Preliminary Task Evaluation

I have been given some questions to answer about my preliminary task-

Preliminary Task Questions from gemabema

Music Magazine Fonts

I have been starting to plan out my magazine in my head, and have started to look for things that I feel will fit in with my design. I looked at some different fonts to get a better idea in my head about where the text will go and what style I want it in. At the moment I have been focusing on the fonts for the front cover, and these are the ones I like the look of-

The ones that I really like are the ones on the first two lines. I like these because I feel like that they will always look neat wherever they are put, go well with other styled fonts, and look nice for a fixed music genre magazine.

What do you think about these fonts?

Action Plan

So the time is coming up for me to start getting ready for the making of my music magazine. This process will be long and hard so the make it a little easier, I have made an action plan. This plan will rule out when I would like to get things done by.

Date	Task	Completed?
24/02/14	All research and planning complete with first draft of magazine work
10/02/14	All pictures of models taken and collected
17/02/14	Pictures chosen and edited ready for draft
10/02/14	Magazine layout ready for photos to be imported
17/02/14	Have all names for artists and magazine ready
20/02/14	Have magazine mock finished so there’s time for any changes

 This will hopefully keep me on track, and make me motivated to get things done.  

Colours?

Recently I have been thinking more and more about what I want my music magazine to look like. My most recent thought is about the colours. I discovered that I haven't shown the results of the colours from my survey-

The most favorite colours picked are black, white, pink and red. I like the thought of using black and white with one other colour so it looks minimalist. I think this will make it cleaner and will work better with any images I use throughout the magazine, so it doesn't clash and look awful.

I will pick the final colours nearer the time of the production of the magazine, so I can see what looks best. Hopefully it will look okay!

My School Magazine Feedback

Erin Harper (erinsmediastudiesblog.blogspot.com)

I really like the overall layout as it looks really professional  and modern, this makes it 'easy on the eye'. The image is good as it's edited well, also the font is clear and easy to read. The colour scheme is very good as they work in harmony thus your cover looks complete. However you need more secondary leads so it looks less blank, also more secondary images are needed.

The contents page is good also as it follows the same colour scheme as the cover, also it used lots of secondary images and the information is portrayed
simply but effectively. However you need to show more editing skills.

Overall its AMAZING

Trish (Parent)

I think this is really well done. I like the style of it and it work well for the genre of a school magazine. It looks clean and very professional, and I like the way you have played out the front page with images and the school colours. I would read this, well done!

I am really happy with this feedback. I will also use the negative points as things to work on on my music magazine. If you have any feedback, feel free to leave a comment!

How I Chose My Magazine Name

So, I have now got to the stage of picking my magazine name. I chose from the names suggested to me from the survey, as I felt like it would show that I have used the feedback.

I hope you agree with my choice!