POWERPOINT PRESENTATION CHANGES!

From looking at my mark scheme for last years project, my presentation scored highly. Therefore, I asked my teacher where he felt it needed boosting which turned out to be the 'social group' section. With this insight I then, re read all of my target audience questionairs to see what the audience wanted, especially the sentence and opinon sections they left, as it enabled me to get a clear sense of their personalitys and style.

Below is my changes, later in the presentation I have a slide of all the things which would appeal to the social group. So this is literally more to the point of their wants and persoanlity style.

LITTLE TOUCHES TO THE NEW FINAL PRODUCT...

Within all the four pages of my magazine which I created, the title of my exclusive band interview appeared. Through researching into exsisting alternative music genre magazines, if there was a band exlusive they had the same logo throughout.I decided to perform this with 'reggae rooster' shown in the pictures above. Through doing it, it has given more importance to the interview and added empahsise to the magazines house tone of vibrant rustafarien colours and tone.

NEW DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD!

When reviewing my doubel page spread, there wasn't many changed which needed to be made. I feel it already looked effective with their costumes of wellington boots and jumpers, echoing that of what festival goers wear. I knew my audience felt the same also due my feedback reaserh question- the results came back from the original article 45/50, therefore all I did was enhance the pages appearence.

-Adding a glow effect to the first pages, titles and writing making it seem eluminous like stage lighting you would see at a festival.

-Centering the page numbers on both sides to be exact.

-Editing the images to all be black and white and playing with the brightness and contrast, I feel it creates a more artistic appearence and works well with the front cover being in black and white also.

NEW CONTENTS!

Within this page, I really just reorganised it all, as in my first magazine the initial impression of the page was it looking very scrappy and difficult to read. To achieve this more coherent appearence:

-Added boxes around all the main text
-Changed the font text to times new roman like the front cover to make a link between the two.
-Kept religiously to the colour scheme, making it consistant throughout the magazine.

Yet I still wished to keep my initial aim of this page; a hectic informal tone as from my questionairs and audience research that is what they requested. To perform that I:

-Kept all the same content to the page, aka the survival guide.Which is essential to my festival context.
-Enhanced the quirky sunglasses in the titles 'o' of contents by make a bold black line around it.
-Recut the high angel image with the magnetic lasso tool to make the edges sharper but kept the picture almost off the page to the right, engaging the readers to turn over and making it look hectic.

NEW FRONT COVER!

Overall, I am much more pleased with this result than my first attempt. I feel it is instantly more eye catching and you are able to take everything in, in comparison to my last attempts which was hard to follow and you found yourself really having to focus on reading the information. To see how I achieved this will be stated below:-

-Took a new feature article photo with a high quality camera, this reuslted in a much clearer resolution really displaying her facial expression. I choose her to make a rock and roll scrunched up face as I wanted the image to appeal to my bold, edgy and individual readership. Yet still needed it to follow conventions unlike before, so I made it a portrait close up with her eyes making eye contact to the camera aka the readers to draw them in and I positioned the image to the right hand side of the page therefore subconsioulsy making the reader wish to turn over.

-I reigned in my colour scheme alot more to only green,yellow and red ( the rustafarien colours) as it connotes a very chilled yet vibrant atmopshere like the rustafarien culture. Also I purposely chose the header to be in the promonent colour of green. This is due to the shade being linked to nature and my magazine is essentially a festival based one so it will subtely empahsise that more. The overall appearence I feel is alot more astetically pleasing to the eye due to the colours, my font choice changes from the exsentric bubble fonts in my last magazine I now changed them to simple times new roman and arial to not overwhelm the readers. Aswell as the important must read text I added a glow effect to make it stand out and accessable to read over the other information on the page.

MY NEW EDITED RESIT MAGAZINE!

With discovering that my practical work didn't achieve to the best of my abilities, I put in for a resit exam. When looking back over my work, I could visably see the areas which I fell down on. The main one was my front cover feature article photo, although it was one of my aims to break conventions, the slightly candid and off center photo didn't look astetically right on the page. I feel this was also because of all the editing to the image which I had performed then made the quality of the photo decreased, looking blured and poor which definately took it away from the realistic magazine effect we was aiming to produce. In regards to my other pages of the magazine, they just needed sharpening; text to be aligned in the right places and colour enhancements.

Contents textual information

With the information to include in my contents, I found it really difficult. I looked at other published Rock magazines, but they were all to vaguley about things. Whereas as my magazine is Festival based, they had to surround that environment. I made my pages involve other festivals aka interviews with Readings creator, review of last years V festival. But to engage the reader to read them more,I used purswasive language techniques such as slogans, exclamation marks to add emphasis.

double page spread edits

When I printed them out I realised that the full length group shoot, the group were not central in the image which resulted in throwing the whole page off. Therefore I cut and cropped the image at the sides but to still keep the longer width of the image then had to crop more of th top and bottom of the picture. After copy and pasting it on the page, I altered the brightness and contrast of the image to make the greenary of the setting stand out more.

contents development.

