Summary of magazine

For the music mag project, I wanted to create three products which combined would appeal to an audience of 17-25 year olds. I began with taking pictures of guitarists and vocalists in bands at various Camden venues which are luckily at my disposal, To make the images more eye-catching, I edited them on a windows media program. 'FADE' and 'Off me chops' were two rough drafts for the front cover which I experimented with. After asking people what they thought, I decided to move on to another genre. At first I wasn't sure about which genre I wanted to focus in on, therefore I took as many pictures as possible when I went on a night out and eventually extracted images from each night and came up with a selection of pictures which I could use for my feature and front cover. I decided to settle with the dance/clubbing scene. It took me three or four drafts with the final image to create the final mag cover. Experimenting with sell lines, contrast, colours other photoshop tools, I was eventually satisfied with the cover which is of a girl with a with spot/strobe shining on her with luminous bold sell lines. I wanted the feature, contents page and front cover to be completly different, however still in keeping with the clubbing theme. The contents page was important as it shows what is in the magzine, i.e clubbing websites, interviews etc. The products combined challenge forms and conventions of similar media products as all of it's photography, writing and ideas are from one person and combines original imagery with not only clubbing news and information but covers saftey issues aswell which are a huge issue in British media.