editing my front cover. And this is the picture i have chosen.

Today, i was working on my main image for my contents page.
I adjusted the brightness and contrast of my image to make it more brighter as the original image was quite dark.
I also cropped it because the legs looked quite awkward in the image.

Call sheet

Contact sheet/ Film strip

Formal magazine pitch

This is a video of me doing my magazine formal pitch. I didn't get any recommendations however I did get asked questions in which I tried to answer. Here are the questions and answers.
(A= Audience, M=Me): 

A: “Earlier with the flat plan, there was about 6 pages of adverts and 38 pages. Isn’t it quite a small amount of adverts?”

M: “Not really, cause I don’t want to many adverts because it’s about music.”

A: “Who is your publisher?”

M: “IPC Media.”

A: “Did you say your magazine was a weekly or monthly magazine?”

M: “Monthly”

A: “But still, wouldn’t people want more content as people have been waiting monthly for this magazine?”

M: “Alright I’ll consider it.”

A: “Why did you choose IPC media?”

M: “They are really good at publishing.”

A: “Why did you choose to use yellow, white, blue”

M: “Because everyone is doing red, white, black, so I thought I’d change it.”

The questions I got asked was very useful as it allowed me to explore why I did what I did and be confident with my ideas. I got asked that people would like more content as it is a monthly magazine in which I agree with however, I think that I already have limited adverts and I do not think this would be the case, as like I said I have very limited adverts and the rest is music content. I got asked why I chose yellow, white and blue and from this I could tell that they are colours that are not really associated with magazines however, this made me think that this is to my advantage as this would be one of the factors that make my magazine different. 

Illustrator notes/workshop

Task 6 Presentation

House style sheets

Magazine Proposal

The title of your publication:

Re-fresh 

Your chosen musical genre(s):

RNB

Artist: 

RNB artist 

What i'm planning to keep as a regular: Interviews/ Album reviews 

Whats going to make my magazine different:
I'm going to have more of a variety of giveaways and competitions. Which will be very appealing to my audience because of their age and hobbies.

Three colour scheme (housestyle):

Yellow, blue and white 

Masthead: 

Bold& bright to make it look serious& formal but at the same time eye catching

My audience:

Teenagers/Young adults 

Female& male

Middle class 

People who are bubbly/outgoing 

The publisher of my magazine: 

IPC media 

  

Photography notes

-White backdrop
-5 to 6ft from backdrop (Model)
-When taking a photograph switch the room light
-Flasheads (Trinity)
-3 set ups
-Tighten Flasheads when adjusting
-Back of Flasheads (On/Off button, test (dumping the flash)
-Musical Icon ( beeps (taking photos))
-Lowest setting of light is 1.0 (In terms of flash- goes up to 6.0)
-GoDox on top of the flashead (on/off push it across) ( Push it to flash to on it)
-GoDox is the link between the camera and flasheads
-Main/key light
-Fil Light (Knock out the shadow on the side of the face)
-Hair Light/ Separation light (Draws the model from the backdrop so it does not look flat)
-Three to one lighting ratio
-Soft boxes on to of flasheads
-Snoot
-Camera (DSLR) (Nikon D700)
- 2 card memory slot (After doing shoot, download them)
-Back of the camera (look through view finder)
-Shutter black one
-Play button icon (top left) to view the images
-A and S (settings) S=Shutter A=Aperture (back of the head and determines how much to want to focus)
-18 to 105 (lens)
-When it is on A, it is on Automatic
-M is Manual (Doesn't  beep)
-Grip mould your hands to hold the camera properly
-Reflectors (Gold circles- Gives a warm tone, glow) (White circles- bounces light back)
- Changing settings (Menu, icons down camera, set picture control)

Magazine newsstand task/ distribution of magazines

The shop i visited was an off licence, they had a variety of magazines. However, what i found interested was that the magazines on the bottom shelf were over lapping whereas some others on top weren't. I asked a member of staff why that was and he said it was because these were the magazines that were well sold and that they wanted it to be visible to the eye. As you can see 'uncut' has many copy's behind it showing that this is a magazine that is commonly brought by many people. 

I did ask them if they followed the conventions of other stores, with the way they layout their magazine and if they did measure the gap between each magazine. They said no and the fact that they feel like they make more profit when they put forward their best sellers. 

Methods of distribution

Circulation figures help publishers to predict and plan how many issues to produce and hand out. The term 'Sale or return' means that if the newsagent/ supermarket have not been able to sell the magazines they can send them back to the distributor and so the people selling the magazines do not lose any money. However, this is worrying for the distributors as they have a risk of losing their money and i'm not taking about losing a few pounds, there's millions that go into this. Furthermore, online publishing is another way of producing income as people are able to read articles online through payment, however, sometimes even free. Distribution networks are when magazines are taken into lorries to local distributors, then move the magazines onto the shops newsstands. Magazines are normally sold in supermarkets or newsagents as they make a lot of sell there. The term 'Freemiums' is direct distribution, this is when magazines are free and they make their revenue from advertising. Payment-postal/ electronic this is when subscribers subscribe to a magazine at a much reduced price. Ezines are electronic versions of a magazine, with similar features such as pages that can be turned, adverts, page numbers etc and its exactly the same as the hard copy's. Ezines are usually free. Apps are now available for most magazines with some or all the contents offered in the hard copy of the magazine. Electronic brand postponement is where most magazines cover their brand and so that way they have an online existence of the hard copy.  

