Pictures of the band I have taken

These are the pictures I have taken of my band so far:

- Andrew and Myles before their gig at Jack Wills



Mid angle shot






- Andrew the lead singer during the gig

I edited this picture by simply changed this picture to black and white. I did this in Paintshop Pro.
Mid angle shot














- Myles during the gig
Wide angle shot

- Andrew and Myles.
I like this shot as I got them in mid action during the gig. I used a mid angle shot of myles.

The start of Pictures for my Magazine

Before I start creating my magazine front cover, I am taking lots of pictures of my band - 'The Olivers'.
I want to take lots of pictures so I have a wide range of choice for which pictures I wish to use.
Below is the first picture I took, I like this picture as it is of the whole band and it represents all of them:

Title/Font of my Magazine

After looking at a few examples of font styles I decided to go with the first one I looked at.

Below is a picture of my title I will be using:

Text Fonts

I am now going to start looking at font ideas for my magazine front cover.


Below I am going to look at a number of fonts that I could use for the title of my magazine:

I have decided that the first font style 'MASTERPLAN' is the font I am going to use for the title of my magazine which will be 'AZM'

Furthur planning for front cover

After looking at another front cover, I have changed my ideas for my music magazine front cover and here is my new plan below:

Follow up from my plan

After looking at my first draft of my front cover I have decided to look at a few more magazine front covers as I would like my magazine cover to have more detail on it.



Below is another real magazine front cover that I have looked at and analysed:

























Analysis of front cover:

1. Picture - I love this picture of La Roux as it instantly draws the viewers eyes to the picture and the magazine.
2. Magazine title- I like the way the name of the magazine name is presented as it is in bright red writing and it stands out.
3. Sub headings - I like the colour of the sub headings as they are white and yellow. this stands out to the audience but does not take the readers eyes away from the picture of the artist.

My first plan for my front cover of magazine

Here I drew a picture of a plan for the front cover of my music magazine. I got this idea from other music magazines I have looked at. I took a picture of my plan and then uploaded it onto my blog.

Other magazine double page spread

After looking at real magazines front cover and contents pages, the last one I am going to look at is the double pages spread.


I am doing this so it helps gives me ideas on how to do my double page spread by giving me ideas for layout, pictures and text.


Analysing double page spread:

1. Picture: I like this picture as it is what attracts the viewers eyes first. It also shows the readers who the article is going to be about.
2. Title: This title is effective as it is asking the readers a question which will make the viewers want to read on as they want to know the answer to that question.
3. Article: I think this article is very good as it is like an interview with the group. This has given me the idea that my double page spread is going to be an interview with my band.

Other Magazine contents page

After looking at oreal magazine front covers, I then looked at real magazine contents pages.
I did this so it can help me with ideas for my contents page.
Analysing contents page:

1. Title: I think the title is good as it informs the readers which page they are looking at.
2. Picture: This picture is very effective as it shows the reader a photo of what the main feature will be inside the magazine.
3. Features: This is very effective as it informs the viewers of what the magazine will include and on what pages it will be featured on.

Other magazine front covers

This was the first front cover I looked at. I like this cover as it has all the elements a music magazine requires.
Analysing front cover:

1. Title: This title is very effective as it stands out to the viewers eyes due to the BOLD lettering and the colour.
2. Picture: This picture is very good as it informs the readers that this band is the main band featured in the magazine. Within my magazine I want a picture of my band to be the main feature of the magazine.
3. Other pictures: The other pictures featured on the front cover is a good idea as it shows what else is featured within the magazine.
4. Text: Each piece of text on this front cover informs the reader about the content of it, however it is good as it does not take the viewers eye away from the picture or name of the magazine.
5. Text font/colour: I like how the font is all the same giving the magazine a sense of continuity. I also like the colour theme as there are not too many colour used.
6. Barcode/price/date: I can see that a barcode/price/date is featured on this front cover, this shows me that i should include these features on my magazine.

Starting to Plan for my Magazine front cover

Now I have chosen and looked at other bands similar to mine, I am now going to start properly planning for my magazine front cover. So to begin with I am going to go search for other music magazine front covers to give me ideas for mine.

Other bands I researched, Hardware/software, Difficulties I will encounter and Decisions I will have to make.

As I am keeping my minor task the same I can now start to move onto my major task. Music magazine.As I am re doing my major task, I wanted to start planning it first and plan it properly. So to begin with I looked at the NME website to get some ideas as to how they review artists today.I am changing from a girl group to a boy band, I am doing this as I think there will be more context I can include about a boy band compared to a girl group.The first band that I looked at on the NME website was Kings Of Leon.

















