Update

Quick little update from Brad here. currently Im busy cracking on with my evaluation. I am getting through it. I tell you something some topics that are raised really get me aggravated with society. It should be posted by the latest of sunday evening.

Music Magazine: Magazine Cover Draft 6

This is my 6th cover draft I having looked at my research Metal Hammer, I found that they put the band that are the main bands featured above the title aswell as the main image which are the headlined band. In my Dimmu Borgir or the Ramstein example they follow this pattern. 

Music Magazine: Contents Page Draft 4

For my fourth draft of my contents page I have changed the picture from a blurred picture to a non blurred one. I also have corrected some spelling errors and finnished of a couple of the tag lines.

Music Magazine: Magazine Cover Draft 5

This is my fifth draft of the front cover. I have cut down the band logos towards the bottom since they are unreadable. I have replaced them with a simple Cario SF font which going back to my research is what Metal Hammer Magazine does rather than having band logos. I have also removed all text bar the title from the faces of Lucidity and made the logo more central and changed the headline to a more simple headline.

Music Magazine: Convention Analysis

This is my magazine cover. The conventions I have used that there is the pug in the bottom right of the page detailing a feature that is included in the magazine. The cross head position is also awkward since it doesnt reside at the corner of the page. Insted it is at the bottom of the page which takes space off the picture. Unconventional is that the title takes pressense over the picture due to limitations of my skill with fireworks mean I do not know how to apply the heads over the top of the picture without blacking out the whole text.

Why I used pictures analysis

I used this Image for the front page since it gives a medium close up on the band. The picture also shows the band united. I turned the picture into a close up however since I didn't know how to turn off the date on the pictures so the end result is a picture which is bigger than anticipated. Practically the picture has space around the outskirts that I used to place things that would normally go on a front cover.

I used this image for the double page spread. I used it since it originally had space around the outside but because of the date issue the image had to be expanded which actually worked out for the best removing most of the footpath in the background. The picture also gave me lots of space around the edges to put the text. Unconventionally I have used a high angle shot. The shot puts space between the band members and shows more dominance since it is a long shot. The idea of the shot was that a God *higher angle* was looking down on them as his underlings. Beleive me hanging on the edge of rock with a steep drop infront of you certainly makes you feel like a god.

Music Magazine: Double Page Draft 3

This is my third draft for my double page spread. Having realized that my background image could be stretched with out losing quality. I reinserted the image to its original format. I have also removed the green which was a little too bright according to my peers. Instead I have hallowed out grey boxes which show the text perfectly and still blend in nicely. I have also added an inspirational quote which is much better than the older quote.