Second draft of Text for Double Page spread.

When I had completed the first draft of this, I realised that there were various spelling mistakes which needed to be changed, this is the text which I had done previously with all of these amendments changed:
This is the first draft of the text which I am going to use on my double page spread, I am planning on including this as an interview.:

Q. Do you write all your own songs or do you have certain song-writers which you generally get to write for you?
A. We have always written our own music and plan on continuing to do so. It seems like we've come this far doing out own thing and it would be sad to see it all change now we have got this far.

Q. Brilliant, Do you enjoy recording?
A. Yeah of coarse, we cant wait to get the album out so that all of our fans can here all of our newest additions, then after this come the best bit, Touring!

Q. Which out of the 18 songs on your album do you prefer?
A. Well I think personally it depends on who you ask, because we all play different instruments some songs are more enjoyable to play for one of us than the other. because i sing, i enjoy each of the songs because I get a chance to play a big role in each of them.

Q. Are you planning a tour?
A. Of coarse, its were we started out, doing small gigs in Hull. We love gigging, I mean what band doesn't the feeling you get from a crowd of people enjoying your music is just ace! I think we are planning to tour next summer. Maybe we will even get chance to do a few festivals in the summer which would be brilliant! Performing something like Leeds/Reading fest would probably be the highlight of the year!

Q. I'm sure your fans cannot wait! Is there any particular artist you would really enjoy performing with?
A. There is plenty, someone we have always admired is Laura Marling, and with her up and coming tour next year, we are hoping she would want us to perform at one of her shows with her.

Q. Oooh, we here at Definitive love Laura Marling! Thank you for coming anyway, we hope to see you here again sometime in the near future!
A. Definitely, thank you for having us. We have had a wonderful time!

Q. Welcome, how does it feel to be currently working on your debut album?
A. It feels brilliant. We got signed so quickly that its all seems like such a daze. Were just happy to be here.

First Draft for Text on Double Page Spread

This is the first draft of the text which I am going to use on my double page spread, I am planning on including this as an interview.:
Q. Welcome, how does it feel to be currently working on your debut ablum?
A. It feels brilliant. We got signed so quickly that its all seems like such a daze. Were just happy to be here.


Q. Do you write all your own songs or do you have certain song-writers which you generally get to write for you?
A. We have always written our own music and plan on continueing to do so. It seems like we've come this far doing out own thing and it would be sad to see it all change now we have got this far.


Q. Brilliant, Do you enojy recording?
A. Yeah of corse, we cant wait to get the album out so that all of our fans can here all of our newest additions, then after this come the best bit, Touring!


Q. Which out of the 18 songs on your album do you prefer?
A. Well I think personally it depends on who you ask, because we all play differant instuments some songs are more enjoyable to play for one of us than the other. because i sing, i enjoy each of the songs because I get a chance to play a big role in each of them.


Q. Are you planning a tour?
A. Of corse, its were we started out, doing small gigs in Hull. We love gigging, I mean what band doesnt the feeling you get from a crowd of people enjoying your music is just ace! I think we are planning to tour next summer. Maybe we will even get chance to do a few festivals in the summer which would be brilliant! Performing something like Leeds/Reading fest would probably be the highlight of the year!


Q. Im sure your fans cannot wait! Is there any particular artist you would really enjoy performing with?
A. Theres plenty, someone we have always admired is Laura Marling, and with her up and coming tour next year, we are hoping she would want us to perform at one of her shows with her.


Q. Ohh, we here at Definitive love Laura Marling! Thank you for coming anyway, we hope to see you here again sometime in the near future!
A. Definitely, thank you for having us. We have had a wonderful time!

Final Draft of Contents Page

This is the final draft of the contents page of my magazine, I have added in the web address so that the people who read the magazine will be able to access the website easily. I feel that this page works well because the colour scheme works well with the house style which I have gone for and is now more consistent.

Third Draft of Contents Page

This is the third draft of the magazine contents page which I have come up with. I have added in an image. I feel that although this works well there is still a blank area on the page were something else needs to be added in. I feel another image could work well or maybe the web address for the website of the magazine.

Second Draft Of Contents Page

This is the second draft which i have come up with for my contents page, I feel that the style of writing works well and it includes all of the same colours and the same style as the front cover. I have used a bigger text for the numbers on the page than the other text as I feel that it will make the page numbers more noticeable to the audience.
Although I feel that most of this page works well, I believe that the large black space to the side of the page needs to be filled with some images and more colour as it does bring the page down because of the lack of colour. I am going to chance this by adding in various images and other things.

First Draft of Double Page Spread

This is the first draft of the double page spread which I have come up with. I still need to add alot of elements such as the text and much more. I changed the format from the mock up design which I made because I felt that this format would look better to the audience.

