Changes due to feedback

My origianl plan was to use my friend sutton as the main character for the front image, but then because i did the photoshoot in the light and against a non blank background it was hard to photoshop so i decided to change the image to be more effective.

This is what i came up with but dew to guidlines it was not useable because the style model i used was one from americs and they have different rules to the uk so i chnaged it to my friend sutton which took my effort in photoshop but it worked.

The image above would have been my style model if there was no guidlines to what i can produce.
I also took on board what my audience said and changed thing to the main image e.g.made the main image bigger and added extra colour lines for more effect.

Audience feedback for whole magazine

Person A - "The magazine is differnt to other magazines, havent seen many on that sort of music so may have hit a niche or something noone will buy. I like the contents page looks like one out of a real magazine and i perfer it to other magazines because it has people in it i know"

Person B - "contents page looks stylish, has funny interveiw in it and a pritty funny picture"

Person C - "overall good magazine, would be intrested to se what the other artcles would look like, like the design font on the titles for the front cover and the contents page, and the worldwide moshing part look good with it."

Person D - "random choice of images but it looks cool, the images have worked to your advantage, thought there might have been a bit more on the front cover, like the magazine though"

Person E - "interveiw has some weird questions and aswers in, and the image doesnt look likt the sort of person who would do that maybe the person the contents page, but still the magazine looks good, well done"

Double page spread

This is my final double page spread, it started of with me writing down and also creating the questions and answers for the interveiw, after this i created a new photoshop window and imported the image which was perfect to fit the size of A3 and also have space either side to fit all the questions either side. I next imported all the text from a word document and gave each section its own blackground with a drop shadow included. Also i got another text from Dafont.com to have the title in, i choose it because it also goes with the style of the mosh theme. As an addition i added a main answer given in the interveiw which i though would make the page stand out more, i made this text font 24 to stand out appose to the rest which is just twelve and to make it stand out more i painted around it with a paint shadow tool which makes it stand out more and linked this to the main image with a home made arrow.

Mock up of double page spread

This is a mock up of my double page spread, it will consist of a top heading of what the double page spread is about and then a big background image of who the interveiw is about. The pages will be covered with lots of questions and answers done by the interveiwer and the interveiwe. The text will fill most of the page and give the readers an insight of just what the centre character is like.

Journalism research

"Journalism is the investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and business, journalism also covers cultural aspects of society such as arts and entertainment. The field includes editing, photojournalism, and documentary."

Every magazine, newspapaer or any part of news will come from an interveiw donr by a journalist, some people dont like journalists because they can ruin peoples lives or give people the wrong information just to make a money for the company they work for. But on the other hand they can post or write about something good or special someone has done and this will make them special and make the journalist and interveiwee some money. The public would get very minimal information and we would know nothing about what is going on if there was no journalists. Journalism had started been reckonised in the 1600's but media has changed alot since then, jourmists are able to reveive and retreive information alot easier and quicker in this given century, thats why papers and magazines always have articles and information to publish and sell to the public.

Double page spread research 3

This is a double page spread on a new skate park featured in bmx mag uk. we can tell this is adouble page spread because the main wording is split over both pages and a small interveiw about the place this is backed up to show and make the reader understand just what it is like there.

Double page spread research 2

This is a double page spread on training techniques for triathlons from triathlon uk magazine. we can tell this is a double page spread because of the middle picture which is blended over the both pages. This is a great double page because there are lots of images on these pages which draw in the reader and with all the text the photos are exsplained well, its good that people who are reading it can look at these training techniques by text and photos.

Double page spread research 1

This is a double page spread from a car magazine, it is based on cars that are made for racing. The double page spread consists of one side been tuck up by a big image exsplainingwhat the double page spread is, the bottom and top are matching with checkered flags to show that it is a race track e.g. the winning flag. The other side is full of car images which give the reader lots to look at and get intised into.

music mag plan

This is a draw up of music mag plan, this is anotated with my initial ideas to help mne step by step to just what i want to do . It includes 4 pages one article one contents page and a front cover.

