DPS first draft (music magazine)

Visual metaphor and photoshopping (music magazine)

From my target audience feedback on the firs draft of my music magazine from cover I was told that I needed my magazine to link more to the photograph. So as the model in the photograph is from the band 'The Cherry and Whites' I thought it would be a good idea to replace the letter 'a' with a cherry replicating this letter. However, I encountered a problem in doing this as the photographs I took of the cherry had a shadow behind which was unlike anything else on my cover. So I showed my photoshop skills and edited out the shadow. Here is the photograph

before and after:

after

before

first draft of front cover (music magazine)

magazine title and colours (music magazine)

Title

I took inspiration for the title of my music magazine from the music magazine 'Q' and the technology magazine 'T3' which stands for 'Tomorrow's Technology Today'. As 'Q' magazine is the same genre and style as my magazine so I took inspiration from this, so I came to the conclusion that the title should be short. I then took inspiration from 'T3' so my title could have a longer meaning whilst still remaining short like 'Q'. I then came up with the name 'M2' standing for 'Modern Music', which is short but has a longer meaning which was my plan for the magazine.

Colours

During my real media research I learnt that many of the magazines in my genre such as nme, kerrang and Q often use the colour red so I felt as though that red should also be the main colour in my magazine as well.

re-touch photos(music magazine)

I felt that my photographs could do with improvement, so I re-touched them on the apple mac in order to make them look better and therefore more suitable for my magazine. Here is one example of my photographs before and after. What I did was crop the original photograph and edited out the things in the background to make it look more like a music magazine photograph.

Before

After

Photo shoot number 1 (music magazine)

 Here are a few examples of photographs of my models used for my magazine from the my first shoot. I made sure that these were taken in a music environment, with mise-en-scene that is related to the genre of music which I want to have on my magazine. However, I feel some of these photographs still need improvements if they are to be included in my final draft.