Magazine First Draft

This is my first draft of my magazine. The text is placeholder text as I didnt save my article and lost it. This will be complete in the next couple of days so my magazine will be more complete.

New Media

Evaluation 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Coverlines

"This is the Beginning" Alysha Hackett Exclusive

This will be my main coverline and will be a quote from my featured article about Alysha Hackett. This will encourage readers to want to read the magazine as it will get them excited for the future of the artists and keep them updated with whats going on in their life and whats going to happen next.

Kiss Land Tour

The Weeknd's "Kiss Land" Tour of the UK has just finished. This heading will be a section about our journalists being at a few of the shows and seeing how he has developed as an artist over the last year. From barely selling out a 3,000 capacity venue in December 2012 to selling out Two nights at the 02 Arena!

Albums Of The Month

This section of my magazine will be the Top 10 albums of the month but instead of sticking to the mainstream and having the album ratings being based on sales, we will have 3 judges who will rank the albums in top 5. This way it will give upcoming artists a chance to be put on our chart and push start their career.

Kanye Vs Drake

This section of my magazine will see two of the biggest artists in the game right now fight it out for 3 rounds. Rymes, Flow and Sales. This section will be a bit of friendly competition between the artists and will just give the readers a few stats and facts about the two artists.

 

Equipment

Camera and Lighting

For the images of my magazine I took my model, Tegan Grainger, otherwise known as Alysha Hackett, to the media classroom where I can have my photo shoot. I used a white screen as this will fully make the model the main focus of the image and will highlight all the colours she is wearing. 

I used a Canon 550d SLR for my photo shoot as it captures high quality pictures with little to no blurriness. The pictures needed to be sharp as the magazine will simply not look as professional if the images are not clear. The white screen is very effective because it is clean and simple and just brings all the audience's attention toward the model. White screens also have an advantage when it comes to editing the selected image as there is no other colours to play around with so I can enhance the image. The lights enabled me to change the way my images appeared and allowed to me to create the best possible pictures for my magazine. The lights also allowed me to create a small shadow which made it easier to edit my model for the final images. Combining the lights, white screen and the SLR allowed me to create extremely high quality pictures which can make my magazine look professional and classy.

 

Computer Software:

I am currently using InDesign to make my magazine instead of using Photoshop as In Design is a much more professional editing software and it is much easier to create magazines on the software. InDesign enables you to view the document as a magazine and you can use various different tools such as the master page which quickly and effectively adds the same text to all of the pages. This makes adding page numbers, websites and social networking links a lot easier as it prompts to audience to use these links as they will be on every page.
I also used Powerpoints, word documents and Prezis's a lot while planning my magazine and i aslo used Slideshare a lot while embeding documents. Because I have used these programs before it made it easier for me to get tasks done quickly instead of wasting time trying to find out different tools to use.