Wednesday 6 April 2011

Here is my project plan.

It shows the dates that I predicted to finish my publications for, and shows wherther or not I managed to keep to the plan, and if I finished all of the tasks.

Monday 4 April 2011


This is a video of my media evaluation.

This includes an analysis of all of my publications, from my school magazine to my finished music magazine, and showing how I made sure that my magazine appealed to my target audience, the type of media institutions that could publish my magazine, and what I had learnt throughout the making process.

Sunday 27 March 2011


 Here is my magazine documents with a physical magazine look.
I have used the 2nd TOC for this.

Here is my magazine documents with a physical magazine look.
I have used the 1st TOC for this.

Monday 21 March 2011

This is my edited version of my 4th draft double page spread.

I have changed the brightness and contrast of the image, and I have removed the red eyes.

Sunday 20 March 2011

This is my 4th draft for my double page spread.

For this, I have changed the image, as the image used in my last draft was quite blurry, and also the image was quite cluttered, which took your main focus away from the main image.
Also I have changed the structure of the text in the information box.

Friday 18 March 2011




















 Here are my second drafts for my Table of Contents.

The things that I have changed for this are that I have added a background, but as I cannot decide between them, I have chosen both. Also the main image in the bottom right hand corner I have mover along to make it line up with the editorail pillars.

Monday 7 March 2011

Here is my first draft for my table of contents.

This follows the same style that I planned out in my mock up, but the only thing that I changed for it was to af some sort of information to subscribe, as most table of contents have this as a feature.

Friday 4 March 2011


Here is the mock up for my table of contents.

It is a very simple layout, but I intend on including all of the aspects that a table of contents should include.


Here is a table of contents analysis for the magazines NME and Rap-Up.

It includes the features that they use, and the use of the images, and editorial pillars. This helped me to get an idea to what I am going to do for my table of contents.

Thursday 3 March 2011

As an extention task, I was told to create an advert for something of my choice.

 Here is an advert I created advertising, 'Ralph Lauren'.

 I have chose not to pick this because of the colouring of the image itself, it is quite hard to see what is being advertised.

 Here is the advert that I have chose as the final one, which is advertising, 'Tommy Hilfiger'.

I have chosen to use this because the image clearly shows what is being advertised, by the logo on the polo shirt, and the writing on the glasses, and I also think that the adverts that are noticed the most, and are more appealing, are those that do not contain  much going on, and as this is very simple, it would stick into a persons head very easily.

Here is an advert I created, advertising, 'Tommy Hilfiger'.

I have decided not to pick this advert because althought you can clearly see what is being advertised, the positioning of the logo is not very appealing.

Here is my 3rd draft for my double page spread.

The only thing that I have changed from the previous draft is the image, and this is because this image contains a different pose, and I chose it to make it differ from the front cover.
The quality of this image is not very good, so after I have completed my contents page I will change the image, so that it will have better quality, that will be good enough for printing.

Friday 4 February 2011


Here is my 2nd draft for my double page spread.

From the previous draft I have:
- Edited the leading text to make it sound more formal
- Added more details into the information box
- Added a website at the bottom next to my page number
- Changed the font of my caption, to make it more visable
and I have changed some of the text sizing, and spacing.

As the pose of the model in the picture is relatively similar to the pose on my front cover, I need to take another picture, to make them different to each other.

Thursday 3 February 2011

Here is a double page spread analysis that I created using Microsoft powerpoint.

This is the same powerpoint that I presented on my last video upload, with an extra magazine analysis on it.
It shows features of the double page spread, and analysis' of the layout, and why all of these things will help me to create a better double page spread.

Here is my first draft for my double page spread.

On this, I have a simple but attractive double page spread, with the image on one side, and the text on the other.
It has a conventional 'C' shaped curve, but flipped around, as you are drawn to the image, then you read the article, and then once again are drawn back to the image.

Here is the mock up for my double page spread.

I have decide to create a reasonably simple double page spread, and intend on bringing in the audience with the use of the image, and the leading text.

Monday 17 January 2011


Here is my presentation of an analysis of an 'NME' double page spread.

I created this using Microsoft powerpoint, and presented it to my class and teacher.
It includes all the aspects expected of a DPS analysis, and is explained in as much detail as possible.

Monday 10 January 2011

Here is a double page spread analysis from the magazine 'NME', which I created on Microsoft powerpoint.

Thursday 6 January 2011


Here is the second draft of my Music magazine front cover.

From the previous draft I have:
- Edited the length which i went accross with my explanatory text
- Change my barcode, to make it look more proffestional
-Changed the positioning of the model
- Change the text font, and the colours of the title

With all of these changes, the layout has been completely change, and it looks a lot more professional, and more appealing to my target audience.
Here is the changes from my first draft to my second draft.

It shows the feedback that I recieved, and how I used it to improve the whole magazine front cover.