To follow on from the previous lesson we were set a music magazine practical assignment which needed us to produce the front page of a new music magazine. We were set into groups, my group included Kirsty, Oyin, Catherine and myself. In our groups we brainstormed our ideas of our front page. While discussing amongst one another possible genres for our magazine we realised that RnB (Rhythm and Beats) was the main type of music listened to by the group so we decided to make this the genre of our magazine. After intense thinking and failed attempts for our title (such as fusing our initials together) Oyin came up with the idea of using an acronym. This was D2E which stood for Down To Earth, we all agreed seeing as the group consisted of ‘down to earth’ girls. The frequency of our magazine will be quarterly; this led to the idea of each issue being designed for a specific season. Catherine will be designing summer, Kirsty will be designing autumn, Oyin will be designing winter and I will be designing spring. Continuing from this idea we began to plan our photo shoot.
· Summer costume: shorts, vests, sandals, sunglasses
· Spring costume: bright colours to symbolize new life.
· Autumn costume: neutral colours; brown, cream, beige, green, (in co-ordination with leaves)
· Winter costume: hoodies, scarfs, gloves, umbrellas etc.
I enjoyed the idea of taking individual pictures as ‘Hip Hop Connection’ did, so the locations for our photo shoot will be plain contrasting backgrounds, where we can then add a background of our choice on Photoshop.
Since the group is female based we decided for our target audience to be young 16-24 year old females with a passion for RnB music. Pursuing this idea we started to plan the contents of our magazine since this is what our cover lines/ sell lines will refer to. To attract our target audience we decided for the magazine consist of ‘hot’ male RnB artist and female RnB artist that act as the role model type they can look up to. We also decided for the magazine to contain a section on the ‘latest’ fashion.
In the second half of the lesson we were on the Mac room and was given a brief/introduction to Photoshop to help us use the program when putting our magazine front cover together. This included instructions on how to cut, copy and paste an image into another one, add a background, text, etc.
· Summer costume: shorts, vests, sandals, sunglasses
· Spring costume: bright colours to symbolize new life.
· Autumn costume: neutral colours; brown, cream, beige, green, (in co-ordination with leaves)
· Winter costume: hoodies, scarfs, gloves, umbrellas etc.
I enjoyed the idea of taking individual pictures as ‘Hip Hop Connection’ did, so the locations for our photo shoot will be plain contrasting backgrounds, where we can then add a background of our choice on Photoshop.
Since the group is female based we decided for our target audience to be young 16-24 year old females with a passion for RnB music. Pursuing this idea we started to plan the contents of our magazine since this is what our cover lines/ sell lines will refer to. To attract our target audience we decided for the magazine consist of ‘hot’ male RnB artist and female RnB artist that act as the role model type they can look up to. We also decided for the magazine to contain a section on the ‘latest’ fashion.
In the second half of the lesson we were on the Mac room and was given a brief/introduction to Photoshop to help us use the program when putting our magazine front cover together. This included instructions on how to cut, copy and paste an image into another one, add a background, text, etc.
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