Double page spread improved

 This is my improved double page spread

 

Feedback from my teacher (24 April 2012)

Thanks to my teacher, I got to see what my finished product would look like on paper and the feed back she gave me was:

• Front cover and contents page was good
• My double page spread needed smaller text as the text was too big
• As my text got smaller i would need to add more text to make it look like a double spread

My music magazine evaluation

http://www.slideshare.net/nbakid/music-magazine-evaluation-12129427

Final products

Imitations

Barcode

When I saw this barcode I loved it becasue it was different
from the barcodes I usually see and it followed the code and conventions
so I adapted an idea from this barcode



This is my barcode, I didnt want to copy it exacly but adapt something



Double page spread design

Contents page design

Front cover design

Plan for new front cover, contents page and double page spread

Below are my rough sketches of what my final pieces were going to look like.

First draft and feedback

Above is the feedback I got for my first draft. Most of the feedback was good but just a few negative feedback comments:

• "It looks gd. and like the pictures BUT the only think dont like is the colours. think the red and blue clash"
• "Not feeling the colour scheme... Loving the title... "Bounce"... . Xx"

After reading this feedback I decided to change the:

Images

Colour scheme

Contents page and front cover

Background on my contents page

Colour palette

From research I learnt that hip hop magazines tend to use no more than four colours and the colours that are used mostly are red, black and grey. I decided to follow these codes and convention.

This is my colour palette:

Masthead design

For my masthead I used the font 'Super Black SF' and when i was designing my masthead I wanted something funky, a good effect that will catch the audience eye. i wanted an effect that relates with the title so I decided to add a bouncing ball on the text and I though it would look best on the o.



I decided to crop the bouncing ball in the image and use as the bounce on my masthead and I had some help from a teacher from my school by the name Mr Jamie Wallis



When i put it together it came out like this.

New pictures



Deleting the background was difficult as the background
was difficult as the background was the same
colour as the jacket.



I decided to take new pictures not only becasue I had misplaced my USB, but becasue the first images I took had no backdrop which made it difficult to manipulate the images on photshop.

These are some of the new images I took:

Deleting the background on this image was easir as the backdrop
was not the same colour as the jacket.

29/02/12 Update

After review and feedback in lesson I now know the aspects of my front cover, double page spread and contents page that I need to improve. I need to:

1. Change the colours on my front cover and double page
2. Improve the background of my double page spread
3. Change/ take new pictures for my front cover
4. Re-think through the colours on my double page spread

Masthead Fonts

Below are some masthead front I researched and thought of using for my front cover, contents page and double page spread.Bounce

In the end i chose the masthead above and I was influenced by the masthead below. I tried to to do something similar to that.

1st of February 2012 update

In today's lesson i was was working on keeping my blogg and work up to date and also sorting out my layout for my magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread. I had already done sketches of al three of these things but just needed to then draft onto my final piece.

Picture taking

On Friday the 27th of January I took some images for my front cover, contents page and double page spread. The reason why they weren't taken in a photo studio was because the room i had planned to use for my photo shot was being used and its the the only photo studio in my school. More pictures will be taken at a later date.

Plan and update

For my final piece I will need to design a front cover, contents page and double page spread related to my chosen genre and target audience I specified in my music magazine research.

From the 25th to the 26th I will be doing my final planning and layout for my front cover, contents page and my contents page. I've taken one day on my schedule to take pictures and work through my weekend to produce my final designs. Feedback is good and that's why I'm spending 4 days on feedback and improvements and my final presentation will be on Friday the 3rd of February 2012.

Below is a schedule which I'm going to follow to finish my final product.

Music Magazine Research Presentation

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