Drafting Text

When composing the main text of my feature I gave myself a basic structure as to what I wanted to include. I then wrote a first draft including information that I thought would be suitable for the article. After this I then pasted the text into the actual document and ammended it with regards to length, spelling etc.

Planning & Sketching Page Layouts

This was my preliminary sketching of my front cover. I sketched out my idea for my main image. This was the basis for when I started working on the computer. As you can see I progressed from this to my final draft. This was a good starting point as it helped me achieve the high level front cover that I made in the end.

Shooting & Choosing Images

On my photo shoot I took loads of photos. With each I told my model where she needed to be, but most of the poses were spontaneous. I took several and then viewed them soon after to make sure that there were adequate photos for my magazine before concluding the shoot. I debated on some pictures before rejecting them for the final product.

Setting up Images

I gained inspiration for one of my photos from a profile picture of Hayley Williams (lead singer of Paramore) on her Wikipedia page.

Other images came from inspiration on the day of the photo shoot.

Planning & Sketching Images

Here are some original ideas I had for images. I noticed that I wasn't very imaginiative when it cam to making a plan and was much more productive on the actual day of the shoot.

Analysing Front Cover Images

To make sure that I created the best possible front cover image I looked at similar magazines to see what sort of images they had. I was inspired by this NME one that had the person in the main image connect with the audience by reaching out.


For my front cover main image I used one that had a connection with the reader. In my picture my model is has an expression and behaviour that she's 'rawring' like a lion, to the audience.

Researching & Designing Mastheads

After I decided the genre of my magazine as being rock/punk/indie I then started thinking of a suitable title. I chose the name 'Riot' after the Paramore album. I chose 'Riot' as the title as I thought it was suitable for my magazine. I completed a preliminary evaluation sheet of both my magazine's name and tagline.



When stylising my logo I changed the 'i' to and '!' to add more empahsise to it. I used a font generating website called fontspace and found a suitable font that fitted the style i was after.



I did a preliminary sketch of my logo so I had somehthing to work from when working on the computer.

Exploring Values & Ideologies of Different Music Magazines

I looked at other music magazines that were of similar genres and styles as to my own to see what sort of language as well as to how they went about presenting articles and what they focused on. The main magazine I drew information from in this respect was Artrocker. The language they used was a bit more challenging and indepth as oppose to that of NME. They also focused on recreating atmosphere's and emotions. They also restrained from the traditional Q & A style for most features which I felt was suitable for the idealogoy of my magazine. I felt that I wanted my magazine to be like this and focus on the music.

Researching Target Audiences of Different Music Magizines

For my magazine my target audience was rock/indie teenagers. Within these social groups come certain values and syles. I chose this genre and aimed it at this audience as I already know alot about them. I don't personally fall into this catergory but I have personal knowledge of the area. I looked at other magazine's that follow this sort of style to gain understanding of what to do for my own magazine.

Investigating The Market

Before creating my magazine I looked at a variety of music magazines. I looked at different styles and genres to see how they differed and what sort of layout, design etc was expected from each.

I was inspired by different elements from different magazines.

Conventions of Music Magazines

Whilst producing my magazine's I looked at the conventions of other magazines. Starting with the front covers the key elements are the title, main image, tagline, cover lines, functional information (barcode, price etc) banners and puffs are another also additional conventions of a front cover. I decided to keep most of these conventions as they make a good front cover.

I annotated an issue of Kerrang to asses what conventions there were and what they meant and the connotations they have to the reader.

Front Cover

This was my first attempt at my front cover.


I changed the coverlines as the boders didn't look as good as I anticipated. I also played around with the puff and the banners.


I changed by puff back to the origanl as it looked better with the consistent colours and played around with the banners again.


My final draft I changed the colour of the coverlines to match the style of the magazine. I also changed the colour of the main cover line as well as adding a web adress and funtional information.

Contents Page

This was my first attempt at my contents page.


I changed some of the images and the style of my contents page to fit with the colours of the front page and the overall style of my magazine.



I then added text to the left hand side so that the functional information was present.



I gave the text some stylish background so that it looked more original for my final draft.

Feature

This is my first draft of my feature. I played around with the images and the basic style of the page.



I then added the text and formatted it so that it wrapped around the images.



I then added some ligtening bolts and a sign off so that it had more style.

I then decided that a pun would sound better for a title. This makes it stick in the readers as head as well as add some humour. I also added a set of links so that bring my feature into the present day. This is my final draft.