Colour

R&B magazines are mostly aimed at both Males and Females, and is usually made clear on the front cover, so that the buyer is sure that the magazine is for him/her. The colours that they usually use are dark colours, such as: Dark Purple, Black and Dark Blue. This explains to the reader that the R&B genre of magazines are not gender-biased, as they are presented with dull colours, which in some ways would appeal to both genders as it is a mix of colours for both.

This task was done in Adobe InDesign. I started off by drawing a box and filling it with a colour. I started off by filing few boxes in Black. Then I duplicated the box and changed colours. I mainly aimed for dark colours.I created a minimum of 5 colour schemes.

(From left to right going across)

Colour Swatch 1 - Grey, Black, Purple and White. This colour scheme mainly has dark colours, and in R&B magazines dark colours being used are popular. Purple was a definate colour which I was going to use in my magazine.  There are many colour which would contrast with purple, for example Yellow and Bright Blue however I couldn't use these colours as I want my magazine to have dark colours as it is a R&B magazine.

Colour Swatch 2 - Black, Burgandy and White. This colour scheme is my least favourite as I don't think the colours I have picked relates to the genre 'R&B'. There is a possibilty that I won't be using this colour scheme.

Colour Swatch 3 - Grey, Burgandy, Purple and White - This colour scheme has got few dark colours and few light colours so they can contrast well together. The Masthead would be Purple and then a dark tone image as the front cover image, then burgandy could be used for the main sell line and then white could be used to for the sell lins around the page.

Colour Swatch 4 - Grey, Black, Blue and White - This colour scheme can a back up colour scheme just in case the colour scheme I want to use (Colour Swatch 5) doesn't go well. There will be more focus on the Blue and Black however as R&B has dark colours to represent them. This is why I can incorporate grey into the colour scheme.

Colour Scheme 5 - Grey, Navy Blue, Purple and White - This is the colour scheme which I have finalised to use. I like the contrast between the Navy Blue and Purple and the Grey. White is also a nice colour which fits into the colour scheme very well. I believe that this colour scheme will represent the music genre 'R&B' very well due to the dark colours and the familar colours used in R&B

This task can aid in my final product as it will give my an idea on what colour scheme I want on my magazine which will be constant in all pages. The colorus which I have planned with 5 different swatches all represent the music genre I have chosen.

Production Log #8 - Masthead Ideas

21^st / 22^nd October 2013

In today’s lesson, I continued from last lesson which was the masthead designs.  I went on DaFont.com and downloaded as many fonts I liked. I downloaded an extra 5 fonts which I then opened up by using a new application called ‘Nexus Font’.

I opened up my InDesign document which has few masthead ideas from last lesson; I repeated the process again by typing in ‘Masthead’ and then picking a font which I downloaded recently. By changing the adjustments of the width between each text, colour and adding bevel emboss to make it more effective.

In Tuesday’s lesson I carried off doing work at home. I started off doing my ‘colour’ task. This task is important as it shows which type of colour I will possibly be using for my magazine, furthermore which colours would match well. I will also have to take into consideration on which colours will match the genre ‘R&B’.

Image Ideas for Magazine Photoshoot

Image Ideas

    

This task consist of ideas on what images I want to have which would strongly portray the musical genre of R&B. This can aid in my final product as my models for the magazine have to try and copy these ideas in which can portray the musical genre easy in my magazine. The outfits and the tones of each images are all incorporated into my final product.

Production Log #7 - Generating Name Ideas For My Magazine

14th October 2013
In this lesson I had to be creative and think out of the box so that I can generate name ideas for my magazine. I had few names in my mind which I had to write them down as soon as possible. I decided to write down the different name ideas in different colour, after looking at synonyms of different words like 'Vibe', 'Melody' and 'Dynamic'. I tried to think of many different types of names like a compound name, Acronym, or phrase. However I had more connotative words than other types of names. After this task was completed, I took a picture of it and uploaded it onto my blog with a short paragraph informing what I did in this task,

After this task was accomplished, I went on to 'dafont' to find some fonts which will be suitable for my magazine and be a perfect masthead. I downloaded at least 10 different kinds of font, all which are sans serif. Sans serif is a more effective font which stands out more on the page. I opened up Nexus Font, which was a new application for me, inserted all the fonts which I downloaded into that application, in which then I got a preview on what each font would look like.

Next I started off doing the 'masthead designs' on InnDesign CS6. I started off doing 3, each being a different font, different positioning and different shades of purple. I have to do at least 10.

From this task I have gained more confidence in using different types of font as well as being more creative with name ideas for the magazine. I had a struggle at first in thinking of names/words however slowly I started thinking outside the box and got more word which actually associated with 'R&B'.

