AS Coursework - Production
After researching into similar products and planning my music magazine I then started the production of it.
I used my templates to help me decide where to put things and how I was going to lay out the magazine. I used Adobe Paint Shop CS2 to create my front cover and contents page of my magazine. I used Adobe InDesign CS3 to create my double page spread.
I plan to use blue white and yellow colors through-out the magazine as this keeps the magazine aimed a both boys and girls. These colors also go together quite well so will not clash or look messy.
The first part of the production was the front cover. Before I started I took pictures of my friend posing as a new artist. I had previously decided in my planning stage that the front cover would be dominated by a picture of the main feature of the magazine as i had found this was a typical convention of most magazines.
I took a few photos so that I could go through them to choose my favourite and one that would look good on the front cover. I decided that the artist was to hold a guitar as this was a typical convention of many music magazines. It shows that the magazine is about music and targets the specific audience to buy it.
After I had took these pictures I chose the best ones that I thought would look good in the magazine and would attract people to buy it. I then started designing my magazine on Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign.



On my front cover i also found that i needed a barcode to make the magazine more authentic. i wanted to place this in the bottom right corner of the page as i found most magazines did this and didn't find any that had barcodes on the left. instead of copying a barcode from another magazine i used Photosho to create my own.


When I had done that i went into filter, motion blur and changed the angle to 90 degrees and changed the distance to 999.

Another photo effect I used was on my double page spread by making a photo look like a Polaroid. Again I used an online tutorial to help me create the effect.

Firstly I made a rectangular shape using the shape tool. I then used layer style to edit the rectangle and make it look more 3D and authentic. I used a drop shadow, inner glow and colour overlay to get the effect.

I then added a black square onto the back rectangle where is was going to add my picture.

Finally I added my chosen photo to the black square. this gave me my Polaroid effect.

This is my final product.



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