18th November 2010

Today I have made some progress on my first draft of my rock magazine 'Nightmare' Front cover.I have placed a picture of Green day in a simiar standing postion ofhow i want the main image to be. Also I have started to create my Contect Page for the magazine.

Rock Magazine Fonts

For my music magazine I have picked the genre of rock so I have to look for fonts that have a sort of rock edge to them and if they would look good on a rock magazine.

Since I like everyone of them I have printed the fonts of and asked a selective amount of people to chose what they think would look good. This was there results.

1 - 0
2 - 3
3 - 3
4 - 6
5 - 1
6 - 2
7 - 1

Obviously number 4 is clearly the favourite so I am going to listen to the people and us number 4 for my rock magazine.

School magazine contents page draft and final

This is my draft and final contents page for my school magazine.

School magazine contents page draft and final

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Final School Magazine Cover

This is my final school magazine cover with the corrections which people have offered me.

Something that I had to change and something that people clearly pointed out was the size of the school logo, they said it was to small and needed to be increased a bit so that was i did. This is good for the magazine because it covers up a gap at the top right hand corner and makes the page look a little more full.
Also I got told that the splash was in the wrong position and is covering up the face so I moved the splash down and increased the size of the main splash to make it stand out more.
I have also made the words "Free" and "Exclusive" bolder so it attracts people so that section of the magazine.

School Magazine cover draft 1

This is my first draft of my school magazine cover.

I have asked Ryan to look in to the camera so when the readers look at my cover it will draw them in t the magazine. I have chosen a medium shot so that it can show his school uniform to show the fact that this is a school magazine and he is at school. Many people I have asked mentioned the way he is looking at you and said that that was a good thing


On the other hand, Many people I have asked for improvements have noticed about the free space underneath the splash and text and also some above the text so what I am going to do is move the splash down so it's not on his face to much and make the text abit bigger so that it stands out more.I'm also going to make the issue number, price and date smaller so that the subheading stand out more. Also the school logo will be brought down and then increasedin size so it can then fill more space.
Also because some magazine covers I have seen and analysed, if they have mentioned the word free or exclusive etc they will make them standout so I will make free and exclusive bold so that when people look at the magazine they will be drawn to the words and get more interesed.Also People have said that they would put the logo abit bigger so I will be increasing the size of it.

Research

This presetation is analysis of school or college covers and contect pages for my school school agazine.

Research

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Cover shot research - Classic Rock

In this post I will be the way this magazine puts across there genre of music by the type of camera shot the magazine uses.

This type of shot is a medium long shot so that they can show of the guitar mostly because that's what the magazine is most bothered about. Also its a medium long shot to show that they aren't as serious as heavy rock music or metal rock music but more free to different types of classic and vintage rock music. Also, the picture of James Hetfield but not in colour in more greyish because classic rock is seen as vintage so they have made James Hetfield grey so he looks vintage like the genre.

Cover shot research - Metal Hammer

In this post I will evaluating the type of camera shot my genre of magazine shows and if that shot would be a good shot to us for my magazine.

In 'Metal Hammer' the have used a close up of a 'slipknot' members face with the mask on. They have done this because slipknot have been known for beening scary and terrifing so showing this close up of his face and adjusted the brightness and shade of the background and the face to makehe shot look aot more serious. Also, The shot shows how serious he is because you can see how intense he is and that give the magazine and the genre more serious style to the magazine.

I think that this could possibly be a good type of shot for my magazine becuse the genre I am doing is realy serious and I think that this shot would show how serious the music is.

Trends Of Rolling Stones Magazine

In this Post I will be showing the trends of the 'rolling stones' magazine and how the have portraided classic

rock. The 'Rolling stones'  magazine have chosen to us a classic 80's font to show how much pride classic rock and the magazine have.

Also The main picture is of the band 'Nivarna' which is a rock band but they haven't shown close attention to that fact instead they have them dressed in smart suits and posed nice in a medium shot because that how classic music is shown classy, also they arn't as serious as other magazines are the have more of a smile on there faces because thats what the genre is about loving and havign fun about the music you are making, also classic rock is supposeto make you feel happy so thats why they have a smile on there face.

Trends of Kerrang magazine

In this post I will be analysing the trends of a couple of rock magazines because thats what type of music magazine I wish to do.

In this magazine 'Kerrang' have used a main image of a rock and '30 seconds to mars'. Each person in the band is in the main picture but as with most of 'Kerrang' magazines they have focused on there face expression, because the view on rock music is seen as angry,scary and heavy you rarely see the main image which is always a musician on the front smile or anything else they have mostly always got a straight or angry/mad face. However, if it was a hip-hop magazine you would expect it to have probably someone with a smie or dancing because it is conventional to the genre and the magazine.

Another thing is the font of 'Kerrang' magazine, because rock music is seen as angry and serious they have put the logo 'Kerrang' as if someone has just hit a window or miro with somthing and it gives it the smash affect, this way it gives the whole magazine a more serious feel to it which is excalty what the genre is.

Double page spread

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: My last presentation on anaysing magazine covers, contect pages and double page spreads.

Double page spread

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Contect page analysis

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Contect page analysis

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Media, Magazine Analysis

This is my first real media post, in this video I will be evaluting diffrent music magazine covers (e.g. Kerrang, NME, etc.). I will be describing what features are on the magazine and how they affect the magazine. There will be other posts that show the contect page and a couple of double page spreads of some music magazines.

Media, Magazine Analysis

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First Post

Hello, My name is James Cummings and on here I will be posting my A level media course work.