Music Magazine Collage

I looked into magazine covers which stood out to me because of their models or colours used to make the cover seem interesting. I might be able to get some inspiration for my magazine from some of the covers which seemed engaging. For example, FADER seems like a unique magazine as it doesn't look similar to the other magazines on the collage. The magazines use different colours and their models are usually doing a type of pose which you don't really see on a magazine often. The Ariana Grande and Zayn Malik magazine was very different as Ariana has her hand on the cover as she is seen touching a mirror and Zayn Malik is seen drinking a glass of juice. This is what I could use on my magazine.

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Introduction to NEA Brief

We have been assigned to design and create a music magazine front cover and a double page spread for 14-18 year olds. I know that I will enjoy this because I am a huge fan of music and I will be able to have a clear understanding of what 14-18 year old might want to see on a magazine. I am excited to spend a big amount of time trying to create my magazine because I really enjoyed making my prelim magazine as it helped me improve my media skills. When I am working on this magazine I am hoping to improve my photo shop skills as it was very hard to understand because i had not used it in a very long time before that. I am also looking forward to work with my model as my favourite part of making the magazines was taking the pictures before actually designing my magazine. I am also looking forward for the research because it’s interesting to see what teenagers prefer over other genres or ideas. This will help me a lot as it will be easier for me to know what I need to include in my m...

Research Rationale

I will be conducting two types of research, audience research and market research. The target audience for my music magazine are from the age 14-18 year olds. I have access to these age groups as I am in school and my school has a sixth form. I am currently in year 11 at secondary school which means I have access to people younger than me and older than me as my school is joined with a sixth form. I could find a few people from these age groups and ask them to be in an interview for my focus group. For my market research, I will deconstruct a music magazine so I can pick out the main conventions of a music magazine and make it sure it is a product that my target audience would prefer to read I will look at the features of a music magazine which is aimed at teenagers and identify the common features which are on the magazine or inside the magazine. I will also look at the colours and fonts used on each magazine and pick out to how it targets their audience and how it matches to th...

PRINT SCREENS

I placed the masthead first and stretched it out all over the top of my magazine. I used the Quick Selection Tool for my main image to get rid of the studio background and then I put the image over the masthead. I added a few cover-lines on the side to get started with the colour scheme for my magazine which was red and black. On my flat plan I created the idea to add a graphic on my magazine ti make it stand out. I used the Ellipse tool to create the graphic and added text on top of it with two colours. Towards the end I changed the font i used for my artists name and I changed the fonts for my cover-lines to Arial Bold. This was because the serif fonts did not make the magazine look like an RnB/Hip Hop magazine so Arial Bold made my magazine look much better. For my double page spread I already had typed up my article about my artist and pasted it on separately. I used the same font I used on my cover for the artists name. I also added a signature of the artist to fill...

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