Final Contents Page

Final Double Page Spread

Final Front Cover

STRESS

Nearing the deadline and stupidly stressed still need to do quite abit but the project is coming along nicely

Distribution methods

•  Extending my media product into different areas...• I think as a dance music magazine, I would like my magazine and logo to extend, first of all to a slot on radio 1 on a Friday night. Then once I have my product established create a ‘WIRED fm’.• I would also infiltrate my product to festivals, have a WIRED stage at Cream Fields and Global Gathering, also sponsor dance music festivals such as Tomorrow Land.• By doing this I would enable my product to catch the attention of more possible consumers. For example with 200,000 people attending Tomorrow Land they would see that it was sponsored by ‘WIRED’ and be inclined to buy it afterwards. Therefore bringing my product to more and more people, gaining more revenue and extending the content.

Photoshop "spot techniques"

I decided to take a small video of some of the most useful tools I have used throughout the project so far. The healing brush and the spot heal tool.

Target audience opinions

I decided to do another small research task into what my target audience thought my magazine should look like and what codes and conventions I should be using. They said that rather than  a DJ facing away from the person who's reading the magazine on the front cover they would like the model to be facing forward. I had already done this so I was pleased with this feedback. A couple of people said I should change the text of the title on my double page spread so I did this and it looked allot better and made allot more sense. This was because I changed the font type so that the new amount of text fit above my headline.

Font types-again

The main types of font I have used in my magazine are sharp and bold, this is because I wanted the text in my magazine to look like the text that DJ's use to make there label look cool and fancy like the image to the left, this is because it appeals to my target audience.

Front Cover photos

These are just two of the 200 photos I had taken for my front cover. The one on the left was for my rough cut and what I originally thought to be for my final piece. I then decided I needed a change. This was decided when I cut the image out. I found out the contrast between the model and the background was bad so it was hard to cut out onto a blank background. The second picture however made the model look allot more professional and less young. The way the model isn't looking at the camera and is slightly to the right of the picture makes it look allot more professional. It was also allot easier to cut out as there was a very dark colour against a light background.

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Decoration

The colored rectangle that I created for the contents page has now been used in the front cover as well. I decided to put it behind the model as it filled in some of the white space and it made the front cover look alot nicer. 

In-design basics

So In design is an extremely helpful program which I used to create the layout of my magazine. I used a selection of tools on the left hand side but the easiest to use was the rectangular frame tool, this is the tool that created the layout of my magazine as it is what I had to put all my photos and videos in.

Photography

I took quite a few of my friend Bradley to make sure I got the perfect picture that would fit onto my contents page.

Photography

When I was taking picture of the set I realized that it was going to be extremely hard to get the brightness right on the image. This is when Photoshop came in handy as I could simply change the brightness on that.

Page Numbers

The page numbers were a massive deal when creating the contents page, this is because they had to obviously be large and bold but they also had to look as though they fit into the frame and not block up the pictures. I decided to go with red because it fitted in with my color scheme on the front cover of my magazine. I made them smaller than they are in the picture on the left aswell so that they didnt take overlap most of the picture.

VIP section

This is the top part of my double page spread. I decided to add this part to my double page spread as it implied that the double page spread was the unique part of the magazine as it was "VIP" access only. this made the reader think that the section of the magazine they were reading was exclusive and had some good information in it. This made me relate this to the article as I made it sound allot more professional than the snippets of text I had on the front cover and contents page.

Photography

I tried to take a few photos whilst we were walking around town to show the nightlife of a busy city center and too show the way teens react when walking around town on a night

Photography

Some of the images were quite serious when taking them in town but others wernt as seen by this photo, which is why I didn't use them. I needed one which made him look professional and like a DJ but also represented the nightlife that DJ's have.

Photography

The next few posts are going to be about the range of photos I have taken and why I chose/didn't chose them

So this photo was going to be a double page spread photo as I was running low on time. The reason I decided to change it (thank god I did) was because my friends became free for a trip to town one night

Layouts Cont.

 I then did the layouts for my front cover page and my double page spread. These took quite sometimes because they were allot messier and unorganized compared to the contents page. I knew that I needed to have columns of artists on the front cover so I created a bunch of frames for the titles of the artists and the little descriptions that would come with the titles. I also knew that I would have a large image in front of allot of text and the smaller images so I placed a large frame over the whole page so when I had my pictures I could add them to the frame. I then decided to add a strip at the top for maybe a "free poster" promotion to go in as most music magazines have that nowadays.

The layout for the double page spread was slightly easier because there wasn't going to be as much on the double page spread as there was on the front cover. I needed three columns (Frames) for my article, a large frame covering the whole page for the image and a frame for the title. I added page numbers and a few more frames for some smaller ideas I had for the spread which you'll see when my project progresses.

A piece of Content Decoration

So I decided the contents page needed something to perk it up a little bit. I decided to do this little bit of decoration on the contents page to make it look a bit more fitting for who my target audience is. It adds a sense of fun to the magazine and also gets rid of any white/blank space that is unneeded and makes the page just look so much better. I put it above the different pages  (page numbers and descriptions) too fill in the big white gap above the text