Wednesday 25 February 2009
Eye Candi Magazine
Wednesday 11th February 2009
In today's lesson I will begin to design the Eye Candi Front Cover. I have my sketch done so all I need, is time and imagination.
I decided to choose the blue background as its quite a popular colour and add the effect of spunge, so that it would not look so simple. I was thinking of copying the original Eye Candi Logo for my project but later on I came up with some good idea and I designed my own. The main article for this issue is ''The Trip of the Year".
These are just a few examples of the items that appeared on the front cover. I will try to describe it briefly in my evaluation.
P.S: I did not managed to finish the project in this lesson. There is a half term next week, however the deadline is the week after half term so I will definitely finish the project until then.
Eye Candi Magazine
Eye Candi Front Cover
Monday 9th February 2009
Today its time to get on with my my next task which is Eye Candi Front Cover and it's contents page. I'm not going to design it in photoshop but I will make the sketch and plan of it so I will have some idea of how it will look like and therefore I will have more time for design, next lesson.
Thursday 19 February 2009
Monday 9 February 2009
Magazine
Wednesday 4th February 2009
Today, everyone are back after the long weekend caused by the snow. During the weekend I had the chance to think of the article and second page, as it is the double page spread.
Therefore its time to design the second page.
I started to design the second page. It is made up three images found on google and one image of my own. It has simple. short text with information of the festival e.g: where the festival will be held and where to purchase tickets.
Wednesday 4 February 2009
First Magazine Evaluation-October 2008
For the first media project I had to design a magazine front cover for one of the issues, as we were put into group of five and each one of us had to produce one cover.
Firstly we performed a photo shoot of the members in our group as the aim was to make ‘stars’ of ourselves. When the photo shoot was done, we had to make a plan for the cover, including magazine title; price; font; font size; genre and the audience.
Our magazine is a rock theme magazine called ‘THUNDER’ and it is targeted at 16-17 years old rock/metal fans. We have chosen such young audience because we thought that teenagers are more obsessed with the music than older fans. The price of our magazine is only ₤2,49 as many teenagers cannot afford magazine for higher price. However to attract even more audience we have decided to give out some free gifts such as posters. In my issue there is a guitar pick.
To represent rock/metal social groups I decided to use dark colours for the background and white/grey for the text. Titles of famous rock bands such as ‘Metallica’ is the addition to it. However the big picture of the rock star that fill up almost the whole cover is the most successful representation of rock/metal social groups as he is wearing black shirt giving the rock finger gesture. Adding this all together gives a clear representation of rock/metal social group.
I tried to design the magazine cover similar to forms and conventions of real music magazine. My cover has all features of real music magazine such as big masthead, sub headings, cover lines and even a bar code. These all features were designed using professional computer software ‘ Adobe Photoshop Elements’ and in my opinion the cover looks professional therefore distributors of rock magazines such as NME or Kerrang would give us a chance.
Making the magazine cover was not only fun but also useful. I never used iMacs before and their operating system therefore it was a challenge for me, but now I have experience in using both.
If I were to make another front cover, I would do all things differently…….because two same covers for two different issues are not that attractive.
Firstly we performed a photo shoot of the members in our group as the aim was to make ‘stars’ of ourselves. When the photo shoot was done, we had to make a plan for the cover, including magazine title; price; font; font size; genre and the audience.
Our magazine is a rock theme magazine called ‘THUNDER’ and it is targeted at 16-17 years old rock/metal fans. We have chosen such young audience because we thought that teenagers are more obsessed with the music than older fans. The price of our magazine is only ₤2,49 as many teenagers cannot afford magazine for higher price. However to attract even more audience we have decided to give out some free gifts such as posters. In my issue there is a guitar pick.
To represent rock/metal social groups I decided to use dark colours for the background and white/grey for the text. Titles of famous rock bands such as ‘Metallica’ is the addition to it. However the big picture of the rock star that fill up almost the whole cover is the most successful representation of rock/metal social groups as he is wearing black shirt giving the rock finger gesture. Adding this all together gives a clear representation of rock/metal social group.
I tried to design the magazine cover similar to forms and conventions of real music magazine. My cover has all features of real music magazine such as big masthead, sub headings, cover lines and even a bar code. These all features were designed using professional computer software ‘ Adobe Photoshop Elements’ and in my opinion the cover looks professional therefore distributors of rock magazines such as NME or Kerrang would give us a chance.
Making the magazine cover was not only fun but also useful. I never used iMacs before and their operating system therefore it was a challenge for me, but now I have experience in using both.
If I were to make another front cover, I would do all things differently…….because two same covers for two different issues are not that attractive.
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