Fonts inside the magazine

Fonts in my music magazine

Masthead Fonts

Titles and Masthead

This is a screenshot of a few different fonts I could use for my title/masthead in my music magazine that I created in microsoft word.
1)The first font is all in captitals which makes it stand out. This font has a quite 'edgy' or 'different' look to it.
2)|The second font is lowercase letters, but still has a different kind of look to it.
3)This font is less 'edgy' as all the letters are more curved. The thicnkess of the front makes it sound out quite alot.
4)This font is thick aswell but is quite hard to read.
5)The fifth font is just a normal, typical italic font that is eay to read but looks quite boring.
6)This font has more of a 3D look it, but is still quite hard to read.
7)Although the letters are quite straight, they still look fairly rounded wich could give the magazine a softer look.

Differently to this, I could use a website called 'dafont', which has thousands of copyright-free fonts. I could screenshot a specific font and insert it into my magazine.

Double Page Spread Basic Outline music magazine

I researched music magazine double page spreads, and found some of the codes and conventions/typical things people would expect to see with in a magazine:

• text in columns
• main title including/involving artists name
• one large/full length image
• quotes from the yext or interview in bold
• pale/light coloured text

I found a picture of  a double page spread from a music magazine that I like:

I really like the use of the smaller black and white images at the top of the page, and then the larger image being in colour.

 

 

 

Contents Page Basic Outline music magazine

This is a basic first draft of my contents page- it shows where I want the main features to be.

Front Cover Basic Outline music magazine

 

This is the first design I made of my front cover on the computer. It's a very basic design that shows where I want the main features of the front cover to be. I included the image, title, puff, barcode and date and 'other features' as these are the main conventions of music magazine front covers. I made the background pink because it is a teen pop magazine and is mainly aimed at girls- the colour scheme of my magazine will be pink, white and black.

Hand Drawn Drafts

Codes and Conventions of a Magazine

This is a powerpoint showing how I analysed different magazines, and a few examples of magazine covers that I like and may use to get ideas for my own magazine front cover.

Contents Page Analysis

Contents Page Analysis

Double Page Spread Analysis

Front Cover Analysis

I found and analysed a pop music magazine to help me when I begin to create my own- it made me more aware of the codes and conventions of pop magazines and what people might expect to see within it:

Pop Music Analysis

Before creating my magazine, I had to choose a genre to base it on, and I chose 'Pop Music'. I chose this genre because it is a very broad/wide catergory that lots of different types of music can fit into it. I think it would be the easiest music genre to base a magazine on because the model wouldn't have to have a specific look.

I did some research into pop music and what it actually is,and found the following:

Pop music (a term that originally derives from an abbreviation of "popular") is a genre of popular music which originated in its modern form in the 1950s, deriving from rock and roll. The terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, even though the former is a description of music which is popular (and can include any style).
As a genre, pop music is very eclectic, often borrowing elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, Latin and country; nonetheless, there are core elements which define pop. Such include generally short-to-medium length songs, written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), as well as the common employment of repeated choruses, melodic tunes, and catchy hooks.
David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as "a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, and folk musics". Although pop music is often seen as oriented towards the singles charts it is not the sum of all chart music, which has always contained songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs, while pop music as a genre is usually seen as existing and developing separately. Thus "pop music" may be used to describe a distinct genre, aimed at a youth market, often characterized as a softer alternative to rock and roll.
Throughout its development, pop music has absorbed influences from most other genres of popular music. Early pop music drew on the sentimental ballad for its form, gained its use of vocal harmonies from gospel and soul music, instrumentation from jazz, country, and rock music, orchestration from classical music, tempo from dance music, backing from electronic music, rhythmic elements from hip-hop music, and has recently appropriated spoken passages from rap.

I will take all of this information into consideration when designed and creating my music magazine.

Practicing Creating A Music Magazine

This is an example of how I could use photoshop/firework to edit imges, add text and create my music magazine.

I found an image of an singer (Beyonce) on the internet, and edited it in photoshop by deleting/rubbing out the white background and some of the shadow to make it look more effective. I then used word art to create the title, look a snapshot of it using MWsnap and again deleted the white background. 

Music Magazine Front Cover Photos and Editing

 

Music Magazine Front Cover

 

 Image:

 

After researching music magazine front covers, and finding some examples, I found a few things that majority of music magazines have in common.

