I looked at many different styles of magazines to find a style that I myself would like to focus my magazine on. I looked for influences from NME and Q magazine, I also looked at Kerrang, but NME & Q were my two that I looked more depth into their house style. I preferred the house style of NME to Q as I felt that it was carried out thorough throughout the magazine with the colouring, using mostly reds, blacks and whites. Then i preferred the photography and how the articles are expressed, using a more formal tone in the way they are written. These two magazines are sim
lar in what type of music they focus on, they both look at the Indie/Rock genre; which myself I wanted to focus my magazine on. I really wanted to make my photos as crisp as they are in Q. I wanted to make to make my images as professional as they look in Q magazine. That is why I used photoshop to make the images are clear as possible. I have tried to use the same codes and conventions as they use in NME and Q in using symbolic codes using the main image on the front cover using the boys looking straight at the camera, using a mid-shot from the waist up, this is a symbolic code as it is a direct address of them talking and looking at the reader so they buy the magazine. All of my images I have captured are of a artist looking direct to the camera this makes the reader feel like they are looking in direct to the artist/band. The band 'blame' I feel look like a read band. I have tried to make them look like the band 'The Enemy' following the iconic black jackets. I have put my band in black jackets to look like a real indie band like 'The Enemy'.
lar in what type of music they focus on, they both look at the Indie/Rock genre; which myself I wanted to focus my magazine on. I really wanted to make my photos as crisp as they are in Q. I wanted to make to make my images as professional as they look in Q magazine. That is why I used photoshop to make the images are clear as possible. I have tried to use the same codes and conventions as they use in NME and Q in using symbolic codes using the main image on the front cover using the boys looking straight at the camera, using a mid-shot from the waist up, this is a symbolic code as it is a direct address of them talking and looking at the reader so they buy the magazine. All of my images I have captured are of a artist looking direct to the camera this makes the reader feel like they are looking in direct to the artist/band. The band 'blame' I feel look like a read band. I have tried to make them look like the band 'The Enemy' following the iconic black jackets. I have put my band in black jackets to look like a real indie band like 'The Enemy'.
I wasn't happy on how these came out, I am happy on how the colours and house style of these different parts of the magazine. The magazine pages all look like the same magazine which is the best thing. I am unhappy on how unprofessional it looks. I feel that there is too much white in each page. I feel that also there are a lot of things lacking in each page which I can correct next time. I want to keep the layouts the same and the colours, but I want to change most of the backgrounds. I also really don't like the writing on the front page, I feel that it looks to fake and scrappy. I want to change this on my real magazine as I feel that it will give my magazine a real cutting edge to it. I also want to keep the photographs the same as I really like there professional look to them. 
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This is my final front cover of my preliminary task for my still image piece. I created this front cover using Photoshop. Which i have been used to using as i use it for photography. The challenges I found to use Photoshop was that it was hard to layer with some of the pictures, even though its pretty basic. My image that i used as my background image it was hard to find colours that would stand out against the colouring within the image.
The particular social group that I have chosen to work with is the sixth formers at chew valley school. I have reached out to this audience as it is the start of the new term and there is a new sixth form block opening up to them. Although I have put underneath the title (Chew News)- "sixth form special" so that the reader knows that this particular episode of the magazine is all about the sixth form and not its original publication.
The institution that would be interested in selling my magazine would be an institution that sells magazines to schools around the country. Also chew valley school would distribute my magazine as well as it is about the school so they would want to sale it.
As i said before the audience that i have chosen to work with was students of Chew Valley sixth form as the magazine is titled Sixth Form Special so you can tell that it is just for the sixth formers, but other students of the school are welcome to buy the magazine as they might like to see what it is like to be at sixth form. I address my audience through images of the new sixth form block and images inside the magazine of the students.
I have learnt how to use Photoshop better, I was alright with using it to start with but now I feel very confident with using it for my actually final product. Looking back through my preliminary task I have learnt to use Photoshop and how to layout my magazine better.