Today I have finished all three of the key aspects of my magazine; front page, contents page and double page spread, this will now allow me to focus on answering my evaluation questions. The front page has been created on the application Pages, and the main image has been photographed in the school that I attend, and it has been edited on Photoshop.
To compare my draft with my finished front cover, I can now clearly see where I was going wrong, and I have made the changes to my front page according to my initial feed back from my teachers and peers. This has finally allowed me to complete my front cover according to my ability.
Now that I have finished my front cover, I can start picking various pieces apart and looking at them more closely, explaining why I chose to do certain things and how I came to that decision.
The name of the model/quotation
Heading/subheading/head
The bottom of the page/plus
Poster special/James Gilmore
Throughout the process of creating my front cover I have learnt a lot about the technical side of media, through trial and error process I have learnt how to bring together all the components I have needed to devise a rock music magazine. I think that this has been a successful process, and it has allowed me a lot of time to self reflect on this project.
At the start of the project I was not entirely sure what I was doing with my magazine front cover, because I wanted it to look so typically rock that I think I was running away with it a bit too much. I spend a stupid amount of time on the finest details such as the masthead, which as you will be able to see throughout my blog (towards the start) I spent so much time choosing the name, and researching into what it actually meant. However, I spend so much time on editing the pixels individually, which is what i thought would make it better and more classic because i devised everything myself. However, I soon came to realise that this was not the way forward, therefore my magazine went from this:
I believe that due to completing my front cover, my current one applies much better to the initial requirements and it fits the profile that I wanted to provide the audience with; I wanted to show the audience that my magazine was new and exciting, and that it also appeals to many different demographics, although it would strongly appeal to those that are interested in rock music and news about rock music, I believe that due to the choice of supporting bands on the front cover, it will hopefully appeal to a more varied audience.
The finer detail
Throughout the process of creating my front cover I have learnt a lot about the technical side of media, through trial and error process I have learnt how to bring together all the components I have needed to devise a rock music magazine. I think that this has been a successful process, and it has allowed me a lot of time to self reflect on this project.
At the start of the project I was not entirely sure what I was doing with my magazine front cover, because I wanted it to look so typically rock that I think I was running away with it a bit too much. I spend a stupid amount of time on the finest details such as the masthead, which as you will be able to see throughout my blog (towards the start) I spent so much time choosing the name, and researching into what it actually meant. However, I spend so much time on editing the pixels individually, which is what i thought would make it better and more classic because i devised everything myself. However, I soon came to realise that this was not the way forward, therefore my magazine went from this:
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| this was while i was editing the single pixels, before i devised the draft version of the current magazine. |
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