evaluation

Looking at the publishers, I think that the best oppourtunity for my music magazine would be with the publisher emap. As far as I could find, emap dont currently publish a major music magazine. Both Bauer and IPC both publish major magazines already and so this would be difficult for them to start to publish my magazine in the first place and then starting to compete with these magazines in terms of sales would be even harder.

Music Magazine - front page

This is the front cover for my music magazine 'The Scene'. I wanted the front covers main focus to be on the picture of Billy Lunn and I think that I have done that. The black and white fonts stand out clearly and are easy to read while they dont take away the focus from the picture. The title and information circle being in green help to blend in with the shirt Billy is wearing in the picture so they blend in rather than stand out. My only problem with the front page is the free offer square in the top right corner. The colours of it dont really go with the rest of the front page and if I had the chance to do it again I would do it with another colour apart from red.

Music Magazine - contents page

This is the contents page for my music magazine 'The Scene'. This also is a very basic layout placed on a white background to help make the pictures and text stand out. The layout of the contents page is very simple which makes it quick for the reader to find the page or pages that they want to look at. The green and white section headers make each section easy to find and then once youre on that section, the red font makes it easy for you to find the text that you want. My only problem with the contents page is that bits of it, particularly the right hand side is a bit bare. I could have done with adding a bit more information to fill it out a bit more.

Music Magazine - Double page spread

This is my double page spread for my music magazine 'The Scene'. The double page spread is set out with the title in bold black font. This setting is what makes up the whole two pages, black on white is a simple setup that makes it easy for the font to be read while also making the black stand out which helps to make it more eye catching for the reader. The font is also a bold and plain which makes it easier to read. These are both traits that a magazine aimed at an older audience would normally have.

Photos

Before I made my music magazine I went to some gigs where I took pictures of two different singers. The first two are of a singer called Billy Lunn who played at the square in Harlow. The second is a woman called Laura Mary Carter who I saw play at astoria in London. Both sets of pictures work well as they are from live gigs which help represent the raw nature of this genre music and the magazine.

nature magazines

Before we did either task, we made nature magazines which were purposely for the purpose of getting used to things like photoshop.

Preliminary Task

My preliminary task, like previously mentioned in my blog, was a school magazine. These are the photos from that magazine: