I did a photoshoot where I took images for my front cover for the music magazine. I was happy with the photos I took and had a lot of choice over which ones to use. The only problem I have is that I will have to edit the background out which may take a while.

For my music magazine I made draft designs of where I wanted everything positioned on my final copy.

Once I recieved my questionnaires back I put them into pie charts so that I could see what was more popular etc. For this is used Ecxel so that i could lay it out using the spreadsheet.

I made a questionnaire that I passed around to people in my class, I asked questionnaires such as what font do you prefer and also did some research on what aspect of a magazine they prefer. I asked questions such as what do you font style do you think is the best?, Aswell as questions like how much are you willing to pay?

In todays lesson I looked at a double page spread in a music magazine and made an analysis on it, I then made a music magazine proposal of what I would like to use in my magazine and what I would like to call it etc.

I looked at some music magazine websites and compaired the differences between the magazine and the website. I looked at Kerrang and Q magazine.

I looked at Q magazine and MOJO magazine front covers and analysed each of them, looking at who they were targeted at and the use of colour etc.

To start off my music magazine I made a mindmap of different music genres and also got front cover images from different music magazines. These covers gave me inspiration as to what a front cover should look like.

On this printscreen of my screen i have open my school magaizine front cover, the layer panel and the effects toolbox. I used the effects toolbox to add the multicoloured rainbow effects to the writing and also to give it a glow to stand out.
Here is a print screen of my layers panel, in photoshop. It shows all the different fonts and effects that I use dfor teh front cover.

I finished my music magazine today. I think that it looks good and appeals to students.

For a mini lesson task, we made a six picture story board. I chose to use the lift, so I had the person waiting for teh lift, getting in, pressing the buttons, travelling up and then stepping out. I think that my story is easy to follow and that it is clear what is happening. I also think that the overall quality of the pictures are good.

For my school magazine I took a few photos, I focused on aiming the pictures towards younger students. The picture that I chose I will use to cover the whole of the magazine front cover.