EVALUATION

1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real
media products?
2.How does your media product represent particular social groups? *
3.What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4.Who would be the audience for your media product?
5.How did you attract/address your audience?
6.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7.Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? *

1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real
media products?

My media product, which is the magazine I have constructed uses forms and conventions of a real media products because it looks just like a real media product. The way I did this was through my research. When I researched magazine front covers I realised that the masthead from each of the magazines was either covered up slighly, still thats its recogniseable or overlaping the main picture, so I decided to do this on my front cover by covering the masthead up slightly with the main image on the front cover. The main image also links in with how my media products realsim because on every front cover of a magazine you have a main image and I do on the front cover of mine, but most importantly for the main image they normally atrract the reader by the eyes of the main image looking directly at you and I have a strong bold main image which does this very good. My media product challenges real media products because of a slight difference in the layout of the front cover, I mean this by the bar I have created at the bottom of the page, within this bar there is the headline which you would normally expect in the middle of the page and this is what makes the front cover of my magazine a little bit different. The lighting of my main image is darker rather than light and this represents my music genre for my magazine because the genre is rock and when you think of rock you don't think of bright and bubbly things you think of dark and serious things, this also interlinks with the expression on the person in the main image face because she looks very serious, I also think the lighting could represent rock artists moods and they way they act in they way people think of them stereotypically. i edited my main image in photoshop by increasing the contrast and making it darker so it would stand out more and give that dinghy mysterious feeling to it. the make up the person in the main image is wearing directly relates to what kind of make up a real female rock artist would wear, e.g. things such as the dark eye make up and yet again the use of darkness interlinks into the representation of the music genre i have chosen which is rock this is following the convention. My magazine is based on females and I think this challenges the conventions of a real rock magazine because stereotypically at first instance when someone who is not familiar with rock and you ask them what  kind of people do you associate with rock they would probably answer a group of men in a band, on the other hand my magazine only represents females and they are females that are rock artists, but they are totally different from the stereotypical view someone would give them because they are focused and do care and the stereotypical view would be a moody person who doesn't wants to talk to you and doesn't have a care in the world. The colours of the fonts and titles i have in my magazine uses conventions of a real media product because the main colours I have used are black red and blue, the black represents the whole stigma of rock the feeling to it, the red represents danger and this is what people would think that represents rock people and the blue just represents the main gender you would associate with rock but this is contrasted in my magazine because my magazine is about females. I have also used white for some of the fonts and the titles and this challenges the conventions of a rock magazine because you wouldn't compare the colour white to a rock artist because white represents purity and innocence but this actually does represent the people in my magazine. Overall I think my magazine challenges the conventions of a real rock magazine because of the people included in it and through some of the colours I have used and the images.

2.How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine represents teenagers. In my magazine teenagers are represented in a positive way, I represented them in a positive way because mostly teenagers are represented in a negative way in the media and I wanted to get across that people shouldn't just think of teenagers in a negative way because there is a positive side to them as well and this comes across in the images in my magazine and the articles. The images in my magazine represent teenagers in a positive way because the main image on my front cover shows a female teenager and she looks focused which is a good thing because you have to be focused when you have a music career, also their is a main image on my contents page that shows a female teenager smiling and she looks quite happy and this is representing teenagers in a positive way because people just think teenagers complain about everything but this is just stereotyping them. The articles in my magazine represent teenagers in a positive way because the articles are about the stars success. My magazine mainly represents females because thats what the magazine is about and they are the focus of the main representation, female teenagers. I have represented female teenagers in a posotive way aswel  through the use of language, for example on the contents page supporting the main image and on the doubke page there is a quote from the teenage female artist saying " well lifes not all about holding grudges on people", this represents her in a posotive way it shows she has a posotive attitude. On the front cover of my magazine because she loos focused and is giving the reader eye contact this shows confidence in her and if someone is confident they are more likely to be sucesful and this is portraying her in a posotive light again.

