AICE Media Studies

Reflection In the end, I chose the picture where the model has a monotone face, as the portrayal is seemingly of a rap artist who takes himself serious and is trying to climb the ladder of the music world. That portrayal would only be able to be portrayed by the model having a serious face and not doing any facial effects. Between the two pictures that feature the model having a serious face, I picked the one that seemed easier to edit as the first picture included a white mark that was impossible to photoshop off.

The program that I used to edit my cover is Indesign, an Adobe program which allows us to write and edit picture all in one. At first the program was difficult to use as I was inexperienced while using the program. For the editing of my blog post, I tried to keep the image as close to its original as possible. I edited out the blemishes in the pictures, such as marks on the face and on the arms, as well as inconsistencies in the image, such as certain parts being blurred that weren't supposed to be blurred. On the top of the cover image, I will be putting my magazine's title "8TH STREET" is a mix of red and white colors, while using the font Hiragino Kaku Gothic StdN, as its boldness and kerning spacing is perfect for my title to cover the whole width of the page. For the subheadings, I plan on using the Rockwell font as it catches one's attention, yet doesn't distract from the cover image. For the subheadings, I wrote things that I believe a magazine woul...

  PLANNING COVER      For my magazine cover, I plan on making a spacey effect by changing the background to a distorted type of cover that has been popularized in music videos in this new era of the 2010s. I plan on putting the masthead at the top of the page, behind the model's head yet still visible to the public. I plan on including the subheadings at the bottom of the page, as it would make editing the background of the cover much easier for me to do. i plan on making the background effect a sort of purplish-blue, so in turn I will make the masthead and subheadings a contrasting color, such as yellow or red, to not take all the attention of what I will actually be including in my magazine.  Some things I will be including in my magazine prop wise is a fake gold chain and a fake wad of money, as those are things that many new age rappers gloat around and what inspiring rappers chase after, as it shows that a rapper finally made it to the big leagues. I wil...

Photo Shoot Plannin g    For my photo shoot, I am planning on using my little brother, as getting in touch with a well-known rapper is harder than it seems. I plan on having him simply pose as a rapper of current times, and will be using fake jewelry and fake money to represent the way current rappers seem to appear as. I want the photos to represent my magazine in a way that highlights the new and up and coming rappers as well as showing current fashion trends seen in the rap community and highlight these trends that have appeared.  I plan on editing the plain background and making it an edit that is used in many different music videos, and stimulates a sort of distorted purplish blue color.   I plan on doing the photo shoot during the night as it is easier to set up the lighting and the camera would not glare due to the sun. The photoshoot should include a variety of poses and the best picture will be picked out of a consensus choosing on the best picture. I pla...

In these feature spreads, we can see how the background color of each individual artist relates to either their personality or their time period, as is seen in Bob Marley's background image being a sort of 70s style image. In the feature spreads, the artist is normally on one page, with the other side of the magazine having the summary yet still maintaining the background image to maintain the connectedness of the artist with the summary.No credits to the photographer or information  on the picture is provided. The main feature that remains constant throughout all the cover spreads is that all the artist are playing a guitar, which is something I strive to maintain constant in my magazine, by emphasizing the performing aspect of the artist I showcase.

  In the magazine GuitarPlayer, the magazine creators use two pages of the magazine to include the table of contents. The magazine includes an advertisement in between the table of content pages, which is used to capture the audiences attention on a certain item. The summary is very brief for each article, as the table of contents keeps the summary of each article simple, either to the name of the musician that is being featured, or the the item that is being reviewed on. Features that seemingly repeat is that in the first table of content page, the cover musician is normally shown at the top of that table of contents. Photo credits for the other musicians included in the magazine are shown in the bottom of the table of contents, which is another feature that repeat in most magazines. The majority of artist shown are normally using the guitar in some sort of way, both performing and/or practicing.   I will try to keep the majority of these in mind wh...