Main Task - Planning and evaluation of the article

There are several types of article in Jazz Inside Magazine. One particular one I will be looking at is an interview. They have set the interview out so that the interviewer and interviewee have a paragraph each. To tell who is speaking, at the beginning of each paragraph are their initials written in bold. I will be using using the idea in my magazine.

The interviewer asks each question in a very simple, straightforward and to the point way. For example: JI: Talk about your approach to big band writing. This style of writing is quite serious and formal. It's bluntness shows that the interviewer is only interested in that one aspect of the subject. Also in this magazine, the language is not directed specifically at musicians. For example, they don't use complicated, technical music language. This is appropriate because most jazz musicians would not understand it anyway. Instead, they have abbreviations for these technical words. Eg:

Technical term: A melodic phrase
Jazz abbreviation : ' riff ' or ' lick

If the magazine contained these technical terms, no-one apart from trained musicians would be able to understand it. In my magazine, I won't be using much technical language for that very reason.

Another type of article that Jazz Inside Magazine have is 'Calender of Events'. This page just simply tells you who, what, where and when up and coming concerts are on. One other article in this magazine is 'Clubs and Venues'. Again, this is simply just a list of popular venues in that area. These are the only main articles in this jazz magazine because it is free. It is also full up with adverts, which is how they make their money.

In my magazine, I will be using quite informal language such as 'Awesome!' and ' Fair do's'. This is because I think it makes the writing seem much more friendlier and welcoming, thus making the reader want to read on.

Main Task - Photo Editing

In order to make my photographs look effective, I had to change the lighting effects, colours, size and contrast on some of the images using Adobe Photoshop. The editing process of the photographs is as follows:



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First of all, I had to crop this image almost in half. This was because I took the photograph in landscape, so therefore, it wouldn't have been able to fit on my front cover. After cropping it, I brushed out the Fred Perry logo on his jumper. I did this so it gives the jumper a plainer look, and it makes you focus more on his face and his saxophone. After that, I increased the brightness and contrast on the image so it brightens it up a bit. I did this because in the original image, it seems quite dark and he doesn't stand out much. Finally, I brushed out the line where the corner of the room is and also the coving. I brushed it out with white so the background is completely clear. This focuses the attention of the reader onto Nick Dechaine and not what's in the background.

Before: After:

Firstly, I increased the brightness and contrast on this image because there was not much light in the room. This also helped in the way that her skin is made more contrasting because in the original photo, it is quite pale so it doesn't stand out much against the white background. Finally, I brushed out the things in the background as it has no relevance to music at all.




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Not much editing was done to this image. I cropped about a quarter of the photograph off in order for it to fit onto portrait A4. After I did that, I made the background bright white so it focuses the reader's eye to Nick Dechaine's face. I didn't edit out his shadow's purely so the image doesn't look that edited.

Before:

Just like in the previous image, the only thing i really edited in the picture was the size. Before I cropped it, there was lots of clutter and irrelevent objects in the background. By cropping this image, I foucus the readers eyes actually on the drummer, instead of irrelivent things in the background. Also, by the way i have cropped it, shows music related items in the background such as drum sticks and a guitar amp.