Tuesday 28 April 2009

http://www.scribd.com/doc/14710153/Rocky-Roads
This website is a link to my Evaluation Presentation

Thursday 23 April 2009

Final Double Page Spread with Commentary

Final Double Page Spread with Commentary
The first thing to mention on this Double Page Spread (DPS) would be the slugs at the tops of the pages. These are been made in a reverse manner, by which I mean that they are opposites, so one has a white background with orange writing and the other has an orange background with white writing. I think that this works well because it makes them stand out and consumers will notice them, especially because they are block colours. In other magazines there are sometimes just the bands name written in the top corner and this doesn't really stand out as it isn't really visible.

The main body of the writing, the interview itself, has also been reversed so one side is written in white and the other in orange. I have kept this colour theme again because I think that it works really well to have the same colour running throughout the three pieces of work. Another thing that has been put in the reverse colours is the pull quotes. I quite like the pull quote on the left hand page because it overlaps the trousers of the model and you are able to see them underneath the writing. This was accomplished by using Adobe Photoshop and magic wanding around it and deleting the background.

I have also put the pages number the name of the magazine, in the same font that is used on the masthead, at the bottom of the pages and have also reversed the colours of them so that they are white and orange on the opposing pages. I think that by doing this throughout the double page, makes it look more interesting to the consumer and would make them want to read it.

I decided that I wanted to have two separate images of the artists, to show consumers that there was two separate interviews and I also decided that I wanted them both to be in the middle so consumers could recognise that they were a band. I think that it was quite good having them dress differently, in their own clothes/not a particular wardrobe, because consumers can feel like they relate to them and it shows that even though they might be becoming famous they are still ordinary guys with normal lives.

Final Contents Page with Commentary

Final Contents Page with Commentary
With the contents page I have kept the same colour theme as the cover and have use the models as well. The title of 'Contents' has been written in the same font as that of the masthead on the cover which I think works well.

Like that of my cover I have also used a variety of different fonts some of which came from DaFont.com. The 'Fresh Faces' has kept that same font that was used on the cover and I think that this works well because it keeps and continuous run of fonts from the cover to the contents. The colour of it has been kept in the orange like it has been in the other drafts but I didn't think that it needed changing because it wasn't that close to the writing on the t-shirt. 'The Kooks' has been changed into a scripted font just to make it stand out from the text underneath. All the page numbers have been made bold so that they stand out and consumers can easily see where the article are.

One of the cover stories has been mentioned at the top of the page and stands out as being a cover story as it says in a bigger font 'Front Cover'. I think that this works well because it lets consumers know that the features on the cover are quite important and interesting to read.

Final Front Cover with Commentary

Front Cover with Commentary
From the first couple of drafts of my cover the main thing that I have changed was the main image. Orginally this was the guitar holding model, but has been changed due to the quality of the image. This image was very quixilated and therefore was found that it would look better if it was smaller. The other image was bigger and therefore would have benefited from beginning bigger. After making the guitar holding model smaller I decided that it would then be good idea to have white box surrounding him as this would make him stand out so consumers would be able to see that he was part of the band that was being featured.

I feel that this cover does forfil most conventions of other magazines on the market. There are three main house colours that are used which are black, white and orange. This choice of colours does go against the results that I found out from my questionnaire, as orange wasn't a popular colour to be used. The reason that this changed was because of colour use on the main models top. I thought that it would be good idea to use a colour that was used in the background as it would show a link between the clothing of the models and and the colour text that was being used. As my target audience is people that are interested in rock music I think the colours that have been chosen are very good and relate well to other magazines of this genre for example, Uncut.

I have used a number of various fonts on this cover well. In the first few drafts there was only two or three but now there is five. A few of these fonts have come from DaFont.com and have chosen because they suit the piece of text that has been written in them. For example the 'Fresh Faces' has been written in a scripted in font because it compliments what has been written. This type of font is quite fresh and clean therefore linking both of them. This has also changed in colour from the other drafts because it was felt that have 'Fresh Faces' written in orange and having it close to the 'West London' on the t-shirt wouldn't look good so therefore that has been changed to white so that, that writing stands apart.

If I was too approach the task again I dont think I would have to worry about having more cover lines because I think that I have enough but I do think that maybe I could try having some more images that were of good quality and maybe trying following more conventions of other magazines and try having the main image lie over the masthead as this could make the cover look a bit more interesting, however with doing this I would have to be careful that I didn't cover up everything so consumers wouldn't be able to recognise the brand.

Thursday 2 April 2009