A Few Of My DPS Layouts

These are some of my DPS layouts, i experimented on different styles i could do it in while looking through my case studies on magazines. the first two i believed looked a little to chilish, something you would see in a kids magazine. The third one and the firth one i liked a little more as it looked a little more professional and the type of look i wanted. The last one i picked in the end as it fitted the criteria i was looking of the personality of my up coming dancer. I looked at a whole lot of case studies of magazine layouts of DPS's and , the last one looked the best as the long shot showed the body langauage and personality of my model, which shows in her responses to the questions.

Magazine Front Cover Layouts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are the two front covers I chose for my final draft. The first one i liked because of the positioning of my model and how her eyes interact with the auidences view, the colour scheme i chose, i placed it on both of the magazines to show how each one fits. I really like the second one, not only because of the position of the model but the outfit is shown more and her body language/ expression shows out her personality and her dance title , her expressions shows how she is the 'queen' of the battle ground. I chose the last one in the end as its the image i wanted to use in the beginning and it just looks similar to the case studies i looked at.

OverView Of Magazine Front Cover

Photo Shoot 2

My second photoshoot

I used a variety of different camera shots, i used Mid shots for expression of mood and personality and body language. I also used camera shots of long shots of my model to show the whole body position.I also used Close ups of the camera shots, showing facual expressions of the models mood.

PhotoShoot One

First Photoshoot pictures, I didnt get much of a focus on the images, therefore I am going to redo my photoshoot and make it more wild and spontaneous to match the genre of my magazine 'Raving and Clubbing Dance Music'. In the next photoshoot, i am going to do a black backdrop instead and try something different.

Photography Set up

Had a tutorial in the photography studio learning the equipment and what are the equipment used for , before we went into our own photography for our magazine.

The soft box highly reflective randomised inner coating to reflect the most light

The two polyboards bounces the light from the trinity light on to the models.

the reflectors reflect light and are used to aim light into the dark spots on a subject to fill them with light and diffuse unwanted shadows.

This layout was used for my for my photography shoot, changing the F-stop and aperture and shutter speed to fit the image lighting.

Adobe Illustrater Part 2

Last Few Experiments

Adobe Illustrater

After just learnig how to use adobe illustrater, i experimented on my masthead design of my title on adobe illustrator.

FEEDBACK

Call sheet for photography shoot

Proposal

Magazine on Prezi

Magazine Newstand

Magazine Newsstand

On a magazine newsstand the magazines are purposely positioned in a certain way to highlight its main selling points to the audience, they are positioned/designed in the style of ‘imaginary three pieces’ all the main points of the magazine are designed to be placed on the left third of the magazine whereas this is the first sight the audience see. The masthead is placed at the top in bold, shown to be the first visual branding of the title in the ‘imaginary three piece’ and is often done in a specially designed typeface to be very recognisable and unique towards the audience. The main image is also visible in the left third design which the image is shown to include the person of interest, stereotypically the image portrays its importants as it is presented in front of the title as audiences are commonly interested in image. The main cover line is on the left to present the main story of the magazine visible to audience view. The freebee is presented on the left as well showing the audience they are getting more than what they bargained for, saving money in the process.

Distributions

Distributions Magazines: One of the ways in which publishers choose to distribute their magazine is free magazines handouts at venues/ big events and social gatherings. This then advertises the magazine promoting it to huge range of different people, whereas they will be likely to spread the word about this particular magazine. The fast they are free more of a variety of individuals are more likely to take one rather than having to stop and look from far because they don’t want to pay. This is also good if people are in a rush to get somewhere as it limits the time when collecting the magazine. For example someone’s in a rush to get to work; they can just pick up the magazine put it in their bag and go, rather than depending on the form of money. The disadvantages of this form of distribution however is there’s no form of profit made. People producing the magazine will have to find the money in the first place as there is no income from this way of distributing the magazine, therefore they could end up running out of money.

 

 

Secondly another way of distributing magazines is subscription only magazines. This form of distribution makes a good profit on regular basis. Subscription magazine you are to pay a monthly fee to receive the magazine post weekly, which helps you to keep up with the latest gossip to date. A disadvantage of subscription magazines isn’t advertised anywhere as they aren’t the magazines that are sold in regular shops/stores. The subscription magazine would need some form of advertising/promoting otherwise the public won’t have any way of knowing anything about it, which makes the companies lose money as a result. And now if someone’s only wanted one magazine not a monthly subscription of them, the magazine company would lose money because they don’t sell individual magazines, so they would have to be able to target subscription magazine to specific target audiences.

Online magazines are now the biggest method (e.g. E-Zine-Turn pages/electronic versions) of distribution linked to and promoted on websites to distribute magazines however for the company to afford its own website it needs to have a high success rate to start off with. This way of distributing magazines as you don’t only get the advertisement from the shops you also can get it from online. Some individuals find internet access quick, easy and reliable so they are most likely to look at the magazine they are most interested in online. However not everyone has access to the internet and even a computer in other terms, therefore not everyone will have access to the magazines. Another disadvantage would be if the company was to go completely bust, they would lose the internet publicity, whereas our world is becoming more technically based many people would stop buying the magazines.

Distribution of magazines can be advertising/promoting it such as direct distribution – directly in consumer’s hand in stores paying upfront which can be a positive output as people can look through the magazines before actually purchasing it, checking if what’s in the magazine fits the persons criteria of interest. A disadvantage can be individuals just coming to look through the magazines while in the store and not buying any, which makes the company of the magazine and store lose money, which gives them no choice on to placing a sign on the magazine shelf in sighting the audience with the messages; don’t read the magazines while in store, either pay and read or watch and leave. Advertising/ promoting of distribution of magazines can be Apps on smart phones on purchasing magazines, postal subscription benefiting publishers which then guarantees sale. This is an advantage also to audience as they get the magazine for cheaper than getting it from the store and also the Apps provides the magazine with free gifts for the phone. A disadvantage can be downloading these apps can make your phone go slower in speed and freeze your phone because of the slow connection through the internet usage.