Friday, 8 April 2011
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Comparing my preliminary task to my Final.
Preliminary Task And Final Front Cover
These are my two front covers (My preliminary on the left and my final on the right). As you can see front first view there is a lot of difference and a lot that has been made better. I decided on the colour scheme for my new cover by going with colours that I thought matched the theme of my magazine which is Heavy Metal. I decided that black and red were very "metal" colours as it would be said and then decided that white works well with both of those colours and wouldn't cause as much confusion with a colour like blue or green. My background is plain black because I thought that it would give more of a look to the magazine with the red and black on top of it then the other way round e.g black and red on white, and it also made it easier for me to take a photo that could fit in well with the magazine as the white shows very well on the black and looks very natural where as I believe if it was a black t-shirt on top of a white background it would look too weird and would not fit the feel of a metal magazine. I decided the font for my masthead from the questionnaire I did involving asking the people in my media studies class as they could look at it from a "professional" point of view and also asking the people I asked to do my original questionnaire to get it from a "target audience" point of view which lead to me using the font I did. The font for the rest of the page was just a plain font that is all typed in capitals, this is because all the metal magazines I took the time to look at all were like that, they had plain text and was all capital so to fit convention I decided just to stick with that and the band name 'IYUS' is it the text of the actually band, this is there band logo. I have also inserted two buttons. One is the cymbal at the bottom which is a advertisement to actually win a pair of cymbals that are worth up to £400 and I thought seeing I was advertising cymbals it would be a good idea to make the button a cymbal for the effect, the other buttons is the 'WACKEN' one. Wacken is a very popular music festival that is set in Germany every year. On one of my other magazines that I looked at (Terrorizer) there was a button but instead of it being on like a proper 'button' the put it on two scythes which were crossing over so I decided seeing as it is talking about Wacked that I would put the Wacken logo up there. On this front cover compared to my Preliminary, I have posters, three of them, which are situated in the top right hand corner under the mast head and under them it states that they are free posters. I also have put in a selling line and the price and issue number. I have also put a bar code on but have made it look like a proper bar code where as on my preliminary the bar code is very squashed and looks messy. My text that is included on the front cover is a massive improvement I believe from me putting it into little text boxes to make it readable and visible to me using blending, shading and shadows to bring up my text and make it readable without the silly text boxes but still manage to put it over the photo leaving the photo just visible. I believe the from my preliminary task, my final is definitely a massive improvement in every way, not only do I believe it was better technologically done but I also think it looks more like an actual magazine where as my preliminary looks more like a leaflet or poster that has been rushed and poorly made.
Preliminary Task And Final Contents Page
These are my two contents pages. You can see the difference straight away between them. My preliminary is very basic and simple, there are not many pictures on it and the text is all thrown into the middle and looks very messy whereas on my final one the text is all set out in columns and is in different colours to indicate different things and also the text in the arrows are the same at the title on the page and are also the same font as the masthead on the front cover and I have put them in the arrows to point to the pictures which are the main features in the magazine that month. The title of the page matches the title on the contents and instead of just saying 'Contents' I have put 'Breaking it down...' as the magazine is called BREAKDOWN and it is like breaking the magazine up into parts for you so you can find the bits you want to find quick and easy. The colours are the same with the front cover, the yellow and red looks really weird together and just look really poster like and cheesy where the white and red upon the black gives it effect of the magazine and makes the magazine look "dark" which could also be used to describe metal music. I have more pictures on my new one and they relate properly to certain parts of my contents, there are indications to it and what the pictures actually mean where as on my preliminary there are just picture places around everywhere. I think have the page numbers in red and what is on the page in white gives the contents page a really good affect as it shows which bit you need to read to find out what is on the page or what page it actually is where if all the colours are the same you have to search to find which number relates to which section. I got this idea from Metalhammer who have different colours for their numbers and their definitions of what is on the page. I decided not to do an editors letter because I thought it may take up to much room and that everything that is inside the magazines is explained on the contents and goes in to more detail about it on the actually page and the editors letter is just explaining what we had done that month and what is in the magazine which I believe is already on the contents page and was not necessary for my magazine. My bottom right photo of my interview has been made black and white just to give it a change to the picture as the person in the photo (Freddie Palmer) and the type of photo is used quite a bit seeing it is on my Front Cover, my Contents and my double page spread, so the black and white is just to give it a twist and effect. The picture above is of a gig I went to on 25th February, I altered the blue lights in the picture to make them more prominent and to show off more and then I added the band name to make it look more like a band review photo.
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