3.What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

I think IPC Media would distribute my media product because they are a very large and sucessfull media institution and they distribute magazines from country life to NME and I think my magazine will fit into one of the many categories that they have, Also for IPC Media this would be a chance for them to extend their institution and have more types of magazines and this could widen their audience by bringing my target audience to them and therefore they will become more recogniseable, so if they did distribute my magazine I would benefit and so would they. I think my media product aswell as being able to buy it from retailers, it could be sold at music festivals, because this is the place where my target audience will be and i think people will buy it there because people who will be performing at the festivals will be inside the magazine and this will get the people who go to the festivals interested in my magazine because the main reason why they are going to the festival anyway is because they like the people that are playing there.

here is an animate video where i meet the manager of IPC media and ask them to distribute my product

http://goanimate.com/videos/0ueew7bMJnOQ?utm_source=linkshare

4.Who would be the audience for your media product?

The target audience for my magazine is teenagers aged between 15-19 and they have a taste in indie and rock music and interested with whats happening with the young people in that area of the music industry because thats what my magazine is about, young people in the music industry. The primary audience would be females within the target audience age range because the magazine is female dominated and quite girly and this is shown in the interviews and you wouldnt expect a boy to be reading girly inerviews would you? and this is what makes them the secondary audience. Also other people who are not my target audience or people who dont fit into my primary audience wouls also be classed as the secondary audience and this could be people much older who just fancy a read of my magazine or people who enjoy other genres of music and also just fancy a change.

This is a mood board showing the audience for my magzine

5.How did you attract/address your audience?

When creating my magazine attracting and adressing the main audience was the main factor I was thinking about. To attract the main audience which is my target audience I thought about them and what they would want from a magazine. As my target audience are tennagers aged between 15-19, they are probably unemployed or go to college or university which makes them students and then this puts them into the E category of the audience code and people in this category dont have much money and this is why I have priced my magazie at £2.99 which I think is a very good price for my magazine and afoordable for the target audience, so this is a factor that would attract them because my magazine is cheap. Another way in how I attracted/adressed my audience is the use of language I have on  my magazine front cover, for example the masthead of my magazine is called ' BREAK' that is very easy to read and teenagers are stereotypically seen as lazy, so if they seen a magazine with a very long masthead they might be put of by it, they wan something quick, easy and interesting to read which is what my magazine demonstrates very good.

Below is the link for a little animation i have made that includes real answers from someone who has viewed my magazine.

http://goanimate.com/videos/0vImL8K1khtA?utm_source=linkshare

6.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

At the begining of the process I never knew how to use photoshop at all, but this is what nearly all magazine editors and makers use when constructing their products because its modern day technology that povides them to do all kinds of things like make celebrities look skinner and their faces look flawless, and it is actually quite important to have a nice flawless face on the front of your magazine, because if you had a one with loads of blemishes on and spots people would think it looked horrible and not buy the magazine, so I thought I would use it when making my magazine. I needed to remove the background from my images so that the original backgrounds didint interere with my magazine, so I opened the image into photoshop and I did that by clicking on file at the top left hand corner and open and it brought up a box with options where I could choose my pictures from. I chose my picture from the file I saved it in ( my main image for the front cover) and opened it up, then it appeared on the page. Even thought there looks like there was no image background, there was because it was white and I needed to remove this. I scrolled down the toolbar at the side of the page and read what each of the tools were, finally i found a tool that was called quick selection and with this tool I could select an area and then delete it and this is what I needed to do, so this was something new I learned. After I did that I then resaved my picture and put it on my front cover, which I made in word, which I knew how to use and I cropped it down using the crop tool and ajusted the brightness by formating the picture and clicking on ajust brightness. Another new thing that I learned from photoshop was how to change the colour of hair, because I thought it would look good to change the colour of the hair for the person in my main image. I googled how to do this, but I didint understand the instructions very good, so I worked half of it out by myself. I knew you had to daw around the hair somehow, but I didint know what tool to use, so i tested all the options and found out magnetic lasso tool was the one you used. All you had to do was draw around the area you wanted to change colour, then it made a line around it. After that I right clicked and chose save selection because it seemed the most sensible to do. I did have some vague knowledge on photoshop and knew that it was the image I wanted to change colour so I went to the top of the page and clicked on image then ajustments, then hue/saturation, then a box came up with some options in. I clicked on colourize because thats what I wanted to do to the picture and moved the scrollers side to side to choose a colour. When I chose my colour I clicked ok and it was done. I tried a few colours out for evidence

Removing the background

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Changing hair colour                                                                                                               

7.Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? 

