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Comparison

I have emulated a certain magazine style, to represent the music genre I am covering. The contrast of light colours like yellows, whites and reds on the black; connote punk and rock music. I have studied magazines like KERRANG which continually use these colours and styles to make my magazine fit into the right music genre. Also the text that looks like stencils also is used on my magazine and the comparison example.

FINAL FRONT COVER :D

This is my completed final front cover. 

I believe RIOT is a magazine you would find in a music store and even a supermarket, my magazine is a unique and modern female punk/rock collaboration. There is no other magazine that reaches out to a female audience that talks about punk/rock music. There is definitely a space in the market for a magazine like mine. RIOT is like a female version of Kerrang, its target   ed audience is female instead of male. I have emulated certain rock elements from the Kerrang magazine. I think my fonts and color scheme are consistent and link with my rock style. I also have incorporated my RIOTFEST ticket give a way to make my magazine more appealing. I would have liked to have put another image onto my front page, but i didn't want to crowd the page, this is why I put a simple album cover design on the front. My main image is quirky and fun   i wanted an edgy and eye catching image and i believe this is definitely one. My red, yellow, white, red and black colour scheme is a consistent theme that runs thorugh my magazine - these colours connote rock music and controversy because they clash. My magazine is different and these conflicting colours support that motion. I added a puff to my front page to add more realism and to trigger interest. My audience would find reading about gigs informative and useful. Overall i am happy with my RIOT magazine, it has all the elements a standard magazine would withhold and a unique edge which most magazine do not have!

FRONT COVER PROGRESSION

After this i added all the rest of my sub stories, bar code, price and magazine number. all small changes which made my magazine look more realistic. 

Here I have added a sub images of a album cover and the start of some sub headings, using the shape tool to create rectangles and  adding font over the shapes to make them stand out, I have added a puff i edited under my title, which fits in with the color scheme of red, yellow,blacks and whites.  

After editing my final image, i put borders around the image so with magazine layout would form, i then filled the borders with text so they wouldn't be plain. I then added my text from da font with my main story about the band. By now my magazine had taken a dramatic change.

Making a Puff

Choosing my title font

If you notice here, my title of my magazine closely links with he font style of an extremely successful rock group. This style of distorted stylised text is widely known. If i have a similar style of this serif font people should automatically denote my font and see its rock style resemblances

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The group released just one studio album in their career. The remaining seven were live albums, compilations and a movie soundtrack.

Although it existed for just three years, the band left an indelible mark on punk rock and on British pop culture.

The group was so controversial that band members and fans were victims of physical attacks.

Their songs attacked everything from the British royal family to capitalism to politics.

These aren't all the qualities i want to have to have featured in my magazine but certainly the controversy will enable people to talk and promote RIOT!

Image Adjustments

Here I am using the photo editing option, I am making my image pixalated like a cartoon. I wanted to experiment with different designs to see which made my image stand out more.
In image below i have done the same but i have increased the contrast and toned down the brightness to create a unrealistic photo adaptation for a more surreal and editoral look






 

Draft Front Covers

I wanted to experiment with the photos from my shoot, and see which adjustment would work. Here i have experimented with the contrast and pencil tool, this made the photo have an edgy  and cartoonish look. I liked this version of the photo but it wasn't a very realistic effect, and i wanted the front cover image to be realistic.

Here i have added my chosen title, i have eemphasised Beth's hair, and . i wanted to show contrasts and make sure Beth is the main focus. i wanted the title to fade into the background













I tried out the black and white tool here, i wanted an antique effect, kind of retro and cool. but i don't think this worked very well, so i added the saturation of Beth's hair to see if the made a difference to the final image ... it didn't. It was iinteresting to try out different effects though

Photo Shoot - Front Cover

Photo album

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