Magazine practical task research and planning (unfinished)

Research

1) Use Google to research potential magazines that you could use as your brand/design for this project. Create a shortlist of three potential magazines and upload an example front cover from each one. We recommend looking at lifestyle magazines or a similar genre as these are more achievable to re-create.

2) Choose one of the three magazine brands to use for your project e.g GQ, Vogue or The Gentlewoman. Then find three different front covers for your chosen magazine and embed them in your blogpost. Analyse the fonts, colours and typical design. What is the language or writing style? How are the cover lines written? What camera shot is generally used for the cover image? You need to become an expert in the design and construction of this magazine and its branding.

Rock Sound

Planning

1) In your blogpost, write your main cover line (also called the 'main flash') - this is the main cover story that links to your central image. It must be 100% original - all your own words.
The majority of Rock Sound's magazine covers don't have coverlines so I am not going to include any.

2) Briefly plan the image you will need for the cover - model, costume, make-up, lighting etc. At this point, simply describe the image you need to capture.

Image of me with black and white makeup with white and red lighting.

3) Write the cover lines and any additional text you need for your magazine cover.

The issue number, ‘digital edition’, ‘Bones098’- which is going to be used as my artist name.

4) Sketch out your cover on plain A4 paper using your written planning. Take a photo of your sketch and upload it to your blogpost.

Photoshoot

1) On your planning document blogpost, state the date, time and location of your photoshoot and the name of the model or photographer you will use (you can choose anyone to be your cover model or you can be the cover model yourself).

Location- at home

Date- Monday 4th of may

Time- around 6pm

Name of model-Dhurata 

Publication to blog and evaluation

1) Once you have completed your design you need to save or export a copy as a JPEG image. Then, upload it to your blogpost. 

2) Upload two genuine covers of the magazine you have used and put them next to your front cover. This is a brilliant way to check how professional your work looks alongside the real thing.

3) Write a short evaluation of your work: have you succeeded in your brief to create a new, original edition of an existing magazine? Does your cover stand up alongside the genuine covers of your chosen magazine? How professional is your work alongside those genuine examples?

I think I mostly succeeded to create a new edition for the existing magazine but it obviously doesn't compare because the quality of the photo is worse that the original magazines and because I took the photo myself it sort of looks like a selfie and less professional than the others. However, I think the best part is the lighting as it is similar to other Rock Sound magazines.

4) Finally, what would you do differently if you completed this assignment again?

I would've planned more for the makeup because it could've been better and I would've asked someone else to take the photo of me. Also I think the font of 'bones098' could be better.