After planning and researching everything I needed in able to create my magazine, I started work on the programme Pages on the Mac. This gave me a great opportunity to make my magazine to the best of my ability.
I started on my front cover first. Knowing what I was going to create for it (using my final plan showed on the foundation portfolio blog) I worked straight away on finding a background. I used a checkered background I created on Pages, which used a lot of time. However I was happy with the finished product as it looked better than I had expected, and fitted well with the colour scheme I used throughout my magazine, which was red. My title featured across the whole width of the front cover, and using a red font, stood out from the checkered background. The photo I used was a great feature to my magazine, as it looked proffesionally shot (due to the stance of all perons in the photo) but was taken by me last year. I struggled at first to think of an image to fit my magazine, and struggled to think of what would look good, but I found this image and replaced the background (of which was a light background but had some detail in it) with a checkered background.
Secondly I moved onto creating my contents page. I used a black font on a red to fading white background, making the bold text stand out from the page. I used many photos that related to my articles, and the photos were placed near the relating article. The photos also included page numbers near them, to reassure the reader of what to expect in the artcile they wish to read. Although my contents page is not the fullest of my pages, I decided that I had included enough information on this page to satisfy the audience of my magazine.
Finally I created my double page spread, and I really decided to make this page very imformative and catching to the reader with colourful photos and the repeating colour scheme of red text and checkered background. My introduction to the article was written in red as a connotation to my readers that this should be read first, and although the intordution features on the busy checkered background, I feel as thouh it still stands out. My article features an interview type article, with the interviewer's questions written in red and the interviewee's answers written in black. This again is another simplistic feature to serparate the text, as well as keeping a formal structure without making the text to formal.
Friday, 26 March 2010
Evaluation of research
Researching my magazine was found to be a difficult task. I started off with a questionnaire I successfully sent out to 10 people, all of which shared the same interests, and the results were fairly acurate in comparison with each other. This didn't really help me as I do not think the questionnaire was suitable enough for my magazine, as the results didn't really give me any important features to include in my magazine other than the standard features.
Researching other magazines prov3ed to be again difficult as there were not many magazines that related to mine, and there is only one major magazine which is similiar to mine; NME. I got a lot of influence from the magazine, and used many features of that magazine on my own.
Researching other magazines prov3ed to be again difficult as there were not many magazines that related to mine, and there is only one major magazine which is similiar to mine; NME. I got a lot of influence from the magazine, and used many features of that magazine on my own.
Evaluation of planning
When thinking about the planning of a final edit of my magazine, I thought a lot about the type of audience my magazine was reaching out to, and would my magazine grab that type of reader's attention, instead of them looking somewhere else on the shelf. I looked at many magazine front covers that I liked (as shown on Foundation Portfolio blog) and used their ideas to create my magazine.
From the start of planning my magazine, I knew I wanted a large text box in the centre and top of my front cover, for the title and main article, and I wanted these two important parts of a front cover to be very noticable. This relfects on my finished magazine, using a bold font and large areas to write the text on my front over.
When planning my contents page, I was unsure on how much of the page I should use and what to include on the page, worrying if the content I included on my contents page would reflect and match upon the genre of my magazine. I researched into music magazines of the same sort of genre as mine, and found that this included a lot of what I have put on my contents page, filling it with various pictures relating to my articles, and keeping the same colour scheme of my magazine throughout the pages.
Finally planning my double page spread was the easiest for me to plan as I knew what I wanted to do since I started the foundation portfolio. I wanted to fill the page with a background that represented the main article, and pictures above the text, with the text featuring on the bottom half of both pages. This created an effect of which would make the reader look at the introduction of the article first, then the pictures, and then the text. I also filled the blank spots of the page with certain quotes that would catch the attention of the reader.
From the start of planning my magazine, I knew I wanted a large text box in the centre and top of my front cover, for the title and main article, and I wanted these two important parts of a front cover to be very noticable. This relfects on my finished magazine, using a bold font and large areas to write the text on my front over.
When planning my contents page, I was unsure on how much of the page I should use and what to include on the page, worrying if the content I included on my contents page would reflect and match upon the genre of my magazine. I researched into music magazines of the same sort of genre as mine, and found that this included a lot of what I have put on my contents page, filling it with various pictures relating to my articles, and keeping the same colour scheme of my magazine throughout the pages.
Finally planning my double page spread was the easiest for me to plan as I knew what I wanted to do since I started the foundation portfolio. I wanted to fill the page with a background that represented the main article, and pictures above the text, with the text featuring on the bottom half of both pages. This created an effect of which would make the reader look at the introduction of the article first, then the pictures, and then the text. I also filled the blank spots of the page with certain quotes that would catch the attention of the reader.
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