I found that most music magazines have one large image on the front cover of the artist/musican that is being featured in the magazine. The photo is usually a close up of the artist's face or a mid shot. This is the type of image that I will use on my music magazine front cover.

 

 The name of the musican/artist that is photographed is usually printed onto the front cover of the magazine in a large, bold font.






I also found that, as these three examples show, most music magazines have plain, often white, background so that the focus is completley on the featured artist.

 

Editing:

I could use programmes such as photoshop or fireworks to edit the photos that I take, and want to use on/in my magazine to make it look better, or to make it fit on the page better. I could then use either of these programmes to create the actual magazine later on by putting the edited images onto a background of my choice and adding text.

 Also, these programmes allow you to edit out parts of the image that you may not want- for example, tatooes.








These two images show the same image before (picture with the tatoo) and the same image after (picture without the tatoo) I edited it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Text in my music magazine

What I would and wouldn't use in my music magazine

After researching music magazines, and magazines in general, I found that the title on the front cover of the magazine is often in a plain, easy-to-read, bold font and in a bright colour that stands out from the background- mainly black, white or red.

I could word art in Microsoft Word to create the title, for exaple:

I could use either red or black (or both) for my magazine title because it stands out and would catch the readers attention. The shadow effect gives it a 3D look, which would also be more intersting for readers of the magazine to see/look at.

 

 

 

Preliminary Task Evaluation

Final School Magazine

After speaking to my friends and teachers I got some feedback on my first draft of my school magazine. I listened to what they had to say and then re-designed/edited both the contents page and the front cover of my school magazine:

This is a screenshot of how the contents page of my school magazine after I recieved some feedback and edited it. Some of the feedback I got suggested that originally it was that the images weren't very well edited or placed on the page, and that the page in general didn't look very interesting-especially as the audience is school children. To change this, I deleted the image of the cashless catering machine and instead used a an image of a pupil using the machine which both looks better and demonstrates how the system works. I also changed the colour of some of the text to make it more interesting to look at. The image of the pupils I originally used didn't really have anything to do with what was on the page/in the mgazine so I created a small sub-heading at the bottom of the page and linked it to the contents of the magazine.

I also recieved feedback on the front cover of my magazine, which included that there was too much green and that the images weren't edited very well. To improve this, I changed the background to white. Aswell as this, I edited the box that the title was in to make it look softer and more aesthetically pleasing for the target audience (school students). I also edited out the background of the image of Millie I used to make it blend in to the magazine better. Another small change I made was making the speech marks around the quoatation red to just add a little more/different colour to the cover.

Editing Images- School Magazine

This is one of the original shots of the school tree that I took. I chose to use this image because I took it from quite far away which makes it easier to edit and ensures that I didn't accidently cut any of the tree out of the photo.

Using photoshop, I edited out the background to make it look nicer on the contents page. I did this by using the eraser tool. I then uplaoded this image to fireoworks and added it to my contents page.

Editing Images- School Magazine Front Cover

Editing Images



This is one of the original photos that I took for my magazine. I chose this photo over the others because I wanted to use a full length shot on the cover, and a mid shot on the contents page.

Firstly, using photoshop I cropped the image so that you couldn't see the window, the bench or the notice board. This made the image alot cleaner and neater.

Next, I used the healing brush tool and the cloning tool to edit Millie's skin, and then used them again to edit out the marks of the pavement and the wall. This again made the photo look cleaner and neater.

School Magazine First Draft

Practice School Magazine

 

This is a screenshot of the front cover of the school magazine that I created. I made it using fireworks and photoshop. I took the images (Millie and the school tree) and then uploaded them to photoshop. For the photo of the tree, I cropped the photo and then rubbed out the background to make it look better on the pale green background. For the image of Millie, I used the healing brush tool and the cloning tool to edit her skin slightly and to edit out some of the marks on the ground. After editing them, I uploaded them to fireworks and added them to the front cover.

 

This is a screenshot of the contents page of my school magazine which I also created on fireworks and photoshop. I took the two pictures and uploaded them to photoshop. For the image of the cashless catering machine I just cropped the edges and used the healing brush tool to make the edges softer and neater. I then edited the background out of the image of the three students by using the eraser tool. I then uploaded them to fireworks and added them to the contents page.

 

 



School Magazine Mood Boards

School Magazine Mood Board

For my school magazine, I chose to use the colour scheme of green and white, and to use images that were relevent to my school and schools in general.