For my magazine I choose to base the genre on indie rock, modern rock and heavy rock. To show this in my front cover. For the name of my magazine I choose to call it studio, but replaced the 'I' with a music note, making it easy for the audience to recognize that my magazine is based around music. I choose to have black for my background this was to go along with the genre of my music which sometimes can be 'dark'. I did this by creating a whole new page on photo shop and then coloured it in black.
For my main image, also my main story, I decided to have my model with his guitar with no particular pose. I did this to show that the model was in a band, with him wearing a red checked shirt along with a red guitar, this was so that the colours would go and so it wouldn't be over crowded on the page. I edited the picture to the way I wanted it, by changing the brightness and contrast of the picture, then I cut around it on photo shop then placed in on top of my black background taking up most of the page as my main image.
For my title I did in purple, and got a music note off the Internet. I added the music not into photo shop then took out the background then painted the note in the same colour purple to the rest of the text by copy and pasting the colour code into the paint option. I put the title above the image so that it is still easy to see, I did try placing it behind the image, but the title wasn't able to be seen. I put the title on top by clicking on the layer of the main image and then merged the layers together, this made the title easy to be seen and recognize. I had put the date and the issue number underneath it, still in the same purple as the title. This was so if the audience would want to know the issue of the magazine it is easy to locate.
Above my title there is an advertisement of stars backstage at a festival. I made a box at the top of the page and then coloured it in. I then added text above it, I thought the box around the text would make the text still stand out more and it is also another way to attract an audience's attention. With the explanation mark at the end of the sentence made it to be a 'must read.'
With the stamp on the page for the audience to win tickets to see a band thought would be a good idea so the audience are being dragged in by free competitions. I placed it on the left hand side of the page so that when the magazine is on the stands it is one of the first things the audience will notice.
For the main story and other stories on the front cover, I put in black boxes over the main image. This is because with the black background and the other colours from the main images finding a colour for the text would have been difficult to be seen. I choose to do the box so the text is easily seen to the audience and doesn't clash with any other colours on the page. I had got the idea from another magazine that had done the same thing but with different colours and front sizes. With the black going over the images this makes the text easy to read.
The picture at the bottom of the page for a new tour, shows the audience what else the magazine has to offer, star's and their new tours, interviews backstage of festival's and also stars on drugs, all of these story lines shows all the different types of stories that the magazine has to offer. I had taken the picture against a brick background, to give it a different effect to it, I had also tilted it to the side a bit once again to give it a different effect.
At the bottom of the page there is a bar code, I had got this off the Internet and cut it and made it smaller so it would fit my page right. I decided not to put a price on the front cover, but did decide to price it at £1.98 this is like play on words to the audience, they think they are getting a bargain for the magazine still being £2.
I am pleased with how my final piece turned out to be, the way the magazine all fits in together. The stories on the front cover I think are a good way to catch the audience's attention, main story with a well-known band member coming out 'gay,' drugs, and a new tour, these are all different things that an audience would be attracted to. I could have improved it by added more colours to the page making it look more interesting and eye catching. Also the way the stories have been laid out on the page, they seem to be placed random. I am pleased with the way the main image had turned out, with everything else around it. The main image had been edited in photo shop, and then copied into the background.
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