Friday, 12 December 2014

Thursday, 11 December 2014

Making Changes

I have decided to make slight changes to my final front cover, such as; making the picture bigger, and adding extra information to the free giveaway.

Front Cover Draft


Producing My Front Cover

 
Picture opened up in Photoshop and resized to fit the page.

 
Masthead added, font taken from dafont.com, it is placed at the top of the place so it stands out.


Blue rectangle shape added to the top of the page, ready to be filled with information about the magazine.

 
Information added to the rectangle about the magazine.

 
Ellipse tool used to advertise the free giveaway.

 
Changing the image levels.

 
Trying the image out in black and white.

 
Adding feature stories down the left side of the cover.


Adding a gap between the writng to include the main feature story going through the middle.

 
Main feature story added in the middle of the artists name.


Editing the feature stories.
 











 

Saturday, 29 November 2014

Pictures for Front Cover







Mock Up

Google Mock Up 


The purpose of my mock up was to get an overall image of what my magazine would look like once i put my own photos on the front. 
For my Google Mock Up, i decided to choose a well known artist one from which i put on to my survey, and got a popular response from. I decided to choose Avicii, to have as my main image however, i have also put other artists on the front cover as they also got a popular response on my survey, this includes; Calvin Harris, Disclosure, Ellie Goulding and Kiesza.
I decided to choose this image of Avicii because, it shows him clearly. I think the image goes well the genre of my magazine as it fits in with the overall theme and is appropriate.
I have put feature stories on top of black boxes with white and blue writing, so that they stand out against the white background coming from the image. The feature stories that i have included on my mock are potential stories that i am going to use on my final front cover.
The image that i have used of Avicii, has influenced me to get an idea of how to take my photos.

Process of making my mock up:




Thursday, 13 November 2014

My Masthead Design And Branding

Exploring visual posibilites
Futurist fixed-width à by WSI

                                                       Lemon/Milk by Ariq Sya
Champagne & Limousines by Lauren Thompson

Skater Girls Rock  by dcoxy
                                                       Marsneveneksk by Ariq Sya  
 
                                                Open-Dyslexic by Abelardo Gonzalez
                                    
Devil Breeze by WesLo Fonts
     
                                                        Bebas Neue by Dharma Type
                                    
                                                              Alba by Fontalicious

My Magazine Name

Record
Decks
Mixer
Remixed
Mixtape
Vinyl
Craze Slams
Rush
Remixes
Essential Mix
Soundcloud

Choosen= Remixed

My Price

Magazines within my genre.
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  • Montly/weekly
  • Pages
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Montly issueThe third Thursday of every month.
Pages130
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Pages 
100



Thursday, 23 October 2014

My Target Audience

Define demographic data
Demographics is defined as statistical data about the characteristics of a population, such as the age, gender and income of the people within the population. When the census assembles data about people's ages and genders, this is an example of assembling information about demographics.

Define psychographic information
Psychographics is the study of personality, values, opinions, attitudes, interests, and lifestyles.

Set up an online survey on Survey Moneky
Questions

Demongraphic questions
Ask 10 friends/family/students using survey monkey

1) Male/Female
2) Age 12-15 16-19 20-24 25-34 35+
3) Occupation-Student , school age, professional (someone who has being to university and have a degree), skilled (plummer, electrition), manuel (cleaner, factory worker, farmer), unemployed
4) Income- £0-£10k, £10k-15k, £15k-£20k, £20k-£25k, £30K+

Psychographic questions

1) Name your favourite artist (Calvin Harris ect)
2) How do you consume music? (listen to radio, buy CD's twice a month, subscribe to an online producer Spotify, downlaod online, go see a live band)
3) What are your favourite brands?
4) How often do you read about music online (once a week, once a month, once a day, never)
5) How much do you pay for a weekly/monthly magazine? £2.50-£3, £3.40-£3.60, £3.70-£4.00




https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/75Q7TFJ