Flat Packs For the Front cover, Contents and DPS

Contents Added Pictures

For the contents I have two different models and this are the second model's pictures:

The pictures do have some issues but i can rectify these through photo shop. these may include brightness and contrast as well as cropping to focus on the protagonist.

These may be used to add realism to competitions that i may be running in the magazine.




In my contents these pictures would have a caption underneath to show what may be inside the magazine as well as the page number, which would be blocked separately but contain the colour scheme, therefore house style.

Front cover and Contents page Feedback

As we have now started to get well underway with our contents pages, we were now put through a class review where our peers could comment on our work. They gave us comments on our  pictures, background, and placing many things are also reviewed as this would help improve our work in the future.
The feedback was written to us which gave their comments :

The Front page

For my front page I wanted to give a clear and bright scene which showed both a young and youthful but famine side to hip hop.
The body position of the model was to grab attention and to play into the reader belief to buy it. I also thought that it was quirky I would be unique.


Comments were:
student 1 - 'great pictures' 'some writing is unclear' 'maybe use a varitey of pictures(people)' 'looks professional'

student 2 - 'good title' 'make words in the sicker bigger' 'use different fonts' 'good picture'

student 3 - 'nice house style throughout' 'make stories underneath remix' 'make circle more lifelike' '










My Contents page

For my contents page I wanted to be different and have a one picture page as well as a normal, conventional page of contents. this would fit with the ethos of a hip hop magazine as well as putting a fresher layout in my magazine.
The body position was to look different as the I wanted her from a different angle as well as her looking directly into the camera.

Comments were:
student 1 - 'black and white picture works' 'be careful as some colours do not work'

student 2 - 'need other pictures' 'not sure about background' 'good title' 'nice layout'

student 3 - 'more variety in contents' 'have sections for stories in contents' 'perhaps more colour' 'front and contents go well together'

overall i was pleased with the results as well as having something to work on.

Photoshoot Part 2

The PHOTOSHOOT Part 2!
model: Sabrina Carroll

i decided to continue the photo shoot to gain much better pictures than what i had :
i had made sure that the date feature had been taken off the pictures as they ruined them by making an unnecessary print, which has no relevance to the theme of my magazine.
i also made sure that we had a clear background, but i wanted something quirky to my magazine as well as an edge.
i tried to focus on her body positions and the way the her was directed towards the camera didn't want to make i boring, i wanted her to standout but not too invading.
we finally tried a range of outfits which were similar were giving of different looks.

Photoshoot

As part of my media preparation, we had to begin taking pictures of our models for the front cover, contents and double page spread.
here is a screen shot of the gallery of pictures:
how ever there were many features that were wrong with these pictures which enabled the fact that i couldn't use them for my front cover because of some important factrs:
firstly the pictures had the date stamped on the pictures which spoil the pictures from having other pictures 

Magazine Font

For my magazine, i wanted a font that would show off the genre before it has even been opened. it needs to have a hip hop edge but still be bold and effectively eye catching. it is important to choose the right font in order to get the best results and use it effectively. i decided to go and use photo shop to check all the font that they could possibly have for the title of my magazine.
here is some of the fonts i managed to come up with using photo shop.

I also decided to go onto the website called dafont to check on the internet to see if there were any better. I had decide to use the graffiti search because they can bring that hardness to face. I also think that graffiti would be appropriate as it is part of Hip Hop image.
http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=606  
they have been put side by side to compare and show the different styles