What i want to include in my magazine

Contents

Events in college and out of college
Reviews on past events
Competitions- win tickets to events
Horoscopes
Readers letters
Agony aunt
Study guides, help and advice
Money advice and help
Reviews on films, books and dvd's
Student pages/help and advice

Magazine flat plans

Mood Board

CD Cover, back and analysis

 

 

CD Analysis

My CD genre is alternative/indie. I said that the audience would be for young adults/tenagers.

The design features that I think work well is mainly the writing. I got this of Dafont.com and I  think it works really well with the picture. I wanted a really simple CD cover, that wasn’t too busy, and was easy to read and look at, which I think I have done. I also think the picture work well. It was taken on a disposable camera in Amsterdam, looking down a river, so it’s a simple and not fussy shot. I think it also worked well because the writing could be placed right in the middle, and not look distorted.

Something that I thought went wrong with the project was that my picture was very dark so it was hard getting the text in the right place. Orignially, my idea for the back cover was to have the main titles in the top right corner, and the cd names down the left, but I had to change this as the black text wouldn’t show up. I didn’t want to use white as I didn’t feel it would look as good, so I had to make sure I positioned all the text in the right places. This is also why I used different sized texts for the track names as, in the darker places, the text would have to be bigger so you could actually read it.

The things I found difficult about the project was manily getting used to photoshop. I know knew how to use photoshop from editing pictures, but found this a lot harder as I had no idea what I was doing because I wasn’t editing pictures! I did manage to get used to it quite quickly, but this was the main thing that I found hard about the project.

During the project I learnt how to delete backgrounds out of text using the magic wand tool and how to free transform images. Also, I learnt how to create text on photoshop as I had no idea how to!

The band name is ‘Endless Port’, and I wanted this to stand out so I used a black and white font as the picture is quite dark and just black wouldn’t have shown up, and using white as well made it look more creative. The album name is ‘Travels’ and again, used the same font as it was on the front on the CD so it matched with the main title of the band.

My CD track names were helped created  by a ‘cd track name generator, as where the band and album name.

 

All these CD cases could be classed like mine as the all have ‘random’ backgrounds with bold, writing in the middle, or, in large writing on the front. Also, appart from the bright orange ‘Vampire Weekend’ cover, most of the colours aren’t too bright, or have just one colour that is main, and that stands out.

If I had more time and money I would have got a better picture, so it wasn’t as dark.

Open publication - Free publishing - More travel

Centred Magazine February/March 2010
Professional and simple front cover, not over the top.
contents page is bright and imaginative, with bold writing. Clear, but simple writing so its easy to read.
 Simple photography, and easy to read.

All other pages are really simple to read, but really imaginative anf fun to look at, which makes up for the writing style being very plain and simple.

has 'fun facts', good articles which are interesting for students, and makes you want to read it.

About helping students save money, giving them ideas

Open publication - Free publishing - More cca

California College of the Arts Undergraduate Viewbook 2012-2013

Its bright colours stand out to everyone, and straight away caught my attention out of any of the other magazines.
The layout of the magazine and posts are all really simple, yet creative, with the bright colours for text boxes so you can easily see the text.
with simple pictures, and not too many its less confusing, and makes sure that at least one page is based on one subject. The photography is clear and not fussy.

It's articles are mainly about the college students currents at the college and how and why they enjoy it, and why they went there.