Class task

Class task: in writing compare and contrast these two cover images, focus on the use of photography.

Consider the Rule of the thirds, lines and angles colour and focal points.

The rule of the thirds has been taken on in different ways in both images, The source has taken a centre approach having games face in the middle third taking all the attention, leaving the left and right third for space for writing, whereas Vanity fair takes the whole middle and right thirds for Lady GaGa's body and pose, leaving only the left third for writing. Both images leave the top third almost empty for the title to be positioned in, only taken up by the very top of both Game and GaGas head, the middle third is mostly filled with image, and the bottom third filled completely by the bottom of the image, Games shoulders take up the complete bottom third just as GaGas legs do.

The photography used for vanity air, having Lady GaGa's body take the whole right third would usually mean that there is not any room for puffs and plugs, but because of the lighting making her body look very much like a black background makes the writing be able to stand out on her, the light is directly on her face drawing you straight into her eyes and hand gesture in Vanity fair, opposing to The sources lighting shining down on Game, who is pointing a well lit gun to his chin, the lighting facing down makes you follow a movement from his face down to the gun, which is almost the eye contact of the photo as Game has his eyes shut, so unlike Lady GaGa's flirty eye contact the gun is the main thing pulling you to the image.

The angles on both make the follow a curtain route of where exactly you will look, in The source the centre 180 degree image draws you to look from top to bottom following the light and story, you first look at his scrunched up face showing agony and fear, you then look down to see the gun, showing its a way out, the way the image is presented makes you know Game is holding the gun there.

Where as lady GaGa placed on the right side of the image with an elegant right angle shape to her body, with her face looking down on the audience showing her elegant and upright position is to say she is higher up than they are, and that she is comfortable to admit that.

Music research

For part of my resaerch i did a survey between friends and peers around me on what music genres they preferred, here is a survey of my results.

I also asked the first 10 teens around me what; out of the most popular magazines found would they tend to read at their age, my results consisted of this:

With these surveys i tried my hardest to not get bias results, but asking people the same age from the same sort of area will make my results a bit bias.

Music magazine research

Music magazine reaserch

Average music magazine sales and year on year change.

·        Mojo: 79,345, down 6.8%

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         Top of the pops: 75,398, down 7.3%

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       Q: 58,980, down 8.7%

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        We heart pop: 58,702 down 8.5%

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       Uncut: 56,894, down 9.7%

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        Kerrang: 37,603, down 6.5%

Contents draft

Secondly for my preliminary task i have created a rough contents page for my magazine "Y.E.S" following the design of the fron cover

Front cover

I have successfully created a cover for my college magazine "College Crunch" and this is the final piece for it: 

I have stuck with the colour scheme and the ideas for stories, i changed the design a little to fit around my photo and to have more realistic magazine look to it, i have also added in the southdowns logo as i think it is more effective.

flat plans

I am aiming my magazine at college students that are willing to try new things, take an interest in things they have never tried and are open to enjoy college activities. All ages and genders are accepted, I want to make my magazine unisex and very public.

The typical content of my magazine will be getting students to endure in different events around the college.

I have chosen the title Y.e.s (young evolving social) because it is different and has a slogan, it is less boring than just plain, one meaning title. I rejected the names, SDC, because the name sound a little inappropriate and short, and College mag, because it was too much of an obvious name.

Ideas for cover lines I decided ‘NEW BUSSES! – Has first bus service finally improved?’ ‘DON’T MISS! – Exciting new events this year.’ ‘ALL NEW! – College website design and how it works.’ ‘THIS YEAR! – 2013 A level results’

For ‘Y.E.S’ I want to use a formal looking serif font in white on a black background, for the rest of the text I want a san serif font that still looks formal.

I want the magazine to be weekly, one magazine from Monday to Friday all year round, showing new college activities and events every week. So all seasons of the year!

I want my front image to be a student looking very happy to be in college enjoying some sort of activity, e.g sitting at a computer, reading a book, doing a sport, I will ask my friends to pose for this image.

My magazine would be around A5 in size making it not too much hassle for student to pick up and take away with them, as many students already have bags full of A4 books, and another would just add to the bother so I feel it would be ignored.

For my contents page I want to carry on the colour scheme of my front cover, adding images of students enjoying each other’s company, and trips and activities.

Map of initial ideas