Contents page

This is my finished contents page, i used an image of my friend as the whole back ground for the page. I used the same font style for the word contents as i did slayer and kept the masthead the same as the front cover aswell. The info dotted down the left hand side is what is going to be in that weekly issue the main happenings of this issue, on that text i used a drop shadow and free tansform to give them a slight edge and indivudality to them along with that i posted the page numbers for them by the side. I had a lower masthead at the bottom to exsplain and intise the reader to look at one of the main articles that goes in the issue. On the bottom right i have the editors note which i ahve done in a different format to the other text on the page i also put a picture of the editor at the top to put a face to the words. To fill up the empty space i added speechs from people who would be featured in the magazine to let the reader know what is coming, to add effect to them i created arrows to link up the wordage and also drawings of stick men moshers to bring an element of stly and run into the magazine.

Contents page mock up

This is a mock up of my contents page it will have an overall image as the background and the text and other information will be pasted on top. I will have an editors note in the corner and several edded speech bubbles as if they are been said by the charcter in the back ground image.

Contents page research 3

This contents page is from RideUk bmx mag, this has a big image over a double page spread, it has the contents in the lower corner, in contrasting colours blue and white which work well together and go well with the background image. It has the issue number of the magazine in the top corner to exsprss how distigwished the magazine is. It has a editors note in the corner talikng about how he loves the image on the page, this will make the readers understand that there is alot more to come in this magazine.

contents research 2

This is my style model for my contents page, it is from an issue of Q magazine, i have used the bottom bar the same and similar ways on how the content of the magazine is presented down the left side. I used a similar image of a single person with space either side of them to put material. I added myself items down the left side. Q magazine is a large magazine so they can afford to waste space and put big images into places. In this contents page the have kept the same colour from the title to the coulur of the page numbers of the articles.

Contents page research

This is a contents page from a mountain bike magazine, this is done over a double page spread and the reson for that is because of the big background image, the image itself is took at a fast pace it almost seems as the image will disappear. The contents itself is in small writing in the bottom corner nearly to small to see but this also works in making the reader concentrate and see what just is in the magazine, it has two mastheads rather than a main one and the main title is not overly big compared to the rest, the whole contents page is differnt but still very effective.

working with photoshop

This is one of my attempts on photoshop to get rid of the background around my image, this was me getting to grips with the programe and pressing the wrong buttons and trying to understand how it works.

changes made

The only main change i had was the front cover image for restriction reasons, but apart from this small comments from the audience feedback which made me change small things in all 3 differnt magazine sections.

Audience feeback front cover

Audience 1: "The magazine is differnt, didint exspect it to be like that, love the front image slightly funny only because i know him, at first i though it looked a bit bare but i know realise it doesnt need much else on because it would look to much then, good front cover"

Audience 2 : "looks good to me, like the backdrop image make the charcter at the front stand out more, even tho i dont like that genere of music i might chnage my mind, stands out well"

Audience 3 : "the name looks good, the style of it goes with the magazines genere, maybe should have but a bigger image on it, i would have chosen a differnt genere"

These are all from people i had known for a while so maybe been more exseptive of it because of that, but they are good comments that i will take on board.

Synergy in magazines

Synergy can be in magazines in many different forms, for example there may be an article in the magazine about new products on the market in relevance to that magazine, with this there may be many different makes on guitar on the page, this is one part of synergy in a magazine, several companies together on one page. Also in an interveiw there may be many different company names mentioned by a certain person all being reveiwed in so on and so forth, i could do this in may magazine mentioning about similar companies.

Front cover

This is my finished front cover, the main image was chosen because it is the image that stood out the most as a heavy metal rocker pose. The background colour and design makes the image stand out more giving it more of a rock feel, this was done by blending the normal black background and giving it a drop shadow to bring out more effect. I also gave the text on the page a drop shadow to emphasise it.
The font i used from Dafont.com i felt as it was the right style to fit with heavy metal music and to add to it a small image of satans hands to elaperate on the mosh side to heavy metal, all moshers can relate to the satans hands. On the main image i have put several different lines to exspreess the image and add to the movemnet the image is making.