Cover

This is the front cover to my music magazine, my magazine is going for the hip hop market. The name of my magazine is "I ♥ HIP HOP “and the magazine name was put in a box to match the box round the magazine name in "Q" I thought this style would match what kind of audience I want (13-30) as its not to childish but yet not to serious. The Font i used was "Small Fonts" and the font size is 77.I got the heart for the magazine name from Wingdings font and it was the same font 77.To finish it off i added a Gaussian blur from the effects option and left it at 0.5 Gaussian blur this with most my big text and made sure it all looked right and that the magazine name was central in the box surrounding it. BIGGEST STORY and smaller stories For my biggest story on the cover " THE NEXT AUTO-STAR".The font was white with a red bevel and it was the font"Gill Sans Ultra Bold" I used this font because with the effect "Outer Bevel" it looked professional and made it look unique and made it stand out from the other articles like "KANYE WEST DEAD?!?!" which was just white with Gaussian blur but I changed the size of the font which was "Eras Bold ITC" to show which news story was more important so even though the Main article was big and people would ultimately look at that first the bigger the smaller headlines were the more people would look at them. I did this because i wanted to make my magazine more open and leave little space and I did this because I wanted the side articles to be connected to the main article but not exact same style.

BAR CODE

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MAIN PICTURE

The main image on the cover was connected to the article "THE NEXT AUTO-STAR" which was of the artist Micheal Wooton.I used a Gaussian blur and changed the Brightness and contrast to make the image less blurred and make it suit the front cover and style of the magazine. I did this because the way I styled the contrast and brightness connects to the way I want my magazine to feel. For more on my images, here's the link-{insert link}

Magazine Evaluation

My task was to create a music magazine, Firstly i researched music magazines , artists and bands then finally making my decision to Choose a music genre or style. I chose to make a Hip Hop magazine because of a market available for a British Hip Hop Magazine and that i liked Hip Hop magazines.

But before i did this task i did a preliminary task , which was to make a cover page and contents page for a grace academy school magazine. Before starting this task i had a very little experience with photoshop and Fireworks but during the task in which i edited photos , edited backgrounds, used different effects and by doing these things it helped me gain some experience using the programs and it helped me when doing this music magazine task. The difference between the first and task is quite evident as the first task shows very basic skills while the second task shows use of different techniques to make my magazine. Something else i gained experience on was the way o magazine is set out. My first magazine used different placement techniques to different magazines that we researched while my second magazine was much more serious and had a better overall idea of what a magazine should look like.