Model release forms

Contents Page Draft

Double Page Draft

Front Cover Draft

Double Page Sketch

The double page sketch was based on the sterotypical double page spread. This is a rough idea of what i want it to look like.

Contents page sketch

The contents page sketch gives me an idea of what i want my contents page to look like. I wanted it to look like magazines such as rolling stone

Front Cover sketch

This is a draft of my front cover. I drew it to get an idea of what i wanted to do with my magazine

Article Draft

Article Draft

Sell Lines

These Sell Lines will be featured throughout my magazine but primarily it will be on the front cover. Some are ideas for the main Sell line others will be down the sides and at the top and bottom of the page:

The NEW Beatles??

Tropical Primates are breaking out of this world

Tropical Primates aren’t monk eying around

The break out act of 2011 Tropical Primates

Just fooling around with tropical primates

Tropical Primates! Have been sent from heaven to teach us how to rock

How Kitt and Ramon morphed into Tropical Primates

The guide to conquering a woman heart with TROPICAL PRIMATES

Glasto 2012 headliners TROPICAL PRIMATES

The year of the primates!!!

What everyone is shouting about!! TROPICAL PRIMATES

Kitt and Ramon the new Lennon and McCartney

Conquering the world one person at a time!!

Guides to the best bands ever

Top 50 best bands ever

Simon Cowell speaks out

Gig guide for 2012

The history of the rolling stones

Rolling stones vs. the Beatles!! Who is better?

Reading and Leeds! We reveal the potential line ups!!

Tropical Primates!! A look back at a truly LEGENDARY YEAR

Apes from out of space its tropical primates

Rise of the PRIMATES!!

Schedule

Diary Entry	At least one per week so that I stay on top of work
Key Concepts Research	Analysis of similar products such as: front covers, contents pages and double page spread
Proposal	Type of magazine and what will be in the magazine.
Target Audience	Part of the Proposal. Explains the chosen target audience and why I have chosen them.
Mood Board	Expresses what I think the genre represents.
Colour Connotations	Colours that I will use in my magazine that represent my genre.
Name Ideas	Potential magazine name ideas and what they
Photo shoot	A photo shoot that contains a many images of my model. I will use some on my magazine.
Contact Sheet	Displays all the photos I took on my photo shoot and make it look professional.
Model Release Form	A form that makes the model signs it so that I can use them in my magazine.
Sell Line Ideas	Ideas for the different sell lines that will appear on my front cover.
Front cover draft	A first sketched idea of what my front cover will look like.
Contents page draft	A first sketched idea of what my contents page will look like.
Double page spread draft	A first sketched idea of what my double page spread will look like.

Contact sheet

          This is my contact sheet. The contact sheet features all the photos i took of my cover models. Only a select few will actually be used in the real coursework but due to the amount i tooki have a wide selection.                                   


                                  

Week 11

This week I started my article draft. The article was going to be on my two cover models. I will lay it out as an interview. this means there will be questions and answers from both artists. Here is a small piece of what i have already done:
 

Chord: How does it feel to be compared to the Beatles and some even calling you “The new Beatles”?

Ramon :(laughs) Ermm well obviously to get a fifth of The Beatles success would be amazing!!! But I don’t think we are quite there yet! The fact some people are comparing us to them is awesome! And being called the new Beatles is Mad. Who came up with that name?

Chord : Music critics around the world!!

Ramon: Oh then that’s insanely good!!

Kitt: I didn’t know that either. That’s news to both of us! A comparison with the Beatles is an honour. To even be in the same sentence as then is frankly a privilege. I was and still am a huge fan of the Beatles. They formed the foundation of the music we listen to today!

As you can see i have coloured the text in three colours. Red is for the interviewer and blue and green is for the interviewees and my cover models.

Mise-En-Scene

Mise en-scene

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Week 10

This week i started designing my front cover draft. This involved the use of Adobe photoshop which i am not very compitent on. this may pose a problem due to me having to do the coursework on Photoshop.

I have started by addding my masthead in and backgrpound colour which is white. I have not chosen the picture yet but have narrowed it down to 100. Some of the pictures i have chosen i will definatley use somewhere in the coursework due to them being a stereotypical picture found in a music magazine.

Week 9

This week was the photoshoot. This was a massive part in my magazine as the images were to be scattered all over my coursework. This meant my images had to look professional and be able to capture the target
audience i am  looking for.

I first brought in two models who where a band. I then took over 300 photos of them around different locations throughout the school. I had to get a wide variety of photos as i didnt really know what sought of picture i wanted on the front cover. I took alot of inspiration from other famous photoshoots e.g. foo fighters and The Beatles. I managed to get the pictures i was looking for in the end and the other photos which will feature all over the magazine.

Mast head design

Week 8

This week I carried on with the planning of my Magazine coursework. I created a Masthead collage. The masthead had lots of different styles to give me a nice variety of mastheads to use.

I also added in a business features and contents prezi. This explains what will be featured in my magazine and how i will market it e.g. Price. The features section explain what will be in my magazine and how i will set it out. for example i mentioned that on the front cover I will feature models and sell lines to draw the customer in. The business section explained why i will price my magazine at the rate i do. For example i am pricing it at £1.99 because it is cheaper than my competitors and this means i can compete with them.

