research and planning: contents page what I have done so far

This is the beginning of my content page. I have started doing this on In design because I thought it might be easier. I have started putting my pictures in as you can see I have put Vivien at the right hand corner. This is were I want her the layout of the magazine content may change as I progress though it.

reserch and planning: comparison of pop and indie rock

Pop Artist C.D Cover:

Indie/Rock C.D Cover:

The most obvious difference between these C.D covers is the colour of them, from the pop and the indie rock covers. The other thing which is really noticeable is the facial expression of each of the artists.


Colour:  The colour of the Katy Perry cover, is very vibrant, and really colourful, additionally so is the One Direction cover, this is to grab the customers attention when buying it and also to stand out from the rest of the C.D covers. Whereas in the indie/rock C.D cover they are dark colours, and use of a lot of red, black, grey and white. This is to show aggression, fierce and death, these are what I feel these colours represent.  


Mese En Scene: The clothing of the 2 C.D covers are also different, especially the One Direction cover and the All Time Low one because the All Time Low one is wearing formal clothing; shirt, tie and suits in the album cover. They are also wearing black, white and grey coloured clothing as well. Whereas the One Direction, are wearing bright colours such as; light blue, light green and white, and casual clothing which is the type of clothing they are wearing on their album cover. 


The lighting is really bright and it gives you a happy feeling when you look at the pop album covers. Also straight away from the lighting you can tell its pop as well. The album cover gives out that it’s upbeat and unique to any other artists. Whereas the lighting in the Indie/rock album covers in really low and dim and there isn't allot of back light, and looks really depressing, but also looks unusual. There is a little bit of lighting on the All Time Low album cover on the main guy, who is opening a bottle of Champaign.

research and planning: comparing R&B and Indie rock

R&B artist album cover:

Indie rock artists album cover

Mese en scene:  The clothing of the R&B cover is very limited especially on the 'super club' one. This is to get the readers eye. Also the hairstyle on the women on both the R&B covers are long curly (on the super club one) or straight long hair (winter heat). This catches the reader’s attention. I have also noticed that in the R&B covers there are a lot of people, unlike the Indie/ rock covers. The Eliza Doolittle uses the childish theme for her album cover because her music is very happy and gives you a good feeling when you listen to it. The theme also appeals to her target audience, which is young people aged between 14-24 but because of the colours and the extreme colour contrast it could have a target audience of younger people as well.  I believe that the album cover is saying buy me and escape to Eliza Doolittle’s island. Whereas in the super club album, they seem to be really serious and not really enjoying it, whereas Eliza Doolittle comes across as being happy and full of life.

research and planning: plan for the week

Plan for the week........


- To look at different album cover and the colour ect of them.
- To finish of the layout of the pictures on my content page

research and planning:c.d cover analysis

The Eliza Doolittle uses the childish theme for her album cover because her music is very happy and gives you a good feeling when you listen to it. The theme also appeals to her target audience, which is young people aged between 14-24 but because of the colours and the extreme colour contrast it could have a target audience of younger people as well.  I believe that the album cover is saying buy me and escape to Eliza Doolittle’s island.

research and planning: content page analyse for NME magazine

I quiet like The NME layout because of the headline and it really easy and quick to read and you can have a look at which type you want to look at. I also like how they have also used the same colour scheme like Q did, and also the red arrow at the bottom right hand page, which stands out because it makes the reader read it. Also the main picture in the middle of stands out from the rest of the page because it’s so big and the story is   a cliff hanger you want to read more about it and it finishes in awkward point which compels you to read on. I also like how they have at the bottom left were you can by so many NME  magazines, and save a certain amount of money. The colours are really eye catching but will have to change the yellow to red because it will totally defeat my 3 colour scheme

research and planning: content page analyse for Q content page

In Q I really like how they have a big picture which grabs your attention, and a smaller one with reviews. The content page is on the left hand side which is how I want mine to be, but with the Kerrang pictures are laid out. I also like how they have what is coming up in the next month at the bottom of it with a red banner across it which stands out from the column. I also like how they are using the same colour scheme as what I am intended to use though out my magazine. I like how they have their masthead on the content page, but I think I might not do this for mine because my masthead is too long to put it as well as writing content as well, I don't think it would look as good.

research and planning: analise of a Kerrang content page

I want to have my content page like this because it’s loud and it's really laid out. I like how they have put the headlines for example gigs and the interview on, and they are all laid out so that if you want to read that type of headline then they are all next to each other in the magazine.

