Matthew's AS Media Studies Blog: 2012

Tuesday 20 November 2012

2nd Copy of Begginers to Music Magazine

This is one of my ideas of music magazine that covers all areas of music; that will attact many different audiences e.g. ages and different music genres e.g. rock also it will consist of learning new instruments and will provide tips and usful resourses for example websites.

I used Adobe Illustrator to design the Magazine Front Page, I went to the Music Department in college and took photographs of two different bands playing and I selected five photographs after using Photoshop to crop and changes the "levels" which alters the contrast of the image.

I have decided that I will not be continuing with this style of design and will explore some of the other ideas that I'd brainstromed in a pervious post.

1st Rough Copy Beginner of Music Magazine

This is my first rough design of my music magazine idea of an introduction to playing instruments, I am less confident that this idea will provide me with the end result that I am striving for which is a professional appearance & design with relevent information that any beginner of music will require.

Ideas brainstorm for Music Magazine

I have Brainstormed a few ideas for my music magazine themes. I particularly feel most confident on the idea of interviewing Drum & Bass M.C. Cronic but I will show evidence that I have explored the alternative ideas in this Brainstorm.

Sunday 11 November 2012

Example on how Kerrang could design one of their two page spreads

Here is how Kerrang has been known to design a two page spreads in one of their issues. By using many images in their contents it increases appeal, making the target auidence willing to read the article but it could have to opposite effect because the text is on the small size it could making tthe target audience appeal decrease and not willing to read the article therefore they might not purchase the magazine in the first place.

Example of Kerrang Music Magazine Front Cover

Here is an example of a front cover design from the music magazine Kerrang, which first started to publish magazines in June 1981. Kerrang Magazine is devoted to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and the rise of hard rock. Kerrang has UK-Based publisher called Bauer Media Group. In the early 2000s it became the best-selling British music newspaper and it was named after the word that derives from the sound made when playing a power chord on a electric guitar, Kerrang!

Kerrangs first published Magazine from June 1981

This is Kerrang's first published Issue in 1981 and the price was 50p for thsi magazine use can see many differences from todays magazines e.g. the price, the stars freatured in magazine e.g. MotorHead. teh design is completely different e.g. Colours used in this issue they only use red and white for fonts, the design is very basic compared to the issues today, also becasue this is the first ever issue of Kerrang they needed to gather attention and appeal from their target auidence by making it a special edition.

The first issue. in My Photos by Kerrang Magazine

Example of Kerrang Design for a Contents Page

Here is an example of how Kerrang design there contents pages for their magazines. This design gives a good effect because it a unique design which can be recognised as KERRANG! maybe the text could be increased in size to make the reader willing to read the contents page.

Example of Black & White NME Newspaper

Here is an Example of a "New Music Express" Black & White music newspaper published in late 1950s early 1960s

The font of the mast head is different which could be symbolic for the time. Also the stars that can be seen on the paper e.g. Elvis Presley, Cliffe Richards and The Beatles which shows the year of publishing and also the tendings and popularity. Another difference is the position of the mast head e.g. on the NME magazines the mast head is in the left-hand right corner because of the way magazines are stacked on shelves. Newspapeer are kept lying down so the mast head is postioned differently.

Example of NME Contents Page

Here is an example on how NME design there contents pages. This think by making the contents page have images as well as text bring a better effect to the page. I like the way the NME has used images of famous artist and this will increase popularlity of edition. But I do think that this style of design needs some improvement becasue it does not show all page numbers and maybe the images will take up too much room on one page and extend the contents across two pages.

Example of two pages spread- NME magazine

Here is an example of a two page spread from the 7th December 2012 edition of NME Magazine.
The large photo which comes across two pages will increase appeal to the target audience by bring more attention to this page. Unfortunately maybe too much attention is brought to the iamge and not the text and the reader may be less inclined to read this page.

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Example of Music Magazine Cover Cover- NME

Here is an example of the 7th December 2012 magazine front covers and the theme is "75 moments that Defined 2012" and here is the link: http://issuu.com/nmemagazine/docs/7th_dec_2012/1

NME (New Music Express) was created by Theodore Lloyd-Jones. NME is a British Magazine which, publish weekly editions ince March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and eventually turned into magazine format during the 1980s. It was the first paper in the UK to include a singles chart which was first published in the 14th November 1952 edition. In the 1970s it became the best-selling British music newspaper. Today NME still remains a very popular and higer valued magazine.The title "NME" is lcoated in top left corner, this is becasue how magazines are stacked went in the shop so you can still see the title. By creating the appearance of a comic this would appeal to a younger auidence but it is possible that it could attract an unwanted appeal because it looks more like a comic than a Music Magazine.

Introduction to Music Magazine

I will be creating a Music Magazine Front Cover, Contents Page and a Double-page spread by using imaging manipulation software (Photoshop CS2). This will consist of a minimum of four of my own images.

Tuesday 6 November 2012

Final Design for College Magazine

I created the font in Adobe Illustrator "Cracked", dragged them into photoshop. I took a photo of the college front block and then layered an image of a student on top and flattened it. I designed the barcode on www.dafonts.com and I thought it would be good to have "CWA MAGAZINE" within the barcode. Unfortunately I had to change the colour theme of the fonts instead of orange which is still on the Contents Page because I couldn't see the orange on top of the building. This does not show continuity in my work but it does show that Ive analysed my work and changed what did not work & explored other possible routes.

2nd Copy of College Mag Contents

Using "Adobe Illustrator" again I used the same fonts as I used in the Title Page to show continuity in my work. As you can see I took a few more Photos of the Campus and Croped and altered the "levels" of contast in the images using "Adobe Photoshop" once more.

3rd Copy of College Mag

This is the next stage of the development of my title page for the college magazine. As you can see I have taken photos of the campus and fellow students.
I used "Adobe Illustrator CS5" to create the fonts instead of using http://www.dafont.com becasue I felt that they didnt appear the be that appealing for the magazines target audience.
Then I used "Adobe Photoshop CS5" to crop and alter the "levels" of contrast in teh images. Using "Adobe Illustrator CS5" again I rotated the photos to make the title page become more appealing (that I feel that I have achieved").

I will have to do another copy of this magazine cover because I need to change the images of the students to Medium Shots instead of Over the Shoulder Shots.

1st Copy of Contents Page for College Mag

I used http://www.dafont.com/ to create the font for the Title, (Calligraphy-Channel) also I used Microsoft Publisher for the Page template and text.

2nd Copy of College Magazine

This example of the Front Cover of the CWA Magazine was created using Miscosoft Publisher "Blank Template" and http://www.dafont.com/ is create the Title and Sub-titles in Calligraphy - Channel and Chopin Script (Name of Fonts). The Boxes represnt where the photographs will be going.
I am posting this to show the procession from the rough sketch perviously to this stage.

Rough Draft of College Magazine 1

I used http://www.dafont.com to create the fonts for the title and sub title of this magazine front cover. As you can see teh fonts is in Calligraphy snapping between to sightly different fonts: Chopin Script and Channel. This rough example of the front cover will show that I have attempted different variations of the page layout. The Boxes with the X in them repersents where the images will be going (I have not taken the images yet).