My double page spread is completed, im just waiting for it to be printed to see whether it needs any changes or works. So i have started on my contents; my design breif for the page is to continue the theme from the front cover. When creating a black and white background, I used the gradient tool to disperse the blackness from black, grey to white. Although it didnt really look visually that striking. With the fonts, I wanted to created an eluminous effect. So I added an outer glow and stroke effect to the words which makes them seem glowing. Then I added double layers to the worlds, to make them all seem 3d. The text looks really good but really wasn't working with the background. So I added a plain black background colour and the page seems much bolder.

Front cover deadline

I completed it on the deadline, printed it out and realised that there wasn't enough information of the page. It looked to bare compared to other magazines how full they are. So I added more cover lines and plugs to the right, although it covers the feature article photo they are an unseen band so I am able to and it encourages the urge to turn over more aswell.

Also, from adding small black and white images of reggae rooster under there information.Makes the page in whole look more buzzing and the boarder around the images highlights them and gives a postcard effect which works well with it being focused on festivals where your away from home.

Interview decisions.

I already chose to do a informal tone, so really pushed it by including explitive swear words and making the band seem quite rude at times towards the interviewer. As the background was black, and the band is about reggae, I chose the font colours to alternate the rustaferien colour scheme of red,green and yellow. As before it was all yellow, but you couldn't differ clearly enough the question and answer. Also it didn't look as visually effective. My font size was orgianally 12 but when it was printed I saw too much blank space. So I looked at Q magazine again there interviews all had very small font, so i changed it to size 10 which enabled me to add more information to the interview.

double page spread images

On my interview page, I edited the top mid close up group shot with the saturation tool. Making it look brighter to add energy and a vibrancy to the page. Then with the pictures of the roosters at the bottom, I resized 3 images; one to be largest, then another middle and the last smallest. I then cut round it with the magnetic lasso tool and positioned them traveling across the bottom of the page in order of size.

Editing feature article photo

I had to resize the image to make it background size so it doesnt appear stretched. I then removed the colour and played with the the brightness/contrast levels to not loose definition. I then on adjustments equalised the image to highlight the black and white effect. It looks much more dramatic for the front cover image to be eye catching.

Colour scheme

I have stuck to my original design of having black and white background with vibrant aluminous fonts. Instead have developed it through only working with yellow, green, and red. The iconic reggae colours. Except trying out different tones of the colours is difficult making it all work together and not clash on the page.

Final front cover image selection

My feature article photo I am sticking with is a full long shot of 3 artists walking along in a field, except it breaks conventions as the person looking to the camera is standing to the side whereas normally there are front on showing authority. This works as creates a festival feel from the field environment and an informal friendly tone by him being side on and smirking.

I tried a extreme close up of one of the artist face but it was difficult to have their face taking up the whole pages background. It also lost the "off the wall edgy" look I was aiming for; as it made it look like a general magazine. Whereas my image shows my intended purpose of a festival magazine. Yet due to it breaking coventions I now have to make sure my plugs, coverlines and especially masthead really works and stick to the conventions.

choosing feature article photo

At the weekend I took all my pictures for my double page spread and feature article photo. The location was brilliant;at my friends farm. I dressed them in different looks and named them reggae rooster, their looks and the pictures really encapsulate the off the wall edgy tone. Today I have been experimenting with titles and deciding on what feature article photo to have, I think visually the ones where cameron is smiling to the side look great but they break to many coventions with him not making eye contact to the camera.

Design brief

· It’s going to have a large masthead at the top
· A close up portrait of the artists face on front cover
· A specific style in my case “off the wall” “edgy”
· A continuing theme and layout look from the front cover to contents page
· Price to be from 2-4 pounds, no more
· Informal mode of address to have a friendly impression and appeal to the youthful target audience
· Colour scheme, black and white background with aluminous colours for the text
· Double page spread needs to include an interview
· More image based than textual
· Follow convention of having perhaps plugs leaning to right hand side to engage the reader to turn over.
· Make sure purpose of magazine is clear all the way through i.e. that it’s a festival one

Graphs from questionair

1) What sex are you?
2) What name appeals to you more?
3) What colour scheme would you find most eye catching?



4) What masthead title would you prefer?

5) What genre of music would you wish the main article to be focused on?
6) What pose for the front cover feature article photo stands out to you more?

7) What overall tone from the front cover would you wish to receive?
8)Would you like the theme and look of the front cover to continue into the contents page


9) How much would you be willing to pay for a festival magazine?
10)When would you prefer to purchase a festival magazine?

11)What information would you wish a festival magazine to withhold?

sketches

Notes on second drawings

Front cover:
-Made the feature article photo centered which alowed me more room around the outside for coverlines but it looks less edgy than breaking the convention with half the face.
-The mastehead instead of having the first two F letters in bigger sizes they are all the same.
-The mini collage of pictures is now on the right hand side to engage the reader to turn over.
-The plug in under the masthead over laping the portrait face.

Contents page:
-Seems more off the wall tone as the bottom bar is a close up line of peoples faces screaming live at a gig.
-The title is in all the same size as its front cover except it has footprint trail coming off its full stop leading to the page reference which looks visually fun and quirky.
-Also added as there was room an image of a performer and quotes near