I have also noticed that there are 71 pages which is a lot, but they are all tightly packed together in one column I want mine content pages all in one column but on the left hand side so that it looks different and unique to. I want to make my content like this one because I like how they have put pictures of the artist or what they are related to from the caption below and a big picture at the top followed by the smaller ones around it.

Also I want to put a little editor caption like Kerrang has saying what is on next week. So that the reader can see and look forward to what’s happening in next week’s magazine. This is for publicity and making the reader wanting to read more, to make them buy it next time it comes out. I also want to change the colour of the yellow and black to red and black for the content and for 'this week' and for the numbers of the page as well. I want the writing of the stories to be in white, to keep with my 3 colour scheme.

research and planning: content page so far....

I started of my content page by making the background black. I put in on In-design because it is easier to write and everything I want to change the masthead by just putting content page on the top instead of the masthead for the front page heading. Next lesson I want to add text and photos to make it look more like a magazine content page.

research and planning: magazine front cover

This is my final edit of my front cover; I put the posters at the bottom, the magazine cover to get them out of the way of the main photo. I had to edit the 3 photos by using hue- saturation. I also edited the background of the first 2 photos, because the one of Dan had low quality backgrounds. Also the one of Vivien I took the background out so that she stood out more. I put a border around the picture so that it stood out from the rest. I then put 'Free Poster' and put a drop down shadow which looks really effective and stands out from the posters.

I then made a caption for the main picture of left side. I made it in a different colour white so that it stood out from the dark colours. Also I moved the date to the top left hand side under the masthead so that it’s clear to see the date and the amount.

research and planning: photos from afflect

These photos I wanted her to look like she was screaming down a microphone I like these pictures because of the facial expression which was my aim to do because of my Analyse; I found that a lot of rock bands scream down the microphone.

In these photos I wanted to create her to look really worried and angry looking but in a way of a photo shoot. So that it doesn't look like she is live.

This is some pictures of different angles of the stage shot. This is so that I can make my pictures look at lot more live like.

I wanted to make her a jump stile so that it looks like she is jumping off the stage; I put her in this dress so that it gives a good jump. There is a couple of photos that she isn't jumping but I thought to put the in because they are like concert band, also she looks like she is in a band.

research and planning: plan for the week

My plan for the week.......


- To start on my content page
- Finishing my front page.
- To analysis content pages from other magazines.
- To upload photos 

research and planning: music magazine update

This lesson I added the headline ' Electric' and the story underneath and also I added a bar-code at the bottom right of the front page.

research and planning: photo's for my music magazine

These photos are really dark this was because I didn't put the flash on because I wanted to try out what the photo turned out when there was no flash on the photo.

In these photos I wanted Danny to look like he was jumping off stage. I wanted to do this so that it created an effect I will use these photos for my content page and put a different background to it to make it more rock band like.

research and planning : music magazine work

I took a picture of Danny, in college and I cut him out with the magic wand the quick selection tool. I cut him out because I didn’t want the college to be in the background of the photo. Also I have changed the colour of his pants by going on the paint brush tool and changing the flow and the amount of the colour and making it so that the colour blends in with the pants. So that it doesn’t look that obvious. I also haven’t finished it yet but I want to change the lighting of Danny's face because it is too bright at the moment. I have put the picture, of the park which I took on the SLR camera and put this as the background. Because it looks more appropriate considering that he is jumping. I want to go further and finish the bird on his top, red so that it fits more with my magazine.

research and planning: plan for the week

What I want to achieve before the end of the week is........


-  Finish picture of Danny to put on my font cover
-  Start doing stories on my front cover
- To upload pictures I have taken yesterday.