Monday, 29 March 2010



I have been using the same Project Plan since the beginning of the music magazine project, I made the plan so that I can clearly set out all the things that needed to be done and so that i can effectively manage my time. However during the process i found some tasks took longer than others to do, for example the double page spread took longer to do compared to the front cover as there more things involved for the double page spread such as planning and writing the interview, planning the photos needed to be taken and of the editing that needed to be done. Because of the length of time that I spent working and re-working my double page spread, the Contents Page suffered because i had less time to organise myself and therefore I could not have as many drafts for improvement like my front cover and Double page spread. There were times where i missed a deadline for my double page spread, but I later regained myself, and met the extended deadline, which was good.

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Final final final of Everything



This powerepoint shows the Finals of the publications that I done after completing many many drafts, and making improvements.

SLICK Magazine



This is the final of all the publications that I have done. I used the Microsoft publisure software to insert the front cover, contents page and double page spread, and then I saved it as a PDF document and used the online website Issuu.com to download the document.

Friday, 19 March 2010

Table Of Contents Drafts


As you can see I created a powerpoint to show the different changes that I had done to the contents page, which would make it better. This powerpoint gives notes on reasons why I made these changes and how it benefited the publication.


This is a powerpoint of the mock up for my contents page, this is the plan of what I might of wanted the contents page to look like, however this has changed due the feedabck that I recieved and later I made some changes that made my contents page look more professional.

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Double Page Spread Drafts


First Draft
The first draft of my DPS showed that the main heading Ghetto Rgadolls,was lower down at the bottom of the page, with quite small font size for a main heading, and the images were over edited. The main image was extremely cartoon-like, because of the over blurring of their faces. Overall the first draft was just the starting point in order to make it better.

Second Draft
The changes that I made from the first draft include, re-editing the image again, this time making sure not to over blur the image, I decided not to make any drastic changes to do with editing like changing eye and hair colour, because I wnated the models to look as natural as possible. Also I moved the top line of the main heading to the top and made the size bigger.

Third Draft
Although I have made changes the most of the changes were good however the moving of the top line of the main heading to the be placed above the models, made the whole page have extra unnecessary space, therefore I decied to move the entire main heading to the top, which made the page look beeter as there was less space, and it showed off the full image of the models.

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Photo Shoot Plan for DPS

My second Double Page spread


Analysing a double page spread enabled me with different ideas about future decsions with my own musuc magazine. For example the use of colour and font and the different sizes that will help attract the reader.

Wednesday, 3 February 2010

MY final Front Cover



This is the Final Draft of My Front Cover, I had made minor changes to the Front cover such as removing the underlining of the main cover as this was unecessary and didnt meet the conventions of a hip hop magazine.

Also i realigned the main cover text to the left and closed the spacing inbetween as this took up unecessary space and blocked some of my image.

Thursday, 28 January 2010

Mock up of Double Page Spread

First Analysis of Double Page Spread in Magazine



The main image is of P Diddy, who is a rap artists and so shows that the target audience who are represented are intereste din this genre of music.

This is a powerpoint shows the double page spread (DPS) in the source magazine, P Diddy the rap artist is the main focus in the entire page as his picture is the biggest. So therefore the eye flow begins form his picture and then moves its way around to the text. This is so that when the readers are flicking through the pages they picture would attract them first especially if they are a fan of the rap artist.

The main colours used on this DPS are White and Black with the heading being red, the black and white image represents the wealth that P Diddy represents. The colours stay constnat throughout the whole magazine.

Below is a video presenting my thoughts and evaluating this DPS:


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Drafts Powerpoint

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Editing the Front cover image of Music Magazine


This powerepoint gives details of how I edited the image that I used for my Front Cover of my music magazine. It explains the tools that I used and why i chose to use them.

Mock up of my Music Magazine



I decided that I would like to follow the normal conventions of a typical magazine. I placed my masthead at the top, and I had my selling above it, whereas I know that some magzines have it below. I only had 2 coverline on either side and one Main Cover line that would link with my model picture on the front cover which would be in the middle.

Monday, 30 November 2009

Photoshoot Plan for Music Magazine


This was a photoshoot plan, in order for me to organise what I wanted the images on my front cover to be. It helped me alot to use a photoshoot plan as a guide to what I wanted the models for my image to look like, instead of making it up as I went along.

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Front Cover Analysis for a second Magazine



I analysed two front cover magazines and compared them. I labelled the important key features of both magazines that are from differnt genres to see what was different an what was the similar.

Friday, 20 November 2009

Mood Board Presentation


I really enjoyed creating the mood board as it allowed me to collect and collage different images that I thought could offer me ideas of how I want my music magazine to be. It allowed me to think carefully about what the R&B and Hip Hop genre would offer in typical circumstances, so things like what colours were widely used, what type of artists are in the genre and they image and overall look.

The mood board didn't take me very long, and I had problems researching images of the different artists as I'm a fan of most of them anyway, which also helped me be certain about what genre of music my music magazine was going to be. Making the mood board also enabled me to think of who I wanted to target my magazine at, which is shown in the powerpoint.