Music Magazine Photo Presentation

The photos i took for my music magazine i put into a presentation to show the lighting the angles and also the focus of the shots i took.

Layouts For Music Magazine

i decided to make layouts for each of my pages so i could have a guideline in how i was going to layout each page, i took into account the number of images i needed and where the writing would be, where the mast head would be and also where everything would go. i also did the same for my school magazine as well!

School magazine Photos

With the photos i took  for my preliminary task of the school magazine i decided to present them on a document and scattered them around to show the variety of angles, focuses and also to convey the different options  had to put on my front cover. 

Music Magazine Website Analysis

I was tasked with looking at the ways that different music magazines put out their websites and also what certain ones have to offer and what others do not. I decided to look at magazines that looked at the type of music i was interested in and what music i decided to base my music magazine on, they were Mojo and Kerrang. Both of these magazines have different things to offer like Mojo had the option to look back on the front covers of past issues from decades back. Both also give you the option of watching interviews and songs from gigs that the magazine has covered which i think is a very good idea as it involves the reader much more into the article inside the magazine. the colours and styles of the magazines are both very different as well, the Mojo magazine was a very plain and clean cut way of producing a webpage with just the basic information on it where as the Kerrang webpage as it had a much more gritty feel to it. they were both very easy to navigate as they both had the toolbar at the top of the page, this gave a very simple way of looking around the website.

Double Page Spread Analysis.

I did an analysis on the double page spread of the Mojo magazine with The Specials on the cover. i did this to get ideas for the layout and also to get an idea of how much text and images i needed, also

Music Magazine Front Cover Analysis.

As Part of my planning folder i also decided to analyze 2 different magazine covers in order to look at what other magazines offered and to also get different ideas for my own magazine. i decided to choose Mojo as its target audience is similar to mine, it had an article on the band The Specials which were a band i really liked and would like to do a similar article on perhaps not that specific band but one like it. The other front cover was again Mojo but with Sid vicious on the front which again was another type of music i was looking to incorporate into my magazine was punk and there was no one else better to do this than the founders of punk the sex pistols. i got both of these images from the Mojo website as they were not recent issues and i just thought that the look of both of these magazine were great and were relevant to the bands that they were writing articles on. i also felt that i could possibly use the look these magazines into my own also the sell lines as well with the fact they gave you a free CD was a great idea. 

Picture Sequence.

Myself, Amber Horry and Jodie Lesly all went out with cameras and were given the task to make a story up through the use of the images we had taken. we all went outside into the school grounds to look for good or interesting locations. i found the old P.E store cupboard which was abandoned and grimy full of old equipment and had graffiti all inside of it, i felt that this gave the place an almost gritty more real feel to it so i decided to make the story of a fight. the first picture i took was of Jodie giving a pose with lots of attitude and then one of Amber again giving the camera lots of attitude, i did this to let the person who was looking at this as a story to be a kind of introduction to both of the characters that were in this sequence. the next photo i took was of the pair squaring up to each other, i took this in front of the graffiti so it gave he picture a more of a gritty feel to it. The next photo was of the pair fighting again emphasizing the basis of the story i did a side view shot to show the action in a much better way so i could capture everything. The photo after this was of Amber getting slapped in the face i decided to do this shot like it was almost like a slo mo shot in a film to show great detail and also the knockout blow. To emphasize who won the fight i the took a photo of Jodie running away and Amber looking very happy with herself. i think that nearly all the photos were good quality and were of good focus also the fact that they were all taken different view points i think gave it a better edge.