I made a facebook page for my magazine and got people to comment on it. Lots of people commented on how the colours where good and how it really appealed to the target audience.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=309761382143

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I changed his photo in photoshop. By changing colour to yellow and make the top of the guitar. I think this worked very well because it gave the front cover. I choose yellow because it was a light colour that showed up all the shadows in the picture and i think it contrasts with my red themes on the from cover.

i changed this picture in photoshop to make it black and white to fit in with my black and white scheme of the double page spread.

for this picture i changed it to black and white and i changed the colour of the guitar in photoshop which i think worked nice because of the yellow and red theme i kept in the front cover.

For my contents page i kept my colour scheme but i used something out of the NME contents page which was the sub headings down the right hand side which shows whats in the magazine.




























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for my front cover i used red,black,yellow for my main colour scheme. The NME front cover i researched earlier in the project used the same kind of colour scheme but they used gold instead of yellow. Think these colours fit in well with this genre music.

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one of the things i liked about this double page spread was the big picture on one side which i put into my magazine but i didn't make the picture the whole size on my double page spread. I also kept my black colour scheme which i think is the right colour for a indie magazine.













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I think my magazine is very like some other the other magazines on sale today. My colour scheme i think fits the genre i am doing and all the magazines that you can buy on this genre have the same kind of colour schemes. Also i think my images on my magazine show how the magazine is aimed at a certain social group. The band are wearing the kind of clothes that would be worn by someone who like indie music. I also think the darker colours used also show how the magazine is mainly aimed at the indie music genre.





The audience i choose for my media project where aged 15-26 mainly aimed at men. I covered this information in blog 2


http://sdcmediaasdavidbeasley.blogspot.com/2009/11/target-audience.html






i think i appealed to my target audience by my images of the band i used with the clothes they where wearing. Also this band being in the age group of the target audience i think it helps for people this age to get connected with the magazine.














i also think my font for my mast head is very appealing to the target audience because of its rock theme to it.

I think most new agents would stock my magazine including places like tesco, asda, waitrose and specialist record shop that specialise in indie music.

I learnt a lot from photoshop and i think it helped me to make my magazine what it. The thing it helped me the most was to change the photos to the right colours i wanted and to add effects that i couldn't of done without photoshop. Indesign helped me a lot and really helped me realise what was possible. It really helped me to work out what i could fit onto the page with out overloading it and making it look to busy.

I choose to take this photo like this because it is very casual and its just the band relaxing talking to each other and i thought that would fit perfectly into my double page spread. I choose the white background with just to keep it plain and simple. I thinking having them all smiling makes them seem a lot more approachable and it makes the readers feel comfortable instead of them all looking angry. I think there clothes represent the genre of music they play (Indie).

I choose the low angle shot to give the impression of the band having power. This is a more serious shot with them all looking at the camera which i thought would work very well for my front cover. i choose for the guitar to be at the front to show that they are a band and its quite a classic band picture so i thought i would use it. I made that band stand staggered to exaggerate there indie image. I didn't change there clothes or image as i think it fit the genre well. I picked the lighting to just light up the band to keep the focus on them and a again i kept the

This photo is basically the same as the one before but i thought i would change the way the guitar is being help. I think it worked very well with the guitar.

For this photo i thought i would change the background. Which i think gave the the band that indie image and i thought it would show how they have came from nothing to become something .