My Original Photos and photo planning

These are my original photos I took for my magazine, before I photoshopped them.

 Front cover

Picture 1

Time: 12:45
Date: 7/03/11
Pose : standing,head slightly tilted, holding a flower.
Costume:black shorts, black leggings, vest top.
Location: studio
Lighting: studio lighting
Set up time: 5 minutes
Props: flower

Contents page  

Picture 2

Time: 12:47
Date: 7/03/11
Pose : standing to the side looking at the camera.
Costume: black shorts, black leggings, vest top.
Location: studio
Lighting: studio lighting
Set up time: 5 minutes
Props: no props needed

Picture 3

Time: 11:15
Date: 6/03/11
Pose : standing together.
Costume: Jeans/ leggings and models own tops
Location: outside
Lighting: no lighting equipment needed
Set up time: 5 minutes
Props: no props needed

Picture 4

Time: 8:45
Date: 26/03/11
Location: x factor live tour 
Lighting: stage lighting
Set up time: 3minutes
Props: no props needed

Picture 5

Time: 8:50
Date: 726/03/11
Location: x factor live tour
Lighting: stage lighting
Set up time: 1 minute

Picture 6

Time: 8:55
Date: 26/03/11
Location: x factor live tour
Lighting: stage lighting 
Set up time: 1 minute

Picture 7

Time: 9:00
Date: 26/03/11
Location: x factor live tour
Lighting: studio lighting
Set up time: 1 minutes

Double Page Spread

Picture 8

Time: 01:00
Date: 7/03/11
Pose : standing,head slightly tilted, holding a flower.
Costume:black shorts, black leggings, vest top.
Location: studio
Lighting: studio lighting
Set up time: 5 minutes
Props: flower, table and bed sheet

Rough Cuts of my Music Magazine

These are the rough cuts of my music magazine's front cover, contents page and double page spread.

I am quite happy with the results of them but there are a few changes I want to make, I will also be asking my target audience for feedback and this willl help me to improve aswell.

This is my rough cut for my front cover

This is my rough cut for the contents page.

This is the rough cut for my double page spread.



Rough Cut Feedback

I have asked my target audience to give feedback on my rough cuts, which I have included below.

Front cover

This feedback is on my front cover, I asked what they like about my project so far and what they think I could improve on; this is what they said;

Likes

• The photo
• The bright colours
• The big fonts
• How clear the main feature is
• The layout
• The + sign

Improvements

• Layout
• Colours, background and fonts
• More stories
• Cut the picture out better
• Mention different artists such a Justin Beiber
• Don’t put the text so close to the line
• Barcode and date
• More features
• Use more contrasting colours

Contents page

This feedback is on my contents page , I asked what they like about my project so far and what they think I could improve on; this is what they said;

Likes

• Its neat
• Good photos
• Good colours
• The double page spread  and front cover inset
• The layout of text
•  Title

Improvements

• colours
• layout
• add more pages
• too plain
• looks to empty
• could be filled more
• could include something in the bottom right corner
• improve the spacing of the boxes
• introduce a third colour

Double page spread

This feedback is on my double page spread, I asked what they like about my project so far and what they think I could improve on; this is what they said;

Likes

• photo
• good presentation
• good mix of colour, photo and fonts
• branding in corner
• website advert at end of article
• look professional the background 
• layout
• layout of the photo with the hearts
• words behind photo

Improvements

• the font of the article
• quotation size
• better language
• have more text
• looks a bit empty
• the bordering around text
• cut out picture better
• fonts
• no page number on one of the pages
• make columns neater
• larger article
• longer answers
• make the picture bigger and more dynamic