This is a picture i edited on Photoshop using the curve tool.

Music Magazine Pre Production Work

Open publication - Free publishing - More music

Photoshop Skills - History Tool&Gaussian Blur

I have been practicing some new skills on photoshop; the history tool and gaussian blur. These are some of the images that i have edited using them tools.

Survey Results

Survey Results

1. Are you male or female?

         Male – 6  Female – 7

2. What is your favourite type of music?

Rock – 7,Pop – 6,Indie – 2, Dance – 2

3. Who are your favourite bands?

 Simple Plan, Mcfly x4, Michael Buble, A Day to Remember , The Pretty Reckless, N-Dubz, Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails, Placebo, Jimmy Eat World, Daughtry, Westlife, JLS, The Saturdays, Oasis, Kings Of Leon x2, One Direction, Paramore x2, Panic at the disco, U2, Snow Patrol, You Me at Six x2, Lady Gaga

4. Does the music listen too influence your fashion style?

Yes – 1 No -12

     5.  What is your favourite clothing brand?

River Island, DC, Don’t have a favourite x3, Republic, Nike, Primark, Bench, Nike, Top Shop, Ralph Lauren, Hurley.

6. Other than music, what else are you interested in?

Sport, music, drawing, socialising – every answer.

7. Which features of a magazine do you prefer?

         News – 9 Features – 5 Reviews – 0 Interviews – 6

8. What convinces you to buy a magazine?

        Front Cover – 9 Articles – 7 Price – 1

9. What would the features of your ideal front cover be?

Celebrity – 7 Half Naked Man – 7 Half Naked Woman – 3 Sportsman – 4 Car – 0

10. How much are you willing to pay for a magazine?

Under £1 – 2  £1-£2 – 4  £2-£3 – 3  £3+ - 5

These results show that the majority of people who did my survey were male; I posted my survey on facebook and twitter so I think that this is down to the amount of people who were online at the time.

The results show that the majority of people who did my survey prefer to listen to rock and pop music, so it suggests to me that I should base my magazine on the rock and pop theme.

The majority of bands that were listed as favourites come out as rock bands, so it suggests that I should feature some rock bands in my magazine to grab the most attention.

The results show that the majority of people who did my survey do not influence their fashion style on their music choices, so it shows that I shouldn’t focus on just one fashion style in my magazine.

My results show that other than music, the people who took part in my survey are also interested in sport and socialising, so it suggests to me that I should also feature these features in my magazine.

The majority of people prefer the news in magazines, so it suggests to me that I need to include lots of news updates in my magazines, also interviews because that was the second preferred feature.

Most people said that the front cover is mainly what persuades them to buy a magazine, so I need to make sure that my front cover is appealing to readers.

The results show that an ideal cover for most people would be to have a celebrity of some sort featured on the front cover, perhaps a cover line advertising a feature with them in.

Most People stated that they would be willing to pay over £3 for a magazine, so I think that I should reasonably price my magazine between £1 and £3.

NME Front Cover

Masthead - Bold Font,Red.LargeFont.

Image - Reprsents 'Rocks Messisest Bust-Ups', the main feature of the front cover and the magazine. The image is of oasis, the jackets that the brothers have been photographed in match the house style, which is red and black.

Cover Lines - Large bold font, spread out across the front cover. The bold font can perhaps represent the characters that are Noel&Liam gallagher (oasis) - they come across as quite bold/confindent/cocky people. The cover lines feature the names of some specific artists that are featured in the magazine, which will target a specific audience because if soemone sees the magazine in a shop and notices that one of their favourite bands are featured in the magazine, they are most likely to buy the magazine.

The colours that have been used are pretty much the main colours that represent NME (red/white/black), so thorugh outthe front cover you can kind of tell that it is an NME frontcover because of the colours and the font also that has been used.

Some of the words that have been used seem to be targeting the magazine audience as young people and people who are fans of rock music. Words such as 'dude' have been used, and you associate the word 'dude' with young people. The fact that the main artocle is 'Rocks messiest bust up's' targets people who like to listen to rock music because it features rock bands, bands that the specific audience would be interested in reading about.

Q DPS

On the second page of the DPS, it is an image of the band, this has been used so that the reader knows who the article is focused on. The article is portraying the band as being quite strange and out of place and the image used agrees with the theme becausein the picture that has been used the band are  holding guitars the wrong way up and they are pulling quite serious facial expressions,which are quite strange things to do  so the image is helping to display the band .in the light that the magazine wants to focus on.

The pull quote that has been used also fits in well with teh theme because it is a member of the band calling them a 'band of misfits' - misfits being a word to describe someone as not fitting in and being quite strange.

A drop cap has been used - (where the first letter of the first word is huge) to grab the readers attention. The drop cap is one of the first features that you notice so it helps in wanting to make the reader read on.

The tone in which the journalist is writing in is to capture teh attention of a younger audience because some of the words used, such as 'misfits' could be described as slang, which an older audience perhap wouldnt really understand what some of the words mean.