Wednesday, 23 March 2016

EDITING - DPS

Before editing:

 

After editing:


To edit and assemble my music magazine DPS I used Photoshop, because it has the most tools that are appropriate and perfect for making a photo looks better and you can uses things like filters and saturation adjusting. I decided after experimenting with these tools to use the threshold adjustment because I thought it suited my genre as it looks quite simple but is also quite arty and makes the model/artist seems more mysterious.


BRAINSTORM



Magazine name : Polarize
Magazine genre: Indie rock

MOODBOARD


Sunday, 20 March 2016

DRAFT - FRONT COVER, CONTENTS PAGE + DPS




ANALYSIS OF COLLEGE MAGAZINES




The main image is using direct address because the model is looking directly into the camera. The title has a clear font with an eye-catching colour and size  draw the audience's attention, which would be primarily be students. The left and right third have all the puffs/pugs which has the effect of averting the readers attention towards the model in the main image. The masthead is behind the model's head, which is in convention with a professional magazine which makes it more effective. The colour scheme is linked in with the masthead, which has the dateline underneath in the right third and has the font colour as yellow, and the puffs provide the same or complimentary colours, white and blue.  It also has a bar code, with the price line and issue number connected in a block of yellow. 





The masthead looks unprofessional as it seems to have originated from a tool such as WordArt as well as it taking up the whole of the top third of the college magazine. The font of the puffs is very childish and there seems to be no existing colour scheme which makes the whole page look unorganized and chaotic. The main image, whilst using direct address, is an awkward and unedited image,which would not attract the target audience due to his more mature appearance. There is a bar code.




The masthead is behind the model's head, of whom looks underage, which makes it look professional however the thin font makes it look dull and generic. The text is covering his face, which distracts the audience and defeats the purpose of having a central image. It also has incorrect spelling. It has a bar code. The colour scheme is very loose because of the three colours used only to are repeated, one being the title font colour.