Risk Assessment

Product Log.

Evaluation Question 7!

Evaluation Question 6!

Through he process of the World of Music product music magazine I have been taught a series of skills within a computer such as:

• Photoshop
• Google Drive
• Video scribe
• Voki
• YouTube

My Photoshop skills were incredibly low before I participated in this media course. I have learned the ins and outs of Photoshop and have learnt new techniques along with strong layouts and structures. Different techniques helped me to have a wide range of knowledge when needing an idea choice.











I have never used Google Drive before this course as I honestly didn't know it was there. However I quickly adapted to two of the documents within the Drive such as Google Presentation and Google Form. I used these to Drives for different things, the first for evaluation and second for a structure upon my work, this helped me to learn different sources of collecting information.









Each document has taught me to create different pieces of work weather its a:

• Final Piece
• Evaluation Method
• Evidence Work
• Structure Work.

Each piece of work is different in its own way, I think the best part had to be the final piece producing a music magazine product as it massively boosted my skills within Photoshop and had a lot of fun sorting layouts and collecting images for the 3 sections.

Evaluation Question 5!

Evaluation Question 4!

 

 

Evaluation Question 3!

Evaluation Question 2!

Evaluation Question 1!

Final Magazine!

Costume!

A jacket on the artist on a cover is not what i've seen but I asked Alex to wear a jacket which I tried to symbolise how he's always outdoors and travelling from place to place doing a tour. I feel it helps the magazine to be more realistic as he does a lot of gigs with no spare time.

Double Page Inspiration!

Sadly I have lost the images what inspired my double page spread. I am unable to find the correct images again online.

The images were a simple design, an image of the artist on the left side filling the page with a simple headline and information on the right side. I added the name on the left side my self as I think it stands out over the image. the two other images on the other side as I didn't want it to be only text. therefor I created an image and got another image of Alex for the double page spread.

Cover Inspirations.

For my front cover I chose to use the design of Total Guitar's front cover as it gives of many different ways of expressing the magazine. For example a way to attract audiences would be to use the "Learn To Play" because it is something new every issue as the songs change each time and also is different from other magazines. This pulls the reader in and allows more sales on the magazine.                                    

Double Page Update!

changing the text to unbreakable, the house text, creating the top left image, need to insert two more image to each page.

Contents Page Inspirations.

This contents page stood out to me as it covers more information on a contents page than most other contents pages. The only thing I copied of the NME contents is the margen on the left hand side. I feel it is a strong idea because it is simple and tells the reader the majority of pages that there are in it and what the pages are featuring.

Double Page Update!

Adding the double page text stories of Alex Laidlaw and adding his name creating a Head line of the double page spread filling the space. Next I will create a miner image for the top left hand side of the left page and insert a miner image in the bottom right hand side of the left page.

Double Page Starter!

Creating a border around the pages separating the edge from the main use space allowing me to keep the pages tidy not looking messy.

Contents Page Update!

Adding the boarders to the contents. Need to add the finishing touches.

Contents Page Update!

Creating a drop shadow on all the text allows the text to be more easily read.

Contents Page Update!

Leaving the background white allows the yellow text to blend with the background being unable to read.

Contents Page Update!

Finishing the contents page. a problem with the grey background not fitting with the house style of the magazine.

Contents Page Update!

Cover Update!

Cover Images!

Cover Update!

After taking a new image and changing the font to "Unbreaking" allows the cover to look its own and better than before.

Cover Update!

After receiving comments about my cover magazine I removed the image to take a more better/suitable image. Also changing the font of the text to make it my own and different.

Independent Analysis!

Uk Top 10 This Week - BBC Radio 1

THE UK'S TOP 10 DOWNLOADED SONGS THIS WEEK ARE:

10: DJ Fresh vs Jay Fay ft. Ms. Dynamite - Dibby Dibby Sound.


9: Katy B - Crying For No Reason.


8: Pitbull ft. Kesha - Timber.


7: David Guetta ft. Skylar Grey - Shot Me Down.


6: Katy Perry ft. Jucy J - Dark Horse.

5: Zedd ft Hayley Williams - Stay The Night.

4: A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera - Say Something.

3: Clean B ft. Jess Glynne - Rather Be.

2: Pharrell Williams - Happy.

1: Sam Smith - Money On My Mind.

Custom Music Magazine!

In this custom music magazine featuring Alex Laidlaw, I used a few codes and conventions on this cover. I used a banner showing the 4 artists whos songs are actually inside the magazine. I used a pug to tell the audience what you are able to learn inside the magazine. I used a puff to interest the read into what they can win by reading the magazine. I used a number of house colours with Black, White, Red, Yellow and orange. I kept to these colours on the magazine. I also placed the barcode the the bottom right hand corner to make this magazine realistic in the music world. Main Headline showing who the main image is off whilst a list down the side of what songs you are able to learn. The 4 songs down the bottom left hand corner are in relation to the 4 artists at the top. The left artist is the first song and so on. I purposely left the blank white background so I have a little bit extra to improve on in the exam so it would be easier to compare and analys together.

Total Guitar!

After looking through a series of different music magazines such as :

• NME
• Kerrang
• Q
• TMM
• Total Guitar

I decided to stay with the design and layouts of Total Guitar. I felt like it was the correct magazine which suited my genre of music as two of the people I focused on had their own image on the cover of Total Guitar. Here below are four examples of Total Guitars covers including my two focused artists. Ed Sheeran & Ben Howard.

Mock Magazine Layout.

For my mock magazine, this will be the layout for it. I am unsure weather or not to do the same layout for my normal magazine or weather I should change it around depending on the final layout with everything in place. 

Print Cover Mixmag double page spread.

Print Magazine - Mixmag Contents.

1975 - Chocolate.

Another Indie band. To me the 1975 and Biffy Clyro are my two favourite bands and was my second choice of genre of magazine after singer songwriter.

Print Magazine - Front Cover Analysis!

Mock Images

My pictures taken for my own mock music magazine.













Images taken with a Camera Phone.

Top 20 Selling Songs of 2013!

Counting down from number 20 starting with:

20: Olly Murs - Dear Darlin'.
19: Icona Pop ft: Charli XCX - I Love It.
18: Will I Am ft: Britney Spears - Scream & Shout.
17: Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble.
16: Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man.
15: Ellie Goulding - Burn.
14: John Newman - Love Me Again.
13: Macklemore/Ryan Lewis/Dalton - Cant Hold Us.
12: Rudimental ft: Ella Eyre - Waiting All Night.
11: Bastille - Pompeii.
10: Justin Timberlake - Mirrors.
09: Onerepublic - Counting Stars.
08: Pink ft: Nate Ruess - Just Give Me A Reason.
07: Macklemore/Ryan Lewis/Wanz - Thrift Shop.
06: Katy Perry - Roar.
05: Naughty Boy ft: Sam Smith.
04: Passenger - Let Her Go.
03: Avicii - Wake Me Up.
02: Daft Punk ft: Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky.
01: Robin Thicke/Ti/Pharrell - Blurred Lines.

My Chosen Genre for my Music Magazine.

My chosen Genre for my music magazine is Singer Songwriter. Here are 5 Singer Songwriters similar to my magazine singer.

Featuring - Ed Sheeran. Ben Howard. Benjamin Francis Leftwich. Robert Vincent. Passenger.

Front Cover, Contents & Double Page Spread Description.

While not having my music magazine, I will do a research analysis of an internet found magazine cover. Then do a different magazine contents page and finally a double page spread. I will do this until I get my official music magazine ready.