photoshop; new changes

This is the original photo for my front cover, I shall photoshop the background out to make the rest look suitable for the front cover.

 

Here I have photoshop the background out of the picture and left the person who is going to be James Smith on my front cover, I shall put him onto the front cover on a plain background this will make my magazine front cover look more like some of the magazine covers I have looked at.

front cover photos image changes

After looking at the drafts of my music magazine I used with the background of the front cover having an old building I wasn't completely happy with it, as well as looking at house magazines that mainly had the artist with a plain background I decided that I wanted to change the front cover.

 

I took some more pictures with a plain background. This is the photo I want to use for the front cover of my magazine. I shall photo shop the background out of this picture and the person who is meant to be James Smith on the cover, I shall put onto a background that I am happy with, this is so I can make my magazine front cover look more like one of the house music magazines I have looked at.

double page spread: current

This is my current double page spread that I have improved from the focus group that I have done.

One of the dislikes the focus group wanted to change was the main image of Kinsley was very central and they wanted to change the main image from center to the right side.
I put more images to the double page spread which I put all around the double page spread to be able to give the target audience and fans more insight into what Kinsley is like.
I left the font colour orange as it is able to be read and my focus group liked this colour as it is bold against the background colour. I have also made the questions of the interview bigger than answers to be able to know which part is the answer and which part is the questions.

A focus group double page spread

I asked a group of boys in my target range for my magazine and asked what they thought about drafts for the double page spreads I made.

 

The first double page spread draft -
Likes- The way they pictures are positioned and that they look quite natural.
Likes the poses of the main image of Kinsley.

 

Dislikes - the font colour hurts the eyes and the blue on the grey background doesn't work well.
The background colour is dim and dull, too dark.



Improvement - have a brighter colour, simple colour for the background like white.
A colour that is able to be read better than the blue over the background.+

The second double page spread draft -
Likes - styles is better and is more readable due to the orange colour.
The layout is better more organized.
Main image central as other pictures look like they are pushed to the side.



Dislikes - To change the background colour but keep the colour of the font to match a different background colour.
The main image to not be so central and more to the right slightly and make other pictures larger.



Improvements - Main image needs to less central.
Change the background colour to be able to make it brighter.

The male gaze

The male gaze was a theory made by a woman called Laura Mulvey in 1975.



The male gaze is about the visual arts from a masculine perspective. The camera tries to put the audience into the visual of a heterosexual male. Mulvey argues that in cinema the male gaze is used more dominantly than the female gaze.



For an example of the male gaze, the camera may focus on more female features like the curves for longer periods of time, this is to make the males in the scenes look dominant compared to the females as well as making women seem like an object who are seen based only on their physical appearance.

Main image for double page spread

For my main image of my double page spread I have an image that I needed to get rid of the background as it wouldn't of fit in with my idea and background for my double page spread.

This is the original picture of my main image for my double page spread to get rid of the background I removed the background to only have the person left.

This gave me an end result of only having the character left.

Current drafts of front cover

 

Here are the current drafts for my front cover, I shall ask a group of people that are in my target range for the magazine what they like or dislike about the magazine covers and what I can improve to make the cover better.