As I have explained my approaches to my minor task, I am now going to thoroughly plan and research my major task.
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE I WILL BE USING:
Hardware:

1. VDU (Monitor) - I will be using this piece of hardware as it will allow me to see icons, menus and my magazine. This hardware will allow me to veiw my project as I go along.
2. Mouse - I will be using this hardware device as it will allow me to select icons and allow me to create my magazine.
3. Keyboard (QWERTY) - I will be using this hardware device as it will allow me to enter numbers and letters onto my magazine. This may include title, prices, dates and barcodes.
4. Printer (inkjet) - I will use this hardware to print off hard copies of my magazine.

Software:

1. InDesign - I will be using this software as this is the software I will use to create my magazine.
2. Paintshop Pro - I will be using this software as it will allow me to edit the pictures i have taken of my band.

DIFFICULTIES I EXPECT TO ENCOUNTER:

There will be a number of difficulties I expect to encounter whilst creating my magazine. However as I have already created one magazine, I believe I will not find it too difficult this time round. The only problem I think I may have is that as I want to make my magazine more lively and busy I am going to have to include a lot more content. This means I may have to use tools within InDesign that I have not used yet. This could take me a bit of time getting used to.

DECISIONS I WILL HAVE TO MAKE:

There will be many decisions I will have to make whilst creating my magazine. The first one will be the pictures I choose to use for my front cover, contents page and double page spread. I will have to make this decision carefully as they will all need to link together. The next one will be the text font and colour. On the front page I need to make sure that I use the right colour so it will allow the magazine to flow and show continuity to the readers. Layout is also going to be an important decision as I need to make sure my layout works this time and make sure it looks lively but not too cluttered. The language is another decision I will need to make and this is very important as I need to make sure that the language I use connects and links to the audience who this magazine is aimed at.

Approaches to my Minor task

I think my minor task was successful as it included everything that it needed to have.I took a picture of my friend Charlotte i decided to have her picture as the background of my magazine cover. The picture was taken in a library, which I thought linked in well with the theme of a school magazine.The title 'St.Bedes School' was successful as I placed it in the left hand corner of the page, this looked good as it match the colour scheme of the school which was blue and also it was not too big that it drew the viewers eye away from the picture but big enough to inform them what school magazine it was.The sub headings worked well and I liked where I placed them as they were at the sides of the magazine, i did this so they did not cover the picture too much.I then took a picture of both my media studies teachers and uploaded it under the title of the article about them. I thought this was very successful as it makes the viewer want to read the article even more. I also edited this picture by fading it a little bit so it blended into the magazine more. I added the school logo in the top right hand corner which I thought was good. I also added in the date of the release of the magazine and how much the magazine is to buy. I thought this was successful as all magazines have the release date on them and how much it costs. In the bottom right hand corner i inserted a bar code. I personalised this my changing the code to one related to St. Bedes. Overall I thought my magazine covered everything it needed to and therefore was very successful.

Reasons for Choosing this brief

I chose to do this brief as I originally did this brief before. I could have changed to a different brief like a video, but as I am already familiar with the software for this brief I am just going to stick with this one. I wanted to do this brief as I like the idea of being able to take my own pictures and uploading them onto my magazine. By sticking with the same brief I believe I will be able to save time as I already know what I need to do and what to do to improve it.
My minor task is staying the same but I am going to re-do my major task. I am going to do this by changing my band and choosing my friends band - 'The Olivers'. The brief I will be doing is the music magazine. This will include; magazine front cover, contents page and a double page spread on my band. I chose this brief as I want to take lots of pictures of my band and edit them then opload them onto my magazine.



CHOOSING MY BAND:
My band consist of- Andrew (Lead singer), Mylse, Zac and Ben. The genre of their band is very similar to 'Kings of Leon' who I will be researching.

After choosing the band I will be using I took a picture of them, which I would like to include within my magazine. The picture I took of my friends band is featured below:

Changes to my Minor Task - School magazine front cover

As I am only going to make changes to my major task and my blog I am pretty much going to leave my minor task as it is.
Today I looked at my minor task again and decided I just wanted to make a minor change to it. I changed the bar code at the bottom of the page to make it more personalised. I did this by working in Fireworks MX and i changed the letters and numbers to 'ST1BDS.39274'. I then saved this and copied it into my minor task which was in 'InDesign'.
In my next posts I am going to explain why I chose the brief I did and how i did it.

Below i have uploaded my final school magazine front cover for my minor task



Below is my first original plan of my school magazine front cover: