JAKUB GROCHLAPresentation of the final products

OUTLINING THE TASK To produce a front page, contents and

double page spread of a new music magazine

All images and text must be original, produced by the students

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF A MUSIC MAGAZINE? To attract particular audience that are

part of the social group To advertise products that appear in the

magazine The adverts are usually aimed and

relevant to the audience that buy the magazine

Magazine get money from the big brands that want to advertise their product

FRONT COVER RESEARCH

INITIAL IDEAS Wide range of audience Both black and white race Both males and females Pop/Rock/Indie/Hip-Hop Two musicians on the cover (Rapper

and Rock Singer)

PRIMARY RESEARCH I felt like I needed

more primary research

Went over to local shop to look for a magazine

My plan was to buy Rolling Stone magazine because it is related to my codes and conventions

CHANGES MADE TO MY IDEA Aimed generally at Indie/Rock

audience as well as pop or hip-hop.

Front cover shows a typical Indie style looking young men.

Attracts female attention Both female and male

audience that are into Rock/Indie/Pop music

Good use of colour, works good on the design

Smart use of white space, gives more holding power to the design

Distributed by COMAG Specialist

Price £3.50

PLANNING OUT MY FRONT COVER Before creating my front cover I sketched out a

quick design of how it will look like I came up with the name ‘Cramp’ for my magazine Title of the magazine on the top Front cover image taking up most of the design's

space, also placed behind the title Ear piece used for advertisement or promotion Sell lines on both sides of the page to fill up the

empty space Main article sell line placed on the bottom of the

design Bar code adds authenticity to the design Medium close up photograph

FRONT COVER

SOFTWARE USED I used Photoshop to edit the photograph

and InDesign to add the title, sell lines, shapes etc.

I’ve taken the photographs with my classmate. On the example below is the actual photograph that I used for the cover. I got rid of the imperfections.

I had couple of difficulties with InDesign because this software was new to me.

Luckily we had a teacher in our school who helped me out

The main issues were things like adding gradients, creating shapes.

On the example you can my original picture used

IMPROVEMENTS Everyone looked at each others

work and gave feedback I gained mostly positive feedback Things that I could improve were to

add a banner, date, price of the magazine, more authentic sell lines that will link with what’s on the contents page

Make the text more visible, especially the main article title

CONTENTS PAGE RESEARCH

CONTENTS PAGE

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD (INTERVIEW) RESEARCH

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

PROGRESS MADE

PROGRESS MADE

MY BLOG WHERE YOU CAN VIEW MY WORK I tried to update my blog frequently I described all my decisions and

annotated my work briefly If I missed out something in my

presentation you will definitely find the answers on the blog

That’s the address to my blog

http://jakubgrochla.blogspot.com