Looking back at my preliminary task and at my music magazine I have produced there is a big difference. The big difference is that the quality of my preliminary task is actually not very good and it doesn't look that professional and the music magazine I have created looks much better this is because I have done loads of research and realised the key features of a popular magazine and what makes them sell, like using language that appeals to the target audience and having a good colour scheme that fits in well with the genre of the magazine. The genre of my magazine is indie/rock and the magazines I researched e.g. Kerrang and NME have used colours like black and red, and I have also used the colours black and red, because you wouldn't expect a rock magazine to be pink. Also since my preliminary task I have learned how to use photoshop and that has been a big help in editing my images to make them look better and the better they look the more professional my magazine will look. So in conclusion, I think my fully produced music magazine is much better than the college magazine I produced for my preliminary task, because I didn't have the skills then to produce a very professional looking magazine and never did any research.

Preliminary task product

This is the front cover for my college magazine that i did for my preliminary task, it has a neat layout but as you can see it doesn't look very professional.

This is the contents page for my college magazine and just like my front cover it has a neat layout and yet again it doesn't look very professional.

this is my music magazine front cover and you can see the difference between my college magazine front cover and his is very significant, for example the colours on my music magazine relate so much to the genre of my magazine which is rock and the image and lighting is more professional as i took the picture with a digital camera rather than the camera off my phone and manipulated it in photoshop. The overall difference is very seeable ad if you have the same opinion as me I think this magazine cover is much much better and more appealing, and this is because I had learned how to use a variety of programs e.g. such as photoshop to help me create a better looking magazine cover.

This is the contents page of my music magazine and just like the changes between my front covers the change in quality is very significant and yet again this is because I have learned to use programmes like photoshop to make my skills at creating pages for my magazine better.

This is hopefully the last version of my double page feature. The changes I have made are that I have made the main image a bit smaller and edited some of the text out, I have done this because I needed to put page numbers on the bottom of each page and I had no space to I made these changes and I have put an odd number on one side of the page and an even number on one side of the page.

I have changed my magazine front cover, if you look to the previous one you will see the changes I have made and hopefully this is the last time I will change it

The changes I have made and why.

I have changed the subheading colum so that it doesnt have a background colour, I have done this because The last one didint really go weel on the front cover it looked more like a contents cover so this change made it look more like a front cover and the subheadings now blend in with the front cover more and it looks more like a front cover now. I have changed the colour of the subheadings text and I have changed this to white and blue. I have done this because it goves the page more of a neat colour scheme and is easy on the eye which makes it easy to establish which subheading gos with which text. Lastly I have moved the main image more to the centre of the page as the subheadings dont take up most of the page and this looks better because it is proportion and because it is in the middle it is going to be the first ting you see and this is the purpose of it, so this change went well. Also I have moved the masthead to the centre aswell in line with the main image and the reason I did this is the same reason why I moved the main image, also if I never moved the masthead when I moved the main image then it would look out of proportion and wrong.

This hopefully is the last version of my contents page and as you can see from last time i have chose my main image changed the colour of the subheadings background and added some anchorage 3/4 of the way down the page.

Proof that I manipulated the main image
The main image on this contents page is not what I started out with, here is the proof

