Vibe Magazine Analysis

Having finished my school magazine cover and contents, the next task is to create a music magazine cover so I have decided to research and analyse current  music magazine covers within the same genre of music as mine shall be. This issue of VIBE magazine follows the majority of conformities that most other music magazines do. For example, it predominantly uses three colours: Red, Black and White, which is common amongst successful music magazines. It uses different layers for the title, main image and the other text, which gives the magazine some depth and makes it stand out more clearly. Any extra space is crammed with other text about the contents of the magazine, i.e interviews, stories etc. Aswell as other articles that arent related to music but may still appeal to people who are a fan of this genre of music, which could help to broaden the target audience of the magazine.

Photoshop- Depth of Field Tutorial

This is a video tutorial that I created myself, outlining how to get a depth of field effect in post production using Adobe Photoshop CS5.1. The programs used in creating this consisted of Adobe Photoshop CS5.1, I used this program to actually create the effect demonstrated in the video, and Camtasia Studio 7, this program was used to record my screen as well as my voice and combined them together and published them straight to YouTube. YouTube was the video sharing site of my choice to upload to because of the fact that it was most compatible with Blogger, the site used for my blog.