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Contents page research

contents pages:
column  structures
pictures (different sizes)
page numbers with article titles and on pictures.
title "contents" at top typically
sometimes has the name of the magazine on.
some are just one big picture with the contents columns on them
double pages have continuous factors (the red header in Q, how contents is split over two pages 

Draft interview for double page spread

Interview with Steph .s

When we met with Steph .s days before preforming up on the big stage up at Indie fest she seemed so overwhelmingly excited, when we asked her about how she felt that she would be going on stage with a 4 thousand people audience in just under a week she replied “oh gosh,  Im a little nervous but over all im just so excited to be here so quickly” she says “I always dreamed of preforming infront of audiences and this is the biggest one I have yet.” When we ask her about how she’ll prepare herself for the show she tells us that she’s “not going to take it too far, I’ve always had people tell me not to over do practising before hand, that’s how you her yourself or your voice” she advises.

We spoke with her for a while and when we asked her about how she felt about the atmosphere of the festival she mentioned “its just like when I came with my friends, I can see how excited everybody is and later on I can see how absolutely exhausted everybody is but it’s always been so inspiring to see how excited everybody was for the next day” she recalls some of her own festival experiences like the tent placement and bad weather, how close you were to the next people over and how “it felt oddly comforting not knowing who was next to you perfectly but knowing enough about them to know they are like you and are here for a good time” she remenises back to when her and her friends would camp out and how many people they had actually spoken to and continued to keep up with. She also warned us about all of the “drunk kids who throw up on you”. Which thank fully nobody had experienced yet.

Magazine Covers

Here are the best in my opinion of the front covers that i have created for my magazine. with different photos from my photo shoot

Possible photos for magazine front cover

1.I chose this photo due to the space on the side as well as it give the impression of two friends taking photos, it doesn't look all that professionally done, as the photo isn't serious or framed perfectly, which really conveys the indie style because of the intimacy in the photo.









2. i chose this to be one of the photos i considered using as it involved the audience and gave a place for the name of the artist (on her hand) and also had space around her for cover lines and a masthead on top









3.this photo i thought would be a good cover as the eye contact involves the audience and the pose and the guitar on her back her back give an impression of youth and the indie genre









4.i liked this photo and think it could be a good cover photo as there is lots of space around her for the cover lines, and space above her for a masthead slough because her hands are cut off by the photograph  means i wouldn't be able to make the photo wider, but hopefully the space on top and below would mean that wouldn't be necessarily an issue







5. i like this photo because it gives an impression of anger/confusion with the expression and it suggests there might be something weird or new about the artist or music.

Blog feedback

feed back on my blog and work through last term and my response to the EBI targets that have been set for me.

Photo editing research

editing

photo editing includes things like getting rid of 'undesirable features' of somebody ie: getting rid of spots or stray hairs. it's often used on women in the male gaze to make them more appealing, making their legs thinner, removing cellulite making their eyes bigger etc.

photo magazines edit photos to make them more appealing to viewers.

companies use softwear like Photoshop to make the edited photos still look realistic.

this can also mean getting rid of red eye in photos of editing out things in the background, like buildings or signs, or wires on those who have them. 

for example: 

http://www.boredpanda.com/photoshopped-celebrities-before-after/?image_id=photoshopped-celebrities-before-and-after-9.jpg