I created my own Tour poster for the country genre. It is clear to see that the main colours used in a Western music poster consist of a warm toned yellow and brown with the odd burst of a bright colour. The fonts used on the posters are very basic and clear to read and the most important factors of the poster are in capital letters to really stand out. The masthead of the artists name is also the biggest piece of information on the poster. The image is usually in colour or black and white and the artists name is either a vibrant colour or white as seen on my mood board. Considering all different types of styles of country posters will give me plenty of ideas when making my own music tour poster.

I made a moodboard full of different country and western posters to give me plenty of options and ideas about how I can make my tour poster more exciting. Here is what I created:

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I also made a self-assessment sheet and wrote about how I think I managed with the task:

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In this task I got assigned a magazine front cover from NME and had to recreate on Indesign. I got Amy Winehouse (my remake is on the left and the original is on the right). This assignment allowed me to learn how to be more creative on Indesign and how to incorporate conventional features like; a barcode, masthead, coverlines, pugs, main cover star and a main cover line in my own magazine. I can now In my opinion, for my first time using a photoshop app I did a good job at understanding how to work it.

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This is the original NME magazine front cover.

Three strengths of my work on Indesign include:

• Despite not being able to find the same photo as the original magazine, I think I managed to place a good, high quality image of my main star and making sure it is the correct size and placing.
• I made sure all the texts were in the same place as the original.
• I also made the coverlines look identical to the original.

Three ways I think I could improve my work on Indesign are:

• I think I could get the NME to be more central and bold like it is on the original but I couldn’t work out how to bring it up.
• I found it difficult to find identical fonts and use the same colours to the original magazine cover. For example, because I couldn’t find the original photo of Amy Winehouse I had to use different colours so that it would be easier to see on the dark background.

I think this will help me in the future because Media contains a lot of photoshop and it has given me confidence and allowed me to practice for when I make my own music magazine.

Three tutorials that I plan on using to help me with my photoshop on Indesign are:

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In this lesson I was assigned a task in a group to attempt to tell a story, I did this by using different angles, distances and frames to show how the camera can create a meaningful picture, but also by the models using a particular body language, facial expression, gesture and posture.

In my opinion, my first attempt at using a DSLR camera was successful, however there is definitely room for improvement. In some photos I think we achieved telling a story, for example, I took a long shot at a low angle to show a moving and slightly romantic feeling.

Here is my mood board:

Overall, I think this will help me with my music magazine production because it has allowed me to experiment with different camera shots and I feel I have more experience and confidence using a camera. Now I understand I can use camera angles, framing and MES to convey a narrative, to tell a story and to sell an idea.

My Mood Board presents a number of different ideas I used in preparation for my photo shoot on Country Music. Using Mise- en Scene allowed me to visualize what scenery, lighting and costumes would be best for my photo shoot. I tried to use a bold outfit to really signify my topic of music. Another way I used Mise en Scene was by getting my model to pose and to make her body language girly and quirky. The colours and style represent the feminine and laid-back country look.

Here are some pictures I took on my photoshoot.

I have chosen this photo as my final photo because I think it portrays a country girl the best, my model, Erin, looks natural and girly. In my opinion, this is better than the rest of the photos because it shows off her whole outfit and the guitar and hat adds to the telling of a story and makes the scene look calm and relaxed.

I think this will make a huge photo on my music production because it helped me gain experience on mise-en-scene and also helped me portray the telling of a story.

Here is a photo of post it notes that were written before our photoshoot to try and develop a wider range of ideas and thoughts to correctly tell the story of country music in our photo.

This helped me visualise how country is represented to the audience and made me think out of the box when dressing up and photographing Erin. It also helped create the right vibe and correct use of mise-en-scene throughout the process. When I come to make my music magazine, I now know that I need to use Mise- En-Scene, makeup and costumes to convey the correct genre.

I analysed Drake’s Club Paradise Tour poster. I have learnt that having obvious denotations like Bold handwriting creates an eye catching and powerful connotation. The colours and style represent the edgy and anarchic setting. Drake’s conventional body language and facial expression, shows he is setting the scene and portrays how he is planning something exciting for his tour.

This has helped me learn that to make a poster, it must be vivid and strong to get the point across. This has made a huge impact on my magazine because I now know that I need to ensure colours, fonts, images, language, body language, costume etc. They all must convey the correct narrative.