Production Log #13 - Music Magazine

Today, I started the magazine layout by using three colours: Black, Red, Yellow and Turquoise but, it did not look good. So, I changed the layout again and made it look sharp by using Dark Red, Black, White and Dark Blue. After the changes, the magazine layout looked standard and I also used shadows on the main images to symbolize that those images are really important in the magazine contents page.

Next time, I am going to place the images of well-known artists on my magazine cotnents page so that I know how I want my photos to come out when it is my turn to take photos. I am going to think very carefully and decide how the images should come out by using existing photos from artists and I am also going to fill the band indexes with artists' name, a short description of the article and the page number next to it to let the audience know what page the article is in so they can find out more when they are on the page.

The progress of the music magazine

Production Log #12 - Music Magazine

During my lesson in Media, I started to design my magazine contents page using a software called 'Adobe InDesign'.

Firstly, I began using three colours to give a rough idea on how the magazine will look like with the layout but I knew that the colours will be there temporarily because at the end of the lesson, I did not like the colour combination between, Red, Black, Yellow and Turquoise. The reason I chose those three colours are because the boxes in red represents the headings, the black boxes represents the images which I have taken over the half term, the boxes in yellow are the page numbers to make it esier for the audience to know where the image and the bright description of the artists will be and the boxes in turquoise represents the band index which means the headings of the pages along with the page numbers next to it to help the audience to go to the page they are interested in.

I made the font for the title (contents page) in bold and in white to make it look plain and simple so it can be understandable to the audience on what the page is about. The whole process will be designed on Adobe InDesign because it is a software which has all the features to create a music magazine and it is easy to use as I have used it previously to design other magazines.

Next time, I am going to change the colours of the boxes, change the page numbers, improve the title and label all the boxes with what I'm going to put in there as this will help me in advance on what to do to complete my contents page.

The starter of the music magazine

Existing Names (Magazines)

Existing Mastheads

NME Magazine Institution

Audiences - Uses and Gratifications

Here is my Uses and Gratifications of an Audience. I have mentioned the explanation of what each audiences would say about the uses and the gratifications of a magazine and how they are used in order to sell the magazines. By completing this task, it will help me in designing my own magazine in the future and by doing this, I would exactly know what to use in order to find out how the audiences will use the magazine.