The age of my audience of my magazine

The type of music the audience would need to be for my

magazine

The majority of people said that the image on my front cover

was the aspect that appealed to them the most. Probably

because it was different and bold, which considering my target

audience on age 18-24, this would suite them perfectly.

The feedback here tells me that my front cover gained

good feedback, and the target audience found it suitable

and enjoyable, which is what I was hoping for.

The response tells me that my Magazine readers will

have various interests, after analysing these results,

I've realised that I included areas of all these aspects at

various points in my magazine, especially on the front

cover.

The responses I got here tell me that my audience think

that the images on my contents page fit in with the overall

layout. One response said ‘they fit well aligned with the

columns. Easy to navigate around the page.’ This also

tells me my layout of my contents page was successful

and not overcrowded, so the text was hard to read.

I wanted to keep a similar house style all the way through my

magazine, so after I read these results, I agree with the first

one which said ‘more colours would suite the house style.’ I

do agree more colours on my contents page would have

suited the house style better so if I could go back and change

anything i would change this. I had a lot of coloured text but

the background was quite plain and simple.

My DPS is plain and simple but that was the image I had in my

mind to begin with. After reading these responses its clear that

my audience believed my DPS worked well and fit in with the

house-style of the rest of my magazine. If I could go back and do

the whole magazine again I would have a different design in mind

for my DPS.

The results show that my chosen image and blacked out

background fit in well with my DPS article. This may be because

the article is emotional, and my model is pulling a blank and

serious expression so they compliment each other. Another good

thing about this i have gathered from my responses is that it

makes my text brighter and easier to read.

As you can see from both images I

used the opacity tool to fade out my

image to give it a better effect against

the background. The opacity tool is

situated just above the layer bin, and I

moved the opacity dial to where I

thought id suited the image best.

Image ONE on the right hand side, you

can see where I have lowered the

opacity. I have lowered it to 54% so it is

still strongly visible, but it makes the

text look bolder when I write on top

which is better for the audience.

From the two images on right

hand side you can see I used

the history brush tool to

highlight and give effect to their

faces. In both pictures I firstly

changed the image to black and

white by going to adjustments

and just clicking the black and

white option. And then I zoomed

into the area I wanted, and

clicked on the history brush tool

and changed the size of it to

what i wanted, then simply just

clicked on which part I wanted

changing back to its original

colour. In picture ONE of

Angelina Jolie you can see I

have reverted her eyes and the

strawberry she is holding back

to their original colours. This

gives the image a great effect

and colour contrast.

I used the magnetic lasso tool to

cut out the main bit of the picture

I wanted then placed it onto the

background colour I wanted.

From image one you can see

where I have cut out (using the

magnetic lasso tool) just the

model out of the maim picture,

then as you can see in image to I

converted it onto a plain black

background. This was to give it

extra effect, and so the skin tone

of the model stood out more

against the jet black background.

To use the magnetic lasso tool I

just simply made an outline

around the part wanted and then

clicked the enter key, it then

deleted everything else around it.

This is a useful tool as you can

cut whatever you want out and

place it wherever you want,

meaning any different colour

background as well.

To upload and show my progress of my work I used Blogger.

Blogger is very useful and helpful in that its pretty much guides

you the whole way through, meaning from how to upload your

work and how the present it.

I got a lot of help of the AS MEDIA STUDIES blog, they had useful video’s,

tips and guidance on how to make your magazine and everything else

with it interesting, and something that’s going to get you good marks. The

AS blog also helped when using websites like PREZI, it held a YouTube

slip on how to use it, which I thought was very helpful, as PREZI was not

something I had used until now.

This is my college magazine,

this was the first magazine I

created. When I look back at

it and look at my new Music

Magazine I can see how

much I have learnt through

Photoshop since then, and

the different skills and

techniques I have used on

my Music Magazine

compared to my College

Magazine. As you can see

my College Magazine is very

simple and their hasn’t been

many techniques or designs

used. In a way its good to

look back and see how far

you have progressed and the

new techniques you’ve learnt.

I have thoroughly enjoyed creating my music magazine, i have learnt

so much in the process and its something I wish to take with me into

A2 media next year.

If you look earlier on in my blog you will see drafts of my magazine,

these were my first finished designs then after analysing I thought they

needed some extra work. As you will see on my blog my OFFICIAL

finished designs which I am much more happy with as I feel they are

at a higher standard and something I am hoping will bring me better

marks.