Final Music Magazine

The contents page (5th image below) was 'meant' to be my final design for my contents page. I liked the layout of this page.. but it wasn't clear to my target audience where certain pages and sections were. Therefore I changed it to the better contents (2nd image below). My target audience would now find it easier to read as the sections are more explained and much more clear with clearer images, blocks and sections.

Survey Results for draft magazine

From receiving this feedback I now know what I have to change to make my magazine perfect - so that it fitted my target audiences expectations. Firstly, I know that I don't have to dramatically change the Front Cover and colour scheme of the magazine as it was the strongest page and theme according to my audience. The feedback I got on question 4 and 5 were really helpful to me as it will help me to design a stronger contents page. I wasn't confident with my draft contents page - and needed peoples views on how I should improve it and what they found slightly good about it. The rest of the feedback from the other questions also helped me. From doing this survey I now know what to change and keep the same when designing my final magazine.

Audience Feedback (magazine mock up 2)

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Magazine Mock Up 2

These are my second magazine mock ups using my own images rather than internet images.

Magazine Images

To take these images I went to a concert and took some pictures from where I was sitting. I wanted to get images of the crowd with the view of the stage in the background. These images were successful, bright colourful and vibrant - I will use them on my Contents Page.
To take the images for my Front Cover and Double Page Spread I set up a photoshoot including props - Blow up guitar, loads of bright jewellery and 'bubble gum'. These props were appropriate because they are very 'pop' and fun. I made the 'artist' do a range of poses that were appropriate to the 'fun' character I wanted her to portray. Overall the images were succsessful and I will use them on my Front Cover and DPS.

Photo Variations

This image was edited using Photoshop CS3. I flipped the image because I thought it looked more appropriate and where her head is tilting and looking up to I would place my title here (in the top left hand corner). I used the Magnetic Lasso Tool to go around the chewing gum. To change its colour to a bright pink I went to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Colour Balance. To make the rest of the image I just used a blue and pink tint over the image to make it bright and colourful. This is my favourite image and I have decided to use this as my front cover image. It will make a good front cover image as it is bold, colourful and appeals to my target group.

For this image I simply used a colour overlay (pink) and played about with the contract and brightness effects.
I then 'feathered' the picture. This makes it look as if it has been surrounded by a shadow, or as if the person is being looked at through a keyhole or something.
I think the image says alot about the 'artist'. For example from the colours the artist comes across as happy, fun, lively and bubbly. All these connotations of this image are positive and the target audience of my magazine like these type of people, therefore I will use this image for my double page spread as the audience can  read a lot from the image alone, before even reading the article.

Magazine Mock Up's