preliminary Task contents page.

if i did this again, i would use cad as it would then look more professional and i would create a range of different contents examples to build up my contents page therefore allowing me to reach my target audience.

I think this looks untidy and feel it could be designed by anybody which is not the look i am after, i want people to look at my magazine and be shocked at the level of depth that has gone into it.

I am pleased i made this design as it has opened my eyes to the job that awaits me in the upcoming weeks and the level i must work at.

Feedback 30.1.11

Luke, you need to reflect on the prelim task. What have you learnt? What works/doesn't and why? Also, don't forget to upload the sketched contents page to the prelim task post too. You need to work on this in your own time or you will not keep up with the very tight deadlines. You should have your research completed by thursday's lesson in order to start planning and allow maximum time to production work. See me if you have any questions etc.

Mrs A

Preliminary Task

Main Conventions

The main conventions that MUST be followed are:

Eye catching words.

Images must be relevant to the genre and target audience.

Artist only appear in magazine to sell their albums.

The title of the mag is the most important thing and must be relevant.                   

Pictures of the artist must be used when writing an article that artist.

With a dance magazine the colours must give the feeling of warmth after all dance music is related to summer.

Double sided pages should have the main story on or should cover two artists, only popular artist get a double page spread.

Initial ideas

Initial ideas

My first ideas for my magazine was to create a rap magazine as that is a huge inspiration to me, but then I began to think rap stars are always in the lime light and there are not really any magazines that cover the genre dance, there is only one that I know and that is mixmag, so looking at magazine like this will help me get a greater understanding of reaching out to my audience and will enable me to make a unique but well thought out magazine.