my contents page rationale

colour usage, image usage, text and font usage, layout

Colour usage

The main colours I have used on my contents page are red, white and black, which are the colours of my magazine house style because they link in with the target audience of my magazine. i have also used a little bit blue on my contents page and that is just to make something stand out. i have used the colour red for the background colour of the subheadings at the side of the page so that the subheadings stand out because they are wrote in black and white, so they will stand out on a contrasting background. I have also used the colour red for the text in the subscription box at the bottom of the page because yet again the background is black in this part, so therefore a contrasting colour will stand out and thats why I chose red. The other places i have used the colour red is the lines outlining the subscription and editors pick box this is so that you know they are two different boxes and so that it is clear to you. The very last part of this page where i have used the colour red is the information bar at the bottom of the page an this is so that the white writing stands out on the colour red because it is some important information and needs to be recognised. the reasons above explaining why i have used the colour red are just the basic reasons why I have used them, the main reasons why i have used the colour red is that, the colour red represents danger and anger and this might be peoples stereotypically view of people in the music industry who are rock stars because their performances are what some people might think aggressive and thats just the way they perform. the places where I have used the colour white on my contents page is the contents name which is break weekly and i have used the colour white here because it stands out on the background it is on which is red. Other places I have used the colour white on my contents page is for he subheadings that support the main image an I have used white here because the subheadings are actually wrote in black so the black subheadings stand out on the white background. I have also used the colour white for the background of the main image because I edited the main image to remove the background because it looked stupid with the original background it had and white also goes with the colour scheme of the page because white has been used in other places, such as the text in the editors pick box. The main reason why I have used the colour white on my contents page is because the colour white represents purity which could link into the age of the people in the magazine, because my magazine is based on young people in the music industry and the fact that they are young links into the colour white. The places on my contents page where i have used the colour black is the writing for most of the subheadings and for some of the background colour of the page which is at the bottom. The reason why I have used black for my subheadings is that they stand out in that colour upon the background they are on. The main reason why I have used the colour black is that it links in with the genre of my magazine which is indie/rock but mostly towards rock because people might associate the colour black with rock because like I've said before some people might think of rock artists performances as aggressive and to be aggressive you have to have a reason and mainly that reason is bad, which links into the colour black. the last and final colour I have used on my contents page is blue and I have only used blue in one place which is a little box in the right hand bottom side of my contents page which says next week and this box is blue because it is trying to draw the readers attention to it because it is a different colour to everything else an to highlight the importance of what its supporting.

Image usage
I have used 3 images on my content page including the main image. I think my min image for the contents page is appropriate and appealing for the contents page because The person in the main image who is a female is smiling and this represents female as happy people, so that a good ting, and it is also a good thing because you dont want to just open a magazine and find a picture of a misserable person, do you? The image i would say is a close up because its mainly jut a picture of the persons head and a little bit shoulders. The other two images i have used are sub images at the bottom of the page and they are pictures of the magazine front cover itself, in the subscription box and a image of the editor in the editors box. I used the picture of the magazine front cover in the subscription box to support the text because the subscription box is all about subscribing to the magazine and its relevant. I used a picture of the editor in the editorial box because yet again this supports the text and it familiarises the readers with the editor. The shot of this image would be a mediumish shot, its not a long shot because mainly the way you remember someone is by their face not anything else, mainly.

Text and font usage
The text that i have used on this contents page are all of the subheadings, the page title, the quotes, the content inside the subscription box an the editors pick box. The main fonts I have used for the text are simle fonts that I have got from word and they are calibri body and arial. I chose these simple fonts o adress my audience because they dont want to see har to understand fonts. The only special font I have used on this page is the quote that supports the main image and that font is from a website called font space I chose a special font for this part because I wanted the quote to stad out and I think it does.

layout
the layout of my contents page is very similar to my front cover, it is quite a simple layout. down most of the left hand side I have sectioned it off from the rest of the page with a dark red box which is for the subheadings, i have done this because it makes it clear to the reader that this is the main information that you need to know wen you are looking for something inside the magazine an this is clearly and neatly set out for you. I have a bar at the bottom of my page which is split up into two sections, these sections are the subscription box and the editors box, I have put these at the bottom of the page into these two sections because they are extra information that you might want to know, but they are not the most important features of the contents page. my main image is placed on the remaining of the page which is about 3/4 of the right hand side of the page I have done this because I wanted to get it across to the reader that this was the main image, but I didn't want the main image to be too big, just big enough so that it is noticeable to the reader that i is the main one. I think that the layout of my contents page appeals well to the target audience because it is not to complicated and is easy on the eye, because the stereotypical teenager which is my target audience are branded as being lazy and if they are faced with an information packed complicated looking page they will probably not read the page.

This is my finished double page for my magazine, it looks a little blurry because i couldnt upload it any other way.

