evaluation presentation...

contents page preliminary..

This was my contents page for my preliminary task.. I feel this was ok bearing in mind that i hadnt used photoshop before.. i feel that this helped me alot in making sure i was ready for my music magazine. I dont feel this is aesthetically pleasing as my music magazines contents.. but this was a big advatage as i could build on it to make it better.

posting my preliminary task ...

As you can see when comparing my preliminary to my music magazine i used a lot of the same ideas such as picture in background etc. I felt that the preliminary task helped me bundles as it gave me many ideas and gave me a much better understanding of photoshop.. i feel my music magazine is a hundred times better than this magazine but I feel this is because i had a preliminary task to improve on.

Contents finished...

I have now finished my contents page and am soo happy about it...

I made sure to use almost identical colours to the front page in my contents as i felt this would make it look fully effective.. I used page numbers reguralry for the same reason.. I felt the colours i used were aesthetically pleasing. i used bigger pictures so that the readers attention is grabbed straight away.. and i was straight forward for the titles of the pages to make sure that viewers are not confused at all when looking for what they want..

How to make my contents fully effective..

I was a little stuck on how to make my contents fully effective as i didnt understand how to use information effectively such as page numbers etc. I have realised now that page numbers and pictures on the contents can help alot and therefore i used them in my work..

Double page spread finished..

I have had a lot of trouble when deciding on things like photos to use and how to organise them on the spread by using photoshop but i have finally finished .. yehhh!!

I have used a lot of colours as i felt this is just aesthetically pleasing but i also felt this would be the most effective to cath the readers eye.. I have sectioned off parts to make it easier to read and i also felt this made it look alot better. I used the picture as a background in the end as i felt this also was the most effective way to use it. i felt that using the questionnaire in the way i did was good too as questionnaires usually bring attention from fans.

Ive chosen...

I chose to use this picture because i felt it was more aesthetically pleasing and i felt it would be more effective in my magazine as a double page spread..

Stuck on pictures again..

For my double page spread i'm extremely stuck! i just dont no what picture will look best.. :S..

I am going to show you the two of which im stuck between..

The reason i dont no wether to use this picture is because im not sure wether the double page spread should have all the members of the band.. Or does this have the same effect as the whole band?
This is the band picture of which i might want to use, not sure wether this has a better effect to the viewer as it has two members of the band other than one..

front page finally finished ...

Since i have been back from the easter holidays i have really had my work cut out in trying to get the front page how i like it and fully finished, ive had a lot of trouble with photoshop but have managed to finish the front page finally.

as you can see I used the magnetic tool to make the picture look like it fades into the magazines colours better. I feel this is good as it makes it look more proffesional and more aesthetically pleasing. I have used differnet layers on photoshop to make different colour appear in different places, such as the red at the top and bottom of the page.. i also used this to put the bar code etc. this also makes it look a lot more proffesional. I used ideas from other magazines such as different colours in the magazines writing too as this makes it a lot more aestheically pleasing.

The pictures

In the last posts i have been talking about how i used pictures for my magazine but i never showed you the kinds of pictures i was using hopefully this will give you more of an understanding.. :)

A brilliant part of photoshop...

As i said in my last post, i feel that photoshop is not treating my pictures very well. I have found out that the magnetic lasso tool will cut out any picture to an appropriate size of which your pleased with. This will help me so much when adding pictures to my magazine, Especially the main picture it will make it look a whole lot better.

what i have found ...

As i have been researching for my magazine by looking at others, ( Kerrang, NME) I can see that a band picture is a big part of these magazines. I have managed to get a real band and i have taken pictures of them but i cannot seem to get the picture on photoshop how i wanted it to look. Im hoping that when i change the settings of the picture, it will help me out and and help to make the picture perfect.

music magazine

I have been research ROCK music magazines as i will be creating this type of genre for my coursework. These magazines usually consist of Bands interviews including band photos or close up images of the main icon in the band, Fashion, Events such as Download etc. There language used is informal and usually very explicit. I have learn't that a lot of the images are very aggressive, or sometimes of very explicit nature. They consist of a lot of black, red and yellow colours. The magazines i focused on most were Kerrang and NME.