Wednesday 31 December 2014

Audience feedback

Some of the positives about my magazine: consistent house style, good variety of artists on contents page, colour scheme, contents page layout, busty front cover, placing and size of image on double page spread, wrapping of text around image on double page spread andgood article content.
Some of the negatives about my magazine: too much empty space on front cover (more cover lines needed), need to use a larger variety of fonts on my front cover, need more text in top strap line to fill gap on front cover, quote at the top of my double page spread needs to be slightly bigger.

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Friday 19 December 2014

Video inspiration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lQtoRFaLsA

This video has been chosen because it represents the type of genre my music magazine is going to be based on, RnB. The artists, in this video, apply and appeal to many of my audiences. I will use some of these artists as my sub stories in my magazines and use some of their existing products for analysis & inspiration.

Thursday 18 December 2014

Props and Costumes plan

There are many looks to my genre:
· Liquor bottles
· Tattoos
· Bling (Jewellery, shiny accessories and material)
· Nice clothes (expensive suits, etc)
· Sophisticated gangster style
· Ghetto gangster style
· Low riding
· Topless
· Money
· Girls
· Sunglasses
· Drugs
· Religious symbols


For my magazine I plan to use go with the sophisticated gangster style, having my models dress up smartly, as if they’re too wealthy to be dressing in the ‘ghetto look’. I have decided to this because the hip hop artist of today portray themselves this way and by conforming to the typical ‘look’and styles of today’s hip hop artist will appeal to my target audience. I will also use some props, such as shade. The reason I have chosen this image for my models is because this is what my target audience will be appealed too . Using these props and costumes will offer a sense of familiarity to the audience.

Friday 12 December 2014

font choice

They're many fonts that could of been chosen to be my title for my three pages, the title on each page will be the biggest size text, therefore needs to be easily visible and readable to my audience. 
A list of these fonts consist of:
Arial 
Impact
Calibri
Nueva Std Cond
Garamond
Adobe
Myriad Pro
Verdana
Times new roman
Braggadocio
Blairmdl

I narrowed the list down to the fonts that I felt were most appropriate for my magazine:
Arial
Impact
Calibri
Braggadocio
Blairmdl

I decided to use 'blairmidl' style font as it is really bold and readable to my audience. It is also very elegant and appealing. This will be good as it will be eye-catching to my audience. It also can contrast with many different types of a designs and animation. Impact font is a compatible font and will go great with the magazine pages design I have planned. 

Friday 5 December 2014

Planning: Camera Shot/Angles


They're a variety types of different camera shots that are used in a all types of magazines. The most common shot used is a 'mid shot'. However they're many other selective shot types and angles that can be used as magazine images (through all pages). These include:
  • Mid shot
  • Two shot
  • Long Shot
  • Close up
  • Medium Close up
  • Birds eye view
  • high angle shot
  • Eye level shot
  • Low Angle
  • Bottom angle (worms eye view)

I've decided the shots and angle types I will use when taking my photos, for my magazines images, will be mid shots and long shots. I chose the mid shot type because by choosing this shot type I will be conforming to the typical shot types of magazines. Also this will enhance the view of the costume or props and make it more visible to my audience.