First Draft Of contents page

This is the idea which I am going to base my contents page around, the top area of the page is completed. I felt that a large image at the top of the page would be affective. I am next going to add all of the various text to the page. (i.e page titles and numbers).

Final Draft of Front Cover

This is the final draft of my front cover, after some advice was given to me, I felt that some areas of my front cover should be moved around and some of the colours changed. I felt that the top right hand corner were the competition is now situated was too cramped with all of the sell lines which were also there at the time. I also felt that there was a gap which could be filled in the bottom left of the page. In order to sort these issues I moved the various elements around the page.

Third Draft Of Front Cover

This is the final draft of the front cover of the magazine which I have come up with. I have made this magazine even more appealing to the audience because I have added a competition because it will grab the readers attention. I made sure this was noticeable immediately by putting the competition in a different colour which is more noticeable from all of the other colours on the page. I also added a price and issue number to the magazine so that the magazine looked more realistic.

Second Draft Of Front cover

This is the second, incomplete draft of my front cover. I have added various sell lines to the page, these will attract the audience because the sell lines are story's which have to do with things which the selected audience will enjoy reading about. I have also added various effects to the text, such as inner and outer glows as well as drop shadows. I have also bevel & embossed the text. I did this so that the text would be bolder and would stand out more from the various other elements on the page.

Images

I have taken various images for my magazine, here are various images which I have taken. I do not intend to use all of the images but some I feel will work well.

I have decided against using this image because although I would edit the various things out of the background of the image, the model which I used wasn't looking at the camera.

I am also nothing going to use this images as again, the model is not looking at the camera and I felt that if I used this image the audience would not have connected with the image on the front of the magazine as well.

Although the style of this image works well for the both the style of my magazine as well as the genre the models hair is in hair face on the image, and the photo which I would more than likely incorporate into my magazine is more likely to be an image were the models face is more clear.

I like this image and I am going to try to incorporate this image into the magazine at some point. So that the magazine will fit in better with the style of the magazine I am going to edit the image so that the background of it is black and will blend in with the solid black background image which I intend on using throughout my magazine.

I think that this image would work well on my magazine and if it was edited correctly it would work well as the front cover image of my magazine. I am going to make the image better for a front cover image by cropping it so that it will be a better length for the front cover. I am also going to make the background colour of the image black so that it will look like the models have been photographed on a solid black background.

Although the pose which is used in this image works well, I feel that the two models which are used are too far away from one another, also the image is in colour which I didn't want on the front of my magazine.

I feel that the models faces on this image do not give off the sense of seriousness which I would like for my magazine.

I may incorporate this image into my magazine because the model's stance works well and it is a good length shot. also because of the simple background the image will be easy to edit and change.

This is the image which I plan to use as the main image on my double page spread as the it is the image which I would like to give off in the article which I write. Also the image is in the colour which I would like it to be in as well as that, the image will be easy to edit and change if necessary.

Although I do like this image, because the quality of the image is quite poor it will bring the quality of the magazine down. So i have decided against using this image as a part of my magazine.

I may also incorporate this image into my magazine, because the model's all look serious, depending on how I end up laying my double page spread out, which image I use could change.

First Draft of Front Page

This is the first draft of the magazine front page which I have come up with. I have altered various elements of the page from that which I made for the mock up design. I added a coloured banner headline as I felt that this would be more attractive to the audience. Also I changed the title of the magazine from 'Definitive' to 'Definitive unplugged'.

Digital Mock up of Double Page Spread Using Found Images

This is the mock up which I have come up with which includes ideas which I intend to use on my double page spread when creating my magazine. Although I have used a colour image for the main image on the page, when creating the real version of my magazine I intend to use a black and white images so that it blends in better with the background colour of the page. Although I will be making the main image black and white I feel that adding a small burst of colour either into the image or onto the page some were will make the page look a lot more interesting.
Also I am going to include various other things which I have not included on this mock up design, such as a by-line. Also the article which I am going to write will be presented in a size 14 font, in a simple easy to understand style.
I have purposely used a different type font for the masthead of the page but made it a similar style. I have done this because I feel that it will work well with the magazine. I also did this because I feel because it is an artist name it should not be consistent with the title of the magazines font style.

Digital Mock up of Contents Page using found images.

This is the format which I would like my new music magazine's contents page to look similar too. The text which I have put onto my page will be in a smaller font and I also intend to add various other images as once I had completed this mock up I felt that there needed to be more elements added to the page, because although the page is simple and this was the image which I wanted for my magazine, it was too simple and would look quite boring to the audience. I felt that adding more colour to this page than what was included on the front cover would make the page stand out much more, and if each of the images throughout the magazine was black and white. It would make the magazine too plain and although the house style would be consistent.
I also included the same font style on the 'Definitive' element of the page as to that which I used on the front cover of the magazine. I felt that this worked well.
I also feel that when I make my actual magazine, I should add other elements such as various things advertising other things which associate with my magazine to give the magazine a sense of puff into the magazine.

