Thursday, 29 April 2010

this is my interview page. It is very bubbly and exciting to read, the interview are based around music which still links to the idea of a music magazine. Also i used a variety of colours for the outline of the ovals as it looks exciting and interesting to read. Also the colours should grab peoples attention. The pictures are also very nice and eye catching, along with the others they have been edited in photoshop to make them look better and clearer. There is also a colour theme in the writing which is blue and purple this makes it look well structured and also the colours are the same colour as the clothes the artist is wearing.

this is my contents page, i used a regular colour theme again. The wording is clear to read it is also nicely spread out and also the pcture is positioned well and very eye catching. the word 'contents' is bold and straight away it is obvious what page you are looking at. Also the page numbers are easy to read unlike in some magazines it is hard to determine what things are on what pages.
this is my front cover for my music magazine, it shows that i still had stuck to my drawn up draft copy it did help a lot, also it has the same colour scheme to my colour palet. i used loads of conventions in other musci magazine such as a barcode, issue number, date also price. The picture is clear and easy to look at. It was done on photoshop, and the quality of the picture is good as it hasnt benn pixilated. furthermore the writing is bold and easy to read, the important wordings stick out more than the rest and it is easy to understand. the picture is not to crowded and there is a decent amount of gaps between the writings.
this is one of the questionairres i chose to put on my blogg, as it is similar to a majority that i recieved back. it shows that people are interested in the bollywood genre of music. People also do purchase magazines on a regular basis to find out latest gossip and music, furthermore people do enjoy going to music festivals as it intrests them. Most importantly people to enter the competitions this is why i chose to put a ompetition in my magazine.
This is a draft copy that i drew for my magazine front cover, i tried to use it as a rough guideline to my final product of my music magazine. It did help in showing me what to do and i would refer back to it if i got stuck on what to produce.
This is my colour palet, i used a regular colour scheme throughout to make my magazine look neat and also well structured rather than doing a rushed job. the colours blend into the clothing that my artist is using and it works well in the magazine.
these are some of the styles of writing i was going to use. Because my magazine iz based around the theme of bollywood i tried to use indian style writing but my words are in english. i used the third one as it looks bold and easy to read. It also looks attractive and people would notice that this is a bollywood magazine.

Sunday, 25 April 2010

i decided to come up with a whole new idea, and tried to make a "bollywood band", however i wasnt to enthusiastic about this idea, as it is very uncommon and didnt feel right for my magazine, i still experimented by taking pictures to see the outcome and i just decided to stick with a single female artist for my magazine.
I was going to use a male for my magazine however i decided not to do this because, in the bollywood industry there are loads of male artists, and the magazines are mainy dominated by males so i decided not to go for this option. However as you can see i did experiment by taking pictures and i decided to go for a female artist.
this is another picture i was going to use for my magazine, it is very attractive and also eye catching, the background is nice, and the picture looks very professional.
I also looked at different genres of music to see how i can use their conventions in my magazine, in this moodboard i have studied r&b music i have noticed unlike bollywood music magazines they rarely use the same colour themes, most of these magazines are very colourful and have different colours everywhere. This is still very eye catching and appealing, however for my magazin i chose to use the same colour theme throughout as this is what bollywood magazines do.
this is also another picture i was going to use, it looks very proffesianal however the problem is that it looks a lot like an asian bridal magazine rather than music. it looks very fashion dominated rather than an artist who will be singing.
this is something i used to see how many people consume music magazines, and just magazines in general it was a great help as it showed me how i could do things to improve the purchase rate of music magazines.
this is an NME reader profile i used it to see how to create my own and also it helped to see how many people and in how many differnets ways they are interested in music, and also to what extents they will go to purchase music.
this is also one of the pictures i was going to use for my magazine, it is a clear image as the face is the main focuss. However i changed my mind for two reasons, the first one was that as i put text around the picture it was hard to read, and also this picture did not look nice when it was blured. the second reason is that the picture does not look to happy and the face looks a little grumpy, this would cause problems as people may not buy the magazine as it does not look appealing.