Final Products

Progress monitoring week 6

In my final week of production i have been finishing off every page and making amendments after getting feedback from my audience over the weekend. My front cover, contents page and How to survive a rock festival double page spread are done. I am just adding parts to my other 2 double page spreads and amending the layout to my Top ten best selling rock albums double page spread, as i had made a big mistake and forgotten to add columns into it.

I have now amended this double page spread and its changed from- 

to-

After getting the feedback to change this double page spread, i made the image smaller so it was visible as the image was completely lost in the first version. I also changed the text so it was smaller but easier to read; i got rid of the stroke as it made it difficult to read and didn't look as professional. I also added headers to each album and the names of the band and album with a big red number of the order they are in. 

My Contingency Plans

My Top Ten Project Killers

What could go wrong during production	How are you going to avoid this issue? What’s your back up plan?
My models might not turn up	Ensure my models know the exact date and time of the photo shoot and have their numbers/a way to contact them to double check they are coming in the morning.
Images turn out blurry/not how I wanted	Make sure I have enough photos and take multiple of each pose in case one turns out badly so I have many spares.
Lighting goes wrong, too dark	Adjust the lighting to the perfect look before I start taking photos. Take a photo with the lighting to check it’s correct before carrying on with the photo shoot.
Work doesn't save	Keep saving every 5 minutes or so, have work saved in another place such as a memory stick.
Models don’t want to wear the costumes or do the poses I want	Have back up poses the models would be okay with in case they aren't happy with the original ones. Check they are happy with the costumes I give them before getting to the photo shoot.
I can’t get tickets to the gig with ‘pulled apart by horses’ where I need to get my imagery for my ‘New and upcoming band’ double page spread.	Make sure I have the tickets I need, or if I can’t get them to one gig, get them for another.
Can’t borrow an electric guitar for my photo-shoot.	Use the acoustic guitar I have at home, but first check with my teacher in music that I can use one of the electric guitars.
Equipment fails such as the camera.	Make sure I have a backup camera for the photo-shoot.
Have to reschedule photo-shoot	If this happens I will make sure the entire layout for my double page spreads are done so I can just place in the photos when they’re taken and not leave myself with a lot to do.
Can’t get hold of interviewee	Have another person I can interview just in case this happens.

Progress monitoring week 5

This week i have been mainly working on my 'New and upcoming band' article. I have successfully followed most of my schedule for this week apart from creating the breakout box for my 'top ten best selling rock albums' article.
My plan for the end lesson of the week was to assess my magazine but since i haven't finished yet i will do this the following week. I still need to finish my 'new and upcoming band' double page spread and add the text and a breakout box.
I had a bit of trouble uploading images on to in design as they kept pixelating, i managed to sort this problem out by using the 'Fit frame to content button which sized my images down perfectly without pixelating. Other than that everything in production this week ran smoothly.
Here are some screen shots of production up to date:

This week i have been finishing off my front cover and have almost finished 2 out of the 3 of my double page spreads.
This is my front cover almost finished.

As you can see by this image of my front cover up to date, its almost finished but is looking a bit bare on the right hand side. There are still a few things i would like to adjust and try a few ideas with such as I'm not 100% happy with the circle text around the 'Free CD inside'.














This week i have also mainly been working on my 'top ten best selling rock albums ever'. Heres a screen shot of where i am up to with this.
The background image is different to how i initially said i was going to have it. I took the images with the 'ACDC Back in black' t shirt on a different model but thought this image was a lot more professional










This is the image i was originally going to use for my double page spread but i am now going to use it in a breakout box.

Photo-shoot gig good images

This image is appearing on my 'How to survive a rock festival' double pager spread and will be appearing on my front cover as one of the poster images.

This is the photo i am using for my double page spread on 'How to survive a rock festival'

I will not be using the photo below but i thought it was a very striking shot and caught the perfect moment at a gig.

Photoshoot good images

These are a few images from my photo-shoot that i think turned out really well and that i'm thinking of using for my front cover. They are all clear and in focus and the butterfly lighting really makes the model stand out.

The photo below is the photo i am most likely going to use for my front cover, it looks affective and is very appropriate for my target audience. As a lot of my target audience are gamers i thought it would be a good idea to have her shooting the guitar like a gun and 'looking through the site' of the top of the guitar. By her looking through the sites of a gun (guitar) its aiming at the audience which draws the person into the cover as the model is looking directly at the reader. 

The image below will be on my contents page on the bottom right corner. 

I am going to use this image for my 'top ten best selling rock albums' background. I thought this shot was different and quite eye catching.

The image below was thought of after i saw this issue of Metal Hammer, i wont be using this image but i thought it worked well and was a cool shot.

Progress monitoring week 4

According to my schedule I have completed almost everything on my schedule for this week. I have mainly just been working on my front cover. I have been adding sell lines and sorting out the colours. I also did my photo-shoot in Thursdays lesson that went well and I got some very good images to use in my magazine. I have done everything I set myself on my schedule except starting on my contents page on Friday because I was sorting out images from my photo-shoot to use for my front cover.

My actions all went to plan as I am now not far off completing my front cover and I have done my photo-shoot and I am almost ready to start production on my contents page.

I haven’t learnt anything new this week in production but I have developed my skills more in [photography after doing my photo-shoot.

These are a few of the best images that came out