8th Blog Entry

Today I have fully completed my front cover and created a special edition alternative. I will now move on to creating my contents page and double page spread.

I then decided to create an alternate front cover using my original design especially for subscribers. I did this by adding a text box across the top and changing the "freebies" included from 4 A5 postcards to 3 A3 posters.

In todays lesson I developed my design further until completion by adding text boxes, effects and altering he images.

This was my finished version of my magazine which I printed out to see how it looked on paper.

I then discovered that there was too much "red" colours on the cover so I decided to alter the main image and the positioning of the features.

7th Blog Entry

In todays lesson I started to add the main features of my magazine cover including cover lines, images and text. A font I particularly like was cityburn which I had downloaded from the website dafont.com.

Music Magazine Front Cover - Progress Screenshots

 This is the first screen shot i had taken from the previous weeks work. It includes the title, tag line and main image.

The next few shots were from todays lesson where I added a coverline in a similar font to The Pretty Reckless logo. I also created a box containing 4 free posters to feature in the magazine.

6th Blog Entry

Today I finished my magazine proposal and started to create the front cover for my magazine. I also uploaded more original photos taken at The Pretty Reckless concert.

Possible Front Cover Images

I have now uploaded some possible front cover images to flickr here http://www.flickr.com/photos/56436884@N05/sets/72157625844740940/


These photos were also taken at The Pretty Reckless Concert in December.

5th Blog Entry

First day back from winter break. I spent this lesson uploading and editing some photos to use for my music magazine using adobe photoshop and flickr. I then created a questionnaire to hand out to gather some audience feedback into music magazines. I also finished researching into the music magazine industry and started to created initial ideas and a proposal for my own magazine.

Research into music magazines

This image shows my research into the music magazine industry with some initial ideas and information on different music companies.

Music magazine questionnaire

This is a questionnaire that i created to get some audience feedback about music magazines and also to see what the audience is interested in.

Flickr Pics - The Pretty Reckless

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56436884@N05/sets/72157625666592883/

Above is a link to my flickr pictures, they were taken at the 02 Shepherds Bush Empire, London, on the 16th December 2010 when The Pretty Reckless where playing there live. I will edit/crop these photos for use in my music magazine.