Magazine Conventions.

 

These are magazine conventions. Conventions are basically, what you get on the front cover of a magazine. I have labeled all the conventions found on two different magazine covers, then I have split one magazine cover into the rule of thirds and labeled what is found in certain thirds.

Professional Photography ideas.

 

I searched through a few professional photographers websites to find different images, so i could choose whether they would be suitable for a front cover, contents page or double page spread...

Final College Magazine front cover & contents.

These are both my Front Cover and Contents Page.

I wanted my magazine to be appealing and different, so i used a pop art effect, to make it eye catching. 

             I advertised pages that relate to students and make them want to buy the magazine to read about it. Both my front cover and contents page include only my own photography, and my front cover does include a medium close-up as told. I also used the REF - Magazine Hyperguide to help me find certain effects on photoshop. 

 

My contents page is designed using photoshop, using browns and oranges, to relate to the autumn edition theme that my magazine will be based on. I placed several pictures onto the main picture and used the rubber to remove the background and placed them on, and gave the pictures placed around the main image a see-through effect using the opacity scrollbar.

Music Scene Analysis.

 

In my music scene analysis, I have been researching front covers and analysed one, showing what basic magazine front covers will have on them.

 

This music scene analysis powerpoint is analyzing album covers. I have put several examples of album artwork on the slides and analyzed one, to show the basic conventions of an album cover.

Music associated with my potential magazine readers...

Skindred - Nobody

Motorhead - Ace of Spades

Slipknot - Physcosocial

Cancer Bats - Sabotage

Enter Shikari - Sorry You're Not A Winner

Playing about with photoshop.

This is my first attempt at 'photoshopping'.

Starting off with three separate images:

A female silhouette,

 

A 'stars' background,

 

and a perfume bottle.

I found the background on the portal, and used the image of the perfume and the female silhouette, both also found on the portal, and 'placed' them onto the background and blended them in, cutting out the perfume image background.

I also added text to advertise the perfume product.

This is my second attempt at photoshop.

I used a blank canvas and used the gradient tool on the canvas, to create the black and white background. 

I then found an image on the internet of the Olympus camera, placed it onto the background and cut out the background using the eraser and magic eraser.

I then placed a picture of myself, small enough to show the medium close-up shot of myself, and cut around the image to get the circle and placed it into the camera lens. 

Current Magazine Covers

These are three front covers from different magazines that I focused on and used to create my own College Magazine cover.

I used the ‘Newsweek’ magazine for the pop art effect, I used the ‘V’ magazine for the colour scheme, and ‘Prior Paparazzi’ for the small medium close-up shot (head and shoulders) in the center of the magazine.

Explaining the Process of my Questionnaire

       I created a questionnaire that I used to find out about students social class, subjects they had taken and plans for the future. 

This is a copy of all the questions on my questionnaire: 

1. Are you male or female?  Male | Female
2. How old are you?
3.  How many siblings do you have?   0-1| 2-4 | 5+
4. Where do you live?
5. What subjects did you take in college?
6.   Do you plan to go to university?
7. Do you have something you are working towards or aspire to?
8. What would you like to be doing in 5 years time?
9. What is your ideal job?
10. How do you feel about spending time with family and friends?  Love | Like | Dislike | Hate
11. When you go shopping, do you always go for the same brand every time?
12.  Do you spend most of your time with friends or family, hanging out?
13. What do you do with most of your time?
14. Would you describe yourself as a workaholic?
15. Would you buy any fake brand item if it looked the same as a real brand?
16. Would you do anything to impress someone?
17. Do you like to recycle?
18. Are you concerned about the environment?
19. Do you donate money to the poor or less fortunate?
20. Do you plan what you are going to buy or quickly buy something when you need it?
21. Which social group would you socialize with most? Emo | Chav | Mosher | Goth | Indie | Punk | Other

I got my results for the questionnaire by asking 5 students at random to take part and to fill out my questionnaire, using quantitative and qualitative approaches, requiring simple yes/no answers or a small complex answer. I collected all the results, wrote them down and typed them up to get a final result. 

       The reason I created this questionnaire was to find a social group, whom which the magazine will be written for. I included questions which would help me categorise each of the 5 students into a social class, belongers, emulators, socially concious, balanced, achiever or needs driven.

      I chose these specific questions because they are very straight to the point and if answered correctly, I can easily categorize each student into a social class, which made it easier for me to choose my College Magazine audience. 
I chose question 16, because it helps me to look at the audience through the wannabe theory. I also chose questions 10, 11 and 12, because they help me to look at the audience through the belonger theory. Questions 17 and 18 help me look at the audience through the socially concious theory.

      Using and checking through my results, I had eventually found a social group that I can relate the magazine to, in this case, my College Magazine will be specifically for 'Belongers'.

      A Belonger is stereotyped as someone that lives in an average town and loves spending time with family and friends, having fun and hanging out. They tend to be hard working and are most likely religious. They also tend to be very brand loyal, by only buying brands that they are confident with and usually buy.