Thursday 21 June 2012
Thursday 19 April 2012
Evaluation-improvement
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? on Prezi
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
How did you attract/address your audience?
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Who would be the audience for your media product?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Look back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in this progression from it to the full product?
By looking at my preliminary task and my full product you can tell that a lot more different techniques and different conventions were used to make my final magazine look more professional. The school magazine does not have a wide variety of font styles, a lack of cover-lines as well as keeping the backgroundof the image without using any editing software to improve the image. However m y music magazine has a variety of cover-lines, photos other than the central image and font styles as well as editing the central image to have a plain background which is more commonly used in existing magazines, they were all achieved with the skills I learnt in Microsoft publisher and Photoshop.
Thursday 23 February 2012
Monday 20 February 2012
Friday 10 February 2012
Friday 20 January 2012
Thursday 5 January 2012
Pitch of my magazine
From the research I carried out on existing magazines similar to the one I am going to produce, I have found out that they all tend to use the color scheme of black, red and white which gives a bold look, as it is so often used for similar genres of existing magazine it suggests that it will be easily recognized. They have Sans Serif fonts throughout the whole of the magazine, which makes it easy to read, this also suits the target audience, as having Serif fonts would give the magazine more of a feminine look. Many similar existing magazines have the cluttered layout, which suggests to the reader that there will be a lot within the magazine to read. They all used an informal mode of address as it is aimed for a younger reader. Kickers, pull quotes and stand first is always used for the front cover or within the contents page and double page spread, this will give the magazine a consistent look throughout the whole of the magazine. Columns are usually used within the contents page to organize the list of pages.
The target audience are teenage to young adult males as they were the target group from my questionnaire who buys magazines the most, as the most preferred genre of music was rock, I decided to choose that genre. I am going to have a female solo artist on the front cover, as it was most preferred for a male target audience. Nearly all of the who completed my questionnaire said that they would prefer an informal mode of address, as this mode of address is very popular and common with successful existing magazines, I have also chose to do this. Most of the people who completed my questionnaire have said that the thing that attracts them to the magazine the most is celebrity interviews, news and gossip, so I have drafted the text of my double page spread considering the results of the questionnaire.
Production plan- the making of the magazine
| | Date | Reason | |
| Edit the photos | 16th January 2012 | To resize and crop according to the size it needs to be on the magazine | |
| Production of the magazine | 16th January 2012 | Focus on front cover | To have all the text ready so I can adjust it when adding the images |
| | 18th January 2012 | Focus on contents page | To have all the text ready so I can adjust it when adding the images |
| | 20th January 2012 | Focus on Double page spread | To have all the text ready so I can adjust it when adding the images |
| | 22nd January 2012 | Adding the images to all the pages | |
| | 30th January 2012 | Add the images I got from the concert onto possible areas of the magazine | |
| | 31st January 2012 | Look over the pages I have created and see if I can improve it further | |
Production plan-photography
| | Used for | | Date | Reason |
| Equipment | Camera | Taking photos for the magazine cover and double page spread | 14th January 2012 | |
| | Mid shot | For front cover | 14th January 2012 | |
| | Long shot | For the double page spread | 14th January 2012 | So there is an option for which photo I want t use for the double page spread |
| | Close up | For the double page spread | 14th January 2012 | So there is an option for which photo I want t use for the double page spread |
| | Mid shot | For the double page spread | 14th January 2012 | So there is an option for which photo I want t use for the double page spread |
| Costume 1 | To give the person in the photo a credible style that suits their genre of music | Grey shirt T shirt underneath Dark skinny jeans Heels | 14th January 2012 | Having two sets of costume so the cover page will have a different outfit to the double page spread |
| Costume 2 | To give the person in the photo a credible style that suits their genre of music | | 14th January 2012 | Having two sets of costume so the cover page will have a different outfit to the double page spread |
| Props | To make the person in the photo compliment the genre they are trying to portray | Microphone Guitar | 14th January 2012 | Having props within the photos to give the feel of a music magazine |
| Location | To give the photos a credible feel that suits the story/article | Home (plain background) Outside (field/open land) | 14th January 2012 | To give the photo a credible feel that suits the story/article |
| Location | To get possible images for the contents page | O2 academy Birmingham | 28th January | To get some images from the concert I am going to be attending so I can use the images on contents page |
| Personnel | Claudia Titterton and Helen Tsang | To help each other take the photos | 14th January 2012 | So the images are clearer and at the angle wanted to suit how we planned the front cover of the magazine |
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