Exam Board Examples Anaylsis

Supremacy
-Different types of shots: Mid shot, close up and long shot shows variety
-Almost appears to be a glamour magazine
-The shots taken are too posed for a muasic magazine, they need to be more relaxed
-Some pictures look like they were taken on a phone-blurry, crammed into one side of the photo
-No cropping or editing use as the pictures still have red eye
-Spelling mistakes
-She tried to make herself look more model like but failed
-The layouts are good but could of made some pictures bigger and strap lines smaller
-The article is clear to read
-The style of font and the colours used complement each other and the style of the magazine well
-Level 4, 52 marks
-Exam mark, 58

Drowned Insound
-Too posed photos
-Used both Mid and close up shots
-Could of got rid of the background to make image stand out more
-Smiley face in the corner?
-Yellow colour a bit tacky, although it is carried through to keep a theme, the pink used in the pages also clashes with the yellow
-The setting is good but boring
-Has resized and cropped the images
-The layouting is good but the colour scheme lets it down alot
-Font sizes- headers need to be made bigger
-Level3, 44 marks
-Exam mark, 52

Punky R 
-Boxes with image in it looks good
-Variety of different shots although they are repeated alot
-The colour scheme is good
-Could misinterpret the gender of the cover model due to editing
-Name of the person, should it be called Shiggy??
-Needs a prop or images of other bands to break it up and make it different
-No barcode or price or issue no. or tagline
-No setting
-Editing is OK, changed background and the styling
-Article- short and basic
-Spelling Mistakes
-Layout is good
-More on the contents page?
-Level 2, mark 26
-Exam mark, 22

Photos

Test Shots

These are my test shots, I have used both of my mosels in these to see how they would look seperate and also together. I took the photos on a plain white background so it would be easier to edit and cut out and place onto a different background. I will proberbly use something similar to these, and I will also change around the photo set up to have the models doing different poses under different amounts of lighting.

Draft Designs

Front cover

Contents page

Double page spread

Magazine Draft Article

Final titles

These are my two final title designs. the top design works better with the the play sign but the bottom font style fits better with the theme of my magazine. Both designs are minimalistic and the general idea for my magazine which allows me alot more freedom when it comes to selecting the title style.

This is going to be my title for my magazine, it is sleek, stylish and is edgy. It is also easy to read and not overpowering with the amount of blue.

Mock Magazines

This is the mock cover for the magazine. It includes  close-up image of a lead singer from a band. This image will be black and white apart from the eyes in which I shall keep blue as this is the colour of the singers eyes. the writing around it will be white and blue to make the blue from the eyes stand out. This will create a theme of blue for the magazine cover as it is also the colour of my name.  

This is the mock contents page. It includes the logo for the magazine in the top corners. It has a single photo of the band or artist that I am covering on the right page and it is the only image on the page making it the focus point. There will be a list of different features throughout that edition and it will allow the readers to see what else there is in the magazine. On the left page it includes the title and also some smaller images of bands and srtists showing the readers that they are apart of the magazine but that they are not as important as the band/ artist in the big main image. I have included a space for an advert to promote the magazine and also a place to include a caption of an artist/band latest saying or a slogan which they have been reported saying. I will also include the page number in the corner of the image to show where the feature is in the magazine. 

This is the mock up of the double page spread. It shows clearly the band and the layout of the page. It also includes the magazines logo in  the top left corner of the double page spread. It shows all of the people from the band in different poses to show the different roles in the band. I have drawn a sweeping title that will apread across two pages as well as a larger sized font, that will spread across two pages, for a brief sentence or quote to show the theme for the article.the article will then be at the bottom of the page and will be wrtitten around the image of the memeber of the band.