2. Colour Scheme Designer is a online colour scheme
designer which helps you to pick specific colours that
go well. As I was creating a modern rock magazine, I
wanted colours that where quite vibrant but would also
have connotations of grunge and rebellion. Whilst
researching for my music magazine. I came to the
conclusion that very bright vibrant colours such as red
and yellow worked very well with contrasting colours
Colour Connotations such as white and black.
• White – lightness, has positive
connotations as apposed to the
colour black. Contrasts well with
black
• Blue- Strong, importance, calmness
and relaxation
• Yellow – caution, danger contrasts
well with black and is often I created a colour scheme collage to see
what colours would fit nicely together
associated with energy. and as you can see vibrant colours work
well with contrasting colours.
• Red- power, danger, determination,
rebellion and passion
Here at the final colours I
• Black- denotes strength, authority, decided to use when making my
darkness and grunge. music magazine.
3. Dafont is an online font website where artists can
allow other users to use their fonts.
I found Dafont useful when creating my magazine as it
allowed me to research different fonts that would fit
well on my music magazine. As you can see, when
researching I came up with several name ideas and
decided which font would suit the name best.
After looking using different fonts ideas on Within my magazine, I also used other fonts to
my front cover I came to the conclusion this help create a house style and used different
font named Broken was my most favourite techniques to portray my chosen genre.
as it gave connotations of destruction and
was similar to another popular rock
magazines such as Kerrang!
4. Prezi is an website online allowing users to create
and share their ideas with the use of an animated
3D presentation.
With the use of different templates, the user can
adapt and create a presentation suited to them. As
it is also animated users
The first Prezi, I made was when I was researching
what made my chosen genre modern rock. I found
music, clothing, top music charts, images and other
various things that connoted and demonstrated
modern rock music. This helped me to really
understand what the modern rock genre was about
and helped me to develop my magazine with the use
of these combined ideas.
After researching modern rock music, I made
another Prezi Presentation that helped me
make clear ideas of what I wanted to call my
music magazine. This was really useful as it
helped me to structure what I wanted to call
my music magazine and why I wanted to call it
this.
5. Go! Animate is a
website allowing
users to make short
animated videos
with short speech.
It allows users to
add music,
characters and
scenarios to display
information.
When making my music magazine, I created a
go animate to help me gain some audience
feedback about my music magazine. With the
use of this I was able to understand what my
target audience really liked and disliked about
my magazine. This helped me develop my
music magazine better and find out what was
really conventional of a modern rock music
magazine.
