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This is an image that represents what audience my magazine is going to focus on, my theme is the genre indie so i will be putting information about indie bands and festivals such as underage and reading. I have chosen to do this becuase it is music that i listen to meaning that i will know a alot about it.

When i researched my front covers i found out what i defintately did NOT want to do when it came to my own front cover. I looked at smash hits first and noticed there was alot of pink clearly showing that the magazine was for girls, i do not want this to happen when it comes to my magazine becuase it is not based for a certain gender it is based on the music genre indie. Looking at the magazine cover of NME inspired what i want to do with my own magazine becuase it is based on the type of genre im working with. The group image with the main perfromer i thought was a good idea becuase even if i didnt know the band i would know that she did an important part. The bold and different coloured writing on the main story headline was also good as it appealed more and i knew automically who it was going to be about. The logo stood out on both magazines, this is quite important as if they didnt stand out the audience would find it hard to recognise them. To make the logo stand out i have decided to put a bold and unique font type and colour.

Final redraft

These are my final drafts of my practise task for the contents page i made the page numbers and titles of the pages more clearer by making the don't bolder and underlining it, this has made the contents page less complicated to read. The next thing i changed was my front cover. I used one of the picture i considered and edited it on a website to make the background colour more blue and to make my model look less pale and more natural. I then placed the masthead on the top of the front cover so it looked more like a magazine (rather then putting it at the bottom) i found that this makes the overall cover more professional now. I then put some of the main story's at the side of the picture so that the audience will know a bit about what is going to be inside, i put these in different colours to make the page look over all quite appealing. After the advise my teacher gave me i feel this draft is a much better then the one before.

Planning my Redrafts

Our teacher came round and told us what she thought of our task overall. She mentioned that the contents page looked a bit confusing meaning that i should make the page numbers stand out, maybe by making the writing bigger or bolder. She then came onto my picture and front page, she mentioned that the editing was good however she said that overall my front page didn't look like a magazine mainly because the masthead was at the bottom and not the top she also said that my front page needs to get more busy like the contents. What i am planning to do is use one of the pictures i considered so i am able to place more writing on the front page, i will then place my masthead on the top of the page rather then the bottom. On the front page i am keeping the images i took from the ski trip because it represents what has gone on around the school however the page names and numbers i will make a different font so it stands out from the definition.

Front page FINAL

This is my final design for my front cover, i wanted it to be simple because i wanted it to be appealing to all students, teachers and parents. I feel the colours i have used are appealing to students because they are bright and are not normally found on boring business magazine covers what teachers may normally buy. The cheeky smile i found was appealing because it shows that school is a nice place to go to, also the school uniform is worn to again show that the magazine if from John F Kennedy.

Two images i considered

These are a few images i took in the process of finding my final photo, with the photo on the left i found that the messy uniform did not make the school be represented well and on when it came to the photo on the right i found there was no emotion which made me think that the magazine wouldn't be that appealing.

Photography lesson

When i first walked into the room i thought taking photos will be a breeze! But after watching Mr Curran explaining all the settings i then found that this wasn't going to be as easy as i thought. He told us that we need to make the picture and that you cant just say to somebody "stand and smile". We was then shown a variety of good and bad shots to show us how we could go wrong, for example blurry shots. I found out that the environment lighting is very important when wanting to take a portrait picture, this makes you make sure that the reader is focusing on the person. I also have learnt that eye contact with the camera is important so the image shouldn't be too close or too far away.