The magazines that I have used as a guide line for my magazine, is NME and Q. I have decided to use these magazine as they are of the indie/rock genre. I also like the layout of both of these magazine and the images that they have inside. I find that the pictures that Q has inside they are well taken and crisp. My favorite image is the lily Allen standing next to panthers. I really like the way that the images are taken for Q, but not so much for NME.
- I am also interested in the contents page for NME, the 'band index' is very useful and can help the reader find the artist or band they are looking to read up. The layout of the contents page for NME is much clearer than the one in Q, it is helpfully laid out so you can find edactly what it is that you want to read. Even though both of the magazines are pretty much the same in the genre that they both are writing about, i like the style that Q words their magazine. It is more formal than NME as Q is ranged for a more up marketed audience. Both front pages for these magazine are very iconical and easily noticeable for the reader to pick up. I would like to accomplish this with my own magazine.
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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.