Magazine Growth

In order to illustrate the growth of my magazine, I filmed my magazine using a screen capture. I felt that this was important as it showed the development of my ideas and the order in which I created my product.

Contents Page Draft

Below is the second draft of my Contents Page. I feel it has positively grown from the first draft, as I have used Photoshop for this draft, in comparison to the initial draft created in PowerPoint. I replaced the example photo with an image taken from my photoshoot and changed the basic textboxes on PowerPoint with ones that have different gradients and levels of transparency. I feel that I can improve this draft by including many more fratures typical to a music magazine, such as feature artists, more images and elements of synergy.

Double Page Spread Draft

This is the draft version of my Double Page Spread. In this version, I tried to incorporate as many of the features that frequently appear in music magazines, such as images, headers, footers and pull quotes.

Front Cover Draft

This is a draft version of my front cover. This will be constantly updated as I continue to improve it.

Music Magazine Article Draft

He’s the exhilarating new kid on the block, wielding just an acoustic guitar, with the world at his feet. Sir Paul McCartney offers him management advice, while Simon Cowell is already offering him a professional recording contract.

Meanwhile, outside Shepherds Bush Empire, thousands of screaming teenage female fans have made clear their feelings for him. But he says he’s not the type to take advantage of the offers of female attention.

“Right now I’m just concentrating on doing what I love, getting my music out. I don’t have plans for anything else. I don’t really go for any of that.”

David Chalk’s “Saving the Hero” became one of the songs of summer 2011, remaining in the charts for 14 weeks running.

Chalk is the real thing – a down-to-earth teen that spent his childhood singing in front of family at Christmas or locked in his room playing his guitar – a present given to him at the age of six from his grandfather, who was also a singer-songwriter.

Inspired by artists such as Ed Sheeran and Coldplay, he’s already made a collaborative EP with the leading lights of the UK grime and rap scene. His songs are influenced by relationships, breakups and the aftermath.

Sir Paul McCartney continuously mentors David, helping him with both the music and personal side of his career.

 “He’s been fantastic”, enthuses David. “His musical knowledge is greater than anyone’s. We keep in contact about once a fortnight, he’d update me on what’s going on, advise me what song to do next and how to do the video.

 “I knew exactly how I wanted every single song to sound”, David explains, “I’d spend about a week writing a song. I’d then perform it a few times at some of my gigs. If it goes well, I record it.”

He now carries out 250 performances a year, so David’s days of slumping on a mate’s sofa playing FIFA are coming to an end.

David Chalk’s new album ‘Reason to Cue the Bass” is out in stores on 11^th July.

Magazine Contents Page Draft

 This was the initial draft of my contents page. I created it on PowerPoint, using text boxes and clip art to make a rough template of where I wanted to place objects for my final version.

Magazine Front Cover Draft

Below is an initial draft of my magazine front cover. I sketched it in powerpoint, using tools such as Word Art, Clip Art and Autoshapes, to illustrate some of the ideas that I would like to use in my final front cover.I have included all the important features of a magazine front cover, including the Masthead, Sell Line, Barcode and Main Image. The images and fonts were used for the purpose of my initial draft and are not representative of the final product.

Masthead Design

Below is a video timelapse of one of my Masthead designs. I created it on Photoshop, and filmed it on Camstudio. It illustrates the effects and techniques I used in order to create my Masthead.

Below is the second draft version of my Masthead:

Magazine Sketches

Before I began producing my magazine on Photoshop, I had to create a rough idea of what I wanted my magazine to look like. I achieved this by sketching several of my ideas on A4 paper. I then replicated these ideas onto Photoshop and then continuously developed them.