Content improvements

I actually made a load of improvements to my contents to which I was most pleased even though I am changing The photography I will keep the style very similar with a few tweaks throughout my entire magazine. The contents it's self I was pleased with as I had made major improvements to it but I feel I could add more and make it look more professional

For my front cover I have decided to change a lot since my final draft for my real thing. I am  changing my photography on my front cover and changing the fronnt cover and logo and typography to make my magazine better. When I get feed back on my final draft I can see if there are any other areas to improve.

It is a risk to change the photography but I feel it is better photography.

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MY NEXT STEPS
for my final draft i'm replacing all of my main images with new ones . i feel the old ones where not that good in terms of their quality and could be simply improved. also there was a lack of musical mise-en-scene which i have now rectified.

create a better contents page by making it have more substance in it.  Change the overall layout of the contents page  I hope a reworking the layout will give me more space to maybe add more features, this will then make it look more professional. 

the double page is pretty much done but just needs more in the way of context in it to fill the page 

colour Scheme

getting the opinions from others and based on my own personal feeling i feel that changing the colour scheme on my magazine would be a good idea as for my genre of music yellow isn't the most suitable colour and i feel i could make my magazine look better if i change the colour scheme entirely. below is the colour scheme i will be looking to create. a red colour which is vibrant and contrasts with the colour black.

final photoshoot

these are the final photos that i have decided to use for my magazine. i have added the guitar in for the use of musical mise - en - scene. these images are much more organised in terms of background because it is a more simple background which i feel is better for the magazine cover. adding the guitar gives a better and more realistic view of the artist and makes it really seem like a music magazine.

progress

i will now start making improvements to my magazine! this may mean changing large areas of my work for example the colour scheme I feel didn't really work and I will have to do a survey to see what people think in general is a good house style and colour scheme for my magazine!

looking at other codes and conventions such as puffs and pugs will be useful for my magazine and wil make my cover more interesting also changing the typography

contents needs more substance because at the moment it is very plain and not much in the way of contents! Also making sure that I put page numbers in my magazine and making sure that the pages correspond to that number

For my double page spread I need to extend my interview vigourasly and watch my size font and typography

I am taking new pictures for my final draft which will be used in the final magazine

drafting and planning: mise - en - scene

this is the guitar i have bought and intend to use for my front cover star! i feel i could make this work well with my cover depending on the changes i make to my house style and colour scheme!

drafting and planning

Here is what my new masthead and cover line will look similar to when i finish my final draft. These are not final designs but drafts themselves. I intend to experiment with typography and do a survey to see what font suits the music genre of pop! one of my improvements was to show my influences and how they reflect my work. The magazine i chose to go ahead and look into was Q magazine.

The specific influence for for this specific main cover line was the Q magazine issue which featured noel Gallagher as their main cover star. "What is Gowsy up to now?" Is clearly influenced by Q magazines Noel Gallagher's issue by how the typography is shaped around noel's head which is something similar to what i intend to do. The Masthead which i used for my first draft wasn't really that good and didn't show any clear influence from Q magazine so i made a draft of a 'possible' masthead 

Changes I'm going to make

-         I am going to make my font smaller on the page and I may add some more stories. However this would mean adding more pages then initially intended. I will look back into my research and will make the decision whether or not to add more pages to the 32 already planned. 

-         I am going to change my font on my double page spread from size 16 to 8. This is a big change and will mean my article will need extending to fill the page, as the smaller font will not even cover half of the page as I have looked into this.

-    Although I was asked to look at my artists looks again, I have decided not to go ahead with changing what my model is wearing, as I believe my choices are appropriate and it is how I want to present my artist. He is laid back and  relatable.