Rationalle
Colour usage, image usage, text usage, layout and font usage
Colour usage
The colours I have used on my double page feature are, pink, red, grey and black. The reason why I have used the colour pink is to add some femenicity to the page because it links in with the main image, who the article is about. I have used the colour pink for the image in the background which is the symbol D, I used pink here because orinally I used a redish colour and that made the red text barley noticable so i made the colour lighter, which turned out to be pink and the red writing shows up just fine on top of this colour. The reason why I have used the colour red is not that it gives the text coloour variety, but so that it is clear what are the questions in the interview and what are the answers and this separates one from the other, also I have used the colour red because it stands out nice on the background and the text is noticable. The reason why I have used the colour grey is because it links in with the main image which some people would say is black and white, but actually its a greyish colour, so I have used the colour grey to create some colour co-ordination for the page. The places where I have used the colour grey is the highlighting colour of the quotes and I have used this colour here because It highlights the main parts of the text so that they stand out nd yet again like ive said to link in with the main image and to also keep my colour palette as minimal as possible. I have used the colour black because that is the colour of wht text normally is, But I have also used the colour black for the same reason I have used the colour red for the text, to separate the questions from the answers and so that it stands out on the background and is easy to red.
Imgage usage
The image I have used on this page is a picture of the person who the article is about, and I think is very good because it is black and white, which links into the clour scheme of the page, and also the way the person in the main image is looking down onto th text in the article is a really good effect because it shows that the text and the main image link in tgether and the interview is including the person in the main image, so its like shes looking back on what shes said. Also, the way the person in the main image is looking down to the side links in with the quote that is under the main image, which is '' well lifes not all about holding grudges'' so this pose could suggest that she is turning her back on whats happened in the past and doesnt want to surface those problems again, putting everything behind her. The sub image that I have used in the middle of the page is an image of former band twisted souls, which danielle used to be in. I have included this image because it links in with the text because danielle is talking about what her bnd was like and the betrayl her band member gave her. the subimage is black and white and this is to link in with the colour scheme and to link in with the main image. I have used the symbol D in the background and have used this because it is the first initial of danielles name, and it just links in with the whole article and adds a bit of decoration to the page.
Text Usage & font usage
The text I have used is abviosly the whole of the interview, the title, the sub title and the quote under the main image. Text is the vital part of my double page feature because my double page feature is an interview with Danielle Cooper, and in an interview questions are asked and then everything is wrote down then printed onto a page. The font I have used for the body of the interview is calibri body size 10, the quotes are also calibri body size ten but are in capitals, and this shows importance. The sub title is in times new roman, a size 12 and is in bold and italics, the italics links in with the colour pink which adds femenicty to the page. The title of the page, the heading anfd the quote at the bottom of the page under the main image are a font called great vibes from a website called font space and I have just resized them to different sizes.
Layout
I have got a very effective, but simple layout for my double page feature, on one side of the page there is the main image and this takes up the whole page to show the relevance and importace of it, because it is quite important, and on the other side of the page is the text, the interview and this is split up into three colums.

This looks a bit blurry but its just the way that it has been uploaded, as you can see this is a newer version of my double page feature because I have changed the quote font from the bottom of the page, highlighted the quotes dotted about the page in a diferent colour, which is grey, to blend in more with the image and I have changed the main headline and changed to a different font which I got from the website font space.

This is a newer version of my contents page, but as you can see there is less on the page because the main images have gone, this is because i want to choose some different main images because i didn't like the last ones, also on this contents page i have changed the subheadings font at the left hand side of the page to make them stand out more.

21st November 2012
As you can see I have made some more changes to my contents page, the changes are a background colour to the subheadings which is dark red and i have changed the text that was white to dark red aswell. Another thing that I have also changed dark red is the lines at the bottom of the page and the text in the subscrption box and the information line background colour. I have made these changes because I think dark red is more of a suitable and blendable colour that goes well with the design and housestyle of my magazine, also the front cover of my magazine has the same shade red on it, so it all links together like i said and creates a suitable housestyle.

The image on this contents page is not my own, but I just tried it on my contents page to see what it would look like, and I like the way it looks so I am going to take a picture of my own with a peron posing like this because it fits well on the page and hopefully i will be finished my contents page.

I did not use this pose

This is an improvement to the previous front cover i had, but the explanation will be the same for the rationale because i have only made some of the red slightly darker and this is so that it blends in more with the front cover of my magazine.

As you can see I have changed my contents page from the last one as this has been improven, there still needs to be improvements made, like i would rather have one big picture for the contents page as the main picture and thats about it, i just need to find out what kind of picture i need and take that picture.

This is the first draft of my contents page.

