Category Archives: Music Magazine

Adverts

These are the two adverts I picked out to go with my music magazine. I chose these because I think they match my audience and the rock genre. Firstly I chose a rockstar energy advert because its a drink that gives you lots of energy and is shown as a rebellious and extreme drink.  Even the name is ‘rockstar’ which obviously fits my genre of rock music.

The next advert I chose was a guitar advert.  I chose this because the audience for rock music might be interested in creating their own music I know this because of the audience research I did before creating my magazine.

To gather my research I created mood boards and created a ‘dating’ profile on a fictional fan of my genre got info from sites such as yougov.

A New Improved Complete Magazine Draft

Overall  I am happy with my final pages and I think I have created a clean and good looking music magazine.  After I received my most recent feedback I made the following changes.

For my front cover I improved my masthead and overall layout of the page. For my DPS I improved the image by cutting out the background, brightening it up and making it less grainy.  Finally for my contents page I competently changed the look and layout from a very basic and poor looking contents page into a good looking contents page with a good colour scheme and I think it looks good.

These are my complete music magazine pages.

 

Complete magazine draft

This first image is my most recent draft of my front cover.

 

This next image is my most recent copy of my double page spread.

 

This final image is my most recent draft of my contents page.

 

The bulk of the text is mostly filler text at this point but I am still pleased with these drafts so far. I think they can link together and have a similar theme as well as they all fit my genre.  My favourite at this point is my DPS as I spent a long time on the layout and I like how it looks the most. My least favourite is my contents page as I have had the least time to shape it into something that looks really good and clean.

CLICK IMAGE FOR SCREENCASTIFY

My screencastify feedback for my front page is mostly layout and text based. I need to work on making the text readable and bold while also filling up some of the space on the top of the screen

For my DPS the feedback was on the background image. The image I used was quite dark and grainy so I need to either find a new image or make my current image brighter and smaller and possibly cut it out. 

Finally my contents page  I need to add page numbers and change how I wrote out all the page headings.  I need to look at some real contents pages to find what I like and copy it. 

A new improved contents page

These are my two drafts of my contents page. On the top left is my first draft and on the right is my most recent draft. I think overall my most recent draft is much cleaner and looks much better. Firstly I got my friend Casey give feedback on my first draft.

  • No editors column
  • Don’t have the advert
  • Bad background
  • Add more pages
  • Better page number headings

Next I will talk about the changes I have made:

  • Changed the layout
  • Changed the colour of text to match magazine and genre better
  • Got rid of the advert as it wasn’t needed
  • Made the whole page look much cleaner
  • Added more pages headlines

Overall I thing the second draft is a cleaner and much more complete contents page, however I think I still need another draft to get the extra features and details.

 

Draft of contents page

This is my my first draft of my contents page. They key conventions of a contents page are:

  • Editors hello
  • Page numbers
  • Hyperbole and superlatives in headlines
  • Images and word clues
  • Graphic illustrations and designs
  • Reminder of magazines name and mission statements

I think for a first draft is is good and it has some key features of a contents page. It has a:

  • Title explaining what sort of page it is
  • A cut out image
  • A good list of pages with real sounding articles
  • An extra feature which is an advert

There are some things missing however and also some thing I don’t like. Firstly I think it doesn’t really fit in with my genre and I want it recognisable as part of my genre and part of my magazine at a first glance, which it isn’t.  Another thing is the layout I wish I spent a little bit more time on the layout just to make it look cleaner and more professional. 

Overall I am fairly happy with this as a first draft but there are a number of things I want to improve in the second draft. 

A new improved DPS

 

On the top is my first draft of my DPS and on the bottom is my second draft. I made some clear changes but first the things I wanted to change were:

  1. My image as many people had said that it was too dark and you could see the models well, and also there was too much focus on the window instead of the models.
  2. The font needed some work to make sure it was clear
  3. I wanted to change the layout to fit the new photo
  4. Finally I needed to add some page numbers

I managed to achieve these things and in my opinion my new draft looks much cleaner and more professional. Although once again I am using placeholder text I think you can clearly understand what it would look like when the real article has been put in. 

A new and improved feature article

This is my old feature article draft compared to my new feature article.

This is my first draft of my article above.

This my newest draft of my feature article and it includes all the changes that I have made off the back of the feedback I received from my teacher. The changes I have made are:

  • Added context
  • Fixed errors i.e. capitol letter, punctuation and grammar etc.
  • Linked to band members
  • Added more information about artist for example why they are doing the interview in the first place.

I hope these improvement make the reader experience much better as I hope I have fixed the flow of the article, and hopefully it makes more sense and has more context.  One final thing I hope is that it much less brief and therefore if it was a real product it would be worth a buy from a customer.

I think there are possible a few extra things I could change to improve this in a later draft but on the whole I am happy with this version and think it could fit into my magazine well.

Feedback & reflection on draft DPS

I got my friend Lewis have a look at my draft above. He pointed out a few things:

  • The image might be too dark
  • You cant see the models
  • No page numbers
  • The images focuses too much on the window
  • weight the font less

He also said some positive things like:

  • He likes the font
  • He also like the colour scheme and font size
  • The layout are also good

After the feedback I have set myself some things to change in my second draft. I will add pages numbers,  I will also play around with font , I will change the the image to one that still fits my genre but makes the DPS much better and clearer and finally I will possibly change the page layout.

Draft Of Double Page Spread

The key conventions of a double page spread are:

  • An image
  • A stand first
  • Drop capitols
  • Quotes
  • Headline
  • A by line
  • Columns with equal guttering
  • Page numbers
  • Questions

This is my first draft of my double page spread. Although it is only filled with filler text at the moment it does still have some key features that you would expect on a double page spread article. Firstly it has a large image that not only covers the whole page but also has a dark area which has allowed me to write over the image but not cover any important part of the image. Also another feature I have is the drop capitol letter at the start of my article even though it is filler text.I also want to keep it very simple and don’t want to cover  the whole of the two  pages in text.

Just to recap the things I like about this draft are:

  • The dark edges that provide a great area for text
  • I also like the fairly simple look of the DPS and I like how it isn’t overpowered by text
  • Finally I like how the image is very mystical and the more you look at it the more you see, for example if you actually look through the window you see a graveyard and the bands name is ‘The Grave Diggers’

I like the dark edges of the image and it provides a great area for text there are some problems with the image I have used they are:

  • The images is dominated by the window that is the only source of light and so it can make the two models less visible
  • The positioning of the two models can also make them less visible and so they are not as centre stage as I would like.

 

Draft Feature Article

This is my draft feature article. I have read through it and I found some mistakes myself but I have not created a voice memo. Although it reads well and is overall a good article I made a number of mistakes which made the flow of the article not make sense and I also made some capitol letter and punctuation mistakes.

My teacher gave me feedback and these are the things I need to correct and change:

  • Correct stars over censored words
  • Add more context
  • Is quite brief so needs a bit more
  • Swap order and put the bio before the tips
  • Fix caps
  • Needs intro/ change order
  • Make it clear which band member is saying the tips.