Outtakes from cover/double page spread shoot

These are my draft photos that I took to add to my music magazine

inspirations for hair/make up/styling/art direction

What I've done over half term

Over half term, I came in twice to fine tune my work and also make a few alterations, as I thought that my magazine was not of as high a standard that I wanted. I have also been trying to work at home, to get on with my questions which I plan to have completely finished in the next month, before coursework deadlines.

New photos

I have taken more pictures for my magazine. Here are a few of my photos.

The first of the photos originally looked different, but I accidentally saved over it when I had finished editing. When taking more pictures, we bought semi-permanent coloured hairspray to add effect to the picture.

Update on magazine

Since my last update I have made a lot of progress with my magazine. I have almost completed my contents page and double page spread.
For my double page spread, I took inspiration from various magazine articles (pictures below), I thought these would fit with my magazine, as they are quite bold, but still very simple.

Plan for next week

Next week I plan to take more pictures for my contents page and start drafting my contents page, I will do this using photoshop.

I will use NME as my style model again for my contents page.

Coursework update: Magazine cover

For the past couple of months I have been working on my music magazine cover, this is what I have done so far. After a lot of consideration, I decided to call my magazine uLove, because it connects with the audience by including them & showing the music that my readers love. The genre of my music magazine is pop music. I chose to use bright colours because it will stand out against other magazine covers & will attract the eye of potential readers. I wanted to do a simple cover because I think that a cluttered magazine cover would look unprofessional & messy, therefore would not attract readers. I will put this on facebook to see if it attracts potential readers, as my magazine is aimed at 16-24 year olds.

I used this as my style model, I have decided not to include some of the features of this magazine for reasons that I expressed before. However, my magazine cover is still not finished so I may add some more of the features in the future.

Magazine draft using a downloaded image.

This is the draft for my music magazine that I will try to recreate using an original image.