Thursday, 17 December 2009

Music Magazine Production



My Music magazines USP will be that the magazine will be based on Live Music. Something i personally view as where music is at its best selling point in the 21st century, My magazine cover will also be unposed which is very rare and diffrent for a magazine. I will have Gig Reviews, Images and Interviews in my magazine as well as goodies which the majority of people prefer when buying a Magazine.

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Music Magazine Survey Results

View my Survey

I found that 63% of the people I asked don’t buy music and the Majority of the people don’t illegally download. 64% watch and listen to music online which I think could give me ideas for my magazine for ideas for a ‘Freebies’ which over 88% of people would prefer. For my magazine I could give away a free iTunes track which is legal and chartable.

A feature I will add after the survey is on Unsigned artists as 88% of people I asked would like to see Unsigned Artists, I could base my magazine around promoting unsigned artist but still featured known to sell the magazine.

Thursday, 5 November 2009

Magazine

Front Cover:

For my magazine cover I tried to make the Magazine look professional yet youthful for the target audience of 16-19+ of college students.
I decided my magazine cover could have a theme, I used the “Go Green” theme which may interest some students, in order to grab the attention of other students I have added catchy cover lines which may appeal this age range instead of extremely important issues. I have added another Cover Line at the bottom of the cover which two topics that would interest students which are Jobs and Discounts. I have also made my magazine free with a free sign in the left third indeed of a bar code.

Contents:

Magazine Reasearch, Planning and Production

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

10) CD Cover + Evaluation






For my CD Cover I went for a ‘Pop’ Genre. I used a side portrait of Ashleigh’s face which is almost fashionable/model like. I used a ‘Patch Tool’ to remove any mark from her face which makes the photo slightly surreal. The front Cover is serious where as the back really shows it’s a ‘Pop’ album, with the colourful lines behind the text and the colour top. The pose is also not as serious which shows there that shows the artist isn’t just a serious.
I used a classic font, “Century Gothic” to keep it simple yet easy to read.

Friday, 2 October 2009

10) Creating my CD Cover

Here is a Screen Shot of the original Image on the 12x12 CD Cover.



Here I have changed the images, making adjustments with the image, I have also used the Patch tool to take any blemishes or lines off her face.



Here is the complete image, which you can see is very different from the original image.



I have used the Polygonal Tool to cut around the image to make her fit into the black, I also changed the colour of her top to the image.



To make the titles stand out I have given each title its own colour box, I think it works well, I have since changed the position of the text.