This is proof that i was choosing different fonts for the subheading on my front cover

This hopefully is the last version of my magazine front cover, as you can see i have improved it loads since the last cover i created and think i have reached a final decision on how the front of my music maagzine should look like:)
Rationale

Colour usage
 I have tried to keep my colour palette as simple as possible but not to boring, the main colours on my front page are, black, white, red and blue. I have used the colour black for the background colour of the main image. I have used black because my main image is quite bright and therefore a dark background will make it stand out, but i also chose black as the main image background colour because it relates to the target audience of my magazine which are fans of indie/ rock. I think the black relates more to the rock fans because rock is a form of music that people just want to do outrages things, like go mental because it puts them in that mood because the adrenaline that you get when listening to rock is intense, also some people might listen to rock when their angry, which is a 'dark' place thats why i have chose the colour black. I have also used black at the bottom of the page for the same reasons, to make lighter pictures and text stand out when they are on a dark background. I have used black also for some of the text, and this text i have used black for are the subheadings and i have used black here again because the text is on a lighter background so putting light upon dark makes them stand out. The next colour I have used is white. The places where i have used the colour white are the highlight colour for the text at the top of the page which is the sell line and the highlight colours of the main subheadings, also for some of the text that go with the subheadings. For the sell line i have used white because most of the page is red and black so the sell line would stnd out more if it was in a different colour and the colour that i thought would be most suitable would be white because the text colour on the sell line is black and red, so they will also stand out whe placed upon a light background because they are considered as dark colours. I have used white for the highlight colour for the subhedings because the text colour is black and therefore yet again it will make the text stand out, also I have used the colour white here bacause it sections of the different subheaings and just gives the page a neat look. I have used the colour red quite consistentley on my page. I chose the colour red because yet again it links in with the genre of my magazine and the target audience. Some might say that the colour red symbolses danger and anger and I agree with this and thats where it links in with the genre of my magazine because when people watch rock artists perform they might think the look an act quite agressive, with the moves they do and the 'screaming' they have in their songs. The places where i have used the colour red is, the subheadings colum, ' the 100 pages special' at the top of the page and a kind of semi circle plug on the right hand side of the page if you were looking directly at the magazine and finally as part of the text in the sell line. I have used red for the subheadings colum at the side of the page to indicate that these are the most important features inside the magazne and because it makes the page look neat, i have also used the colour red for this because it makes the things on it stand out as they are contrasting colours. I have used the colour red for the semi circle plug because there is a red line coming from the subheading colum that leads to this plug, so i have yet again done it for neatness, bu i have also done it to make the text inside the plug stand out and the text inside the plug is black, so this works quite well. The last places where i have used red is part of the sell line text and the '100 pages special issue' part at the top. Firstly i have used the colour red as part of the sell line which says ' so pick up yours now' to grab the audiences attention and to highlght the importanceof what im tring to get across to the audience, which is to buy the magazine, but not in a demanding way as people then probaly wouldnt buy the magazine, then I have used the colour red for the '100 pages special issue' part at the top because it is on a black background, so it will stand out. Allthough people might link the colour red with danger and agression, i have also used that colour as part of my front cover to bring some brightness to the page, so that the page is not just all black, dark colours which will not make it appealing and just make it look boring. Finally the last colour I have used for the front page of my magazine is blue, I have also used the colour blue to bring a different colour to my colour palette even though i wanted my colour palette to be simple, but adding one more colour wont make any difference as long as it goes well on the page. I have used the colour blue because It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence and faith, and some of these things are what people in the music inustry have, for example confidence, all performers should have confidence when they perform, so that they can perform as best as they can and believe in theirselves. The places where I have used the colour blue is, the main hedline and subheadline and for some of the text that goes with the subheading. I have used blue for the main headline as I feel it would stand out on the background and also because i wanted to bring some posotivity to the page and the colour blue symbolizes that. I have used the colour blue for some of the text that go with the sub headings to link it with the colour blue used for the main headline, so that t wasent just the main headline that was blue, because that would look a bit odd and random, also because it makes the text stand out on the background.
Image usage
