Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your magazine?

Here is the short video that shows how I created my front cover.

First I added my key image which had already been edited, followed by the masthead which I added a shadow to to make it stand out. I put the date and price in the first letter of the masthead so that it could be easily seen.

Next I added the cover lines, which also have shadows on them, and made sure that they were in the correct fonts and colours.

Then I added all other text, including the ‘plus’ section at the bottom of the page and the free posters with a few listed artists. I also added a barcode in the bottom right corner, and then my magazine cover was finished.

Contents page:

Feature article:

I edited my key image on the feature article by firstly changing the eyes to be brighter, as they are the first thing you will see when looking at the magazine, therefore they needed to be as bright as possible.

I used the dodge tool to brighten the iris.

Then I used the burn tool to go over dark areas, such as the pupil, around the edge of the iris, and the eyelashes. I also made the eyelashes slightly longer with this tool.

Here you can see the difference between the edited eye and the unedited eye.

Once both the eyes were edited, I edited the photo as a whole, changing the brightness, contrast and the curves, making the photo even more striking.

Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your music magazine?

The target audience for my magazine would be teenagers to young adults, around the age of 15-24. They would be both male and female, and would be music lovers. Specifically, they would love the indie genre, which is a little unusual and ranges from electro, acoustic and a soft rock, with a lot of unknown artists.

Here is a mood board showing what the stereotypical person buying my magazine would be interested in:

Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your magazine and why?

Question 2: How does your magazine represent particular social groups?

Question 1: In what ways does your music magazine use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real music magazines?

These are my final pages to my music magazine after I had taken into consideration the feedback that I got. I feel like my magazine has really improved from my first drafts.

Here I have used Thinglink to show how I have used, developed and challenged conventions of real music magazines.

Music magazine feedback

I posted my draft version of my music magazine on Padlet and asked people to give me feedback on what is good, what is bad, and what could be added or improved.

Front cover:

Created with Padlet

Created with Padlet

Created with Padlet

I found the feedback really useful and they gave me a lot of ideas. Padlet was a good website to use as it was easy for everyone to add their comments and see the image at the same time.