Research And Planning: KERRANG DECEMBER

This is the type of magazine that would be out at this time of the year. This is a special edition as it is for Christmas and the themes are all christmas based. This made me think about when I could release my magazine and how I can make it look if I wanted to release it during Christmas. 

Research And Planning: Christmas Eve!

With Christmas only being tomorrow, I found that when I went to asda today, there was a limited edition of "Kerrang" only for Christmas. This made me think about the approach I can take with my magazine.

Research And Planning: CANON PHOTOS

Research And Planning: Indie Mag Thoughts

People said that they thought that the "indie" magazine appealed well for it's target audience because of the major difference in it. Every magazine they make looks different but you can still tell that it belongs to that magazine. The wide range of colours which are bright used catch the eye straight away.

Research And Planning: INDIE

My family suggested that I should create a magazine that looks like these and this is what I should refer to continuously whilst making my magazine. 

Research And Planning: Indie Mag?

In the past two days I have done some research within my family to know that they like something that looks professional and something that would look eye catching but not too bright. They think that "Indie" is a great example of what I should use to make my magazine.

Research And Planning: Holidays?!

During the holidays I will do further research on existing magazines and I will get back feedback from social media asking what they like in a magazine. I plan to know how my double page spread will be set out to be like too.

Research And Planning: (12.12.14)

Research And Planning: Continued

This is a photo I edited but it went awfull wrong because the eye makeup and the opacity tool I used went too heavy making the model look more "heavy rock" than "indie"

Research And Planning: (12.12.14)

Research And Planning: (11.12.14)

This is my contents page which I have been working on. I have played around with the colour grey on the image and around and thought to add a bit of the main story just below Megan's image. 

Research And Planning: Contents Started

In today's lesson I have started my contents page and here I stuck to staying similar to my front cover so then it looks coherent. I have started writing a tad bit of text below the photo on the concrete part because this way it doesn't look plain.

Research And Planning: Front Cover Cont.

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Here I played around further with the texts according to my audience research and feedback from twitter. I changed the font sizes and colours to see how both looked. I also played around with the cover lines. 

Research And Planning: Front Cover Cont.

Today I have done more of my magazine. I have added more cover lines along the bottom including the bands that will feature in the magazine. I used the text "BEBAS" because in my audience research most people said that they liked this font. I also added a background to them because this way it still fitted the theme I was going for and stuck with the three colour rule.

On the same day, I carried on creating my magazine and here I changed a few things. I changed the main masthead because the previous one looked random and didn't fit in well with the theme of the magazine. The masthead also looked rather scruffy so I decided to change it into something more simple.
I added more cover lines to the front cover and added the barcode as I realised that it didn't look correct without the barcode. I also added a box below which has everything that the magazine will have in it. I did the font white because this way it still fits in with my theme and it looks really neat.

Research And Planning: Front Cover Cont.

This is my magazine cover so far. I have changed the font of the text and changed the masthead. This was because it looked really unprofessional and I think that the font now looks more eye-catching. I have added another masthead and now I am needing to add the other image which I have cropped out to put into this.

Research And Planning: Crop Out Of Steph

Today I have edited this image and cut out the background from the image. I did this because it made it look really scruffy and I didn't like the background. I also did this because then I can place the image on the front cover without it looking strange.

Research And Planning: Front Cover Cont.

This is my magazine so far. Today I have added two cover lines and my masthead has been played with. I have edited the image with photoshop by cleaning up her face a little and have added makeup to her face.

Research And Planning: Front Cover Cont.

Here I am carrying on with my front cover. I moved the masthead around the page to see where it may look good apart from the top obviously.

Here is a close up of my models face and how I have done the makeup and edited. I also got rid of the blemishes and this is a close up example of this. 

Research And Planning:Front Cover Cont.

This is the original image I need to edit for my magazine. Here I need to edit her face to make it more magazine appropriate. 

This is a close up of the image edited but not done well. Here I have used the spot healing tool too much and so this made the skin look blotchy so I will need to redo it all from the beginning.