Feature articles

Feature Articles

Planning production

 The following sketches show:

• my intentions for the front cover images
• The cover lines for my front cover
• The placement of images for my contents page

Contents script:
Regualr Content
7  Festival reviews
12 Question and answer
26  How to build your music career
32  Competitions - enter now to win prizes!!
3  Posters
9  Hottest album and single releases of the month
Feature articles 
14 Leeds Festival 2012
8  Dirty Rivers - “were on our way to the top!”
21  Callum Williams making a statement
24  Muse rocks V Festival
30  Studio time with Coldplay
34 50 years of The Beatles
40 Jake Bugg, upcoming artist
35  V Festival 2013!!!
4  Biffy Clyro storming the Uk
6  The Killers explain how they got to were they are today
20  The Rolling Stones talk about their past
25  Arctic Monkeys back in the studio
31  Radiohead tear up the stage at the ITunes Festival!!
37  Your glastonbury questions answered
16  How Mumford and Sons came to the scene
39  How they made it with “Blur”
5  Bloc party’s hell of a weekend
11 Oasis speak of reunion
16  The darkness comeback tour!!

 I have decided to write a article on my double page spread on a indie artist called Callum Williams.

Publication plan

Publication Plan by

Audience research - Research and conclusions

Questionairre

Questionnaire by

Analysis of double page spread articles

Analysis of professional magazine covers

Codes and conventions of a music magazine's fornt cover and contents page on Prezi

analysis of professional contents pages

strengths and weaknesses of product and technologies

Strengths and weaknesses my knowledge using new technologies on Prezi

media product challenging codes and conventions

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? My school magzine matches some of the magazine codes and conventions but not all of them. This means that if my product was out being sold to he public i would have a huge disadvantage compared to the real life striving media products. Because my product does not match all of the codes and conventions there is a reasonable amount of room for improvment to develop my media knowledge and creativity.

new media technologies

Researching the market place

How photoshop helped me create my front cover

When i made my front cover for my school magazine, i had to introduce myself to Adobe Photoshop. First of all i had to set up the correct Photoshop page by selecting a new file i had to change the settings to international paper and change the pixels to 300cm while also making sure the size of the paper was A4. Photoshop helped me because i could enlarge the photo i had taken for the front cover and not lose a large amount of the focus and making it fit easy to the whole side of the page. Also, it was very easy to insert text and change the size of the font and the colour. Overall i believe that photoshop helped me to create the magazine front cover to the best of my ability and will defenitley use it again.

How quarkXpress helped me to create my contents page

When i made my contents page for my school magazine, i was introduced to a new software called QuarkXpress. The page setup i used was very specific to my contents page and helped me a lot. First of all i had to open up QuarkXpress and start a new file. Then i selected project and ticked the small box on the screen and selected facing pages. In my magazine plan i only had 2 columns so i stuck to my plan and selected 2 columns before pressing okay and making the full page fit in the window. I had to make 4 pages. One of them being a front cover, one being a contents page and the other twoo being a double page spread.

QuarkXpress was suprisingly easy to use when i got used to the software. At first it looked a lot more complicated than Adobe Photoshop. But all i had to do was simply create text and picture boxes and insert the relevant information and photos i had previously taken and make the layout follow the codes and conventions of a ordinary magazine contents page.

initial plans for my magazine

Price - £2.00 per issue
Publishised every fortnight
Roughly 55 - 60 pages 
Including (regular content) festival and gig information and reviews, games, quiz'z, competitions, information of bands, album and single releases and interviews with some big name bands.

Initial ideas

I am producing a indie/rock music magazine where my target audience will be from the ages of 14 and above and i will be targeting both, male and female as my target audience.

Images for school magazine

School Contents Page Pictures by stevecrane

Rough layout of school contents page

planning content

Regular content
money off stationary
win school equipment
Rewards to do with school
Latest news
Feature articles
Year 13's A2 results
Too much homework??
Volunteers let loose!
FLOOD FRIGHT
FOOD FIGHT!!!
Year 12 vs 13
New gym equipment
Lets ZUMBA!
Gangnam style
sports day fun!
List of images
Students walking out of school
Folders full of work
Students comparing results

Rough layout of school magazine front page

Plan for front cover

The title of my school magazine is: SKWL

Mise en scene: 1 main image taking up whole front cover, red and white font colour scheme

My coverlines are as followed:
   
                              - FOOD FIGHT FURY!!!
                              - RESULTS! year 13's work finally pays off
                              - ZUMBA!! After school club fighting to get fit
                              - Volunteers. Sixth form students take tot the community
                              - EXCLUSIVE! Gangnam style
                              - YEAR 12 V 13 RIVALRY
                              - Too much homework??
                              - FLOOD FRIGHT!!!
                              - New gym equipment
                              - Sports day fun!

Photography exercise

BRIEF

BRIEF
Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriatley laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine.

All images and text used must be origonal, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of four images per candidate.