2011 Second Mixmag Magazine Analysis

This is my presentation for my second analysis of mixmag, the reason I chose
to do two mixmag analysis and not a different magazine is because I found the
layout and features of this second magazine as interesting as the first one.
The reason I chose this magazine is because the main article was on drugs suggesting
that the magazine will be focusing on the drug scene of dance music. The reason I found
this interesting is because I was confused as to whether the magazine where trying to breache
out to the audience in a positive way about drugs or a negative way about drugs. I also chose this
magazine because when I chose the DPS of the female musician/DJ I wanted to show that
the dance scene isn't all about men and felt inspired by the fact they had chosen a women
musician/DJ for one of their DPS features.

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2011 Mixmag Magazine Analysis

This is my presentation showing my analysis of dance magazine mixmag. The reason
I chose mixmag is because I was planning on basing my magazine on dance genre target
audience, so felt that I could get some inspiration through the choice of magazine to analyse.
I found the magazine interesting in the way it focuses on the club scene of dance music, which
is suggesting that they're breaching out to a niche market where as I want to breache to a larger
target audience.

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2011 Q Magazine Analysis

This is my presentation showing me analysing a Q magazine of my choice, the reason
I chose this magazine is because of the way the main image is based on the main article
and also the reason that the main article features as the biggest image on the contents page.
Also because I found the choice of main image interesting in the way they capture the audience
but give the musician a split personality, because Cheryl Cole is seen as the queen of pop and
to be featuring in Q as a Rock Chick isn't normally seen. Also I find the layout of the page
interesting in the way Q change the design of the magazine from being full of information to
being more like a poster style for a subscribers edition. I also like the way that the original
colour of the logo works with the colour of the image, I understand that it is hard to keep
a colour scheme flowing if your magazine sticks with one logo colour and doesn't change
it for different magazine designs.

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Development of 2011 College Magazine Contents showing the effects I used.

This is the presentation showing the development of my 2011 College Magazine using
Adobe Photoshop CS5, the reason I chose to only show the development of the contents
page is because I felt that I captured the same effects in the contents as I did in the front page.
In the presentation I show the effects I used on the contents page and also give a few words
as to why I chose the effects and what they're on the page to do.

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2011 College Magazine Contents Page

This is my final development of the College magazine front cover, I went with white and black being

the colours for the text because the image was so bright I didn't want to fill the page with colour.

Also if I was to chose loads of different colours for the text, it would make the page look like it

has more information on it then it really has and by picking black and white it looks like the

page doesn't have that much text to read. Also I feel it flows with the house style of the magazine with it being plain.

This is the image I took for my College magazine, I chose to take the picture

 of Dr Dre Beats headphones because my magazine was on gadgets within the

music industry. The reason I took the image on the white background with them

laying down, makes it look as though they have been used by some one capturing the

audience by making them want to be the person using them. Also the reason

I chose the white background as well was to give the image a plain look and stopping it from

looking cramped and crammed of many things to relate to the target audience age range for the magazine.

2011 College Magazine Front Cover adjusted

This is the adjusted College Magazine Front Cover, it is an adjustment of the
original keeping with the original title of the magazine and the original poster
image for the front cover. I thought I would also add a win bubble to make the
College Magazien Front Cover to give the magazine a more crisp and professional
look, also changed the red from being the background colour to becoming the text
colour because I felt that the red being the background colour was to in your face.

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2011 College Magazine Front Cover original

This is my original design for my Collge magazine front cover, I chose the red colour
because I wanted to relate the magazine to CCN itself. I chose the Poster look because
I wanted to make the magazine look less cramped because readers of that age wouldn't
want to much information to read.

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