I have only used 5 images on the front cover of my magazine, which are 2 propper images of people icluding the main image and a picture of some headphones and two symbols that represent twitter and facebook. Firstly, the picture I have used for the main image is a strong image for a front cover because it it of a female and she is looking directly at you and the expression on her face is serious, this is a good thing because it represents females in a  good way, representing them as being serios, but i also think that the picture i have chose for the main image is  good choice because the framing goes well with the layout of the page and its just the right size. The second image i have used is an image at the left hnd side at the bottom of the subheadings colum, which is an image of a female music artist holding her guitar. The reason why I have used this image is that i thought my front cover needed more images to it so i added a sub image, but also because the image goes with the subheaing above it, as the image is a female this gives the magazine a female domination to it because there are no males on the page. I used the picture for the headphones because yet again they link in with the subheading near it. The picture of the headphones are inside a white plug, which just adds that extra neatness to the page instead of them being square and also it catches people attention, as ts something different. The two symbols i have used for twitter and facebook are for obvious reasons, because the twitter adress and facebook adress is on the page and the symbols symbolize them, but these symbols could have more relevance that that, because what if people couldnt read but wanted to know if the magazine had a twitter or facebook page, the symbols would show them that the magazine has got a twitter and facebook page.
Text usage
There is quite a lot of text on my front cover, but not to much. The text that it on my front cover is the sell line, the masthead, the headline, the sub headline, the subheadings and the price and date. All these are essential for the front cover of a magazine and thats why i have included them all. Firstly the sell line is the thing that sells the magazine hence the name of it. The masthead is the most important thing you should have on the cover of a maagzine and I have one of these and the name of my masthead is BREAK all in capitals letters and this is to highlight the importance that it is the name of the magazine and to make it recognisable on the page. The hedline is based about 3/4 of the way down the page alongside the subhedline and i have put these near each other, for common sense so it is clear to the reader that the headline goes with the sub headline. The rest of the things mentioned above are all essentials so i have included them on my front cover, the subheadings on my front cover are placed neatly down the left hnd side of my magazine and this makes the magazine have a more professional edge to it, because they are not just scattered all over the place. The price and the date are situated on the top left hand corner of the magaznie and are quite small, but not to small that you cant see them because this is the most important information on a magazine, because this is what people take into consideration when buying thre magazine because they want to know that the magazine their buying is still in date and how much it is going to be.
Layout and font
I have used a vairety of fonts on my front page to section differnt parts of the page up, for example the sell line at the top of the page is calibri body size 14. The subheading titles are in different fonts but are the same size which is 16, the first subheading title is wrote in calibri body and the second is wrote in arial, the subheading titles are in dfferent fonts because to show that they are different things and not the same sections. some of the text under both subheading titles that are wrote in blue are calibri body in italics, this is to section of the text so you dont just think that i chunk of text is all about the same thing. Most of the other font on the front cover of my magazine is either arial or calibri body, which are the tow main fonts  have used an when you look at the front cover you can see that they are different colours. The font of my masthead is a font i got of a website called dafont and I called my masthead BREAK, I called it Break because In musical terms this means, A technique in which instruments stop playing for a short period of time, allowing a singer or instrumental soloist to be heard alone, this could relate to when there is a rock band playing and a member from that rock band has a solo part, and the instruments stop playing so only he /her can be heard.  Also I think this is a good word choice because some people might associate rock people and fans of it to be quite violent, which links to breaking things.  I also got this font from dafont because it has a wide range of fonts to choose from, I think this is a good font because it is bold and when things are bold they are more clear and easy to understand. The word I have chosen for the name also goes with the font because the word is break and the font looks like it has been broken, so everything goes well together. The colour is black and this is the stereotypical colour you would relate to rock people and the fans because it’s a dark colour and that could link to their ‘dark’ stereotypical moods. The font I have used for the main headline on my front cover is a font from the website called font called font space and i think that it has a good effect to it so i used it as the main headline. The layout of the contents on the front cover of my magazine is what i would call unusual because i havent seen a magazine with the same arrangements as i wanted to create something original, but the main things that are supposed to be on the front page of a magazine are placed in the right places, expectable positions. The main image is placed in the middle of the page as it is one of the main features of the cover, but slightly to the right, this because there is a subheading colum on the left hand side of the page, i think i have situated things neatly on the coverand this gives a professional edge to it, like it has been created professionally. The masthead on my magazine front cover is slightly covered by the main image, but still so that you can recognise what the name is, even though, but highly doubted if people dont understand what the name of my magazine is if they get to know they will aslo recognise the magazine not just for its name, but for its unique style. The subheadings, as previously said are placed in a colum down the left hand side of the page and this just neatens things up and makes the front cover look neat. I think the arrangements of all the features of my front cover are very neatly situated, and this makes the cover have a professional feel.

