QUESTION 7: Looking back at your preliminary task of the college
magazine, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from the full
product?
My college magazine was
extremely basic and rushed when I made it. The front cover had an image of some
friends working together on some homework to give it the feel of a college
environment, I then copy and pasted my own college’s logo on over the top of
the image. Then for the font I used a type written style as I decided that it
gave the magazine a bit more of a up-to-date feel as well as it fitting well
with my model magazines which I got inspiration from. Then for my contents page
I just had a block colour of sky blue and then had had bullets points with
white written text but this wasn’t in a type written style of text. I decided
on the blue background as I felt that it had better flow in conjunction with
the front cover, and the white text was white so that it was easy to read. I
also decided to have some lower and cupper case letters with in the words as I
felt this would communicate better to teenagers although this is very much so a
stereotypical thoughts as personally I hate it when I see on adverts for
teenagers they use abbreviations or ‘text talk’ when addressing teenagers like
myself.
So to improve from my
first attempt of making a magazine that was my college magazine I made, AV
(Avant-Garde), I did a whole host of things.
1)
For instance, the photograph quality and
aesthetically speaking was a lot stronger as well and the quantity of
photographs used throughout the magazine, not to mention that the camera I was
using was also of a higher quality as well as being able to apply more
technical methods to my photography creating the effects that I wanted and not
the camera creating them for me as this is what happened for my college
magazine as the camera was set to ‘auto’.
2)
The way I improved my second magazine was by
having a strong inspiration model to work from as I felt this made my work a
lot stronger and well as it having a lot more structure. So the layout this
time round for me is certainly something that I have looked deeply into and so
I chose minimalistic as this is the type of layout that cultural magazines seem
to go for. I also learnt that many magazines will carry their colour scheme
from the cover into the feature article double page spread but I also added my
own twist by using the same photo from the photo shoot into all three of the
cover, contents and feature article.
3)
I also learnt a lot about fonts in the way that
it really does make a difference in the way that it speaks out to the audience
as to what your magazine is about. I did initially think about using the same
type writer font but I decided against it as it seems a bit try hard so I opted
for something that was sleek and sophisticated, this is again very important as
because there isn’t much on my cover everything that there is on my cover needs
to be strong, bold and striking- this is when my chosen cover lines taps in I
think.
4)
My need to research existing magazines was a
must for me as I was venturing into something quite different room my class as
I wanted to do a culture magazine as a opposed to a music magazine purely
because it’s something that I find more interesting and from my photography
point of view I would be able to be more creative and have fun more fun with it
this way. So for this I looked at I-D, LOVE, Wonderland, Dazed & Confused and POW- these magazines
content provided just what I was after in the need of layout ideas, the way
they use their language in articles which I found often was extremely laidback
and cool, and the way they colour scheme. This is what was important for my
final piece compared to my college magazine which was just a mish-mash of
colour because it had no real direction, so for my final piece I settled on 3
colours which consisted of red, white and black which I think created the
striking front cover that I was after.
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