From looking back at my school magazine and music magazine I find that I have learnt so much from knowing about the magazine industry to learning new programs that would help me create my magazine. My school magazine was extremely unprofessional and badly made compared to my music magazine, which looks alot more professional.
On the right is my music magazine and on the left is my school magazine.
From the two covers I can see the real difference between them and how the music magazine seems more professional. I find that alot more research went in to my music magazine, this could be the reason why it has come out so successful. Also when I created my school magazine I was not as familiar with the programs that I used (Indesign etc) and when making my music magazine I was able to use Photoshop which I was very familiar to using. I have learn`t different terms and conventions magazines use (i.e strapline, mast head, skyline etc and the conventions such as; The columns, the 'Z' rule etc.). The mast head and border on the school magazine seem quite unprofessional on the cover now, I think this is because it blends in with the background making it hard to see also it looks like it has just been 'slapped' on without any thought to how it would look. I also found out that the Mise en scene of photos are extremely important because the audience need to just be able to glance at the cover and know exactly what the genre or type of magazine is, e.g. If the audience were to look at the cover of my music magazine they would know that it is a music magazine they would think it has something to do with electronic music.
When making the contents and looking back at my school one, I have realized by doing a little bit of research you can turn something that's not worth looking at to something that could potentially be in a magazine. When doing my school magazine I didn't plan where anything would go, it was just a guess, unlike my music magazine where I planned where everything would go, thought of the colours, added pictures and overall made it look professional.
Throughout all of this I also learnt that creating a magazine isn't just slap a few pictures on a page and add text to it, The planning and research, doing photoshoots and thinking of ideas that go in to it are on such a large scale although the many people who read magazines on a daily bases don`t even think about this for a second.
I never thought about where everything should be placed on a magazine as you can see on my school magazine, also how different colours on different backgrounds cant blend or it will cause problems for when the reader reads the magazine. All these different things I never thought about once but now I can see the effort that is put into making a magazine.
This made me think about how the layout affects what audience is attracted to the magazine and how planning a magazine is really important for creating a successful magazine. It helped me to see where the best places were for text and photos to be placed on the cover, contents and double page spread.
The photoshoots where completely different as well, for my media photoshoot I took over one hundred images just to make sure I had the right photo and this is what I would take when doing a photoshoot for my photography class whereas in my school on I only took around four images. I found that this has also benefited me in photography also that I need to take more photos so I can see which one is perfect for each page.
Throughout creating this magazine I have learnt so much and found out more about the magazine industry. I enjoyed the making and research of my magazine, when designing I felt that I was in my comfort zone and I could easily get through it without any difficulties. I felt that my magazine turned out great.
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