Contents and Business on Prezi

Target Audience

Week 7

Week 6

This week i carried on improving some items as i felt they werent adequate. I improved my mood board to include more pictures of what my genre is about this meant i added in more pictures of clothes and artists of the genre.

I also improved my proposal which i thought was a bit short and didn't explain alot of what i will be trying to achieve in my magazine. I also added more to the target audience for similar reasons as the proposal. I also carried out some individual research on music magazines that will be similar to mine. I looked at Q, Kerrang and NME which would all be rivals to me in the music magazine industry.

Proposal

Week 5

This week I cleaned up my blog and added some more information to my designs. I have started re-doing my mood board and colour connotations as they were not up to standard and did not include enough information. I have also had to restart my key concepts which got deleted before i could get it uploaded.

I also need to add some more answers to my survey so i need to get people to vote on my blog. This means i can get significant data to design my magazine coursework. To do this i used the social networking site Facebook to tell people to vote. this means i get lots of people to vote on my blog and better results and more conclusive results.

Name ideas

I have come up with a number of magazine names for my magazine. I have chosen these names because I believe they suit the style and type of magazine I am going for:

·         Rockapalooza

·         The Rock-a-thon

·         Chord

·         The glory days

·         11

·         Pump

·         The Reminisce

·         Daydreamer

·         Remedy

·         Axis

·         Golden music

These names make me think of classic rock apart from pump which is more for teenage. The three magazine names I most like are chord, Rock-a-palooza and The Rock-A-Thon. This is because they are all obviously music related and from the title you can tell what the magazine is about.

Chord: Chord is clever as it relates to guitar. It’s very simple but also memorable. Magazine’s like Q and NME which are short and simple are the most popular magazines.

Rockapalooza: The name is fun to say and is also memorable in the mind as it is very distinctive. Also it has connotations to party which people enjoy, making people buy my magazine because they can make that link between fun and my magazine.

The Rock-a-thon: it stays in the mind and makes me think of a huge musical celebration which is what my magazine is aiming for, a celebration of the golden age of music.

Colour connotations

I will use very simple colours as my target readers are sophisticated and educated. They will also have an interest in classic rock so will be reading the article instead of trying to attract the customers with pictures and big text. These colours will be light blue, dark blue, white or black. I will not use too many bright colours like red, yellow and green.   

Colour Connotations

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Week 4

Mood Board on Prezi

Key Concepts Research on Prezi

Week 3

This week i carried out my Key concepts research. This was completed on a Prezi. This would help me when designing my music magazine. The Key concepts are:

• Codes and conventions
• Audience
• Institution
• Representation

I wrote about these four things and included examples to support my points. For all Four concepts, i wrote information about:

• Who owns them
• Who reads them
• How are musical genres represented in music magazines
• The history of music magazines

There are alot more on the presentation which i answer thoroughly.

Week 2

This week i started a blog. this was new to me as i had never used blogger before. it was hard to get the hang of but eventually i got the hang of it. The first thing i uploaded was my front covert. I then added my contents page and evaluated it also. After this i started my front cover and contents page analysis. this took me a while as i was writing quite alot. i then did a double page spread which also took a  long time. i uploaded all of these things to my blog

My Front Cover

My Contents Page (original)

Evaluation of My Front cover and Contents page

Front cover positives

My front cover is attractive and eye-catching due to three things:

·         Font

·         Font Colour

·         Unusual yet logical picture

The font I chose was big and eye-caching. This is what people want in a magazine as it sells the product to them. The second thing that was good was my use of font colour. I chose it carefully so it didn’t clash with the photo. This meant I couldn’t use colours like light green as it clashed with the plants in the background.

The picture I chose was a boy hiding behind a bush this is a reference to the army and as it’s a survival guide to the exams it is logical but at the same time you have to think “what’s this about”

Front cover negatives

The bad things about my front cover are that I believe I didn’t use enough plugs on the side of the magazine also I thought I could maybe add some effects onto the title which would have made it a lot more effective. Some of the colours don’t really suit the magazine’s style. For example the use of red on the page while eye-catching looks out of place on the cover.

Contents Page Positives

My contents page is very eye-catching due to the extraordinary amount of colour on the page. Also the font I used again held its own even with all the colour in the background. Also I believe I have described the articles in the magazine well enough for people to know what they can expect from the magazine in general.

Contents Page Negatives

Unfortunately the contents page looks as if there has been no thought gone into it what so ever. The background while eye-catching is over the top and there is way to much going on the page. I find that after the front cover which was quite good the contents page lets down the work heavily and does not fit with the general trend the magazine would go for.to improve it there should have been a camo background used  instead or a picture of some sought.

Front covers and Contents Analysis

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My Double Page Spread Analysis

Double page spread

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Week 1

This week I began my preliminary song. This was to design a front cover and contents page. I drew up my front cover and contents page and then went onto the computer to create it on photo shop. i took a picture of someone hiding behind a bush to show stealth and a pun on the fact that my magazine is a survival guide to surviving exams.My target audience are gcse students as it is a survival guide to exams.