Media Studies: September 2012

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

These are the videos I took when asking people within my target audience, who were chosen at random, what they thought of my magazine:

PUBLISHING

My final pieces of work:

Front cover:

Contents page:

Double page spread:

EDITING

These images show the transition of my editing process for my work:

Front Cover

1) This is the starting process for my contents page. As you can see above, I started with two rectangle blocks for my title place, basic black and red to go with my magazine theme. A basic start, but a start no less.

2) I now have added my title which I specifically chose for its edgy design that should go hand in hand with my modern music style and theme. I have also set a darker shade of red to go with the newly added title. Finally I added another rectangle to add further attractions to the magazine on a later date

3) My first edit was shrinking the size of my title as too make more room for the other features of my front cover. Furthermore I added a soft arrow shape along with the word “Plus” for my when add other attractions on my front page.

4) As you can see, on this edit I have added an attraction on the top of my front cover for a new album that is soon to be released. The size and font of the text is appropriate and the colour goes hand-in-hand with the black background. At the bottom, you can see that the, ‘plus’ I added in a previous edit is in use as it is now drawing attention to the various band names I discovered.

5) Only a slight edit this time, I added a black and white gradient to the background as I feel it is an improved edit for my front cover. Also I added the price and website address for my magazine below the title.

6) This edit involved adding a barcode at the bottom of my page, above my ‘Plus’ Attraction. Also I added to balls with my more features of my magazine to inform the reader thinking to by it about the other features that may interest them.

7) This next edit involved adding a row of my main magazine features along the left-side of the front cover. This includes articles like ‘top songs of the year’ etc. The colours I have used go excellent with the overall theme of the front cover.

8) For my final edit involved nit-picking and little faults of my editing process like colour shading I didn’t like on my title. Furthermore I added my attraction to my front cover being the person I took photos of from my shoot. I believe the pose of central positioning of him shows off this magazine well and he I flashy enough to draw the attention need for the readers to buy this if they could.

Contents page

1) Starting on photoshop, I added a gradient to the background, the title of the page, website, date, my magzine logo plus I added two rectangles on the bottom and top of the page along with a red tint in the corner of them.

2) On this edit I have added to images I took with my camera, then I put their article page number in the corner, these will act as my feature articles for my magazine.

3) This time was only a small addition, I added titles to each of the sections that I will have on my contents.

4) On my final edit I wrote the text needed for the articles that arn't the main feature. These include things like top charts or new and upcoming artist.

Double page spread

As you can see, I started my editing process for my double page spread on Photoshop. First I selected my chose image for this and edited the shading since it was too dark in the top right hand corner of the screen. I changed the out of place shadow to a neat shade in the back to add to the atmosphere of the image. Also I added two red and black boxes with text on the image, the top left says 'feature article' and the bottom left is the page number.

After making use of photoshop, I moved my work over to Quark to complete my creation by adding the text. The I used on quark suggest that there is something behind this simple story, which will attract the readers.

DOUBLE-PAGE SPREAD ARTICLE

Double page spread article for my music magazine:

Will Haddock, ex lead singer of the band “The Mockisons” has revealed to us his life after going solo and how he is dealing with be self-sufficient and not having his band mates to rely on. He will tell his departure from his ex-genre, towards a his new style, also he has told the details to us the apparent, drastic differences between his new, as-yet-untitled, album and his ex-bands top selling, number one first album “The end of yesterday”.

The inner city singer, who has been singing from he’s pre-teens, left his world renowned band back in early April and since then has been searching for his purpose in hidden within his music along with his producer, Mike “The number one maker” Faulkner.

“My plan originally plan was to leave the band, let the heat die down from the press and start work on my new album with Mike”, said Will in our studio this week. “But that wasn’t happening since I’m still coming up with songs for it and I only have about half the amount I need”. “It would be easier with others”, he admitted, “but this way I have majority of the import since I am doing a majority of the work and Mike is there for mostly to put his input and opinion in”. “Also instead of just spurting out music for the money like I used to, I am doing themes for my new sound like love and self-respect”.

"To leave behind everything you have known for several years is difficult", he explains. "There were times when I found myself trying to except the fact that I had no one to support me inside the music industry since I cut ties to the others". "A few times I had to change my attitude when making my music and creating songs for the album but I knew I had to accept that if I wanted to remain in music". "But I still firmly believe that a solo career was a good choice, the others were becoming too greedy. Advert after advert, it wasn't about the music anymore for them, but I won't go down that road. Also going solo allows me explore each song with a fine comb to make sure the lyrics, rhythms and overall songs are the best I can make them".

"I am really glad I left when I did", Will admit as he chuckles. "It took me too long to realise what my purpose was and what in the hell was going to make my music stand out for the people and fans".

Replay had an all exclusive first listen of the songs already produced by Will. The songs he created are nothing new to the genre but are something special that are sure to satisfy the fans, lure new music lovers into the genre and, if Will were to go on tour, are sure to sell tickets to those that want to have a good time. The songs, whose names we can’t reveal as of yet, are said to be above expectations of the solo singer and we are sure his future ones are to be either as good as or better than these.

Back earlier in the year, are reporter managed to dodge the paparazzi and have a quick word with Will at the pinnacle moment of his career and his future in music. To this day he remains positive that his decision to leave his band, friends and lifestyle to peruse a career that hi put him back into the minds of the fans and what they want from him, not vice-versa.

However time is still tight for the current members of The Mockisons, so we were able to get a quick word with his friend and drummer of the group, Kim Walsh. “Will decision to leave the group came as no surprise to us”, she explained, “As he had been trying to persuade us to change our attitude for months”. “At first we thought he was just blowing off steam at us about the decisions to cancel our next tour for to pursue other solo projects like, Mike wanted to do a few celebrity based panel shows, but this upset him since he thought we aren’t about the music anymore”. The interview ended abruptly as Kim had to leave to host a show on channel 5.

Will’s desicion to leave may of come as a shock to the nation but we know that this decision will leave a positive mark on the music industry as he climbs the charts with his, soon to be released, chart toping album.