Music magazines.

This image is of the music magazine Kerrang. It follows the codes and conventions of a music magazine.
-Headline: Smashed, under the main image. Big, Bold recognizable.
-Images: One big image, artist famous to the genre. Main story. Other smaller images of well known bands to the genre. Cover stories, not as important.
-Text: Text is large and catching. Minimal, straight to the point. Cracking and gaps in the letters, contributing to the genre.
The genre of this music magazine is mainly rock. Rock is set as a very controversial genre. Breaking the rules, and not sticking to the usual way in which music is made.
The text relates very much to this idea. Breaking the rules and not following the strongly built writing, instead filled with gaps and a worn away effect.

This is a typical 'Pop' genre magazine. There is a lot going on and is very hard to see which part is which.
However the cover sticks to the codes and conventions of it's genre.
Headline: Small, looks very unimportant, not recognizable, Saying the magazine itself should say what the magazine is about as it is so well known.
Images: The page is very much so filled with images. Usually artists well known to this genre. This is way each image speaks for  itself and a fan of this magazine wouldn't need to know the title because they would recognize which magazine it is by the images.
Text: There is very little text just headlines to show what each image is representing. Although the text which is on the cover, is very bold and bright, and has a usual colour scheme of pink, yellow and black. This is so the magazine genre is easily recognizable.



This is the official classical music magazine. This is very sophisticated, neat and tidy.
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Evaluation Of Preliminary Task

 The aim of this task was to create a front cover and a contents page to what would be a college magazine. I used programmes such as in design and photo shop to achieve the fonts, colours and effects that I have used. I have successfully completed both. I first used photoshop to crop out my main picture object from the background. I found this quite challenging as I was not yet used to the programme and it's tools. Although I think my images came out well and to a good standard in the end. To improve I would have spent more time going round the images and making them sharper and a lot more professional looking.

I then went on to placing the images onto my magazine front cover. I used the template from the programme indesign. I put my main image so it covered the whole space. I then chose to place my smaller image onto the cover. I placed the image in the bottom left hand corner of the page. This way it stood out and there would be room for my main bullet pointed announcements. I next put my writing in. I chose blue, mixing in with the South Downs college colours. I then chose to put a white background under so the words stood out. I used the font apple casual. I used this as it is interesting and easy to read, this way it would appeal to a younger audience. I also used a shadow on the letters, this made the writing look more dynamic and eye catching. I think my text for my main stories worked well as they are simple and straight to the point. I then went on to adding my text for my title of the magazine, I a font in which would grab the audiences attention, so it had to be big, bold and straight to the point, I chose a title simple of South Downs College, this way anyone who would have looked at it would have directly know what the magazine would have been about. I chose to colour the text white to contrast with the blue, to make the white have more of an effect I chose to use  a white background, so it looked clean and professional.

After I went on to make my contents page. I stuck with the blue and white colour scheme to follow the conventions of a magazine. However to make it more interesting I changed the colours round and had and had white background on a blue canvas. I added my own images in which I had cropped out on photoshop and another image I left how it was taken, this makes the magazine feel more real. I think my contents page worked well as it was clear clean and straight to the point. I also sticks to the codes and conventions of any other magazine.

                                                                Here is the front cover of my preliminary task.  I think this went well as I used a good colour scheme which related to the audience and what the magazine was actually for. I think I reached the objective of making a well thought out interesting college magazine.

I stuck to using blue and white as my colour scheme as I thought that each colour would stand out and be eye catching.

I used a full page size picture as my background to attract attention. I also used students from the college as the magazine would then become more real and attract and audience.

This is my college magazine contents page. I think this worked well as I used the same fonts and colour scheme. I used different pictures in different places to emphasise the different places of the college so my magazine would have more of a varied audience.

I used the same white background for the text as I did on the front cover this showed a good use of colour scheme and connection.

These are pictures I have taken to place on the front of my college magazine. To make the magazine look more professional I have edited the pictures so that they have a white background, showing just the subject itself.  I used photoshop to crop out and use the pen tool to make the edges sharper so the picture looks more professional. I think it worked quite well however some of the detail was lost due to bad cropping.