Looking back over magazines

From looking at the beginning where I was going my Pleminary task and then my music magazine drafts I can see a really improvement in all areas. Doing this task was a challenge because we had to take on all of the roles that goes into a professional magazine.

I am happy with the first magazine but I knew I could do better for the final task with more practise:

This is my Draft of my Front page; you can see that it is much different to the first magazine. From comparing them both, I feel that the first magazine was still better. But that is how I learnt about what was good and what was bad:

This is my draft of my contents page; I feel that the page looked boring and quite simple. I didn't want it to look like I had just threw it together:

This is my final draft or my DPS. I was happy with the images but they were too small and he writing was taking up too much space:

Final Contents page

Final Contents page

This is my final contents page for my contents page. I am happy with the layout with it because it is not too busy. The colour of the brown because it is neutral and keeps the page subtle. From my first magazine I can see many improvements. My doing the drafts I was able to see the progress I made and also come up with new ideas.

Final magazine

This is my final magazine. I decided to change the image and the masthead name as i thought that it didn't seem relevant to music. As soon as you look at the masthead you can instantly tell that this magazine is about music and that the image on the front must be able music. i was saying from my last magazine that I wanted it to look professional and I now think that I have finally achieved that. The background is darker which takes up a lot of free space that I am not going to use. Since I looked at the layout of some other magazines such as NME, I saw how they layed out some of their text. I noticed that they had kept their text to one side to keep it looking neat and tidy. I definitely prefer the image as it suite the magazine much more and also makes it look much more unisex than the one before.

Final Magazine

Final DPS

Final DPS

This is my Final DPS for my music magazine; I decided to use different images than what I did before as I thought that they were much better quality and the whole image fit well. I decided to go for light colours because it gives the image and all the smaller details a chance to stand out. The reason I chose the brown was because it went with the wood from the image and the overall colours. I am happy with the outcome of this DPS and find that from the two drafts it is a lot better.

 

Front cover draft 3

Final Front Cover

This is my final front cover of my music magazine; I like this a lot compared to the second draft. The fact that I have put too much on the cover makes other parts of the magazine stand out, such as the masthead and image. I would not usually go for a masthead that had two different colours because I would not of thought that it would have worked well together. As experimenting I feel that it works well and makes the masthead stand out more. Overall I am pleased with the improvement that I have made and feel that from the first magazine to the last there is definitely a better outcome. I decided to go for Black, Blue and White as my colour scheme. This is because the Black and White work well together and can sometimes look a bit plain but by adding the blue from the dress in the image and the text it makes the whole page stand out.

Images taken for magazine

 

 

Images taken for magazine

 

 

For my images I decided to take a range so that I could edit them how I wanted and so that I had a range to choose from. I used Pixlr to edit the images so that I could make them as effective as possible.

 

 

 

This image is one of my favourites because it has the guitar as the only piece of colour. By making it stand out from the whole image it pulls the person from the dull background. I wanted to have a image which was a mixture of colour and black and white which would compliment each other. As the guitar will be standing out I decided to make the only other piece of colour; the nails. I like this edit and have used it in my work.

 

 

 

 

This is another of one of my favourite images because it works without having colour.Because of the detail from the image it has many things which stand out. I chose this image because it seems a lot more natural with the models looking down instead of looking at the camera.

 



 

 

This is the same image as above but with colour. I still edited it by making the image brighter than it was. Instead of having black and white I wanted an image that was inviting and summery. I like this image because it has been edited to make it brighter and it compliments the image well.

 

 

Final Draft Contents Page

This is my Final contents page. I am happy with the layout as I just wanted to keep it simple. I have a couple different pictures of people who are a part of my DPS. Instead of going over the top with the layout I just wanted to keep the design relaxed so that it would be for one easier to read. I like the background colour and it brings the page to life without being over powering. Overall I am really happy with this design.

Final Draft of Front page

This is my Final draft of my Front cover. I decided to again stick to a colour scheme; red, black and white. Comparing this to my draft I feel that this is much better overall. I didn't want to cover the front page with a lot of information because I thought that it only needed to be put in the contents page. I decided to have my DPS story on the front cover, which would draw the reader into the massive picture on the front. As well as having the bigger stores I also added a competition at the bottom and a small story at the top. I added the normal small information such as the barcode and Issue to make this magazine seem more life like for the reader. I am happy with the overall look of the magazine as I took inspiration from many magazines. I know there are improvements but I am pleased with the outcome.

Final Draft of DPS

This is my Final DPS; I decided to not go with the same layout as my draft as I didn't think it was that interesting. Since I had wrote quite a lot I did struggle to fit it all on which made my pictures a bit smaller than I had planned. I am happy with the pictures that I took and I am happy with the editing that I did on them. I know that there are areas where I could improve and areas which I have improved anyway. Because I didn't have the most exciting layout I decided to try and make the images more presentable which is the reason for the Frame around all of them. I looked at other music magazines such as NME to get some inspiration of layout, colours etc. I have tried to stick to a colour scheme of Blue, White and grey. I felt that if I had used Black it would of ruined the look of the magazine and make it look quite serious. I know there are definitely areas which I could improve but I have tried to take the feedback from my last drafts and other ideas into consideration to produce this piece of work which I have now.