Name Ideas

This image shows all the name ideas I generated. These words are related to the specific genre of music I have chosen, R&B. It took me a while to think of names for my magazine, however I had already thought of a name for my magazine. I have decided to go with the name Melody. It is a connotative word. This word is short, catchy, simple and meaningful. This type of music genre has a tuneful harmony and melody. It will straight away will give the genre of music to the reader, making them easily recognise what  music magazine it is.

For this task, I had the chance to show the different types of font i could use for my Masthead. To get access to these unique and different font, I went on DaFont.com and have a surf on which fonts would be suitable for my magazine. I downloaded over 15 different font, saved them and dragged them into NexusFont. NexusFont was a great application to use to open up all the fonts at the same time. I used the possible colours I will use for my magazine. I still not sure what to call my name, so I used the 'Masthead' to give me rough idea of the look. I typed up all of these fonts on InDesign,this task took me 20 minutes to do. After that I exported the file into a JPEG image and uploaded it into my blog.

This task is part of planning my magazine and the first bit is to think of a name, and making a brain storm with ideas of the magazine name I want as well as the type of masthead I want to use can be easy into producing my final product. 

Mood Board

Mood Board

The purpose of the mood board is to gather ideas on what my magazine will look like just by looking at the images and recognising the audience and the genre. This can aid in my final product by knowing what I need include into my magazine which relate to the images on the mood board so that I can appeal the magazine to my audience.

Existing Names and Mastheads

Existing Names and Mastheads

This final research task of looking into existing names and mastheads can aid in my final product as I can understand how the magazines can attract the readers with their name and giving away the genre of the magazine. The different styles, colours and fonts used all portray their music genre. Also I can bear in mind which names exist so that I don't use it on my final magazine. 

Production Log #6 - First Attempt On Using CamStudio

8th October 2013
In this single lesson, I thought of doing a task in which will not to be too time consuming, so I decided to do my preliminary task video. I opened up my preliminary task on Inn Design CS6, and CamStudio. This task made me realised that on Inn Design you should layer everything. I have few thing on the same layer which meant I had to move bits and bobs of the tasks into new layers by copying and pasting layers. This process took me the whole lesson, so I didn't get a chance to record my preliminary task. I also learnt that you should always be prepared for tasks no matter how long they will take, during the last 10 minutes of the lesson I decided to write down all the tasks I have completed and all the tasks that I haven't done, and then plan out which week I should do which task and when I need to fully complete it by. In my free time, I decided to do my mood board as it is a quick easy task to complete which took me 20 minutes to do, With images on my mood board I also supported the images with text, so that people can understand my mood board easily.

Production Log #5 - Independent Work

7th October 2013
In today's lesson we started off to do independent work and be organised and finish off all the work. I looked over what work I have completed and which work I need improve on. I finished off doing my survey result analysis on prezi instead of PowerPoint as I wanted to show my results in a neat presentation. I analysed each results of each question in depth and how I would take in the results into my own magazine. This task took me a whole double lesson to complete. Furthermore, I also planned out which tasks I have completed and which task I need to improve on. I improved on my Preliminary Task and Evaluation. I planned out on which tasks I will be doing each week until I eventually have no more research and planning tasks to complete.

Audience Survey Analysis

The audience survey analysis can aid my final product in understanding my audience and what they want in my magazine. Considering their likes and dislikes can mean that I can successful in giving a magazine which is suitable for them. Their views and opinions on my ideas have also been analysed which can furthermore aid my final product as the ideas they like can be added and the ideas they have disliked can be removed and be more appealing to the readers. 

Survey on Magazine Ideas

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I have constructed a survey on a website called SurveyMonkey to gain ideas on what my target audience would prefer and not prefer in my magazine which I will be creating soon.
I created 10 questions which ranges from which genre of music they like to which social media would be ideal for my magazine. The participants of my survey had many ways to answer the questions, ranging from yes or no to a own opinion answer.
The survey helped me out to know what I need feature in my magazine. I am taking the answers which I will recieve from this survey into consideration when planning on creating my magazine.

Overall, the purpose of this survey is to see what the participants currently like and dislike and how I can apply the answers of my survey into my magazine ideas and when producing my magazine.

Key Concepts

Magazine Key Concepts by geetagohil

I researched the different key concepts of a music magazine which are Codes and Conventions, audience, Representation of the music genre I have chosen and Institution. Looking at those key concepts, I can understand the meaning of my music magazine and how I can slowly build it up with strong research. This will aid my final product in understanding how my music magazine is built as well as understanding the audience and their needs on what they would like to read - in which I can incorporate into my magazine article.