Preliminary task evaluation

Photography:
I went around trying to find the right opportunity to take sufficient images for my college magazine. Photography was one of the easiest thing that I did regarding my college magazine. In total, I took two images. One of a student and the second of a group of students studying in the library. The lighting of each picture was very bright and also the lighting was just right which I would say was a strength of mine. I tried to take images that related to my contents which was easy to do as I was in college at the time when I was creating my college magazine. When it came to taking my second image, I was looking for genuine facial expressions so that the picture comes across professional. However, I would say that one of my weakness regarding photography was that I did not take enough pictures, as taking a variety of pictures attracts the audience and also follows many magazines conventions.

Image Manipulation on Photoshop:
I change the background and the image itself to black and white. I wanted it to have a formal context to it. As my image is smiley and its already welcoming people in to read the magazine, and so i thought the contrast would look good together. 

Page layout:
Page layout is something that I focused on very thoroughly as I think that page layout is very important because it shows the effort you have put in creating the magazine.  I made sure that my main coverline had the biggest font to ensure that it was readable and also catches the reader’s eyes. I included dark colours to my magazine only to make it look more formal.

Use of text (Masthead):
I used a dark maroon for my masthead to make it stand out from the colour of the background. Its font size is big and visible from far. The font style is very formal.


Use of text (coverlines):

I made sure my coverline was clear and bold. Something that would appeal to my audience and also something that would want to make the open up the magazine. I made my coverlines catchy in the sense that it would draw my audience to the magazine by just reading one line.

Layout on InDesign:
The layout on my contents page was very organised in the sense that the pages would be easy to find. 
However, i don't believe the layout of it was appealing and may come across as boring or too plain to the audience of this magazine. My strengths of making this contents page was the photography part of it and my weaknesses was using the software.  

Audience feedback for my college magazine was ‘

+ Good job for sticking to the professional layout
+ Contents is clear and easy to understand
+ All the required details are present

- There's no consistent colour scheme or font between pages
- The contents page is too simple
- Next time save the picture as a jpeg before uploading them

Clear and simple but try to understand the software more’.

What do I need to improve on:
.Practice using the software more to ensure that I have a clear idea on what I am doing and how to implement my ideas on the software.
.Structure my work in a way that the audience of the magazine find it appealing.

Three key developments when producing the main task (music magazine):
.Practicing using the softwares more
.Work more on the way i layout my work 
.Think more clearly about my colour scheme

Preliminary Task: LSC magazine

                                           
This is the college magazine that i had created. I used photoshop to make the front cover and indesign to make the contents page.  




                                               
                                                

Preliminary Task: LSC Magazine (Planning)

Cover:

Contents:

Induction Double Page Spread

Collage magazine research

Today in class we started looking at the front cover and contents page of collage magazines and then annotated them.
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Media kit/ press pack

                                                                   Vibes press pack    

                     

The producer of Vibe is Quincey Jones. This was launched in 1993.                                                                       Vibe has subscription (Cross media) on this website:

 http://www.newsstand.co.uk/555-Urban-Music-Magazines/5313-Subscribe-to-VIBE-Magazine-Subscription.asp                                                           

This website allows you to order how ever many vibe magazine you want. From the research I have done on this, I can tell that Vibe is a magazine which targets outgoing people. They are also up to date with 'Vibe is for the strong beautiful women of colour in this new century'. Also, vibe is inspired a lot by fashion as they keep up to date with what goes on in the world and on the runaway'. Additionally, Vibe is a music magazine that has a strong base on motivating their audience 'VIBE VIXEN gives readers a insight through which they can view our time, and gain knowledge and information about beauty, health, celebrities, music, style, and life with they can rely upon. The target audience for this magazine is teenagers and young adults, which becomes very clear when you reach the end of this press pack.

XXL's press pack 

From these images we get a few basic information about the magazine and a bit about the reader. It is shown to us that the magazine is mostly aimed for men as 78% of their readers are male and so they would use many half naked female artist to draw the men in and make sale. The chart shows competing magazines and how well XXL are doing against them. By showing something like this in a press pack can promote sale too because when an artist or anyone wanting to advertise see’s this, they would be easily persuaded as the chart shows XXL is doing far better than any other magazine on that chart so they are more likely to promote in XXL. XXL have given us a clear understanding of their audience.  They have divided up the audience into 3 groups: Gender, Ethnicity & Age. This gives me an idea of what group of people buy these type of magazine. This is really good help In the sense that if I weren't to ever have come across and actual hard copy of XXL and the I were to see this I would instantly get an idea of what type of contents is included in the magazine. Lastly, XXL give an explanation of both hard copy and online sections of the magazine. This is genially a great insight of how XXL functions.