Photoshop 4

This is my fourth Photoshop attempt, and it involves the merging of two artists for a collaboration. Fifty Cent and Susan Boyle had to be merged, and though the quality is not great, I have successfully done the task.  In order t achieve the effect I desired, I duplicated Susan Boyle, and cut around her arms, placing 50 Cent in a middle layer, over the original body and under the cut-out arms. 

Magazine Analysis

Mixmag uses a white masthead to stand 
out against the background and create a colour scheme with the white logo. It has a skyline that brags about popularity, "The world'd biggest dance music and clubbing magazine"

The image used is one of Knife Party, and the duo is visible in the corner of the logo, perhaps connoting that the music is more important than themselves.

The large writing and colour used creates a sleek look, and the purple bullseye-like look allows the logo to be noticed, the logo is the key image. 

Cover-lines run down the right as a free CD takes up the left side, which would be a key selling point against rival magazines.   

The magazine's simplistic nature and large logo create a link between the magazine and the music it specialises in. This genre of music often has DJ's playing other musicians songs, showing the genre is more important than the people. 

Electronic music

As previously stated, I am likely to choose Electronic music as my genre for my music magazine, and thought it would be appropriate to share some examples of some kinds of electronic music I enjoy and am likely to reference in my magazine. 

Photoshop 3

This was my third attempt at using Photoshop, and my first slightly complex attempt. I have used a variety of different methods and tool so create the image below. I duplicated the picture and desaturated the original layer, before erasing the parts of the picture I didn't want in colour. I applied text and added a shadow effect, before introducing a glow around the two students in the picture and a shadow around the picture itself, I finally added another piece of text and shaded that as well. 

Music magazine ideas

After today's lesson, I now understand what it takes in order to get a high level mark for my music magazine.
I have very basic ideas for the structure, pictures and the overall contents of the magazine.

I am aware who I will use and the scenarios I will place them in, as well as very basic ideas of the lighting and know what my music magazine will be called. 
The genre I have chosen for my magazine is electronic, encompassing House, Electro and Dubstep, I intend to use the logos of other artists to increase the authenticity of my magazine, so I will contact certain musicians asking if it is ok to use said logos on the magazine. The magazine is intended to be for people of my own age and slightly older, so this will be taken into consideration when creating the magazine.

Photoshop 2

This is my second attempt at using Photoshop, and there is a clear state of progression. I have used 3 layers, the main picture is duplicated with the original layer desaturised. the duplicated layer is increased in saturation and the background is erased to create a black and white effect. 

Ideology

Ideology is a set of beliefs or values that we have or that we hold, ideology is very important in advertising, as it is often entices us into buying a product, and the same is true for music magazines. Magazines rely on an ideology that encompasses a large group, as this enables them to gain the most sales. 
My own personal ideology is that success doesn't determine motivation, motivation determines success.

Often the ideology behind NME Magazine is one of a more 'rock' and 'rebellious' attitude, but not so much as magazines such as 'Kerrang'. this gives it a large amount of room to work and be recognised as a magazine that contains a large amount of indie-rock music. Whilst never doing so explicitly, it wants to be known as encouraging artists to embrace their darker side.