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.

Photoshop Challenge!

My Photoshop task was to create a brand new artist. I was to mix 50 Cent & Susan Boyle. To do so I started of with a normal image of 50 Cent. I enlarged the image so the sides were cut off and the image was easier to create. Next I got the 'Magic Lasso' tool and circle 50 Cents face so a blank shape was left open. I made sure to leave the cap and watch in the image so it looked more realistic. For each layer, I had to "Rasterize" so each layer was able to be transformed into what I wanted.

Next I added the left image of Susan Boyle into the photoshop. I closed all the other layers so that Susan Boyle was the only layer left. Next again I 'Magic Lasso' her face out of the frame but instead of deleting her face I right clicked and selected 'Select Inverse' so that I was able to delete the areas around her face but her face was left alone on the white background. After making each layer compatible with each other, I carefully moved Susan Boyle's face into the 50 Cent body frame so the image became one person.

After playing around with the layers to try and make it the way I intended, the image eventually turned out like this....

Music Magazine Analysis. KERRANG! GREEN DAY