Annotated Magazine Cover

Here is my contents page. I tried to keep the general color scheme the same (blues and golds) much the same as the Wilmington Grammar School badge. I separated the different page numbers to create a bit of order on the contents page. I added a couple of relevant pictures, however tried to stop from making it look too overcrowded.

Magazine Titile

I came up with 4 initial ideas which where; HIVE, GAME, BUZZ and WAVE. As you can see by my ideas, i wanted the magazine name to be short and sweet. After carrying out a survey of all the people in my class, i chose to call my magazine WAVE. This could suggest ideas of radio waves, or just the general flow of music, to readers. I think it has very musical idea connected to it. I will be able to make the title bold and bright to catch the attention of the readers.

Magazine Analysis

My magazine is NME (New Musical Express), published by IPC who also publish other magazines such as Loaded, Uncut and Nuts. I believe that the target market for this magazine is teenagers and young adults, as these people have the biggest interest in music. However IPC publish 85 other magazines which reach 27 million UK adults, so the company's target market is very vast. NME magazine currently costs £2.30, it is published once a week and its current circulation is 38,486, a 47% decrease from 2003, where the circulation of the magazine was 72,422. Their sales revenue is currently approximately £350,000 per month.

The title of this magazine is NME. This stands for New Musical Express. This title suggest that the magazine is up to date with the newest tastes in music, and the latest releases. The title is written in very big bold font and white in colour. This is designed to get the customer/readers attention. As you can see the main image is a medium close-up of a member of the band My Chemical Romance. He has a serious face and is looking straight into the camera. His body language is slouched and relaxed. This suggests he is a cool character, the type you would expect to be in a band. There are other pictures on the front cover. This are examples of the free posters available in the magazine. This is an incentive to buying the magazine, so thats why they are advertised on the front cover.

My Preliminary Task

Here is my magazine cover. As you can see i have added a lot of text, and pictures to the original background. I made the picture brighter, and cleared up the persons face, using the patch tool and the spot healing tool. I cut out the person in the picture and added a new layer. I distorted and pixelated the background slightly, and kept the original picture of the person the same.

Here is my original picture.

Preliminary Exercise

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate your grasp of DTP.