The top image is the original magazine cover and the bottom is my version of it.

Using Adobe InDesign we made a copy of a chosen magazine cover with only the original photo of the model, meaning that we had to find the right font, colors, barcode and text to make our image look almost identical. It was quite difficult to use a new program because I myself am only familiar with Adobe Photoshop. Overall I’m absolutely sure that the skills I have learnt in Adobe InDesign and from the added YouTube videos, can and will be used in the future when it come to making my tour poster and magazine.

My 3 Positives were:

• text placement
• color palette
• inset images

My 3 negatives were:

• font
• image quality
• font size

here are 2 YouTube links to help with what I struggled with, Image quality and identifying fonts.

This is a padlet, its a collage of words and pictures that relate to my theme which was rap music, rap music is mostly associated with devious punks that are rebellious. Most famous rappers are associated with gangs of guys that are covered in face tattoos with baggy expensive clothing that use bad language.

We made with as a way to easily see everything that connects with rap, such as clothing, connotations. All these images help with understanding the conventions of rap like the gangs, the bad language, expensive clothing, the gang symbols, etc.

This info I have studied will help in the future when making music videos, tour posters and our music magazine.

These are the images we made, the one with the post it notes are of comments that others made on the costume and what they thought of , for example if somebody put dapper on our rapper costume then we did a bad job.

The angle of the photos being a low angle gives the sense of power and dominance of the audience. these images have the denotation “they are a rapper” the connotation that they are posing for a photo shoot and the camera techniques are a mid shot and canted.

Everyone looks at music tour poster and thinks nothing of it, they say that its designed that way to look good but infact you can deconstruct the tour posters and that would reveal a narrative that every poster has, the outfit their wearing portrays a narrative, such as; why are they wearing this? what sort of vibe is this giving me? does it match the music they make? it makes you think about why they chose to wear this very specific outfit.

The Font they’re using is a font that is very reminisant to the font used in the 80s when they were the most popular, it gives it a sort of psychedelic look with the way the letters are shaped with the curves. The colors they chose are mainly black or dark navy blue, these colors where chosen to fit the serious nature of the image combined with the intimidating look of the group.

Now I know when it comes to me making my tour poster I will need to consider all these aspects ( Color, background, font,font colors, etc) If the font or background of the image doesn’t compliment the model then it causes it to not work, it gives the wrong connotations, like having a colorful background for a hard rock model.