Digital Mock Up Design of a Front Cover Based on Initial Ideas

This is the idea which I have come up with for a style of front page. I would like my front page to resemble this in some ways. For example I would like the masthead and the cover line to look similar and the image style to be a similar mid-shot black and white style image, but this may vary depending on the photos which I end up using for the front cover of the magazine. I feel that these ides of the page work well.
On the other hand, I feel that the style I have used for the magazine cover sell lines needs alot of improvement as they do not stand out that well for the back ground and the image, I would also put the story which I am going to use on my double page spread in a banner headline so that it stands out from both the front cover background and the cover image.

Questionarre.

In order to find out better what people would most like to see in my new music magazine, I went around the college area and asked various people a series of simple questions as to what they like about magazines and would most like to see and be Incorporated into a new music magazine. I asked various questions to 50 different people from around the college and found out  various things about what people felt worked well with existing magazines and which out of the various options from the questions which I asked in my questionnaire would be most well suited for the magazine which I am going to create.


1. Do you buy music magazines regularly?
A. Yes
B. No


The option which was chosen by the most participants when answering this question was yes, 28 out of the 50 people I asked said that they bought a music magazine regularly.


2. How much would you be willing to pay for a weekly music magazine?
A. £1.50
B.£1.70
C. £1.80
D. £2.00


£1.70 was the option which was chosen the most when I did a questionnaire around the college site, 37 out of the 50 people I asked chose this option. I asked the participants why they felt that this option would be the best option out of the four available and the majority of the people said that because it was in between the lowest price and the highest price it would be the most well suited for the magazine.


3. Would you be more likely to buy a music magazine if you liked the artist on the cover image?
A. Yes
B. No


30 out of the 50 people which I surveyed said that they would not buy a magazine just specifically because they enjoyed the artist which was shown on the front cover. I asked the participants as to why they said this, the majority of the answers which I got were along the lines of 'because if the magazine is for a genre of music which I like the artist which is on the front of it may not be that established and I enjoy finding out about various new bands and artists'.


4. Do you often look at websites which relate to the magazines you read?
A. Yes
B. No


32 of the 50 people I asked said that they often look at web pages which are related to the things which they read in magazines.

Initial Ideas Based on Market Research - Masthead.

I am going to create various spider diagrams of potential things which I could use for my magazines such as potential mastheads and cover lines as well as various other things which could be used in my magazine.
Music Magazine masthead idea's:

These are various ideas which I have come up with for the masthead of my magazine. I feel that some are alot better than others. I feel that although recall and control are very simple the will not go well with the ideas inside of the magazine and the genre which I have chosen to use.
I also like the idea of 'Definative' as a magazine title because it could be connoatated with the idea of the magazine defining various things specifically to do with this genre of music.
I feel that 'Louder' is a good option as it is simple and because of the target audience which I am aiming for this magazine title will work well also the title has to draw the audience into reading the magazine and I feel that the title 'Louder' would do this instantly. Also I believe that this title will give off the correct image for the genre of music I am using as well as having a nice sound to it.
I feel that the title which I am going to use for my magazine is 'Definitive' because it is different from various other  magazines which are already being made and has various good ideas connotated with the idea.  I also believe this will work well because it is a longer word so can be abbreviated when the magazine becomes more popular. 


Potential Sell Lines (Front Page):

I have also come up with various idea's for potential sell lines on my magazine front cover, I have included both some which I have made up and some which are true stories. I thought I would need to include some which are made up because to make the story which I include on my double page spread more consistent with the front page of the magazine and the contents page. I feel that all of the stories shown above will be useful to use on the contents page of my magazine. But the main story which I am going to include in my magazine on each of the 3 pages is the story with the title 'Interview: new band Encode' because I have made this story up and the band is fictional so I am able to create various other ideas from this one. I feel that the other stories which will go well on the cover of my magazine are, 'Laura Marling 2010 Tour: The details' and 'Noah and the Whale Theft: The full story'.


Potential Font Styles For Masthead:

These are the fonts which I found from http://www.dafont.com/ which I felt would look best on the masthead of my magazine. I feel that the DEF at the beginning of the word being in capital letters makes the word look more power full and interesting. And when the magazine becomes more established it could be shortened to DEF. I feel that out of all of the 5 texts which I liked the most the second would go best with the style of my magazine because it is simple yet noticeable.

Colour Scheme

I feel that the colour scheme for my magazine should be quite simple yet effective. I feel that a good colour scheme to use will be a black and brown style scheme using various white elements in with these colours.

When coming up with the colour scheme I also considered using various other colour schemes, but because I felt a simple style would work best I felt that tese colours would work best together.