I asked a cross section of people what they thought of my school magazine, they replied saying that for a first try it was not bad, but could have been greatly improved, another person mentioned that it could use the picture could have covered the whole front and the text could be on top in a colour that is easily visible, less negative space, the straplines on your magazine are in a white box on the left third of our magazine instead of on the magazine

The history of skate punk (the music style I will put into my magazine)

 

The musical style of skate punk combines the intensity of hardcore punk and thrashcore with more melodic song writing. However, the earliest skate punk bands had a more raw sound which generally became more melodic over time.

There is a considerable amount of overlap between the sound of skate punk and other forms of punk, so many bands classified as skate punk also fit into genres such as pop punk, melodic hardcore, thrashcore, metalcore and crossover thrash.

Skate punk started in Early-1980s California, where skateboarding was growing in popularity and was considered a form of rebellion. Bands that influenced the genre include Black Flag, JFA, Agent Orange, Minor Threat and Bad Religion. The Big Boys from Texas and JFA from Arizona are widely considered to be the first skate punk bands. Both bands were made up entirely of skateboarders and played loud and fast music designed to match the intensity of skateboarding. Bands such as RKL, NOFX, Stalag 13, The Black Athletes, Tales of Terror, Hogan's Heroes, The Faction, and Suicidal Tendencies were also among the first wave of skate punk bands, with the latter band also paving the way for skate punk bands to play funk metal.

 

The 1990s saw a rise in the popularity of skate punk as it evolved to be more melodic. During this time skate punk bands experienced a fair amount of commercial success and were featured in events such as the Warped tour. Blink-182's first two albums, Cheshire Cat and Dude Ranch, were skate punk, and brought large popularity to the genre. Sum 41's major label debut All Killer, No Filler contained some skate punk elements.

Skater punk is mainly the style of punk used in skater videos, such as Thrasher and other popular skater websites.

Action Plan

For the magazine I will be making, I will need to take images around the school, I will then upload them to a computer and edit them to the size and shape I need for my magazine, I will use photoshop for this and then implement it onto the front cover, I will do the same for the double page spread and for the contents page.

Front Cover

Contetns page

doube page spread 1

double page spread 2

Page 2 is smaller due to page 1 taking up more of the double page than page 2 does.

 

Evaluation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the mood board I created to show off the types of images and bands I will use for my magazine

First attempt at a music magazine

I was happy wit ht the turn out of the edited pictures but I could not find a font that seemed to fit in with the theme of the cover, overall I am pleased with my first attempt at the cover.

When I edited this image I used pixlr and make a duplicate layet of the original image, I then reduced the saturation of the image on top and then took out used the rubber tool to bring the colours through while keeping the darkened background, this is the sort of image is how I want my front cover image to look like.

 

 

Harrods Magazine

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I believe that Harrods magazine has gone up due to the increase of shoppers at Harrods, as it is an expensive shop therefore a free magazine will be picked up by people who cannot afford all that much in the shop.

 



This magazine cover also appeals to men as the woman on the cover is dressed in a dress with skin showing, the fact that she is covered in red suggests passion and lust, the dark coloured background and white text make it stand out a lot more, there is also a low amount of colours used yet they are all pale apart from the red.