Peer Feedback:

Jodie Winter-Brook

Overall Assessment: The blog is set out well and it 'flows' well too. You can see you have put a lot of thought into how you want your front cover to look in regards to costume etc... There aren't many posts, you could add more detail to your blog about extra research you have done and more inspiration of existing music magazines in your chosen genre. There are a lot of media 'things' on your blog such as prezi's and video's.

Strengths of front cover: The image actually looks music like and as if it belongs on a music magazine of your genre. The way you have positioned all of the text in each coverline makes them all look like the belong together and you can easily tell which ones belong together. You can easily tell which coverline is the main one.

Areas For Development For Front Cover: Although the model is very pretty some of the blank places on your front cover could have being filled by a different pose she was doing or you could even make the image bigger? Either that or you could add more coverlines.

Front Cover Drafts

  First Draft

This is my first draft of my front cover for my music magazine a few things needed to be changed but I was happy with the layout of the magazine and the font I had used. I needed to move the barcode to the bottom and make this smaller as it was to big and not positioned properly. Also it isnt distinctly telling you who the main cover story is about due to too big font for an Alicia Keys cover line. There was also a lot of moving about to do with the cover lines and little things to be added.

Second Draft

                                                          

On my second draft I had moved things about and added a website and price to the magazine as well as changing the quote but I felt this didnt suit my genre. Also the Alicia Keys headline was still taking to much away from the main cover story and again the cover stories needed moving around.

                                                                      Third Draft

 

On my third draft I wanted to make the magazine less busy and make sure it was more clear to the readers.

Fourth Draft

I was unhappy with the layout of my sell lines and felt the magazine looked messy. I added a new image with the model wearing a red top so that it wet with the colour theme of my music magazine.

 Fifth Draft

In my fifth draft of my front cover I added another image of the model so that the main story was clear as well as switching round cover lines and the barcode.

Sixth Draft

This is my sixth draft and after some feedback from peer and teachers I had even more little bits of conventional features to change.

Seventh Draft

This is my Seventh draft of my front cover. After asking many media teachers and other media students what they thought about my product I took into account that the footer needed more of a sell line and the image i added looked more like a poster give away so I changed this to a free give away to attract the reader. I got feedback that my cover lines were to wide so I shortened them and stacked the font on top of each other to attract the reader and then be able to have a better focus on the main artist within the middle of the front cover. I moved my plus section and added a sell line that links to my contents page which also attracts the reader as they're able to win tickets to a concert.

Eighth Draft

After feeling there was to much on the left handside of my front cover I decided to move the barcode to a horizontal way placing the date above. I also moved the 'Win tickets to a concert of your choice' into a circle and closer to the image of my model, this will entice and engage readers more as it will stand out more being on a block background it will also relate more to my genre as you commonly find this on pop magazines.

Nineth Draft

After moving the chance to win concert tickets I felt it stood out a bit more and was not good enough for the magazine, therefore I put three circles on top of each other to make a new shape and have my win content less structured and I was also able to add  and further promote my online website by saying that there is more online, this is not enough information for the reader to know whether there is more competitions online or posters of the artist, which is good as it will intrigue them and they may want to look online at the magazine website. I feel the 'win' article looks more of a common convention now as it stand outs against the regular articles that are stories and looks more fun.

Tenth and Final Draft 

After a lot of feedback from my teachers I came up with my tenth and final draft of my music magazine. I am happy with the product and feel that the little improvements that I have took action with have really helped it to be a better looking front cover.

Image Manipulation on Photoshop

Original Images for My Magazine Product

These are the images I took of my model for my magazine product but I feel some of them have come out better than others. I first started with the idea of a pink top with red and silver jewels on her lips I felt this made her look fierce yet expensive but when the images came out I wasn't happy with them and felt they was messy as the colour scheme didn't match. I then took some more pictures of my model with a red blouse without the tie at the top tied to give off a casual yet sophisticated look,t his time, taking the colour scheme into consideration but using a better lighting too to give an overall clearer look of the model.

Photoshoot Progress

Here you can see my model during the photo shoot sitting and standing for the front page, contents and double page spread pictures. I took a lot of images at the shoot to make sure I have a wide range of variety in images for my magazine with different lighting and shot angles used as well as taking the colour scheme into consideration with the clothing of the model.