Propsal for Magazine

Proposal for media from hayes98

Flat Plan work-in-progress

Today I started working on my flat plan. 

Work-in-progress Masthead

Today we learnt how to use Adobe Illustrator to create our Mastheads for our music magazine. We learnt how to manipulate the different letters and make them best suited to our chosen genre. 

Working on my Proposal

Ideas for proposal

Potential names for Magazine

90’s Vibe

Trap Vibe

Get Down 

I also began focusing on the type of image that I wanted to use for my front cover, this was done by looking at 90's fashion and culture as my magazine is solely going to be revolving around the 90s era.

Initial Ideas for my Proposal

Suggested name for Magazine: 
Uptown Funk
Get Down 
Trapsoul 
Trapvibe 

Ideas for my Music Magazine

After analysing existing magazines, I have found some features of the two magazines that I analysed helpful for my future music magazine. As some of the features that I saw and liked may end up influencing my own ideas, for example I noticed from the front cover of NME Magazine, I liked the fact that they background of the front cover was kept plain and simple so that the cover star 'Rihanna' could stand out even more and been seen from afar, I also liked the fact they made it clear in the big black, bold writing as to how much the price of the magazine is as it is written across her shirt

Evaluation of College Magazine

Evaluation

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign were used for the process of creating the contents page and front cover for my college magazine. I found out that both of these softwares were excellent software for when making a magazine cover of contents page.
The front cover for my College Magazine I believe was a very good, as I followed the conventions of a magazine front cover. I used an original image with a plain background so that any cover lines or text that was put onto the front cover could stand out and be easily seen by my target audience, as this is what a conventional magazine should withhold. I also added a flash which features a trip that is the college is having, this automatically pulls the audience in and makes them want to find out more, this is another conventional feature for a magazine cover. I also made sure that my cover lines, price tag and flash were all in red as it is a colour that stood out against the plain white background. My college magazine is also free which may make the audience more intrigued at taking my magazine and reading it as my audience are young people and they enjoy having things for free. 
My contents page needs a lot of improvement as I got some peer feedback and they suggested that I should make it more creative and eye catching. However they did say that I should have made my image on the contents page portrait instead of landscape. It was also suggested by my peers that some of the cover lines and the masthead are clashing with the background and it is slightly difficulty to read them.  

Some suggested improvements are:
- Make the cover lines and masthead slightly darker 
- Move the flash to the bottom of the front cover

Finished Contents Page of College Magazine

Cover Page of College Magazine

Contents Page of College Magazine

Incomplete contents page of my college magazine.

Work - in - progress (College Magazine)

Today I added some cover lines and a barcode, I also played around with them to see where they best fit the magazine cover. I still need some additional cover lines and I need to make a start on my contents page.