Introduction to my blog

Dear moderator,

Below is my blog in which you will find my completed magzine, dobule page spread and contents page as well as various research and planning posts showing my thought process when creating my magazine.

Enjoy!

Thanks

Charlotte

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Technology table q6 from charlotte haynes

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Who would be the auidence for your media from charlotte haynes

Evaluation question 1

This is 3 short i movies talking about how I took inspiration from thing but still made my work my own

Final contents page

This is my final contents page

Final front cover

This is my final front cover

Final double page spread

This is my final version of my double page spread

Research and planning: changes to front cover

I made some chages to my front cover

• I changed the colour of my masted and the name of magazine to better fit the genre 
• I added some cover stories and faded them out around the images 
• I changed the photo to one of higher quality

Research and planning: changes to double page spread

I changed the photo for my double page spread to one of higher quality and chnaged the layout so it looks for professional.

• I split the layout in two with the image one one half and the text on the other.
• I added a faded out L and B underneath my interview.
• I added the website in the corner on top of a shape.
• I added a stroke to indie solo artist to make it stand out.
• I changed the colour scheme so it matched that of my content page and double page spread both of which I also renovated.

Research and planning: changes to photo for front cover

I made some changes to the photo for my front cover, using the spot healing tool below shows the before and after screenshots of this.

before  

After

 

Research and planning: magazine production techniques

I have used a wide range of techniques to create a magazine that I was happy with I used:

• opocity to fade the l underneath my main article.
• I have used  differant fonts for my quote so it stands and from the rest of my magazine .
• I have used strokes around my main headlines so they stand out more clearly.
• I have rotated a shape and angled it to create the shape in the corner of my magzine.

Research and planning: serif post

I have used a serif font beause it is the easist to see and the majoriy of magazines use these fonts
as shown below the image explians how serif and san serif font are differant from each other.

Research and planning: publication plan

publication plan

Name of my magazine
I have chosen to name my magzine freedom as I felt that this was the best name to communiate my message about freedom of expression and to be yourself. I had orginally planned to use the name mirage but I found that this was not relatable enough to my genre of indie music.
Price
The price of my magazine will be £3.00 as  when I looked at other magazie such as Q they were all round about this price and I want to keep my price within the main frame of price as I dont have a good enough reputation yet to have a higher price.
Selling Line
My selling line is "the UK's number 1 indie music magzine" I chose this because it is simple and links back to the genre of magzine but also add a link to the country it will be sold which will be the UK.
Distabution
I will disbutute my magzine in supermarkets as these are visited by thousands of people everyday so I will be able to reach a wide audience and a lot of people on a daily basis. I will also use a website where you can subscribe online so that if people shop online they can still get my magazine.
Frequecy
I will produce my magazine once on month as that I when the mojority of magazine based on music such as Q come out and alsio becuase while music change all the time new songs are brought out over time they don't just come out all at once and also songs rise through the charts so doing one magazine every week I might just end repeating myself a lot.
Reguler content
I have for reguler content such as fan letters that fans will have sent in before every new issue

• Gossip
• Fan letters
• Ablum review 
• Music video review

featured content
I have for featured content 

• Live music review 
• Interview with lucia blake 
• Upcoming artists 
• Win game
• Win tickets 
• List of events   

Research and planning double page spread story

I have chosen to do an interview with an artist for my double page spread story I have looked at others and they ask questions related to music like:

• Is the artist touring?
• Do they have a new album?
• Most embrassing momnets?
• Who are there biggest inspreation?
• Have they had any carrer defining experiance?
• What have they struggled with in the past?
• What do they enjoy the most about the music industy what do they hate?

I have used this to create my own interview story with an artist for my music magzine.

Research and planning: inspieration for change

In the final stage I felt that my magazine did not fit the genre as best as it could potenially be so I looked at some example magazine covers and contents page and I used them to expand and build and my intitel design to make it fit the genre better. All of the magazine tend to be simple with plain backgrounds and then faded with a splash of bright colour. I also liked the issue number that comes of the word content of the phrase "contents page" at the top  as it liked how it was simple yet creative. Furthermore I also liked that they had images with the page number of the article that they correspended to so I will do this for my own contents page as well.

Research and planning: test background for front cover

I create a brick wall template to test how a brick wall would look when applied to my front cover for my music magazine.

Research and planning:progress so far: febuary

 

In this month I have created my magzine and added essentional features that I think are necessary to create the best magazine possiable I have also moved things around as I have taknen in to consideretion my image but I will proably change the whole style of all 3 publiactions in March as I do not feel that they are linked togther and they need to be as they are from the same magzine.

Research and planning: improved drafts based on audience feedback

These are my improved drafts based on audience feedback that I received from survey monkey and from asking what people thought of my magazine cover contents page and double page spread.

Research and planning: fonts

These are some of the font I used and then changed my mind because they were ethier not appropriate  for the task or they did not fit my theme.

Research and planning: photos for double page spread

I wanted several photos for this and I wanted them to look as the artist had taken them herself while working however it became clear that this chocie made my images look unproffessional  and not appropriate so I did not use these images or the idea behind them  also they were slighly blurry which would not have looked good an indie music magazine as the images tend to be strikiing and very cleverly taken on all the indie mgazine that I have seen.

Research and planning: photo for front cover

I took some photo using the camera but they were too blurry  and what I was wearing was not appopriate for the front cover of an indie music magzine

Research and planning: background for music magazine

When designing my background I made a template of a brick wall I also made a spiral pattern though neither of these designs gave me the effect I wanted for my background.

Research and planning: album covers

I looked at album covers to get some inspiration for creating my own cd cover to accompany my main image on my double page spread.

Research and planning planning: progress so far February

 

My progress so far is good and I have now finished my story and changed the sizes of my font to match the critria and changed the sizes of my canvas to match that which they need to be when printed.

Research and planning: cover page contents page and double page spread so far for January

these are my pages so far 

I have completed my double page spread but I am not happy with the images and I think that it looks cluttered and overcrowed.

Research and planning: survey monkey results

These are my survey responses from my online survey that I did for my music magzine. It infomed what types of music magzine people liked and what they expect in terms of a music magazine.