For our magazine to be completed we needed to spend two lessons which totals to 4 hours and 15 minutes. This was after we took our photographs of the group. Our first intentions were to create a magazine featuring all of us in the group, (Eni, Henock Emre and Selma).When it came to our photos we tried to capture individual photos and group photos.
In the first lesson the 3-hour lesson, I decided to follow our initial plans of a group magazine so started cropping out a photo of the four of us. After spending 30 minutes on the cropping there was potential to add a background and after adding the background I adjusted some fonts to the Front cover. Not matching up to what I thought the magazine would look gave me a desire to start again with all new themes.
This time I floated from the group plan and decided to have only one of us in the front cover. The reason I chose Emre’s image to be on the front cover is that our magazine (Paradox) has to relate to a mixture of rock and hip-hop. Emre’s image had a mixture of both genres: His hooded top added a hip-hop feel to the front cover while his facial expression and miniature light savour gave him a more of a rock feel; type of renegade in some ways. Furthermore, the font type I
In the first lesson the 3-hour lesson, I decided to follow our initial plans of a group magazine so started cropping out a photo of the four of us. After spending 30 minutes on the cropping there was potential to add a background and after adding the background I adjusted some fonts to the Front cover. Not matching up to what I thought the magazine would look gave me a desire to start again with all new themes.
This time I floated from the group plan and decided to have only one of us in the front cover. The reason I chose Emre’s image to be on the front cover is that our magazine (Paradox) has to relate to a mixture of rock and hip-hop. Emre’s image had a mixture of both genres: His hooded top added a hip-hop feel to the front cover while his facial expression and miniature light savour gave him a more of a rock feel; type of renegade in some ways. Furthermore, the font type I
used to create the front cover was 36 as I want it to star-struck the buyers and want the magazine to be on their face. The special guests for my magazine were Oler, David and Teddy, which added a more competitive structure to the magazine as now there were two groups on the front cover. In addition, it starred shocking facts about a split up in the group. For the Purple Pills (my group) we decided to have different sub headings on each of our magazines but had to do with the group purple pills.
The music magazine that I created challenges the concept of major magazines as its different, not just different but different in its own ways as each magazine should be. The black and white textual background allows the buyer to be hypnotised by the standard in which it reflects to the font colour and image colours. Also not many magazines focus on different type of genres. Paradox reflects two types of musical genres: Hip-Hop and Rock. As it focuses on different genres, it also appeals to a variety of audience. It appeals to rock and hip-hop fans.
My magazine cover represents two types of social groups and both groups like to give a concept of renegade to the public. For example rockers such as kid Rock and Nickelback are both known to have bad records of criminality which makes them a more of a loose figure whereas the image of Emre relates to that as it gives out a loose renegade feeling to the cover. The reason it gives out a loose figure as you rarely see a hip-hop artist or rockstar pose with a light savour. In addition the photograph of Emre has an intensive pose to it. The pose corresponds to the light savour and both eyes aiming in the same direction, by aiming in the same direction it focuses on the buyer as if to say im looking at you and if that isnt enough im also pointing at you.
The magazine relates to teenagers, mainly 16-20 year olds. Its a small age group but on the whole teenagers mainly listen to these two genres. Also this magazine offers both genres in one and it could tempt teens to buy a magazine which compares both. Furthermore the price also appeals to teenagers as the magazine is out every month and at a reasonable price of £2.50. In addition, I believe the price is cheap because not only are they recieving a magazine but also are recieving a free CD mix; mixed with the finest hip-hop and rock songs. To create the magazine we used Adobe Element on the Mac coputers. At first i was confident that the procces would be a walk in the park as ive used photoshop before. Well, it wasnt. Element had introduced many different things to photoshop and changed the placements of some of the effects. Furthermore, photoshop on the mac was more complicated than on windows and this showed me how much photoshop Cs3 had developed from Photoshop CS2. Changes that i had noticed were of the outer shadow and inner shadow button not being next to the new layer button. Instead you had to find it in the toolbar after you had highlighted the text with the magic wand tool.
Now that i have an end product i believe that my ideas for the cover were good but the design wasnt. Not so much the desing but the fact that i had two covers to choose from and was in two minds of what to do to each. Also by looking at othere students work in the class and comparing theres to mine confused me and gave me second thoughts. So if I had another go at the magazine i believe that i would change 90% of it and focus more on one design than manage two at the same time. In addition I would concentrate more on the initial plan rather than looking at others for inspiration. First the background would be a street which includes the portraits of the group hanging on the wall. Secondly, the font would be different; larger than the current and more affective at its job of appealing to the buyer. The solution to the font could be a bold layout splashed onto the top left corner of the cover. Lastly, the photo's of the other group could be a type of photo that is the complete opposite to ours. The photo should give a fealing as if the two groups were enemies and the public had to choose between them.
The music magazine that I created challenges the concept of major magazines as its different, not just different but different in its own ways as each magazine should be. The black and white textual background allows the buyer to be hypnotised by the standard in which it reflects to the font colour and image colours. Also not many magazines focus on different type of genres. Paradox reflects two types of musical genres: Hip-Hop and Rock. As it focuses on different genres, it also appeals to a variety of audience. It appeals to rock and hip-hop fans.
My magazine cover represents two types of social groups and both groups like to give a concept of renegade to the public. For example rockers such as kid Rock and Nickelback are both known to have bad records of criminality which makes them a more of a loose figure whereas the image of Emre relates to that as it gives out a loose renegade feeling to the cover. The reason it gives out a loose figure as you rarely see a hip-hop artist or rockstar pose with a light savour. In addition the photograph of Emre has an intensive pose to it. The pose corresponds to the light savour and both eyes aiming in the same direction, by aiming in the same direction it focuses on the buyer as if to say im looking at you and if that isnt enough im also pointing at you.
The magazine relates to teenagers, mainly 16-20 year olds. Its a small age group but on the whole teenagers mainly listen to these two genres. Also this magazine offers both genres in one and it could tempt teens to buy a magazine which compares both. Furthermore the price also appeals to teenagers as the magazine is out every month and at a reasonable price of £2.50. In addition, I believe the price is cheap because not only are they recieving a magazine but also are recieving a free CD mix; mixed with the finest hip-hop and rock songs. To create the magazine we used Adobe Element on the Mac coputers. At first i was confident that the procces would be a walk in the park as ive used photoshop before. Well, it wasnt. Element had introduced many different things to photoshop and changed the placements of some of the effects. Furthermore, photoshop on the mac was more complicated than on windows and this showed me how much photoshop Cs3 had developed from Photoshop CS2. Changes that i had noticed were of the outer shadow and inner shadow button not being next to the new layer button. Instead you had to find it in the toolbar after you had highlighted the text with the magic wand tool.
Now that i have an end product i believe that my ideas for the cover were good but the design wasnt. Not so much the desing but the fact that i had two covers to choose from and was in two minds of what to do to each. Also by looking at othere students work in the class and comparing theres to mine confused me and gave me second thoughts. So if I had another go at the magazine i believe that i would change 90% of it and focus more on one design than manage two at the same time. In addition I would concentrate more on the initial plan rather than looking at others for inspiration. First the background would be a street which includes the portraits of the group hanging on the wall. Secondly, the font would be different; larger than the current and more affective at its job of appealing to the buyer. The solution to the font could be a bold layout splashed onto the top left corner of the cover. Lastly, the photo's of the other group could be a type of photo that is the complete opposite to ours. The photo should give a fealing as if the two groups were enemies and the public had to choose between them.
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