Development of Images

This is the process which i had to go through to create my contents page image:

•I began by taking a still image of my model

•I then used Picasa to turn my coloured image into a black and white image

•From the coloured image I cut around my model using the polygonal lasso tool on Photoshop

•I then layered the coloured image of my artist onto the black and white image

•To finish I added in a lens flare to brighten the image

From my preliminary task I learnt a lot about developing images to suit my magazine and genre. This skill allowed me to take an ordinary image and edit it to make it look like something that would be related to my music genre.

Questionnaire with Results

My questionnaire consisted of a range of questions which were appropriate to my target market and useful to me when creating my reader profile. I chose questions which I thought had most relevance to my genre of music and my target market and what information I could collect from the questionnaire and incorporate into my magazine. I asked 10 people who were interested in different music genre's to answer my questionnaire as I would be able to see what people are commonly interested in and what they look for in a magazine.

House Colours

The house colours I have chosen to define my magazine are black, grey, purple and yellow. I chose these colours as they have much significance within my music genre and are bold which helps them stand out. The dominant colours are purple and yellow, although they are contrasting colours they compliment each other well and stand out from the other colours. When researching into my magazine I noticed that there were no other magazines with the same colour theme, and I thought that using those particular colours will help distinguish my magazine.

Magazine Name

This is my final name for my magazine. I chose to name it "Dynamic" as it refers to the softness or loudness of a sound or note. The word comes from the Greek word "dynamis" meaning "power" which is what my genre represents. As my genre is pop rock it consists of a range of different textured music as it is a mixture of pop and rock music which are both different genre's of music. The font that I chose is bold but very much elegant to suit my music genre, as the music is soft and catchy but has a strong meaning to it. I chose to use the colour purple for the masthead as it is commonly used within my particular genre and is quite feminine to attract my target market.

Contents Page Analysis

The main point of this task was to analyse a magazine's contents page. I looked at the conventions used in detail to provide me with information to help when constructing my own contents page. I annotated the contents pages for two different magazines to get an understanding of what conventions are used when creating a magazine's contents page, and how I could apply it to my magazine and target my market.

NME Reader Profile

The image above is a copy of an annotated version on NME's reader profile. This task was created to provide us with an understanding on what information to include on our own reader profiles for our magazines. This reader profile included what the content of the magazine includes and how they target their audience effectively. I used this reader profile to help me create my own reader profile for my magazine. It also showed me what would be most effective in my magazine and how it would target my audience.

Pop Genre Picture

This image was taken from a simulation task in which we were asked to position ourselves for a photo which would be related to the genre in which we were given. My partner Kanwal and I were given the genre of pop, using this we had a few minutes to come up with a pose which would represent that particular genre. We decided to make ours casual and happy as those are the connotations of pop music. The leg being close to the body gives a sense of comfort and innocence which we feel represents pop music very well. The facial expression is happy which relates to the genre and pop music is connoted to be happy and fun.