Front Cover - http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0F30i__8QHBNDExODdkYjgtZmQ5MS00YmIxLTgzZmEtM2JiOWFkYWMyMTMw&hl=en
Contents & Double Page Spread - http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0F30i__8QHBYjFmYmI4ZDItNjhiMy00NTgyLWI3NmItNmRmNmViMDAyYjk2&hl=en
When designing my magazine i found that the skills and experience i gained from the preliminary course helped me alot, i am pleased with my final design and pleased that it looks the way i pictured and drew out on my flat plans. When designing my magazine i did make a few changes here and there e.g. layout, i moved pictures around to where i felt they looked best, i also changed the colour because i wanted it to all blend so that the colour could also be used as a reference to know what part of the magazine the reader was using. When choosing my images i wanted the models to to be over glamoures and just to look like five average people so my audience could find them more relateable. I decided to not have them smiling but to have a kind of smug look so that the headline of them taking over the would relate to the picture. I chose the name IROCK for my magazine which is a abreveation for indie/rock, this is the genre for my magazine. The main layout for my magazine is conventional and has the masthead at the top and main image covering the page which magazines like kerrang and nme use on theirs. The main insperation for my magazine design was a mixture from nme, kerrang and Q magazine. I didnt copy and ideas but just encorporated some of their features into my magazine such as the facts box. The way my magzine is different because it doesnt look out of touch with reality and i feel people will look at the images and story and be able to relate directly to the band and images. When making decsions about my magazine i wanted to have a really broad age range of target audience but feel that it is between 15-22, of a middle class, mainly students, any race or gender. However i feel that nme and kerrang also aim at this market so competion for sales would be difficult but what makes mine stand out is i think that people who look at the magazine will immediatly be able to tell that its a youthful magazine aimed at indie kids and this will bring them directly to my magazine. If it came to selling my magazine i could see it being sold at all local newsagents because i feel that its not a specialist magazine and they would chose to sell it because its got a wide target market and be sold esasily. The magazine itself uses a fairly relaxed approach to language and uses slang language here and there so that the audience could relate more because its how they would have a chat with their mates and talk in their everyday lives.
When using in design, at first i found it fairly difficult to use because it waas all new to me, however i found that after a few hours and lessons using it to construct a basic layout was fairly easy. When desiging my product i found i had to make changes to my original design because either the software couldnt do it or simply i just didnt know how e.g. cut page in half and change colour of one side. Now i look back at my design though i feel that i prefer it now i have made the adjustments. Compared to my preliminary task, i think this design is so much better because i knew more about the software and had alot of ideas to play around with. My preliminary task was very simplistic and feel this task is really well done and to a good standard, with alot more advanced design. I think this magazine design has been sucessful and i am really pleased with my final piece.
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