Preparation

The first thing before creating my magazine front cover i had to decide on the name for my magazine. The name i chose for my magazine is BREAK, i think this is a good choice of name because in musical terms break means a technique in which instruments stop playing for a short period of time allowing a singer or a instrumental soloist to be heard alone, this links in with the genre which my music magazine is going to be because it is going to be indie/rock and at the begining or end of indie/rock songs, this technique is sometimes used. Also the reason for choosing BREAK for the name of my magazine came to me when i wa thinking about when rock artists peform and they seem quite agressive and when you think of aggresive people you could think that they break things in their aggression. The target audience formy magazine is tennagers aged between 15-19 and are females, this is because the magazine will be female dominated and focuses around the ag range ofthe target audience for people in the music industry. The secondary audience for my magazine would be people outside that age range and they would be male,because stereotypically you wouldnt expect a boy to be reading a female dominated magazine. Because my magazine is female dominated the representation will focus around that gender. The representation of females in my magazine will be that they are very strong and independant and really know what they want to do, i want to shine a posotive light on the young females because normally in the media young people are stereotypically portrayed as being yobs and causing trouble, when they are not all like that, so i want to show what young people can be likeand they can be good and achieve something out of life. The price of my magazine will be £2.99, i think that this price is uitable and affordabl because the people that will hopefully buy my magazine will be teenagers and tennagers dont get a lot of mony if they are unemployed and this is where social groups come in and as tennagers we fit into the category E which means we are quite low down in the heirarchy of social group and because thats where people who are unemployed are considered, so the price of £2.99 is affordable because teenagers could save their pocket money up if they get some or just ask for money of their parents as its not much and the magazine is only released weekly. I would want my magazine to be sold nationally so that it gets a wide customer base so that the recognition of my magazine will expand and the places i would want my magazine to be sold are newsagents and supermarkets because that is where magazines are normally sold.

This is the final version of my double page spread.

As you can see i have chosen the image i want to stick with for the main image of my double page feature i think this is the best image out of the ones i was considering as the person in the main image is looking onto the text, which is an interview with her, this gives a good effect. I edited the main image so that it became black and white and i also edited the sub image so that it was black and white, i wanted the pictures black and white because i had been inspired by a double page feature based on lady gaga.

this is the original image i used for the sub image, i recoloured it and then cropped it down using microsoft word, i could of used photoshop, but i prefer to use word when simple things need changing.

this is the original image i used for the main image i also cropped it down and recoloured it again using microsoft word, but firstly i removed the background on photoshop using the lasso tool because if i removed the background on word, sometimes it cut some of the picture out and that is not good.

This is going to be the double page feature of my magazine, as you can see i have improved it from last time, but the main image that is on this page is not the propper one i am going to use because i am going to change it when i get a better image i just did it to see what size of picture i needed.

Analysing music magazine front covers. This is an NME fron cover.

This is the layout for the double page feature of my magazine.

This is the layout for my contents page.

This is the flat plan for my magazine front cover.

Analysing double page features, this is an article on Florence Welch, more commonly known as florence and the machine.

Analysing contents pages, this is the contents page of NME magazine.

As you can see i have changed my front cover a few times. I have done this because when i first created my front cover i wasent very sure on it and i knew some things needed changing to make it look better. The little front covers on the right are the ones that i have changed in the same way to see which ones look better and the front cover on the left which is the biggest is the one i have chose:)

This is the image i chose for the front cover of my magazine and i chose this image because i think the framing of the image is good and the person in the mian image is looking straight at you with is engaging with the audience of the magazine, attracting them to buy it.



I did some more work on my double page feature since last time, as you can see all the text is finished and i have added a picture in the middle of the text, i still need to find a picture for the right hand side of my double page feature then hopefully i will be satisfied with this double page feature and it will be done:)



This is what i have done so far of my double page feature i will add the image when i have finished the writing on the right hand side of the page and it will take up the full page.

This is what i have done of my contents page so far as you can see there is no image and i need to put one on, thats what the big blank space is for.

Analysing double page spreads, an article on alicia keys



Analysing double page spreads Lady Gaga



Analysing VIBE contents page, this contents page is one of the worst i have came across because it does not look very good.