Results of Peer Reviews

Today we paired up and reviewed each others blog on our research and planning, plus front cover and contents page. The feedback I received from Kate as an overall was very positive. The strengths she mentioned was that my choice of colour scheme reflected and complemented my target audience well and that she liked my front cover! 

A target I have to improve on is to try and make my photographs relate more to the music genre. I will try and meet this target by using pictures I have previously taken from a gig or from a concert. I am hoping this will be my final finishing touch so I will have completed my contents page.        

Finished Contents Page So far

This is my finished music magazine contents page so far. I have yet to receive a peer review and I may want to alter certain features in the near future.

At the moment, I am happy with the outcome of my contents page. However, I am considering changing some of my pictures as to make then relate more to a music magazine. 

However, as an overall I am happy with the end result. I believe I stucked to my draft as much as possible and have used the best colours and fonts so they relate to my alternative genre.

Contents Page Progress

As previously mentioned I have altered the size of my font on my contents page. As a result of this I was left with a large white gap. To fill this I added a section of text which displays all the bands in which are featured within the magazine. 

Below, I created a coloured section in which shows a subscription method. I took a screenshot of my front cover which I then shrunk and added to give the idea that there has been previous issues. I chose to create a subscribe section as I have noticed that many contents pages feature this as a way to encourage their readers to pay for a magazine every week for a certain amount of time. 

Contents Page Progress

A change I have recently made to my music magazine contents page is the size and placement of my page features. From lots of research and peer reviews it has come to my attention that the size of my font was too large and as a general, on other well known music magazines, the list of features appears in a small font size, a maximum of size 12. Images tend to take the front attention in order to draw in the readers.

By altering the size of my font gave me a lot of free white space. In order to fill up the gap I have now included a section which features all the bands in which will be appearing in the following pages.

I chose to follow the same colour scheme of purple and black as to keep the professional continuity throughout my magazine. This colour scheme would be one of my brand elements which would be feature in most of my issues.
   

Contact Sheet for Third Photo Shoot for Contents Page

This is my contact sheet fo r my third and final photo shoot for my contents page. I am hoping that this image will give the page even more colour and make a difference from the others.  

I took these photographs of 16yr old Emma. I chose this particular subject as her look is different from the other female artists that I have featured. Her style is dignified and different; but which still stays within my alternative genre.  

Chosen Image

This is my chosen image from my second photo shoot for my contents page. I chose this image because they are both standing strong and proud and look together like a proper boy band. Unfortunately, the background colour was a solid white. As my other images also featured a solid pale colour, the total amount of images gave a washed out look. So in order to add a bit more colour to m y page, I altered the colour of the background just slightly, in order to give it more colour and a more interesting visual. 

Contact Sheet of Second Photo Shoot for Contents Page

This is my contact sheet for my second photo shoot for my contents page. I chose these particular models, Shah 16 and David 16 due to their contrasting looks. 

I chose to have them against a plain white background as the image size on the contents page will not be large. Therefore I do not want a busy backdrop to draw the focus away from the subjects.

To enhance the idea of the music magazine I had the models wearing headphones to help link them to the genre.